About the 主播大秀 FeedThis blog聽explains what the 主播大秀 does and how it works. We link to some other blogs and online spaces inside and outside the corporation.聽The blog is edited by Alastair Smith and Matt Seel.2020-03-31T08:15:55+00:00Zend_Feed_Writer/blogs/aboutthebbc2020-03-31T08:15:55+00:002020-03-31T08:15:55+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/e82d941e-f759-45ff-b64e-3e900a5a92bbGary Smith<div class="component">
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<p><strong>These are difficult and worrying times for all of us. For staff at the 主播大秀, like everywhere else, there are constantly escalating stresses and strains, both at work and in our personal lives.</strong></p>
<p>In 主播大秀 Scotland we are acutely aware that what we do each day has never been more important to our audiences than it is now. The quality, accuracy, clarity and trustworthiness of the public service broadcasting that we are producing has a vital role to play at this moment of national jeopardy.</p>
<p>We know it's vital because people in Scotland are turning to the 主播大秀 in record numbers, more than to any other broadcaster, because they trust us to give them the facts.</p>
<p>A few examples: Over the past couple of weeks audiences for Reporting Scotland on 主播大秀 One at 6.30pm have topped 700,000, figures we haven鈥檛 seen since the Beast from the East swept through the country two years ago.</p>
<p>On the day when the Prime Minister and First Minister announced lockdown, a special live programme, produced by The Nine team, was watched by more than a million people.</p>
<p>And hundreds of thousands are tuning in to our special additional Politics Scotland programmes each day to cover the Scottish government briefings on Coronavirus. These usually go out live on 主播大秀 One Scotland, the 主播大秀 Scotland channel, Radio Scotland, and are streamed live on the 主播大秀 Scotland News website.</p>
<p>The Nine on the 主播大秀 Scotland channel has recorded the highest ever audience since it launched just over a year ago.</p>
<p>On Radio Scotland, we鈥檝e had loads of appreciation for our new schedule of news programmes across the day, starting at six every morning with Gary Robertson and Laura Maxwell on Good Morning Scotland. We鈥檝e added in - for our radio audiences across the whole day - updates on breaking news, even on our non-news programming.</p>
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<p>And our 主播大秀 Scotland News website, with its live pages, analysis and context, has doubled its readership.</p>
<p>But the 主播大秀 - not surprisingly - is not immune from the impact of the virus. More than ten per cent of 主播大秀 Scotland鈥檚 workforce is either self-isolating, shielding or actually unwell, and sadly we can only expect that figure to grow.</p>
<p>We鈥檙e making changes to the way we work - for example, reducing the numbers of people in our TV and radio studios, so that we can comply with the two metre social distancing rules. Most of our interviewees appear via Skype. Our radio presenters, including Gary Robertson and Laura Maxwell on Good Morning Scotland and Drivetime host John Beattie, are presenting many of their programmes from home - from sitting rooms, attics and kitchens. Even Judith Ralston and the rest of our weather team are, for some of their time, working from home.</p>
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<p>Although our reporters and technical staff are designated as key workers and are able to move around legally to do their jobs, we are limiting their movement as much as possible. Last week we ran a story on Reporting Scotland about the effect of the virus on Arran without any of our staff travelling there: All the material was filmed for us by the local residents.</p>
<p>We鈥檙e moving staff from other production areas into news, while still trying to protect as much of our non-news programming as possible: In the absence of live sport and other programmes, we鈥檝e discovered huge audience enthusiasm for classic comedy and sport.</p>
<p>In the space of just a few weeks, our business has been transformed. And the effect of our staff shortages means that something has had to give. We鈥檝e had tough decisions to make about where we cut back. I never want to lose any output, but we just don鈥檛 have the people now to carry on with everything we do.</p>
<p>So yesterday we鈥檝e stopped - temporarily - our short Breakfast TV bulletins. It鈥檚 a decision we鈥檝e reluctantly had to take across the whole of the 主播大秀 in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, in order to protect our output through the rest of the day. The Breakfast programme will of course still be on the air, but without our brief inserts of news from Scotland, the other nations and the English regions. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.</p>
<p>For our legions of regular viewers at breakfast time in Scotland a full news service can still be found on 主播大秀 Radio Scotland, 主播大秀 Radio nan Gaidheal (for Gaelic speakers), and the 主播大秀 Scotland News website.</p>
<p>In addition to pausing the Breakfast bulletins, we are also having to reduce the length of some of our Gaelic news programmes; we鈥檝e temporarily stopped making The Edit and Seven Days, our weekly news review on the 主播大秀 Scotland channel. We may need to look further at what news output we need to stop doing while Coronavirus is at its peak.</p>
<p>So the suspension of our Breakfast bulletins is not some conspiracy, as a few people on social media have suggested over the weekend. It鈥檚 about the realities of coping with high levels of sickness, realities also faced by network news teams in London, who are having to cut back and simplify their output; and by our colleagues at STV, who have announced cutbacks to what they can do. Coronavirus is affecting everyone and everything we all do.</p>
<p>In these anxious days and weeks, what we do at 主播大秀 Scotland News has never been more important to our audiences across the country. I鈥檓 very proud of the dedication and commitment of our news teams in providing the information that everyone is crying out for. And very grateful to the millions who are trusting the 主播大秀 to help them make it through the biggest national crisis most of us have ever known.</p>
<p><em>A version of this article appeared in The Scotsman</em></p>
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2018-05-10T10:25:00+00:002018-05-10T10:25:00+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/b3a4d745-58c3-4401-a228-c574f39b4a97Hannah Khalil<div class="component">
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<p>Last night (Wednesday 9 May 2018) the <a href="https://rts.org.uk/award/recipients-rts-scotland-awards-2018">RTS Scotland Awards 2018</a> were held at a ceremony at the Old Fruit Market in Glasgow.</p>
<p>主播大秀 people and programmes took home awards in 17 categories. Notably, Ewan Angus the outgoing 主播大秀 Scotland Commissioning聽Editor, Television was given the聽The RTS Scotland Award 2018: an industry award for outstanding contribution to television in Scotland.</p>
<p>All the 主播大秀 winners are listed below:聽</p>
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<li>Documentary and Specialist Factual,<strong><em> Sighthill</em></strong>: 主播大秀 Two Scotland</li>
<li>Documentary and Specialist Factual: History, <strong><em>Brian Cox's Russia,聽</em></strong>主播大秀 Scotland</li>
<li>Documentary and Specialist Factual: Arts,聽 <em><strong>Terry Pratchett: Back in Black,</strong></em>聽主播大秀 Scotland</li>
<li>Documentary and Specialist Factual: Science and Natural History,<strong><em> Trust Me, I'm A Doctor: Mental Health Special,聽</em></strong>主播大秀 Two</li>
<li>Drama, <strong><em>Queers 鈥 The Man on the Platform,</em></strong>聽主播大秀 Four</li>
<li>Current Affairs Programme, <strong><em>Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game,</em></strong>聽主播大秀 One Scotland</li>
<li>Sport: Programme, <strong><em>Glasgow 1967: The Lisbon Lions,</em></strong>聽主播大秀 Scotland</li>
<li>Comedy, <strong><em>The Dog Ate My 主播大秀work,</em></strong>聽C主播大秀</li>
<li>Children's, <strong><em>Gudrun The Viking Princess,</em></strong> CBeebies</li>
<li>On Screen Personality: <strong>Iain Stirling</strong>聽<em>The Dog Ate My 主播大秀work</em>, C主播大秀</li>
<li>Director: <strong>Bian莽a Barker</strong>聽<em>A Family Divided,</em>聽主播大秀 Scotland</li>
<li>Professional Excellence: Camera: <strong>Glen Milner聽</strong> <em>Handmade in Hull,</em>聽主播大秀 Four</li>
<li>Professional Excellence: Sound: <strong>Kahl Henderson聽</strong><em>Accidental Anarchist,聽</em>主播大秀 Four</li>
<li>Professional Excellence: Post Production Editing: <strong>David Arthur</strong>聽<em>Sighthill,</em>聽主播大秀 Two Scotland</li>
<li>Professional Excellence: Post Production Graphics and Tilting: <strong>Playdead,聽</strong><em>Trust Me, I'm A Doctor,聽</em>主播大秀 Two</li>
<li>Innovation Award,<em><strong> Kidder</strong>,</em>聽主播大秀 The Social</li>
<li>The RTS Scotland Award 2018: <strong>Ewan Angus</strong></li>
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<p><a href="https://rts.org.uk/award/recipients-rts-scotland-awards-2018">A full list of winners is available at the RTS website.聽</a></p>
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2017-09-20T08:00:00+00:002017-09-20T08:00:00+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/f95d414a-2caa-41ba-b0d8-9de40452a614Donalda MacKinnon<div class="component">
