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Round-up week 46 (12-18 November)

Hannah Khalil

Digital Content Producer, About The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Blog

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A round-up of Ö÷²¥´óÐã announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output last week.

Wogan House

To honour the life and career of broadcasting legend, , Ö÷²¥´óÐã Western House in central London has been renamed, and reopened as Ö÷²¥´óÐã Wogan House.

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World Service Expansion

The Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service this week announced its , in a move designed to bring its independent journalism to millions more people around the world, including in places where media freedom is under threat. World Service will also expand its digital services to offer more mobile and video content, a greater social media presence, and new ways of reaching its audience around the globe.

Appointments

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Studios has appointed as Development Executive for Science. Meanwhile, Liam Hanley has been appointed as the , Ö÷²¥´óÐã One’s premier political debate programme, it was announced today.

Awards

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Cymru Wales, National Theatre Wales and the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Writersroom have announced the.

Announcements and blogs

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four

including new comedy starring ; the return of slow TV with a very special journey on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman; new science content revealing how to make the perfect pop song and taking a look at a typical English garden as you’ve never seen it before; and new series from Lucy Worsley and Andrew Graham Dixon.

Drama

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Scotland’s long-running drama, for its sensitive portrayal of a self-harm storyline involving teenager Drew McLean.

Meanwhile, further casting was announced for epic new Ö÷²¥´óÐã One drama .

Entertainment

Brand new Ö÷²¥´óÐã One Saturday night entertainment show  revealed further details about the format of the show. Meanwhile, singer, television personality and actress , OBE is to join Gary Barlow, Martin Kemp and Dannii Minogue as guest judge for the second stage of the brand new Ö÷²¥´óÐã One Saturday night entertainment show which is set to launch in the new year.

Michael McIntyre gave an interview to the Media Centre for Michael McIntyre's  Big Show on Ö÷²¥´óÐã One.

Factual

A new one-off documentary for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two presented by David Harewood,  part of the Black and British season, finds an average white British child is a dozen times more likely to be Prime Minister than a black British child.

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two has also commissioned Sidney Street to produce a new six-part series with Mary Berry called .

Meanwhile, on Ö÷²¥´óÐã One, Danny Dyer discovers his direct descent from royalty on

Learning

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Learning, in partnership with Wellcome, has launched c, a bold and ambitious new campaign to inspire primary children to get excited about science.

Sport

The Ö÷²¥´óÐã and the All England Club this week announced a four-year extension to their broadcast partnership, giving the Ö÷²¥´óÐã the domestic rights to broadcast .

Children's

Fans of CBeebies have today been challenged to design an update to the popular . The competition is the first opportunity for users to influence the app since it’s launch in September.

Children in Need

The was published this week.

Meanwhile, Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi has been announced as the narrator for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Children in Need special documentary,

Radio

Radio 3 has announced a celebration, as part of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 3’s 70th Season, of the unique contribution of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Orchestras and Choirs to Radio 3’s broadcast output and the cultural life of the UK.

World Service

Users of the Facebook Messenger app can now subscribe to specific news feeds from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s Spanish-language news website , provided by an automated newsbot account.

Elsewhere, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s Thai language service launched  the website - - to expand on its presence in social media and further strengthen Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s news and current-affairs offer to Thai-speaking audience, in Thailand and around the world.

Blogs

Blogs this week included another installment to our series this year with actors from the 1970s and Mary Hockaday introduces a new series to Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service that brings new ideas that have changed, improved or turned things across the the world: 

Broadcast Highlights

Ö÷²¥´óÐã Children in Need Rocks for Terry

  • Saturday 12 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO
  • Sunday 13 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã ONE
  • Sunday 13 November, 
    Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO
  • Monday 14 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã ONE
  • Monday 14 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO
  • Wednesday 16 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã FOUR
  • Friday 18 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã ONE
  • Saturday 12 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã RADIO 2
  • , Saturday 12 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã WORLD SERVICE
  • , Sunday 13 November, Ö÷²¥´óÐã RADIO 2

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