Articles are listed chronologically, though where there are overlaps the first year of the program is the place to look. So for example, the 1963 article on Dr Who mentions the 2005 reboot and lists all the actors playing the Doctor right up to the current (though shortly to be replaced) Jodie Whittaker. the creation of BBC online; the BBC was ahead of the curve with the move to converge media, transforming user into curator. Today, as we follow in Reith’s footsteps, our focus is again on innovation and reforming the BBC to ensure it can keep delivering value to audiences in this new world. This means doubling down on where we are unique and precious: British storytelling, impartial journalism, areas such as education, local news and research and development. These things are made more, not less, relevant by the digital age. The BBC’s First 50 Years (w/t) for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer is made by Crux Productions and The Garden Productions. The Series Producer isJohn Bridcut and the Executive Producer is Magnus Temple. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Mark Bell. Being Human Festival. Credit: University of Bradford Blending virtual and real life with XR Stories

All this probably saved the BBC from dwindling into irrelevance. If it had failed to compete with ITV, licence fee funding could not have lasted. Under Greene, the BBC managed to balance the quest for popularity with the making of genuinely innovative and challenging programmes. Yet this came at a cost. By championing an adventurous new approach to programming and bringing previously taboo aspects of life onto British screens, the BBC became a lightning rod for debates about acceptable standards of taste and behaviour. the formation of the Corporation, as radio consolidated its massive social influence and the BBC reinvented itself with a newly defined mission. Explore 10 years of British History through key broadcasting moments illuminated by images from the BBC archive. The Programme Index is a searchable database of 100 years of BBC TV and radio broadcast listings. The newly assembled listings provide the most comprehensive record available of the known programmes that went on air from November 1922 until the publication of the first Radio Times in September 1923.In audio, Radio 3 programmes across the year will be marking The Sonic Century, exploring the impact of 100 years of radio and the audio revolution it unleashed. From documentary to drama Radio 3 will consider how - a century after the first public radio broadcasts - we live in a transformed world of ubiquitous sound and music. Across the weekend of 11-13 February, Radio 3 will broadcast live concerts from BBC Orchestras and Choirs, which have their origins in the BBC’s first decade, including classical music from the 1920s and the 2020s. This new compiled information, alongside the previously published complete Radio Times listings, means it is now possible to explore details on the BBC Programme Index of over 10 million programmes, from the BBC’s first day of broadcasting up until the present day. Most of the current BBC Orchestras and Choirs have their origins in the first pioneering decade of the BBC. Their founding mission was to bring classical music to the widest possible audience on the radio, which they continue to offer to this day. Across the weekend of 11-13 February, each of the BBC’s ensembles will present a live broadcast concert including classical music from the 1920s and the 2020s, including music by Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Hindemith, Bryce Dessner, Errolyn Wallen, Judith Weir, and Howard Goodall. Past Forward This is a well produced book, and I chose this for a friend who used to be a TV weatherman and is a bit of a BBC fanatic. I'm sure he'll be really pleased with it.

A photograph of BBC pioneer Hilda Matheson by Howard Coster. National Portrait Gallery, CC BY-NC-ND These projects gave a voice to a wider representation of the UK, to find out how the BBC has impacted their lives, and to use their findings to influence future programming in broadcast media. Public audiences were invited to participate in a range of activities, including: As a result, the BBC was transformed from a company to a corporation – with a mission to inform, educate and entertain. Through the decades, no one has bettered that simple summary of its purpose.We have worked with BBC Radio 3 over the last 13 years on delivering the pioneering New Generation Thinkers scheme. Each year 10 early career researchers are selected to make programmes for Radio 3 and deliver public engagement activities. There are now 130 New Generation Thinkers. Here's One I Made Earlier (1 x 60’) is a Mighty Scotland Production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, commissioned by Kate Phillips, Director of Entertainment Commissioning. The Executive Producers for Mighty Scotland are Lynn Sutcliffe and Kirsten Highet. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Rachel Ashdown. David Dimbleby's BBC: A Very British History This weekend marks the start of the BBC’s centenary, and with it a year of special programming across all our channels and platforms. We will be celebrating one hundred years at the heart of British national life, but also a century at the core of one of our most precious sectors: our wonderful creative industries. Collins was increasingly frustrated by the BBC’s refusal to make the development of television a priority, and management’s continued determination to focus resources on radio. BBC managers eventually agreed to his proposal that a director of television be appointed to the BBC’s top committee, the Management Board, to give the medium a more influential voice within the Corporation. However, instead of Collins, a less troublesome executive was appointed to that role, over Collins’ head. The internal politics of the BBC remained newsworthy: the Manchester Guardian reported Collins’ resignation on October 14, 1950. As he left the BBC, an enraged Collins announced to the press that he was unwilling to see the Corporation continue to subordinate television to “the colossus of sound broadcasting”.