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><em>主播大秀 Scotland Director Donalda MacKinnon reflects on the 10th聽anniversary of the opening of the 主播大秀鈥橲 Scottish HQ at Pacific Quay in Glasgow on 20 September.</em></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">If a week鈥檚 a long time in politics, imagine what 10 years feels like in broadcasting.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">This week, 10 years ago, the Prime Minister (then) Gordon Brown officially opened our new Scottish HQ on the banks of the River Clyde at Pacific Quay.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Like most 鈥渇lits鈥, the move from our much-loved studios at Queen Margaret Drive in the bustling west end of Glasgow was an emotional one but one borne out of a desire to move with the times beyond a less than fit for purpose HQ to a new building which would avail us of the latest digital technology to offer improved quality to audiences.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Many of our staff loved working in the west end so although our new base was little more than two miles away, it did seem like a cultural chasm for some. 聽Glasgow south-siders frequently used to mock their west-end colleagues by pondering whether they got nose bleeds whenever they crossed to the other banks of the Clyde.聽 As a south-sider myself, the move was most welcome.聽 The avoidance of the Kingston Bridge in the mornings was a welcome trade off from my point of view.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">In broadcasting terms, 2007 was a very busy year, and to put it into context, digital switchover was just about to begin in November that year, with Whitehaven the first area to have its terrestrial TV signal turned off.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">When we came to cut the metaphorical digital ribbons on PQ, a number of very big stories had already been covered by our news crews who had moved across the river several months earlier as part of a phased transition.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">While Gordon Brown had replaced Tony Blair in Number 10, Alex Salmond had just been elected First Minister of Scotland, the first from his Scottish National Party to hold that office. 聽Interest rates had recently risen to the giddy heights of 5.2% while agreement on updating the Trident missile system had just been forged.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Just a few months earlier our radio news teams at PQ had responded to the Glasgow Airport terrorist attack while the search for the missing toddler Madeline McCann was continuing in Portugal.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">But some things don鈥檛 change and the UK had once again stuttered to second last in the Eurovision song contest!</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">The 主播大秀 was also in the headlines itself when our Middle East correspondent Alan Johnston was abducted and held hostage for more than three months. 主播大秀 Scotland staff were among those who had held regular vigils for his release and one of our happiest memories over the last 10 years was welcoming Alan and his Lochgoilhead-based parents to Pacific Quay when he made an emotional thank-you to staff for keeping his plight in the public eye.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">While moving to our new home was a wrench for some, the opportunities to work in the most advanced state-of-the-art broadcast centre in Europe was a gift-horse to be grabbed on two fronts.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Firstly, it allowed everyone to share any filmed material which was a boon in particular to our news teams as they could significantly enhance our story-telling using new desk-top editing and much quicker turnaround processes.</p>
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<p>Secondly, it allowed us to branch out and use different parts of PQ as broadcast spaces. That brought us live music at The Quay via our intimate pop-up studio in reception; Jeremy Vine live from The Street with his latest graphic gadgets during聽the Scottish Independence Referendum; Election Results programmes from across the building; wonderful radio drama production in their new purpose-built premises and of course the hugely successful sitcom filmed in our main television studio,聽<em>Mrs Brown鈥檚 Boys</em>.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">And who can forget the memorable Royal visit when Prince Charles toured PQ and tried his hand at doing the聽<em>Reporting Scotland</em>聽weather forecast 鈥 complete with specific information on whether it would be raining in various Royal households throughout Scotland. And of course, as it was mid May in Scotland, it was accurately forecast!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">My own particular favourite memory, however, was when the building truly came alive during the Commonwealth Games in 2014 when real collaboration between 主播大秀 Scotland, 主播大秀 Sport and many other parts of the 主播大秀 brought the very first reaction direct from successful stars of the Games like boxer Charlie Flynn (the mailman who always delivered), gymnast Claudia Fragapane and swimmer Adam Peatty. 聽It all came live from our reception - with a little help from Clare Balding and not forgetting restaurant staff member and cocktail mixer to the stars, Hugh McDonald. And while all that was happening inside PQ, our staff pulled out all the stops to create fantastic live events daily outside in Millennium Square for thousands of visitors. 聽</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">As I鈥檝e often heard said on some of our entertainment shows, "it鈥檚 been an emotional journey" 鈥 and not without its challenges.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">The novelty of unisex toilets; the occasional blip getting to grips with our new technology; debating the artistic merits of our famous red sheds and even our opening night celebrations playing out in the background of our first news bulletin were hurdles that we skipped over enroute to today 鈥 maybe not quite with the grace of Colin Jackson but we did so nevertheless.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">And throughout those 10 years, our staff and colleagues across Scotland have continued to produce programmes, services and major events which have informed, educated and entertained audiences. That desire to put our audiences at the heart of all we do continues to underpin all our activities and remains our ambition for the next decade and beyond.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><em>Donalda MacKinnon is聽主播大秀 Scotland Director</em></p>
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<li><em>Find out more about聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/scotland/">主播大秀 Pacific Quay</a></em></li>
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2017-05-08T15:30:07+00:002017-05-08T15:30:07+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/7d4df4de-016a-4135-b1c5-be3aea5b323bJen Macro<div class="component prose">
<p>The Celtic Media Festival is an annual聽celebration of broadcasting and film from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall and Brittany. As part of the festival, the Celtic Media Awards ceremony was held at Villa Marina in Douglas on the Isle Of Mann from the 3-5 May. The 主播大秀 picked up accolades in 15 of the 23 catagories:</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p040qtps">The Greatest Poem of World War One: David Jones's In Parenthesis</a> -</em>聽主播大秀 Wales & 主播大秀 Four</p>
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<p><em>Wil, Aeron a'r Inca/Wil, Aeron and The Inca</em> - S4C</p>
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<h4>Comedy聽</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fyxzn"><em>Still Game</em></a> - 主播大秀 Scotland</p>
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<img class="image" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p049v3yb.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p049v3yb.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p049v3yb.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p049v3yb.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p049v3yb.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p049v3yb.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p049v3yb.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p049v3yb.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p049v3yb.jpg 1008w" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 613px, (min-width: 48.125em) 66.666666666667vw, 100vw" alt=""></div>
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<h4>Factual Series</h4>
<p><em>Scotland鈥檚 Game -聽</em>主播大秀 Scotland</p>
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<img class="image" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p044w138.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p044w138.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p044w138.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p044w138.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p044w138.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p044w138.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p044w138.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p044w138.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p044w138.jpg 1008w" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 613px, (min-width: 48.125em) 66.666666666667vw, 100vw" alt=""></div>
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<h4>Kieran Hegarty Award for Innovation</h4>
<p><a href="/events/e2d5v2"><em>Voices 16</em></a> - 主播大秀 Northern Ireland</p>
