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◆ THE BBC HAS DECIDED to ask a a politician from the British National Who’s playing party games? Party to appear on Question Time - but why now? Room 2316, White City said the BBC. And in a joint letter to The agreement accompanying 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS the Times, director of news Helen the BBC’s charter requires the cor- 020 8008 4228 Boaden and ITV director of news, poration to act with ‘due impartiality’ Managing Editor current affairs and sport Michael towards all political parties, chief po- Stephen James-Yeoman 02-84222 Jeremy wrote: ‘The best way to litical adviser Ric Bailey has told Ariel. ensure that debates actually hap- Deputy editors ‘What ‘due’ means is we have to pen is to approach all parties with take account of the political context Sally Hillier 02-26877 a thought-through coherent plan. in which we are operating at any giv- Cathy Loughran 02-27360 That is what the BBC and ITV will en time. In other words, it’s a judge- Features editor continue to do.’ ment we have to keep on taking.’ Clare Bolt 02-27445 Next, Sky News political edi- The ‘breakthrough’ for the BNP Senior Broadcast Journalist 02-27630 tor Adam Boulton denied Sky had had been last June’s European elec- Stephen Hawkes ‘broken ranks’, and announced the tions, Bailey said, when for the fi rst Reporters broadcaster’s intention to continue time the party had enjoyed a ‘rea- Laura Scarrott 02-84224 the ongoing discussions with the sonably substantial level of electoral Peggy Walker 01-43940 BBC and ITV. support’ in a national poll. Production editor But Boulton, talking on Radio 4’s ‘And when we are talking about Claire Barrett 02-27368 Media Show, also maintained that political coverage, our starting point ◆ BBC NEWS has announced the ten to Gordon Brown, David Cam- Riley’s announcement had been has to be with the voters – who are Art editor scrapping of talks with Sky and ITV, eron and Nick Clegg, informing more than a ‘PR stunt’, adding: ‘This also licence-fee payers.’ Ken Sinyard 02-84229 following an unprecedented spat them that Sky will be hosting a live is our initiative.’ About 100 politicians will be in- Ariel online over which broadcaster could host debate between them during the This did little to rebuild bridges vited to appear during the course of Alex Goodey 02-27410 a tv debate between party leaders. election campaign’. with the other broadcasters, and at Question Time’s 36-programme se- Business co-ordinator Discussions had begun to co- Sky would ‘offer the debate live the 11th hour the planned ries, which starts on September 24. Silvana Romana 02-84228 ordinate a strategy for all three and unedited to any of our com- tripartite talks were cancelled. ‘If any politicians felt the BBC was Ariel mail broadcasters to work together ‘to petitors that want to run it’, Riley Following their cancellation, not acting with due impartiality in [email protected] persuade politicians of the benefi ts added. ‘Egos and self-interest must BBC News – leaving the door open terms of the extent of coverage it Ariel online explore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel of a leaders’ debate’ in the run up be set aside by all of us.’ for continuing talks with ITV – told was giving to their particular party, to the next general election, But his apparent altruism was Ariel the corporation remained they could have legal redress,’ Bailey expected in the spring. not applauded by the two biggest fully committed to a leaders’ added. ‘They could go to the High But that was before head of Sky of Riley’s competitors. debate and would actively work Court and ask for a judicial review as Guest contributors this week News John Riley announced in the ‘We are surprised that Sky have alongside ‘like-minded broadcast- to whether the BBC was fulfi lling the Times that he had already ‘writ- now decided to act unilaterally,’ ers’ to make it happen. obligations of its charter.’ PAUL BRANNAN, editor, emerging