Either way, he was about to be forced out when in 1936 he received the offer of running the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). We now know, from material in the BBC’s archives, that Reith agreed to keep the allegations about his behaviour quiet, and to let him take the Canadian job. In Canada, perhaps surprisingly given the way he had been treated, Murray proved a good friend to the BBC. He helped cement the links between British and Canadian broadcasting in the run-up to the second world war and in the crucial early years of that conflict, before further allegations concerning his drinking, expenses, and links with the British secret service led to his downfall. He was shunted into a job with an impressive title but no real power, and eventually left the CBC. He went on to run a public relations business and to act as a prominent anti-communist campaigner during the cold war. Rex Lambert: paranormal investigator Early radio broadcast seen in control room for BBC 5NG Nottingham in 1928 As we mark the BBC’s original broadcast one hundred years ago today, we offer for the first time ever a published listing of the earliest radio programmes from 1922 to 1923. It paints a vivid picture of the evolution of broadcasting as well as capturing a unique snapshot of the social history context of the UK. — Robert Seatter, Head of BBC History Fielden went off to help establish broadcasting in India, then part of the British empire, where he felt similarly frustrated by the bureaucracy and the forces of conformity that dominated the Raj.Marking the centenary, Radio 4’s Past Forward takes a deep dive into the BBC's archive to explore what it can tell us about who we are now. Historian Greg Jenner uses a random date generator to alight somewhere in the BBC's vast archive. He finds a piece of audio from that day and uses it as a starting point in a journey towards the future. In each episode, Jenner uncovers connections through the people, places and ideas that link the archive fragment to Britain in 2022. What he discovers are stories, big and small, that reveal much about the people we were and the people we have become. The Battle of Savoy Hill

Sometimes, these people were able to effect fundamental and lasting changes within the BBC, helping it adapt to the challenges that it faced. But often, the BBC chewed them up and spat them out. From its earliest days, the BBC was newsworthy, and the resulting conflicts sometimes attracted significant attention from newspaper columnists, particularly from those sections of the press that opposed the idea of public broadcasting. Reithian values Along the way, Konnie will be joined by a host of famous faces, who will help her examine seminal moments from the past 100 years in this unmissable telly treat. BBC Radio 3 programmes across the year will be marking The Sonic Century, exploring the impact of 100 years of radio and the audio revolution it unleashed. The huge change in society brought about by the big and small screen is well understood, but less discussed is how a century after the first public radio broadcasts, we live in a transformed world of ubiquitous sound and music. Radio 3 programmes will chart some of these developments - and how they reach us today. The BBC’s broadcast ecosystem has touched every corner of the four nations of the UK, creating a sense of commonality and community, from the ‘iconic’ pips, the bells of Big Ben and pioneering soap operas and documentaries to the important role that local radio and TV has played in connecting communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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performances from non-white, non-straight and non-male theatre of ‘lost’ BBC documentaries about ethnicity, sexuality and gender that will juxtapose the past to the present and challenge histories of social change Not for the last time, the BBC had been publicly humiliated over an issue of governance. Such cases have become all too familiar over the last two decades – most notably, concerning Jimmy Savile’s crimes committed on BBC premises and Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana. They reflect the fact that the BBC has, for good or evil, been left largely to regulate itself until recent reforms introduced greater oversight. Norman Collins and the creation of ITV The first outside broadcast: An operatic programme (excerpts from the British National Opera production of The Magic Flute from Covent Garden) broadcast on 2LO on 8 January 1923.