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<h4>Drama series</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yzlr0"><em>Line of Duty</em></a>聽- 主播大秀</p>
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<h4>Radio Documentary</h4>
<p><em>Aberfan -聽</em>主播大秀 Radio Cymru</p>
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<h4>Radio Magazine Show</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075t5tc"><em>Rhaglen Aled Hughes/Aled Hughes Programme</em></a> - 主播大秀 Radio Cymru</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cmsk6">Blas Ceoil</a>聽-</em>聽主播大秀 Radio Ulster</p>
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<h4>Radio Sports</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jdc5"><em>Sp貌rs na Seachdain/Weekly Sport</em></a> - 主播大秀 Radio nan Gaidheal</p>
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<h4>Radio Station of the Year</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocymru"><em>主播大秀 Radio Cymru</em></a></p>
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<h4>Single Documentary</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072ww59"><em>Dunblane 鈥 Our Story</em></a> - 主播大秀 One</p>
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<h4>Sports Documentary</h4>
<p><em>Crash and Burn</em> - 主播大秀 NI and RTE</p>
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<h4>Spirit of the Festival & History</h4>
<p><em>Eoin Mac N茅ill: Fear Dearmadta 1916/Eoin MacNeill: The Forgotten Man of 1916 -</em>聽主播大秀 Two NI and TG4</p>
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<p>For the full list of winners visit the <a href="http://www.celticmediafestival.co.uk/show-winners/douglas">Celtic Media Festival website</a>.</p>
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2017-03-15T11:00:03+00:002017-03-15T11:00:03+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/e5f6bab8-f7df-4d41-849b-f50e27695ebdLindsay Pell<div class="component prose">
<p><em>Announced today, the programme for the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival promises three weeks of the finest performances from the worlds of opera, music, theatre and dance.</em></p>
<p><em>Committed to virtuosity and originality, t</em><em>he Edinburgh International Festival was the inspired idea of Rudolf Bing, then the General Manager of Glyndebourne Opera, Henry Harvey Wood, the Head of the British Council in Scotland, and leaders from the City of Edinburgh. It was established in 1947 as a world class cultural event to bring together audiences and artists from around the world and, 70 years later, it continues to serve as a聽<em>beacon</em>聽for the very best in the arts.</em></p>
<p><em>As the official broadcaster of the International Festival, through live and recorded concerts available on radio and online 主播大秀 Radio 3 will bring the best of the Edinburgh International Festival to audiences at home and across the world in 2017, </em><em>introducing the artists and their programmes to those unable to be at the concerts in person.</em></p>
<p><em>Radio 3鈥檚 predecessor the Third Programme broadcast from Edinburgh at the very first International Festival in 1947 and with both cultural institutions in their 70th聽year, Radio 3 will once again make the International Festival鈥檚 music offering available to everyone through a major series of broadcasts in 2017.</em></p>
<p><em>Lindsay Pell, </em><em>Senior Producer for Music at 主播大秀 Scotland, tells us more about Radio 3鈥檚 long-standing relationship as the official broadcast partner of one of the world鈥檚 greatest arts festivals, and talks through what鈥檚 in store for radio listeners in the Festival鈥檚 70th聽anniversary year:</em></p>
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<li><strong><em>When did the 主播大秀 first start broadcasting from the Edinburgh International Festival?</em></strong></li>
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<p>I have in my hand the original leaflet for the inaugural 1947 Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama as it was named them. It is a modest eight-page paper leaflet and a far cry from some of the very glossy publications that have existed in later decades but there are some impressive names.</p>
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<p>The 主播大秀 was involved right from the outset and I鈥檝e found a recording from that first Festival year of <em>A recital of Scottish Lowland Songs</em> (Burns etc) given by the soprano Marie Thomson and tenor John Tainsh with Ian Whyte on the piano. The 主播大秀 Scottish Orchestra (sic) also makes an appearance with Ian Whyte as conductor and Cyril Smith on the pianoforte playing the first performance of the conductor鈥檚 own concerto. Clearly it was a good year for Ian Whyte.</p>
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<p>This is a question I have asked various people including former Artistic Directors of the Festival and we are lucky to have had some truly historic moments from over the past 70 years captured forever thanks to Radio 3 and our predecessor The Third Programme. Today I discovered a recording of the famous tenor Fritz Wunderlich singing Schumann鈥檚 <em>Dichterliebe</em> at the 1966 Festival, literally days before he tragically died in an accident. I was also particularly excited to find a number of great composers had attended the Festival to perform their own works. There are recordings of Francis Poulenc and Pierre Bernac (who premiered so many of his songs at the Festival) performing the song cycle <em>Le Travail du Peintre</em>聽and the great Hungarian composer Ern艖 Dohn谩nyi performing a solo piano recital of his own works. Benjamin Britten of course made several appearances as have other great luminaries including Pierre Boulez. Some of the greatest artists of the last 70 years have been captured on tape at the International Festival including singers Maria Callas, Kathleen Ferrier, Jessye Norman; instrumentalists including cellist Pierre Fournier, violinist Moskowsky (also famous as a composer of many showpieces), violinist Isaac Stern, the Amadeus Quartet, the Orpheus Choir and鈥he list goes on.</p>
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<p>It鈥檚 quite a conveyor-belt of production as we are a fairly small team with usually two producers alternating concerts every day for three weeks. The team arrive at the Queen鈥檚 Hall at about 8am to re-rig and check the equipment and the communications to London. The presenter, (either Donald Macleod or Jamie MacDougall) arrives at around 9am to meet the producer, check over the script, make any last minute changes that have occurred recently. The trickiest thing here is when the repertoire changes at very short notice, which creates a flurry of activity including changes to the聽online and digital radio information and not least some speedy re-scripting to introduce the new piece. The producer meets and talks to the artist to finalise any last details that affect the broadcast including when they might come off stage between pieces, any changes or concerns and often a short interview for inclusion in the broadcast.</p>
<p>Before the concert begins we鈥檝e normally tweeted, Facebooked and shared stories and pictures about the concert. The producer keeps in close touch with Radio 3 via telephone and ISDNs to make sure we dovetail into the morning's programming. This often includes a short 鈥榯wo-way鈥 conversation between our presenter and the presenter on-air before the concert begins. At 11am the presenter and concert go live on air whilst we monitor the performance and audio. We make notes for future reference and are ready to take action in case something happens like a string breaking or in case anything happens inside the hall that disrupts the concert. In the interval we stay on air with script, conversation or music and we finally hand back to Radio 3 as the applause comes to an end.</p>
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<li><strong><em>What can listeners look forward to in this year鈥檚 Radio 3 coverage of the International Festival?</em></strong></li>
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<p>Radio 3 continues in its role as partner with the International Festival, broadcasting live, fifteen morning concerts from the Queen鈥檚 Hall and recording six Usher Hall concerts for later broadcast. There will also be live editions of programmes such as Breakfast, Record Review and In Tune from the 主播大秀 at the Edinburgh Festivals hub and two documentaries looking at the history and founding of the festival 鈥 one which will use archive recording and new interviews to trace an oral history of the early years of the festival, and the second, which will tell the story of how after 1945 arts festivals such as Edinburgh were created across Europe to re-establish a spirit of international co-operation. We鈥檒l also be delving into our archive, looking back at some of the great moments captured on the radio over the past 70 years 鈥 these moments will include twelve concerts featuring some of the finest artists to appear at the International Festival.</p>
<p>In a year in which both the Festival and Radio 3 are 70 years young it鈥檚 set to be a brilliant three weeks of music making and recording - stay tuned!</p>
<p><em>Lindsay Pell is Senior Producer for Music at 主播大秀 Scotland.</em></p>
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<li><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3">Listen to 主播大秀 Radio 3</a> and keep up to date with the station on <a href="https://twitter.com/主播大秀Radio3">twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bbcradio3/">facebook</a>.</em></li>
