Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Blog posts in total 21
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The 主播大秀 Symphony Orchestra rehearsing for the Last Night of the Proms
Tomorrow night sees the climax of this year's 主播大秀 Proms. It's been a record-breaking season - with 94% attendance for evenings at the Royal Albert Hall. Over 300,000 will have attended a Prom by the time the season finishes. In July, on the day of the First Night, we spoke to Proms Director Roger...
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主播大秀 Radio 4's new home at the Edinburgh Festival
This evening's edition of Front Row, Radio 4's nightly arts review programme, comes from the 主播大秀's new, purpose-built Edinburgh Festival 'pop-up' venue on the corner of Potterow and Marshall Street. We asked Front Row presenter John Wilson to talk to Caroline Raphael, Radio 4's Edinburgh Supremo,...
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Dragons' Den goes back to school - the outcome
Earlier this month, Sam Lewens, Dragons' Den executive producer, blogged here about the an outreach project called Dragons' Den Goes Back to School. The project is a collaboration between the producers and 主播大秀 North. Four schools from the North of England - from Bolton, Bradford, Lincoln and Sund...
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Storytelling and technology - Ralph Rivera at the Intellect Consumer Electronics conference
Intellect is a trade body for the UK technology industry. At its recent consumer electronics conference, Ralph Rivera, Director of Future Media, explained how he's bringing together storytelling and technology at the 主播大秀. Steve Bowbrick is editor of About the 主播大秀 Ralph and other 主播大秀 executives...
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New F1 deal explained
On the 主播大秀 Sports Editors' blog this afternoon, Ben Gallop, Head of Formula 1, explains why the 主播大秀 will be sharing coverage with Sky from next season. He says: The headline is that under a seven-year deal starting next season, we will be showing 10 of the races in the F1 calendar, plus the corr...
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New digs for 主播大秀 R&D in the North
Over the years 主播大秀 Research & Development has hit many a milestone. Even before the department's official beginnings in 1930 it had been involved with the creation and delivery of some of the most significant and game-changing innovations in broadcasting - and this level of engineering creati...
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The Proms are under way
Roger Wright is Controller of 主播大秀 Radio 3 and Director of the 主播大秀 Proms. Last Friday he was at the Royal Albert Hall for the first night of this year's festival. He'll be there every night, for every performance. I spoke to him on the steps down to Prince Consort Road, amongst an excited crowd of...
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Explaining 'the Rajars'
Editor's note: Feedback is Radio 4's weekly accountability programme, presented by Roger Bolton. The programme covers all of the 主播大秀's radio stations and each week, while it's on-air, an item from the programme is published on the Radio 4 blog. This week's is about measuring the radio audience. V...
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Arabian Leopards and camera traps - the 主播大秀 Natural History Unit
Chadden Hunter, an Australian wildlife biologist and film-maker who works as a producer in the 主播大秀 Natural History Unit in Bristol, wrote these words in an email about the quite amazing shots of the Arabian Leopard captured using specially-built camera traps for a new 主播大秀2 series called Wild Arab...
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The first 主播大秀 online industry briefing
Ten days ago, 主播大秀 Online held the first of a planned series of regular briefings for partners and suppliers in the UK online industry. The idea was to present 主播大秀 Online's plans for the coming years and help suppliers understand how they can get involved and contribute to the future of the 主播大秀's ...
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Helen Boaden, Director of 主播大秀 News, at the LSE
Polis is a journalism think tank based at the London School of Economics. Today they're hosting the second annual 'Value of Journalism' conference, on the theme 'media and power'. Helen Boaden gave the keynote address - about 'holding power to account' - and then joined a Q&A hosted by Krishn...
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主播大秀 Films takes 'Kevin' to Cannes
[View the story "We Need to Talk About Kevin" on Storify] Steve Bowbrick is editor of About the 主播大秀 More information about WNTTAK and Ramsey's other films 'Ratcatcher' and 'Morvern Callar', on the 主播大秀 Films web site....
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Mark Thompson at the National Digital Conference
Later this afternoon, 主播大秀 Director-General Mark Thompson will deliver a speech to the National Digital Conference in London on the subject of media literacy. You can watch a live stream of the event on the ND11 website. Mark Thompson's speech begins at about 1535. Come back to the blog for furthe...
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Satirising the Royal Wedding - the 主播大秀's agreement with Clarence House
There has been speculation on the the social networks today that the 主播大秀 has banned the satirical use of Royal Wedding footage online. To clarify, the 主播大秀 gave this response earlier today: It has always been made clear by the 主播大秀 that use of its basic live news feed and 主播大秀 One programming for c...
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Sir Michael Lyons answers questions from Radio 4 listeners
Sir Michael Lyons is the outgoing Chair of the 主播大秀 Trust. He appeared on Radio 4's weekly phone-in Call You & Yours today to answer questions from licence fee-payers. Listen again to the programme here and leave a comment below. Steve Bowbrick is Edit...
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The 主播大秀's new Director of Future Media reflects on technology, the web and the 主播大秀
On the 主播大秀 Internet blog, Ralph Rivera, the American technology veteran who recently took over at the top of the 主播大秀's digital and online division, brings together his observations on the launch of a UK office for the W3C, on the history of computing and on the role of the 主播大秀. Read the post and ...
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Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
Death on television has always been a controversial issue - as such, it's not something that we'd ever take the decision to show lightly. Not only did we have to work closely with all of our contributors' families to make sure that the issue was handled as sensitively as possible, but we worked c...