Tagged with: World War One
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Visions of World War One on BBC One Wales
Kim Howells
Presenter, Visions of World War One
Former MP Kim Howells is presenting Visions of World War One on BBC One Wales tonight (Monday 11 July) the programme considers how Welsh artists portrayed World War One, from the morale raising prints of 1914 to the poignant memorials that still stand in towns and villages across Wales.
The centenary of Hartlepool Bombardment – how we covered the stories of 100 years ago
Dan Thorpe
Editor, BBC Tees
Dan Thorpe gives an insight into how BBC Tees worked with the community to commemorate the centenary of the Hartlepool Bombardment
Tunics for Goalposts: Football on the front line in WW1
Mike Ingham
Presenter, 5 live
Mike Ingham reveals how his 5 live special investigating the Christmas truce led to a much wider brief, paying tribute to the footballers who lost their lives in the First World War.
Footballers United: Online WW1 drama
Tim Plyming
Executive Producer
Today sees the launch of our second online drama pilot for iWonder as part of the BBC’s World One Season, called Footballers United.
The face of World War I
David Holdsworth
Controller of English Regions
David Holdsworth, Controller, BBC English Regions, shares the background to a giant mosaic unveiled outside Broadcasting House last week ahead of Remembrance Sunday.
Building understanding about the conflict which gave birth to modern remembrance
Adrian Van Klaveren
Controller, World War One Centenary
Adrian Van Klaveren outlines the BBC's remembrance programming and considers the BBC's role in remembrance more broadly as we commemorate 100 years since the Great War.
A summer with the World War One at Home tour
Moray London
Executive Producer, BBC London
Last weekend the BBC’s World War One at Home tour came to end in the Midlands with some 20,000 people attending BBC Learning’s flagship event held in the centre of Nottingham, working alongside the City Council and their Fields of Battle exhibition. A further 6000 people attended the final events of the summer in Derby. Executive Producer Moray London looks back on the tour.
Our World War gets interactive
Tim Plyming
Executive Producer
Tim Plyming introduces an exciting new interactive pilot to tie in with major new BBC Three drama Our World War, which seeks to answer the question: "What would it have felt like to have fought in WW1?"
BBC Radio Lincolnshire's local WW1 drama: Leaving Home
Michael Hortin
Senior Broadcast Journalist
BBC Radio Lincolnshire is marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War One with a special series of performances dramatising the life of a local family.
August 4th World War One Remembered on the BBC
Adrian Van Klaveren
Controller, World War One Centenary
Adrian Van-Klaveren introduces programming commemorating the centenary of the start of World War One.