<li><em>Find out more about the <a href="https://www.eif.co.uk/">Edinburgh International Festival 2017</a>.</em></li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R6q_wMx2P4%20">Watch Donald McLeod at work at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2015</a>.聽</em></li>
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2017-01-20T11:51:23+00:002017-01-20T11:51:23+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/3815b0a5-3943-4089-81ae-6f8786c1149eAngela Galvin<div class="component">
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<p><em>Today <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom">主播大秀 Writersroom</a> officially launches their 主播大秀 Scotland office. Development Producer Angela Galvin explains why this is great news for Scotland-based writers and a few of the upcoming plans and events.</em></p>
<p>The 20th聽of January 2017 is a date that has been playing on loop in my mind for many months. And no, it鈥檚 not because a certain reality star聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38668834"><strong>becomes the 45th聽US President</strong></a>聽on that day but because of something much closer to home. It鈥檚 the day聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/"><strong>主播大秀 Writersroom</strong></a>聽Scotland launches.</p>
<p>Now, I know our small event won鈥檛 compare to the all singing鈥ell maybe not singing 鈥ll dancing shindig happening across the sea but I think it is a BIG deal. Why? Well, I have to come clean and admit I have a vested interest. I鈥檓 the Development Producer tasked with the exciting job of setting up the new Scottish base for the 主播大秀 Writersroom, alongside my colleague Audrey McFadden, the Development Co-ordinator for Scotland. But it should be even more important to any writer or person working in the creative industries across Scotland.聽 Again, why?</p>
<p>Well if you are reading this blog you know how brilliant the 主播大秀 Writersroom is. On our website we have scripts, blogs, vlogs, tips and tricks of the trade - everything you need to help you get down to the difficult task of writing when a blank page is giving you a hard stare. Writersroom Scotland鈥檚 aim is also to champion new and experienced writing talent. We want to support and develop writers so that they can go and create brilliant stories for the audience. And, it鈥檚 not a pipe dream. Look at the amazing TV, radio and digital content coming out of the UK today. Our programmes are winning awards right, left and centre, they are championed as the best there is and are sought after and replicated by broadcasters around the world. But, at the heart of many of these projects are UK writers. Writers that started writing just like you and that is where we come in.</p>
<p>Writersroom Scotland will feed into all the pan-UK Writersroom schemes but will also create bespoke opportunities for writers from or living within Scotland. The聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/about/continuing-drama"><strong>Continuing Drama Scheme</strong></a>聽will now include聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006p2xl"><strong>River City</strong></a>聽and will place several writers and directors at the heart of production. We will have talent searches including聽<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-epIi7TJDmJNeG8DkafEZhN_Z47gwOKv"><strong>主播大秀 Three鈥檚 The Break</strong></a>聽which will see series three shot at the River City Dumbarton site in winter 2017. We will have the annual聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/446336c7-7ba4-4f0c-aed3-74c085bcef89"><strong>Scottish Writers鈥 Festival</strong></a>聽in April 2017 which was attended by over 200 participants last year. It will have sessions from key writers working in TV and film and master-classes on developing and creating narrative content. There will be聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/706d935d-7cb8-4d40-96d4-c1a038081199"><strong>residential events</strong></a>聽for writers where they have the time and space to develop ideas alongside industry professionals and the Scottish writers group will have bi-monthly events and access to a writing space at 主播大秀 Scotland. I could go on and on but I鈥檝e been given a word count.</p>
<p>Watch this space鈥</p>
<p><strong><em>This blog originally appeared on the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/d81278b5-b327-4bd5-9b02-6d47e06fc145">主播大秀 Writersroom website</a>, where, all next week they'll be featuring Scottish productions and scripts to celebrate the great work being done in Scotland and to highlight some of the opportunities for writers.</em></strong></p>
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2016-11-07T10:00:07+00:002016-11-07T10:00:07+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/f82ec473-6da5-4a77-9ba3-fa69dcc50fe7Hannah Khalil<div class="component">
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<p>Last night (Sunday 6 November) the Scottish BAFTA ceremony was held in Glasgow. 主播大秀 programmes fared extremely well being awarded prizes in nine categories.</p>
<p>主播大秀 One's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01s711r"><em>Shetland</em></a> earned Best Drama Series and its star Douglas Henshall took home the Best Actor in a TV Series Award. Douglas Mackinnon was awarded the Best Director Film/Television for his work on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0390wnv"><em>Sherlock: The Abominable Bride</em></a>.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, C主播大秀's聽<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiZvdLys5bQAhWISyYKHUWxDn0QFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fcbbc%2Fshows%2Fall-over-the-workplace&usg=AFQjCNGsugu1zOsPrklpWEj7UIUw4_3Fjg&sig2=5OWRSXqkgLvri5n5RXQv3w"><em>All over the Workplace</em></a>聽was named Best Children's Programme,聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073h497"><em>This Farming Life</em></a>聽won Best Factual Series and 主播大秀 One's聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072ww59"><em>Dunblane: Our Story</em></a>聽(pictured above) was the Best Single Documentary winner.</p>
<p>All the 主播大秀 winners are listed below:聽</p>
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<li>Best Actor TV, Douglas Hensall, <em>Shetland</em></li>
<li>Best聽Children鈥檚 Programme, <em>All Over The Workplace</em></li>
<li>Best Comedy/Entertainment, <em>Mrs Brown's Boys: Christmas Special 2015</em></li>
<li>Best Current Affairs, <em>主播大秀 Scotland Investigates: Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed</em></li>
<li>Director Film/Television, Douglas Mackinnon, <em>Sherlock: The Abominable Bride</em></li>
<li>Best Factual Series, <em>This Farming Life</em></li>
<li>Best Single Documentary, <em>Dunblane: Our Story</em></li>
<li>Specialist Factual, <em>Imagine...Richard Flanagan: Life After Death</em></li>
<li>Best TV Drama, <em>Shetland</em></li>
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<p>Congratulations to all the winners, a full list can be found on the <a href="http://www.bafta.org/scotland/awards/ceremony/nominees-winners/british-academy-scotland-awards-nominees-in-2016">BAFTA website</a>.聽</p>
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2014-11-27T09:01:07+00:002014-11-27T09:01:07+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/a972f94e-86f6-33f7-9596-f0138db70a03Tim Plyming<div class="component">
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<p>Today sees the launch of our online drama for iWonder as part of the 主播大秀鈥檚 World One Season. <em><a href="http://www.footballersunited.co.uk">Footballers United</a></em> is an ambitious project commissioned by 主播大秀 Learning and is one of the final pieces of digital content we will launch in this first year of the 主播大秀鈥檚 four-year centenary season. This pilot follows 主播大秀 Learning鈥檚 first experiment with an online drama - an interactive episode of<em> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1kWsQcfTPFjfz9sdxfTGFhC/our-world-war-interactive-episode">Our World War</a></em> for 主播大秀 Three.</p><p>With <em>Footballers United</em>, we wanted to find a new and interesting way to tell the true story of a community surrounding the Heart of Midlothian football team from 1914-1919 in Scotland. It鈥檚 a very moving story that follows both the men and women, in Edinburgh and around the country, whose lives were forever changed by World War One.</p><p>By hosting this drama online, we were able to combine new fictional content, that is the drama itself, with factual archived content; giving our audience the chance to learn more about the history and background of the story they鈥檙e watching, as they鈥檙e watching it. We鈥檝e done this by having an interactive timeline in the drama that prompts you when there is archived content available for you to see, such as video, audio, images and text as well as social media elements.</p><p>By signing into Facebook the timeline maps events in WW1 to your social media graph; showing how your friends and a modern day social community would have fared throughout the war. For example, when you pass the first day of the Somme in the drama, a social media item will appear that shows how your friends would have fared had they been in the battle at the time.</p><p>This project has really given us the chance to explore a new way to tell stories online and I hope that people will enjoy the combination of new and archived content, that it will give them a deeper understanding and knowledge about WW1 yet still entertain them, and more importantly, move them.