A round up of BBC announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output from the last week.
NHS at 70
This year, as the National Health Service marks its 70th anniversary, the BBC is launching a wide ranging series of programming centred on the NHS, its workforce and the hundreds of thousands of patients it sees every day.
Announcements and Blogs
Drama
BBC Writersroom has announced the writers for the fourth BBC TV Drama Writers’ Programme, a unique initiative that gives give 10 promising screenwriters the opportunity to write the first episode for an original series or serial for the BBC.
Comedy
On Thursday Craig Ferguson played Callum Coburn in the series finale of Still Game on BBC One.
Meanwhile, the BBC New Comedy Award 2018 launched this week to find the next stars of comedy.
Documentary
The media pack forBurma With Simon Reeve (a new two-part series coming to BBC Two) was published.
Radio
BBC Radio 1 announced that Friday is now officially part of the weekend with a new schedule of shows including Dev & Alice, Maya Jama, Matt Edmondson & Mollie King, and Scott Mills.
Regional
BBC Wales is to mark NHS at 70 with all-star production To Provide All People. Michael Sheen, Tamsin Grieg, Martin Freeman and Meera Syal are amongst the all-star cast of BBC Wales’ latest landmark television drama commission as it celebrates the 70th anniversary of the NHS.
Blogs
Controller Radio 1, Ben Cooper explained why the Weekend starts early on Radio 1; meanwhile, as BBC Arabic accepts applications for AimHigh: its first ever trainee scheme in the region for journalists with disabilities, Ellis Palmer, Journalist, BBC News (World Online) blogged about his experience working for the BBC.
We also published the weekly BBC iPlayer Highlights 14-20 April.
Broadcast Highlights
Famalam
- Sex Robots And Us, from Sunday 8 April, BBC THREE
- Folk Awards 2018, Sunday 8 April, BBC FOUR
- Famalam, from Monday 9 April, BBC THREE
- Global Business: Ireland’s Brexit Challenge, Saturday 7 April, BBC WORLD SERVICE
- Sir Ken Dodd: What A Beautiful Day!, Sunday 8 April, BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA
