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主播大秀 executives have been busy over the last week. Director-General Tony Hall unveiled his 聽last Tuesday, after which he spoke this week at the Technology Innovator鈥檚 Forum on Monday 14 October at Broadcasting House, explaining why creative industries matter to Britain:

鈥淭he creative economy accounts for around one-tenth of the whole UK economy and employs around 2.5 million people. In other words, it employs more people than the financial services industry, more people than the construction industry. And in recent years, this creative workforce has grown four times faster than the workforce as a whole.鈥�

at the Technology Innovator鈥檚 Forum is available to read on the Media Centre website.聽.

Also on Monday 14 October, Director, 主播大秀 Radio Helen Boaden spoke at the Radio Festival 2013 in Salford:

鈥淚 was on the tube travelling through London the other day and as I idly took in the passengers around me it dawned on me that there had been a subtle but significant change to their commuting behaviour. We鈥檝e all become used to our fellow passengers being lost in music or podcasts through headphones - indeed, often generously sharing it with those around them - but I noticed something that I鈥檇 not really spotted before. A lot of my fellow commuters were not listening but watching. Led by the young, that鈥檚 the impact that tablets and smartphones are having on our lives.鈥�

聽is also available on the Media Centre website.

Elsewhere, Roger Wright, Controller, 主播大秀 Radio 3 and Director, 主播大秀 Proms, gave the Royal Philharmonic Society Annual Lecture 2013聽at the Lincoln Center, New York,聽entitled 'The Future of Classical Music 鈥� We鈥檙e all In This Together'.

鈥淚 find it impossible to imagine a world without for example Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy, Stravinsky, Boulez and Sondheim. How lucky, however, we are that all these composers came before us. How can we keep alive that spirit of excitement as if we were hearing those composers鈥� music for the first time? - and perhaps even more importantly, how do we make our day to day orchestral music making as exciting as those occasional orchestras who seem to play with such energy and commitment? Abbado鈥檚 Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Barenboim鈥檚 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and all those fine youth orchestras, not least the newly formed National Youth Orchestra of the United States which made such a triumphant debut at the 主播大秀 Proms this summer?鈥�

Finally, Director, 主播大秀 Television, Danny Cohen was interviewed at the Royal Television Society on Sunday 13 October. You can .

Hannah Khalil is Digital Content Producer, About the 主播大秀 Website and Blog.聽