</p><p>We have been thrilled to work with Gemma Fay, Captain and Goalkeeper of the Scottish National Women鈥檚 Football team, who presents the archive content which precedes each chapter. The extraordinary (and mostly unknown) story of women鈥檚 football during WW1 is one of the main themes of the drama and I am really excited to see how our audiences will use the ability to delve into actual photos and documents from the time as the drama plays out.</p><p>Our main ambition for this season was to re-introduce audiences to a war they thought they knew. Our digital content has been a key way of reaching younger audiences with a much broader story of the war that changed everything. We started the year with the launch of 聽iWonder and the release of a range of interactive guides, telling stories as varied as the vital importance of the pigeon in WW1, to the war in Tongo and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zgr9kqt">how<em> Lord of Rings</em> was inspired by Tolkien鈥檚 experience on the Western Front</a>.</p><p>In June we collaborated closely with 主播大秀 News to re-tell the events around the assassination or Archduke Ferdinand as if they were happening today. Our first set of online learners have just completed our pilot set of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/主播大秀-Learnings-massive-open-online-courses">WW1 MOOCs</a> (Massive Open Online Courses) in partnership with four leading universities in the UK, and used our social media platforms to help mark some the key anniversaries of the Great War.</p><p>The breadth and scale of the 主播大秀鈥檚 activity in this first year of this centenary season has only been possible because of some fantastic partnership working across the 主播大秀, including teams in Future Media, Nations and English Regions, 主播大秀 News and colleagues across our global news services as well as a huge range of external partners including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Imperial War Museums and the RAF Museum (to name just a few).</p><p>We will continue to mark some of the key moments in WW1 right to the end of the season in 2018 鈥 I hope it will continue to stimulate your interest in such an important moment in our all histories.</p><p><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/authors/Tim_Plyming">Tim Plyming</a> is the Executive Producer in Knowledge and Learning and has been overseeing the digital content as part of the 主播大秀鈥檚 World War One Centenary Season</em></p><ul>
<li><em>Watch <a href="http://www.footballersunited.co.uk">Footballers United</a></em></li>
<li><em>Visit the 主播大秀's聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/ww1/">World War One portal</a></em></li>
<li><em>Read Tim's blog聽<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/Our-World-War-gets-interactive">Our World War gets interactive</a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iwonder">Find out more about iWonder</a></em></li>
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2014-10-15T12:09:46+00:002014-10-15T12:09:46+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/7a913e94-14c9-31c9-9ba6-7cc71a13e7deGraham Stewart<div class="component">
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<p>She鈥檚 the longest-serving presenter on the
longest-running programme in Scottish television history.聽Jackie Bird, who
this week celebrates 25 years as anchor of the 主播大秀鈥檚 <em>Reporting Scotland</em>,
has achieved that rarest of feats in the media: on-air longevity.</p>
<p>As a result, she鈥檚 perhaps the most famous face
in Scotland.聽 If you think that鈥檚 an exaggeration, consider that <em>Reporting
Scotland</em> is one of the most-watched TV programmes north of the border with
an average audience of half a million viewers on any given night. Taken across
a whole week, the various editions and bulletins combined reach more than half
the adult population of Scotland.聽Multiply that over 25 years and it鈥檚
little wonder that Jackie Bird is a household name.</p><p></p>
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<p>As someone who鈥檚 grown-up watching Jackie I
thought it would be fascinating to see her in the guest seat for once.聽So
this week I recorded an in-depth interview in the <em>Reporting Scotland</em>
studio at Glasgow鈥檚 Pacific Quay.聽 Among other things, she tells about the
changes she鈥檚 seen in TV news over 25 years, how women in journalism have
combatted male chauvinism and what the secret behind her success is.</p>
<p>One of my favourite quotes from the archive is
an interview she did for the <em>Radio Times</em> just ahead of her <em>Reporting
Scotland</em> debut in October 1989:</p>
<p><em>鈥淚 have paid my dues by chasing fire engines
and knocking on thousands of doors, but there has just been a very fortunate
progression from radio to newspapers and then television.聽 I鈥檓 still quite
young though, and television is a big world, so goodness knows where I鈥檒l end
up.鈥</em></p>
<p>I doubt if even Jackie Bird could鈥檝e predicted
she鈥檇 be in the same job 25 years on 鈥 and still at the top of her game.</p>
<p><em>Graham Stewart is a Broadcaster and Journalist,
主播大秀 Scotland</em></p>
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<li><em>Read
about <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-29570930">Jackie鈥檚 story
on the 主播大秀 website</a>.聽</em></li>
<li><em>Join
Jackie Bird for her <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04l2nh7">25th
anniversary edition of Reporting Scotland</a> on Wednesday night at 6.30 on 主播大秀
One Scotland.聽</em></li>
<li><em>Later
that same night she takes over the reigns of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lgxz2">Scotland 2014</a> to look back
on 25 years of news.</em></li>
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2014-05-01T11:29:08+00:002014-05-01T11:29:08+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/2dfa0f52-6632-368f-a357-280293fd0f9cSharon Mair<div class="component">
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<p>As I write this there are only 83 days until the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/2014">Glasgow
2014 Commonwealth Games</a> open, the sun is shining and the 主播大秀 will be delivering a
fantastic summer of sport including the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/2014">World Cup</a>, Wimbledon and the
Games. The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/queens_baton_relay/">Queen鈥檚 Baton Relay</a> is nearing its arrival into the UK on the
11th May and the cultural events across the summer are being
announced. The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ep3g9r">Radio 1 Big Weekend</a> line-up looks amazing and the
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017f6dt">Radio 1 Academy</a> the week before promises to deliver exciting experiences in
Glasgow,. These will really kick off our cultural and event programming around
the Games.聽</p><p>Today we launch the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/scotland/aboutus/bbc-at-the-quay.html">主播大秀 at the Quay</a> programme of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/bbc-at-the-quay">brilliant radio, television and online events</a> that
will be coming to the 主播大秀鈥檚 16 day pop-up festival based at Pacific Quay near
主播大秀 Scotland鈥檚 headquarters on the River Clyde. After several
months of logistical and detailed editorial discussions with programme teams
right across the 主播大秀 and many external partners, we can now share some of the
highlights that will be happening from the 19th July to 3rd August. It is a
free site with tickets for special events, and programmes will be on our website
from the 30th May. Whether you are in Glasgow for the Games and want to
come along and be a part of the festival or whether you want to watch, listen
or interact with our radio, television or online content there will be
something for everyone. That was key for me I really wanted us to
create a site that you could bring your mum, your dad, your friends, your
children, your auntie, your uncle or just be a part of it yourself, remember, this is your 主播大秀. Amazing music from great artists like
Texas, Paloma Faith, Simple Minds, Maceo Parker, Raghu Dixit to name a few,
live radio from all our networks, television programmes and events, and some
very special golden ticket events to give you the chance to meet some of the
biggest names in sports and entertainment.</p>
<p>It is a great privilege to lead and co-ordinate an event on
this scale and there is a small brilliant core team behind this 鈥 Andrew,
Debbie, Laura, Charlene, Emma P, Joanna, Emma B, Lisa and Charlotte, Jennifer,
Niall and Stuart鈥 who are pulling it all together. There
has been well thought out collaboration right across the 主播大秀 to make something like
this happen, from all the radio networks, Radio 1, 1XTRA, Radio 2, Radio 3,
Radio 4, 4XTRA, Radio 5 Live, Asian Network, Radio Scotland, Radio nan
Gaidheal, Radio Wales, Radio Ulster, and the English regions, to different
areas including <em>The One Show</em>, Children鈥檚, Learning, Sport, Gaelic,
Interactive, and some very special one off events produced specifically for 主播大秀
at the Quay.</p>
<p>It is important for us to showcase some of the other
exciting events that Glasgow will be offering during this time so we are
working collaboratively with many of the other cultural organisations in
Scotland, for example Culture 2014 and Festival 2014. We will be running a
number of 主播大秀 hosting events where you will get the chance to see what Scottish
