Jon Jacob
Editor, About the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Blog
Blog posts in total 247
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Brian Cant
Children's presenter Brian Cant has died at the age of 83. He was best known for presenting Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Play School for 21 years from 1964, and Play Away from 1971 to 1984, but also featured in TV dramas in the 1960s and the popular storytelling programme Jackanory in the mid-eighties.
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Ronnie Corbett Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey
About the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Editor Jon Jacob likes detail, and he likes telling people the detail. Thirty-odd years after watching The Ronnies as a kid, he's worked out why. It's down to Ronnie Corbett.
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John Noakes (1934-2017)
Earlier today news was announced of the death of former Blue Peter presenter John Noakes. He was 83.
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Jim Al Khalili talks about his programme, 'Gravity: The Force That Shapes Our Lives'
Jim Al Khalili returns to Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four tonight with a 90 minute feature-length documentary exploring some of the facts about gravity the rest of us might take for granted.
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Real Marigold Hotel: demystifying old age
On Sunday 12 February eight well-known senior citizens journey to India to experience retirement in another country. A few weeks ago, I met them all of the new cast with a group of other journalists at a special press launch promoting the forthcoming series.
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John Hurt (1940 - 2017)
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Antiques Roadshow Holocaust Memorial
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End of term shows and Christmas extravaganzas
Jon Jacob looks back at some children's TV Christmas extravaganza's and considers how they, like the Strictly Come Dancing, are the perfect start to the festive celebrations than perhaps we realise.
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Hely-Hutchinson: The Ö÷²¥´óÐã man who created the ultimate Christmas music
Jon Jacob praises the unsung hero of Christmas music who started his Ö÷²¥´óÐã career in 1926 as a piano accompanist and finished as Ö÷²¥´óÐã Director of Music.
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Experiencing Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service's Virtual Reality 'Trafficked'
Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service's three month virtual reality development project combines real-life testimonies in a virtual reality setting. Jon Jacob investigates.
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The festive season begins when the announcer says so
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music: My Generation - In Conversation With … Sheryl Garratt
Sheryl Garratt is one of a handful of contributors who appears in the 80s edition of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music documentary series My Generation. We spoke to Sheryl about her experience of the 80s, the music she loves and why it was important to her. My Generation is on Saturday 26 November on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two at 10....
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Outreach at Wild Place Project in Bristol with the next generation of Attenboroughs
This week the David Attenborough’s landmark documentary series Planet Earth II debuts on Ö÷²¥´óÐã One. To coincide with the series, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Natural History Unit has worked with Ö÷²¥´óÐã Outreach giving 15 students the chance to make their own short online documentary based at Wild Place Project in Bristol.
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BAFTA-winning Operation Ouch returns for a fifth series
Drs Chris and Xand return to CÖ÷²¥´óÐã for a special series of Operation Ouch: Hospital Takeover
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Remembering the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s first official historian Asa Briggs
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The early days of ballet at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã
A look through some early ballet productions that formed the early days of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Television Service.
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'Holographic' TV at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã
Old Ö÷²¥´óÐã globes conjured up into a hologram. It's enough to make you go weak at the knees.