Happy birthday Digital Planet!
Digital Planet celebrates its 21sst anniversary with a special show from the BBC Radio Theatre in London.
In this special 21st birthday show we’re bringing our Digital Planet community together for the first time since 2019. The team has been asking World Service listeners about their favourite bit of tech – we hear from around the world about the software and hardware that our listeners can’t live without. We will also be having not one but two special appearances – holograms from Canada and France – using the technology that President Zelensky used to beam himself to UN and London Tech week. We’ll be hearing from the listener who set up our Digital Planet Facebook group back in 2007 and we’ll also have a multimedia premier of Wiki-Piano that has been collaboratively composed by our listeners.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Angelica Mair, Bill Thompson and Ghislaine Boddington.
Studio Managers: Andrew Garrett
Radio Theatre Manager: Mark Diamond
Sound Balance: Guy Worth
Stage Engineer: Alexander Russell
Screen Visuals: Brendan Gormley
PA Sound: Clive Painter
Lighting: Marc Willcox
Stage Hand: Alan Bissenden
Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz
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Broadcasts
- Tue 6 Sep 202219:32GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Wed 7 Sep 202203:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia, South Asia & East Asia only
- Wed 7 Sep 202204:32GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Wed 7 Sep 202208:32GMTBBC World Service
- Wed 7 Sep 202212:32GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, East Asia, South Asia & West and Central Africa
- Wed 7 Sep 202219:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sat 10 Sep 202216:32GMTBBC World Service News Internet
- Sun 11 Sep 202223:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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