Opera and the National Theatre of Scotland will be doing amongst others. 聽</p>
<p>Music, sport, family and diversity will be at the heart of
the content over the 16 days and with over 70 programmes, shows and events
already confirmed I hope that you will all be a part of it. I鈥檓
delighted that we are working with DF concerts who will be delivering the event
management of the site, the Glasgow Science Centre (regarding the location) and a one off event with the Waverley - the world鈥檚 last sea-going paddle
steamer.</p>
<p>The excitement of the sport during the Games will be amazing
but the cultural diversity of all the Commonwealth countries shown through
music, history and the spoken word is very powerful and our ambition is to
create a site and event that reflects this. So if you are in
Glasgow come and visit us if you're not please listen, watch and interact with us on all
our content during this period. I look forward to welcoming you and all the 主播大秀 programmes, external organisations to the site in
July. And if someone can bring the sunshine that would be very
helpful!</p><p><em>Sharon Mair is聽主播大秀
Project Executive for the Commonwealth Games.</em></p><p></p><ul>
<li><em>Read more of Sharon's blogs about the Commonwealth Games on her <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/authors/Sharon_Mair">author page</a>.</em></li>
<li><em>Find out how to volunteer at 主播大秀 at the Quay on the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/scotland/aboutus/bbc-at-the-quay.html">About 主播大秀 Scotland website</a>.</em></li>
<li><em>Follow 主播大秀 at the quay on <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=bbc%20at%20the%20quay&src=typd">twitter</a>.</em></li>
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2014-04-14T12:44:54+00:002014-04-14T12:44:54+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/5fae0d3e-9f76-3803-89d5-c50e6a218950Bruce Malcolm<div class="component prose">
<p>Today is a significant day as it marks the start of the countdown to the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. In 100 days, on 23 July, Glasgow will take centre stage in a packed 主播大秀 schedule, as the twentieth Commonwealth Games kicks off at Celtic Park. We鈥檙e really excited about the summer ahead and very proud of all of the amazing creativity and collaboration that鈥檚 going on across many parts of the 主播大秀 鈥 which will deliver so much to our audiences between now and the opening ceremony and beyond.</p><p>Over the twelve days of the Games, Glasgow will welcome people from 71 nations to compete in and watch the sporting competition. It will also stage comprehensive arts and cultural events alongside it, providing something for everyone. Audiences have high expectations of our coverage, expecting the very best, agreeing that, 鈥淲hen it comes to covering live events and capturing amazing moments, no-one does it quite like the 主播大秀鈥.聽</p><p>This will be a massive occasion, with 17 different sports and 4,500 athletes going head to head for medals, keen to demonstrate their sporting prowess. The para-sports are not a separate event and will also be covered exclusively by the 主播大秀. Glasgow 2014鈥檚 Para-Sports programme will be the largest in Commonwealth Games history with the highest ever number of medal events across the most ever sports 鈥 it鈥檚 a great opportunity to really show what we can do.</p><p>The 主播大秀 is set to provide extensive and comprehensive coverage, with TV, radio and online teams from Sport, News, Nations and English Regions broadcasting from Glasgow this summer. Many big 主播大秀 shows will come to Glasgow 鈥 including <em>The One Show</em> and Ken Bruce on Radio 2 - to give audiences an insight into all that鈥檚 going on in Glasgow. Look out too for a wealth of supporting programming celebrating many aspects of Glasgow and the Commonwealth to enjoy over the next 100 days. <em>Seven Wonders of the Commonwealth</em>, <em>Friday Night is Music Night</em> from Radio 2, <em>Secret History of our Streets</em> and <em>Commonwealth on Film</em> to name a few, alongside some One Show Baton Relay specials.</p><p>A particular highlight at Pacific Quay will be 主播大秀 at the Quay, a free 16 day pop up entertainment festival, with music events, broadcast shows, and interactive activities for everyone from 9am to midnight daily throughout the Games. Find out more about what's planned and stay up to date with all news from The Quay <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/scotland/aboutus/bbc-at-the-quay.html">here</a>.聽</p><p>The Queen鈥檚 Baton Relay will shortly return to the home nations after its seven-month international journey around the Commonwealth. It arrives into Jersey on May 11th, and we鈥檒l be celebrating its return and its journey around the British Isles on-air, culminating in a 40-day relay around Scotland before being presented to the Queen at the Opening Ceremony.</p><p>All in all, in 100 days鈥 time, the Commonwealth Games offers the 主播大秀 another opportunity to wow our audiences 鈥 and we鈥檒l be ready.</p><p>聽</p><p>聽</p><ul>
<li><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/commonwealth-games/2014/">Comprehensive coverage</a> of the 2014 Commonwealth Games can be found on the 主播大秀 Sport website.聽</em></li>
<li><em>Find out more about <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/scotland/aboutus/bbc-at-the-quay.html">主播大秀 at the Quay</a> on the About the 主播大秀 Scotland website.聽</em></li>
<li><em>Follow <a href="http://www.twitter.com/bbcscotland">@主播大秀Scotland</a> on Twitter.聽</em></li>
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2014-01-24T16:38:35+00:002014-01-24T16:38:35+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/5d9b4162-9dd0-3a1b-a039-92cd09fe869bGraham Stewart<div class="component">
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<p><em>As 主播大秀
Scotland gears-up for one of the biggest years in its history, with the
independence referendum and the Commonwealth Games, journalist and presenter
Graham Stewart offers a sneak preview of Pacific Quay鈥檚 redesigned news and
sports studio, which launches on-screen on Monday.</em></p>
<p>I recall
when we moved to our new purpose-built headquarters on the banks of the River
Clyde in Glasgow in 2007, it was hailed as one of the most modern,
state-of-the-art digital broadcasting facilities in the world. Since then
however, we鈥檝e seen the move of network 主播大秀 News to New Broadcasting House
(NBH) in London, and 主播大秀 Sport to MediaCityUK in Salford, both with their
impressively futuristic-looking studios. In juxtaposition with our
Scottish output, Studio C at Pacific Quay was in danger of looking a bit
dated. So, with a big year ahead of them, the bosses here decided now was
the ideal time to bring the visual look of their flagship news and sports
programmes up-to-date. No sooner had I finished reading one of our weekend
bulletins at the end of the festive period, than the designers and technicians
came in to take the old set apart 鈥斅燼nd for the past three weeks we鈥檝e
been decamped from our familiar home.</p><p></p>
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<p>When you
consider that Studio C is in almost constant operation 鈥 from our bulletins on聽<em>主播大秀 Breakfast</em>, through to聽<em>Politics Scotland</em>聽on a Wednesday afternoon, the main
lunchtime and teatime editions of聽<em>Reporting
Scotland</em>, the 8pm, the 10.25 and聽<em>Newsnight
Scotland,</em>聽not forgetting聽<em>Sportscene</em>聽across the weekend 鈥 you get an idea
of how potentially disruptive the upgrade could have been.</p>
<p>To make
the transition as seamless as possible, the existing set was carefully taken
apart piece-by-piece and transported four floors down, where it was re-built in
Studio B 鈥 normally home to network productions such as聽<em>Eggheads</em>聽and聽<em>Nina
and the Neutrons</em>. The idea was that the viewers would be oblivious.</p>
<p>Of course,
behind the scenes it was all planned like a military operation; Will Smith, the
lead designer, has been working on the logistics for months. "We
spent,鈥 he says, 鈥渁round six weeks off-site making a kit of parts, so that when
we came to install it in the studio the turnaround was as tight as physically
possible.鈥</p>
<p>Will was
brought in from BDA Creative, the same design company responsible for the new
sets at NBH and Salford. In fact, Scotland鈥檚 new Studio C is loosely
modelled on Studio B at NBH, home to聽<em>Newsnight</em>,聽<em>The Andrew Marr Show聽</em>and聽<em>Sunday Politics</em>. Like its
London counterpart it has two areas 鈥 a so-called 'hard set', with the
traditional news desk, for programmes like聽<em>Reporting
Scotland;</em>聽and a more relaxed
'soft set', with comfortable chairs and a coffee table, for sports and
discussion programmes. It鈥檚 very much like the set used by our colleagues
at聽<em>Wales Today</em>.</p><p></p>
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<p>Will
explained to me his philosophy for the new look: "The idea was to
create a set which would be fully flexible for lots of different
programmes. It made sense to use the longest wall in the studio and make
use of the depth. That way you can create a linking shot from one end to
the other, making full use of the available space."</p>
<p>It鈥檚
certainly captured the imagination of Andrew Browne, the newly-appointed editor
of聽<em>Reporting Scotland</em>,
who鈥檚 been thinking about how best to use that space during this week鈥檚
intensive rehearsals. 鈥淚t gives us much more flexibility,鈥 he told
me. 鈥淪o in our forthcoming referendum coverage we could, for example,
have a presenter cross from the news set to a specially-branded referendum
