Broadcasting Britain: 100 Years of the BBC

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In 2022, the BBC will be the first broadcaster globally to mark 100 years of continuous broadcasting, launching a special year of content: events, bespoke commissioning, special programmes, publishing, and much, much more, celebrating UK culture, education, and climate and sustainability. As part of the BBC’s centenary celebrations, How The BBC Began tells the stories behind some of the seminal moments of the first fifty years of the BBC across television and radio. This special episode will feature guests and chefs who have shaped food television over the years with a collage of vintage archive from some of the greats.

From his time directing BBC classics like Cathy Come Home and Up The Junction to more contemporary fare like I, Daniel Blake - Loach has a deep association with the Corporation and has helped to define and re-define the British television and cinema landscape. This has to be the best job in the BBC, but of course there’s also a big responsibility in telling the BBC story that involves the contributions of so many other people – especially readers of Prospero! The former marked the beginning of one of the first massive TV brands, and the latter highlighted the importance of the BBC in growing citizenship amongst the nation’s children. The BBC’s online catalogue of audiovisual material is for internal use, unseen by all but a select few academics fortunate enough to marvel at its millions of items. During our special week of BBC 100 content, audiences can look forward to a mix of exciting new commissions alongside some of our best-loved shows, as they mark a century of broadcasting in their own unique way.I wanted to explore the changes decade by decade – changes not just in the technology we used, but also in the way that Britain changed (hence the title) – as well as telling some revelatory stories about the BBC that maybe readers hadn’t encountered before.

Our Archive Century: In three special editions of Radio 4’s Archive on 4, we give the keys to the archive to leading figures, to explore the role of the BBC in a changing cultural environment, across news, science and the arts. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. the BBC goes global, as WWII sees the BBC move from broadcasting in eight languages to 48, as well as getting better at entertaining the nation to maintain morale. If you have any questions, require more information or if you would like more pictures, do not hesitate to get in touch.The Skewer BBC 100 special: Jon Holmes's multi award-winning The Skewer twists itself into the past, as it sets about deconstructing 100 Years of the BBC. Find out more about the BBC, part of all our lives for 100 years, keeping us informed, educated and entertained. This is accompanied by the broadcast of a rare find: a Hancock Half Hour – once missing – and now remastered and broadcast for the first time since 1955. How The BBC Began will look at the challenges and triumphs of today’s BBC, which have their roots in the Corporation’s first half century. In a special chart for National Album Day, produced by the Official Charts Company, the station will reveal the biggest all-time debut albums to be released in the UK (Saturday 15th October).

It was a great opportunity to give 'pen portraits' of some of the great work the BBC has done over the past 100 years. This is accompanied by a TX of a Hancock Half Hour – once missing – and now remastered and broadcast for the first time since 1955. Explore 10 years of British History through key broadcasting moments illuminated by images from the BBC archive.Central was the concern in the BBC's early days about what should be commissioned for the license-fee paying audience, and whether 'high' or 'low' culture should be the focus. Robert has been in his current role for something over 10 years (‘I’m the third BBC historian’) but his BBC career spans more than 25 years, having worked across Education, Communications, the World Service, Worldwide (as was), Workplace and now the DG’s Office (where BBC History is located). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. the formation of the Corporation, as radio consolidated its massive social influence and the BBC reinvented itself with a newly defined mission. Anita Dobson who played Angie Watts in EastEnders brings along some of Angie’s outfits and regales Fiona with tales from early EastEnders episodes, while former BBC News Correspondent Kate Adie reflects on her time reporting from the world’s hotspots.