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by Peggy Walker Radio 2’s trip to Blackpool. Chris Evans was Opera House, with the BBC Big Band. RADIO 2 PRESENTER ALAN CARR had the meant to broadcast his drivetime show live Producer Jodie Keane says it was nice to honour of switching on Blackpool’s famous from the top of the famous tower, but strong do things differently. ‘It was lovely to take PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR COPY OF ARIEL illuminations on Friday night, making the winds forced the tower’s closure and he had the programme out of London. There was seafront come alive with neon. to return to London to present from there such a great energy.’ On Saturday he and co-presenter Emma (minus all the kit which was stranded at the Forbes broadcast their afternoon show live top of the tower). Watch a windy performance by Mika at from a tram as it glided along the prom. There was better luck for Friday Night is Blackpool, and highlights from the whole Elsewhere, not everything went to plan during Music Night, which came from Blackpool’s weekend at bbc.co.uk/radio2. board

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Sitting pretty: Sunday night Chris Moyles saddles up in Radio 1’s latest publicity call to producer campaign heralds end of era by Sally Hillier

Terry Wogan’s decision to leave his Radio 2 breakfast programme has generated ‘the most amazing public response’, says the show’s producer. By mid-morning on Mon- day the Wake Up To Wogan offi ce at Western House in London W1 had received more than 1000 emails, Alan Boyd has told Ariel. Boyd himself was un- aware of Wogan’s plans until Sunday. ‘He called me Big news: arts correspondent David Sillito with Terry Wogan at home that evening be- cause he wanted me to know Need in November. There is Wake Up To Wogan until about the announcement also his new weekend show December, leaving on a date he had decided to make on to think about. Starting in yet to be decided. What has Monday. He had been think- the new year, it will go out been confi rmed is that from ing about stepping down for live from the Radio Thea- January 2010 the new guy in some time. He’s 71 after all tre at Broadcasting House in the chair will be Chris Evans, and nothing is forever.’ front of an audience. stepping up from the Radio 2 As for all those emails Meanwhile, he will host drivetime slot. Moyles rides high that have poured in from It’s a big deal for the Wogan’s army of fans: ‘I former enfant terrible of plan to print them and show Early broadcasting but as Evans them to Terry.’ shift: himself graciously said on as he breaks record Not that he will have producer Monday: ‘This is very much much time to read them. The Alan Boyd Terry’s story, not mine.’ The larger than life Radio 1 star has become UK’s most popular broadcast- Wogan has been enter- er is a busy man, preparing taining Radio 2’s early morn- the network’s longest serving breakfast presenter for Proms in the Park this ing listeners for almost 30 Saturday and Children in years. He fi rst fronted the breakfast show in 1972, fi n- ishing in 1984 when he left by Adam Bambury teners. But being in a ‘zoo- ra- ened to marmite for the to pursue his tv career. He dio’ format, where everyone ears (you either love him or returned to the network in Chris Moyles has become from producer to newsread- hate him) and some of his The hardest thing 1993, and went on to build the longest serving breakfast er contributes to the on-air comments have generated up a huge audience (currently show presenter in Radio 1’s chats, does demand self con- controversy. Working on the standing at almost eight mil- history, trumping previous trol: ‘We have to think about show, though, is always ‘good I’ve ever done lion). record holder Tony Black- what we’re saying,’ admits fun’, say his colleagues. ‘Terry’s contribution to burn who ended his tenure producer Rachel Jones. ‘You This week the team is on In what will be remembered He also spoke of the the success of Radio 2 over more than 30 years ago. have to remember it’s not the road, hosting a series as one of broadcasting’s many people, ‘alone, ill or the last 16 years is immeas- Moyles took over Radio just about you, it is about of karaoke nights. The tour most poignant moments, sad’, for whom Wake Up To urable,’ controller Bob Shen- 1’s fl agship show in Janu- your friends and family, and started in Plymouth on Mon- Terry Wogan paid tribute on Wogan was ‘a comfort and nan observes. ‘His unique ary 2004, and since then it can have an impact on other day and ends at the O2 in Lon- Monday to his loyal band of a consolation’, and how talent has provided millions has clocked up 2073 days in people. Aled and I have per- don on Thursday. ‘We want listeners. touched he was by that. of listeners with the sound- the early-morning hot seat. fected faces to pull when we to spread the word about ‘There hasn’t been a ‘This is the hardest track to their morning. Terry Blackburn was breakfast dj don’t want to say anything, the show,’ explains Rachel. morning, no matter how thing I have ever done in is unequivocally the most ac- from September 30 1967 to or quickly say, ‘let’s play a ‘We’re going to say thanks to dark and drear, that I my broadcasting career, to complished radio presenter June 1973 – a total of 2072 record!’