discussion area."</p>
<p>Attention
has also been paid to the visual aesthetics. While Studio C has always
been HD-ready - indeed, it was the 主播大秀's first HD news studio -viewers were
unable to benefit from the improved picture quality until transmission
facilities were upgraded and 主播大秀 One Scotland moved to HD in January
2013. According to Will Smith that, in turn, has informed some of the
studio's new features:聽</p>
<p>"The
light-boxes we've installed give a deeper, richer saturation of colour, which
will hopefully differentiate the various programme brands more
successfully. We've replaced the old rear-projection screens, which
weren't in HD, with ten high-end 103-inch HD plasma screens. That will
make the background pictures and graphics, such as the weather maps, much
sharper. In addition, the studio also has a touch-screen monitor which
can be used by presenters and reporters."</p><p></p>
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<p>鈥淭he
screens,鈥 says Browne, 鈥渃an help us tell stories more clearly to audiences,
with improved graphics and the ability to move around the set to make it all
more visually interesting. It鈥檚 going to be an exciting year for news and
sport in Scotland and our new set is only going to add to that. The team
here have been really energised, so I think our viewers are going to appreciate
the change come Monday.鈥</p>
<p><em>Graham Stewart is</em><em>聽a broadcaster and journalist with 主播大秀 Scotland</em></p><p>聽</p><ul>
<li><em>Join Jackie Bird for the new-look <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj3s">Reporting Scotland</a> on Monday 27 January at 6.30pm.</em></li>
<li><em>Other programmes from Studio C include <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007rhvm">Newsnight Scotland</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006zrbv">Sportscene</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mw83">Politics Scotland</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019cdqd">Sunday Politics Scotland</a>.</em></li>
<li><em>Read Graham's blog 40 years of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/40-years-of-Good-Morning-Scotland">Good Morning Scotland</a>.</em></li>
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2013-12-30T14:07:45+00:002013-12-30T14:07:45+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/ac698b39-04fc-3c94-84aa-11a064239397Graham Stewart<div class="component prose">
<p><em>Graham Stewart is a broadcaster and journalist with 主播大秀 Scotland and has been extensively researching the history of Scottish broadcasting for a forthcoming book. Here, he looks at the history of the nation鈥檚 biggest and longest-running radio programme as it celebrates its 40th anniversary this Hogmanay.聽</em></p><p>At 6.45am on Hogmanay 1973,<em> Good Morning, Scotland</em> crept surreptitiously onto the airwaves for the first time. Upon first listening it seemed as if little had changed: Scottish news, weather and travel had been heard at breakfast time since the early 1960s, when 主播大秀 Scotland first began 'opting-out' from the Radio 4 network. Even the presenters, John Milne and David Findlay, were familiar voices, having regularly fronted the programme鈥檚 predecessor, <em>Today In Scotland</em>. But whereas that former programme had been a mere 20-minute 'opt-out', it quickly became apparent that <em>Good Morning, Scotland</em>, was a complete replacement.</p><p>It was a bold, ambitious and deeply controversial decision. Many listeners felt the previous set-up offered them the best of both worlds; but now, suddenly deprived of <em>Today</em>, they had to make do with a 主播大秀 Scotland alternative that struggled to match its ambition. To add insult to injury, the gaps between the items were filled with a mix of light and instrumental music - everything from Mrs Mills on the organ to James Last鈥檚 <em>Elizabethan Serenade</em> and <em>Swinging Safari</em> as performed by Jim MacLeod and his band. At the time, John Milne thought the music would never last. He was right; within two weeks the records had gone.</p><p></p>
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<p>The perceived parochialism of the speech content remained a problem. The 主播大秀 received hundreds of complaints and the letters pages of the Herald and Scotsman newspapers were full of criticism. News of the protests even reached the 主播大秀鈥檚 chairman, Michael Swann, who asked the managing director of radio, 'Is it really as bad as they're making out? I had better start listening in earnest.'</p><p>Not everyone was dissatisfied though. 主播大秀 Scotland鈥檚 Controller, Robert Coulter, reported that 'the Scottish National Party, not unnaturally, is euphoric'. As the 1970s progressed, and black gold flowed from the oilfields of the North Sea, nationalism was flourishing and the ambition of the nation's broadcasters seemed to fit the prevailing mood. With a Scottish Assembly in Edinburgh seemingly inevitable, <em>Good Morning, Scotland</em>, along with the rest of the radio newsroom in Glasgow, moved to the capital in 1978. Just weeks later, Radio Scotland would finally establish itself as a separate station from the shadow of Radio 4 鈥 with <em>Good Morning Scotland</em> (the comma had now been dropped) as its flagship programme.</p><p></p>
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<p><em>A view of聽Good Morning Scotland聽on 24 August 1978 with John Milne, Jack Regan and David Findlay, from the 主播大秀 TV schools鈥 programme,聽The Business World.</em></p><p>Despite the failure of 1979 referendum, the radio newsroom remained in Edinburgh for some time, during which the Queen Street studios celebrated their 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion, <em>Good Morning Scotland </em>took part in a unique broadcasting experiment. For the first week in December 1980 the programme was simultaneously broadcast on 主播大秀1 Scotland, with TV cameras filming the studios and the behind-the-scenes operations. The big problem was clothing radio in pictures at short notice. It needed ingenious juggling with maps, photographs and film that had already been shown on TV bulletins. The results were considered in a feasibility study being undertaken by the 主播大秀 into the prospects for breakfast time television, but the experiment was really more a publicity stunt than anything else. It does, however, provide us a fascinating visual record of the programme.</p><p></p>
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<p><em>Highlights of the Radiovision experiment, filmed at the 主播大秀鈥檚 Queen Street studios.</em></p><p>As<em> Good Morning Scotland</em> entered the 1980s and 1990s it was increasingly covering UK and international stories from a Scottish perspective and sharpening-up its reporting of news closer to home. During this era its reputation was cemented in no small part by the formidable talents of the late Kenny McIntyre, one of 主播大秀 Scotland鈥檚 most-respected reporters. Kenny, whose dynamic style and distinctive voice became a favourite with listeners, would arrive for work at 6 o鈥檆lock each morning and immediately begin ringing his contacts, ever ready to break the latest exclusive to listeners. <em>Good Morning Scotland</em> soon became the programme of record, holding the decision-makers to account and setting Scotland鈥檚 news agenda.</p><p></p>
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<p><em>Good Morning Scotland on 5 January 1989, with presenters Neville Garden and Joanna Hickson.</em></p><p>From such shaky and uncertain beginnings forty years ago,<em> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hf7">Good Morning Scotland</a></em> has firmly established itself as the nation鈥檚 most important radio programme. Nearly half a million listeners tune in every week 鈥 more than any other Scottish radio programme 鈥 and it continues to be a must-listen for many of Scotland鈥檚 leading decision-makers. Regardless of the result of next year鈥檚 independence referendum, it seems inconceivable that <em>Good Morning Scotland </em>won鈥檛 be there to cover the next exciting chapter in Scotland鈥檚 remarkable history, just as it has for the past four decades.</p><p><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/authors/Graham_Stewart">Graham Stewart</a> is a broadcaster and journalist with 主播大秀 Scotland</em></p><p>聽</p><ul>
<li><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hf7">Good Morning Scotland</a> is broadcast Monday - Saturday on 主播大秀 Radio Scotland and available via <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hf7/broadcasts/2013/12">主播大秀 iPlayer Radio</a>.聽</em></li>
<li><em>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/bbcgms">Good Morning Scotland on Twitter</a>聽</em></li>
<li><em>Read Graham's post about <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/主播大秀-Scotland-at-90">主播大秀 Scotland at 90</a>.</em></li>
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2013-11-07T12:00:08+00:002013-11-07T12:00:08+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/ea7ba61d-7121-3c98-ae59-fbaec34e8e19Bruce Malcolm<div class="component prose">
<p>Today 主播大秀 Scotland and 主播大秀
Sport finally got to reveal what we have been keeping tight-lipped about for
what seems like forever 鈥 our coverage of the Commonwealth Games. There are
going to be some fantastic programmes, live events and cultural activity
throughout the 主播大秀 over the next year as we head to Glasgow 2014 and I really
hope there is something for everyone in our line-up. </p>
<p>Not only will there be a host
