A round-up of 主播大秀 announcements and press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output this week.
Announcements and Press ReleasesThe Horizons project, a collaboration between 主播大秀 Wales and the Arts Council of Wales to support and encourage new Welsh musical talent, is about to enter its third year and is looking for applications from new artists.
Chef, food writer and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi leads the search for the best of British food, drink and farming in the 16th 主播大秀 Food & Farming Awards.For the past 18 years, the 主播大秀 Proms Inspire scheme for young composers has offered a platform to 12-18 year olds across the UK to develop their skills, share their ideas with like-minded composers and get their music heard. In 2016 the scheme is expanding, offering composers of the future new opportunities and events year-round to encourage and support them.
The finalists for the 主播大秀 Audio Drama Awards 2016 have been announced this morning, with nominees including Alfred Molina for Best Actor, Sue Johnston for Best Actress and Eleanor Tomlinson for Debut Performance. The line-up also includes Cabin Pressure - starring Benedict Cumberbatch - for Best Scripted Comedy.
Picking up at the moment where the heart-stopping series finale left off in series two, Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan return to 主播大秀 Two in their iconic roles as the battle between Detective Superintendent Gibson and Paul Spector reaches its terrifying conclusion in Allan Cubitt’s intense psychological thriller, The Fall.
主播大秀 Music Celtic Connections 2016 will see a bonanza of performances from the UK’s biggest winter music festival, showcased across television, radio and online.
The Real Marigold Hotel takes an all-star cast on the journey of a lifetime.
An ambitious new travel documentary series, The Real Marigold Hotel (above), which takes an all-star cast on the journey of a lifetime.
A range of entertainment recommissions from independent production companies based across the UK.
A new series of the regional current affairs series.
Comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a new prime-time 主播大秀 Four programme in which he embarks on a road trip across the country, on a mission to find the UK’s Best Part-time Band.The artist-producer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt has been named the winner of the 主播大秀 Music Sound Of 2016 list of the ones to watch this coming year.
EastEnders, Mrs Brown’s Boys, The Apprentice and And Then There Were None were the most popular shows on 主播大秀 iPlayer over the festive period.
Blogs
Stuart Prebble, Executive Producer, StoryVault Films explains how the series My Mediterranean with Adrian Chiles came about.
Niki Carr, Head of Marketing at 主播大秀 Three introduces a new visual identity for the channel.
Broadcast Journalist Richard Latto explains the background to a new 主播大秀 Radio Solent iPlayer documentary, The Story Of 'The Day The Clown Cried' featuring exclusive unseen material from one of the world's most notorious unseen movie projects about the Holocaust.
How the regional roots of the 主播大秀's regional current affairs series Inside Out makes for a distinctive programme.
Documentary filmmaker Dan Reed tells the story of making a documentary about the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks as a terrorist opened fire at the Bataclan down the road.
Director of News and Current Affairs James Harding writes about future strategy for 主播大秀 News.
Radio, TV and Online Highlights
Award-winning film-maker Sue Bourne believes loneliness has to be talked about. It affects so many of us in so many different ways and at so many different stages of our lives. So she went out to find people brave enough to go on camera and talk about their loneliness.
In this , Bob Lowe, aged 93 talks about the loneliness he has felt since the death of his wife and how he takes immense comfort knowing that her ashes are always close by.
The first episode in the six part adaption of Tolstoy's War and Peace aired on Sunday 3 January. Read the Julia Raeside's Guardian piece on false claims of complaints about mumbling and James Norton's (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky)"".
First-hand accounts of life during the Siege of Leningrad are combined with an account of how composer Shostakovich wrote his monumental Leningrad Symphony.
Following the announcement of composer and conductor earlier this week tributes and archive programmes have been made available on the website. A two-hour programme celebrating Boulez's 80th birthday is available via .
Boulez, who had made appearances at the 主播大秀 Proms and worked with the 主播大秀 Symphony Orchestra, was also discussed in a feature on 主播大秀 Radio 4 with former Controller of Radio 3 and Proms Director, Nicholas Kenyon.
On Monday 4, how she is losing her hair as a side-effect of chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
6 Music's Chris Hawkins continues to build his Alternative Jukebox on . Chris writes on the 6 Music website, "The aim of the Alternative Jukebox is to capture 主播大秀 6 Music’s alternative spirit whether classic, cover, niche or unusual." Chris also appeared on , coming second with a specialist subject of Coronation Street.
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