of popular presenters involved in our coverage - including Hazel Irvine, Gary
Lineker, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, Ken Bruce, Susanna Reid, Bill Turnbull,
Mishal Husain, Fred MacAulay and Dougie Vipond 鈥 but there will also be our
popular programmes such as <em>The One Show</em>, <em>主播大秀 Breakfast</em>,
<em>The Ken Bruce Show</em>, <em>A Question of Sport </em>and <em>Who Do You Think You Are?</em> - all
coming from Pacific Quay in Glasgow during Games time.</p>
<p>With live sport action during the
event across all major TV and radio networks, along with online, sport fans
will not be disappointed. As you鈥檇 expect, 主播大秀 Sport will provide the kind of
coverage they did so brilliantly during the Olympics.</p>
<p>There will be daily coverage
on 主播大秀 One, and Glasgow 2014 will be delivered seamlessly across mobile,
tablet, desktop and connected TVs meaning audiences can get closer to the
action, wherever they are. As well as this, the 主播大秀 Breakfast team are moving
from their Salford base to Pacific Quay for the duration of the games so their
viewers will really feel part of the action.</p>
<p>If you didn鈥檛 know, the Games
are one of the few events where the UK nations compete against each other on a
global stage.聽 Indeed it鈥檚 not only the nations but also the smaller territories like the Isle of Man and the Channel
Islands.聽 We intend to make the most of
this 'friendly' competition.聽 </p>
<p>In addition to bringing all
the sporting action from the Games, the 主播大秀 also aims to boost the accompanying
cultural festivities by using some of its leading presenters for both on and
off-air programmes - including 16 days of major events from a specially
constructed 主播大秀@TheQuay. This is going to be an exciting venue that will have a
great mix of live programmes, music events and family-friendly fun throughout
the day. </p>
<p>All the 主播大秀 Radio networks
have committed to delivering fantastic content before and during the Games,
including 5 Live which will, not only be covering the games throughout the
whole day, there will also be a special afternoon programme, which is a unique
collaboration with Radio Scotland, between 2 and 4 in the afternoon.</p>
<p>There are also some brilliant
documentaries planned for 2014, including <em>Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the
Commonwealth</em>, along with major music concerts.聽
Other highlights include <em>Glasgow Girls</em> on 主播大秀 Three a musical drama
telling the true story of a group of girls who banded together in 2005 to save
their friend from deportation, and the final of the <em>主播大秀 Young Musician</em> in
Edinburgh鈥檚 Usher Hall on 18 May 2014, where we will be celebrating the 100th
anniversary of the venue in the final broadcast on 主播大秀 Four and 主播大秀 Radio 3. </p>
<p>You don鈥檛 have to wait until
2014 though, with coverage already beginning across the 主播大秀 with the epic
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/queens_baton_relay/">Queen鈥檚 Baton relay journey</a>.聽 This 主播大秀
Scotland team are responsible for providing coverage across all the 主播大秀鈥檚
services including global and 24 hour news, Radio 2, and <em>The One Show</em>.
Hopefully you鈥檝e all already caught some of these stories. </p>
<p>So while we continue to work
hard to progress even more ideas and plans, I鈥檓 sure聽 you鈥檒l agree with me that the Commonwealth
Games will not only be great for Scotland but will be an event that聽 everyone across the UK can enjoy, whether
visiting Glasgow or watching in your own home.聽</p><p>Bruce Malcolm is Head of Commonwealth Games</p><p><em>Read full details about 主播大秀 Scotland and 主播大秀 Sport's coverage of and associated programmes about the 2014 Commonwealth Games on the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/commonwealth-games.html">主播大秀 Media Centre website</a>.聽</em></p><p><em>You can find Mark Beaumont's Queen's Baton Relay regular blog on the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/queens_baton_relay/">主播大秀 News online</a>. Mark introduced <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/Embarking-on-an-epic-global-journey">the relay coverage</a> on this blog earlier this year.聽</em></p><p><em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/bruce-malcolm-introducing">Bruce Malcolm</a> was interviewed by the About the 主播大秀 Blog in autumn 2011. There are also blogs about 主播大秀 Scotland's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/Commonwealth-Games-2014-Commonwealth-Class-debate-and-Apprenticeships-2013-update">Commonwealth Apprenticeship Scheme</a> from Sharon Mair and contributions from some of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/主播大秀-Scotland-Apprentices-update">apprentices</a> too.聽</em></p>
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2013-10-16T07:45:25+00:002013-10-16T07:45:25+00:00/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/c94bd4b3-ef50-3e8a-9039-83d037482c2cCraig Henderson<div class="component prose">
<p>My
name is Craig Henderson and I am Head of Programming for 主播大秀 English Regions.
As part of my role, I take a lead on major initiatives when we work with
colleagues across the 主播大秀.聽</p>
<p>As the
Director-General Tony Hall launches the 主播大秀's programme plans for the World War
One Centenary, it will be the first time we talk publicly about the 主播大秀 English
Regions and Nations鈥 <em>World War One at 主播大秀 </em>project.</p>
<p>Put
simply we will gather 100 stories in eleven English Regions and the three
nations (主播大秀 Scotland, 主播大秀 Wales and 主播大秀 Northern Ireland), and showcase them
on radio, online and on TV</p>
<p>This
of course makes it a hugely ambitious project; 1400 stories, which must all be
well told, and which reflect a whole range of different perspectives, across
different media. The scale is dizzying, but聽I鈥檓 heartened by
developments so far.聽</p>
<p>First
and foremost I am delighted with the sheer enthusiasm from the 40 plus
(yes聽 40!) 主播大秀 producers from across the UK who are currently gathering
these great stories. This plays to our strengths in the 主播大秀鈥檚 Nations and
Regions 鈥 telling stories steeped in a sense of place, through the eyes of the
people (and their relatives) who lived through the experience of the First
World War.</p>
<p>Secondly
I鈥檓 heartened by the support around us 鈥 our major partner in this is the
<a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/">Imperial War Museum</a>. Their support, combined with the expertise of
academics provided by the <a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/主播大秀.aspx">Arts and Humanities Research Council</a> gives us access
to stories, archive and (most crucially) the facts to ensure this great
supertanker of a project stays on course.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/">主播大秀鈥檚 Learning department</a> is also an
important partner.</p>
<p>The broadcasts of our fascinating stories will
begin in early 2014, then in the Summer 主播大秀 Learning will create eight
large-scale inspirational World War One events which will take place throughout
the UK, reflecting the dramatic impact the war had on local families and
communities. Drawing on the 主播大秀鈥檚 programmes specially commissioned for
the centenary and led by聽well-known 主播大秀 faces, each event will offer a
unique opportunity to understand more about the war using hands-on activities
and thought-provoking performances. </p>
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<img class="image" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p01jsd1b.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p01jsd1b.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p01jsd1b.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p01jsd1b.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p01jsd1b.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p01jsd1b.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p01jsd1b.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p01jsd1b.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p01jsd1b.jpg 1008w" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 613px, (min-width: 48.125em) 66.666666666667vw, 100vw" alt=""><p><em>Mules were brought to Minehead before being sent to the Western Front. Just one of the stories that will feature in World War One at 主播大秀. Image courtesy of Daphne McCutcheon.</em></p></div>
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<p>When
we first piloted the project in the West Midlands and in the West of England,
we were worried we might not find enough stories. We need not have been
concerned; the quality so far has been incredible and we think they鈥檒l
surprise, shock, inspire and delight you. </p>
<p>As we prepare to launch them early
next year (the stories will go out on the 主播大秀鈥檚 Local Radio stations, with
highlights on Regional TV in England and on national TV and Radio in the
Nations), our ambition is for <em>World War One at 主播大秀 </em>to shine a new light
on a devastating war which changed the course of world history. I hope
you will come away with new insight into its impact right on your own doorstep
too.聽</p><p>聽</p><p>Craig
Henderson is Head of English Regions Programming.</p><p>聽</p><ul>
<li>Read Adrian Van Klaveren's blog <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/Introducing-the-First-World-War-centenary-on-the-主播大秀">'Introducing the World War One Centenary on the 主播大秀'</a>.</li>
<li>Details of the launch of the World War One Centenary are available in a press pack on the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/ww1/">主播大秀 Media Centre website</a>.</li>
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