.’ loyal listeners and try to say haven’t had a smile on my say goodbye to you in the of his generation.’ days. Moyles has been lik- hi to some new ones.’ face and a song in my heart mornings. But if not this Tim Davie, director of au- The new record is no at the prospect of your year, when? Five years, ten? dio and music, describes mean feat for a slot that in company, your marvellous I’d rather leave while we’re Wogan as ‘a legendary tal- recent years has seen pre- mail, your wit and wisdom,’ in love, as the song says, ent’ with ‘a unique place in senters come and go with he declared in his live on-air while the programme is the UK broadcasting history’. alarming regularity. So what announcement about his most popular on British But what is he like to work is the secret of Moyles’s suc- forthcoming departure. radio, while we still delight with? ‘A delight,’ says Alan cess? ‘Honesty,’ reckons day- ‘It touches me deeply that in each other’s company. Boyd, who took over in 2006 time producer Aled Jones. I have played a part in your ‘And so we will, until the when Wogan’s long-serving ‘What you hear is genuinely lives, for it seems like gener- end of the year, when my producer Paul Walters fell ill what you get. It sounds obvi- ations; mothers and fathers good friend Chris Evans (and later died). ‘He is never ous but it was actually quite tell me how they force their takes over; I know that rude, grumpy or bad temper- a big step to get right.’ children to listen to me in the you’ll give him the same ed. He is nice to everyone – Jones thinks it’s the tear- morning, just as they were love and affection you’ve whether they are a producer, ing up of the traditional ra- forced by their parents.’ always shown to me.’ studio manager or cleaner. dio rule book that has made Terry is an iconic fi gure.’ the show such a hit with lis- Pleased to be part of the ‘zoo’: Rachel Jones and Aled Jones

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Ofcom has begun a consultation on the amount of tv made accessible a bigger (ie audio described) for visually impaired audiences. Options vary between no change from the current legal obligation to make 10 percent of output accessible, up bite of All set for relaunch: to the level favoured by the RNIB Rob Unsworth in – doubling output to 20 percent. Watchdog’s new home at the Media Centre The first dramatisation for radio of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse peaktime 5, marking 40 years since its publication, is among the highlights of Radio 3’s autumn by Sue Llewellyn So, a whole new look pre- ‘An hour’s show is a differ- Regular presenters will be ‘I just wish I could give you a season. On September 13 the sented by a more or less fa- ent ask of the audience,’ joined by celebrity report- hint of what’s coming up or network will broadcast Edward She said it was ‘the show you miliar face? ‘We are tremen- Unsworth says. ‘At 8pm, peo- ers like Alastair Campbell a juicy story about working The Second, one of Christopher cannot afford to miss’ and re- dously lucky and excited to ple are watching in a differ- and Melissa Suffield (Eas- with Annie but the honest Marlowe’s most acclaimed works. cently you can’t fail to have have Anne Robinson back,’ ent way. Earlier they might tEnders’ Lucy Beale) who, boring answer is that I can’t. missed the acres of coverage says editor Rob Unsworth. be putting kids to bed or with the studio audience, There’s a ‘blimey’ moment Former Midlands Today presenter about Anne Robinson’s im- ‘Here we’ve got a presenter having dinner, but by 8pm will have personal links for me every time I read a Ashley Blake has been jailed for two minent return to Watchdog. that makes news even when they’re settling down and with particular stories. script or story, a lot of stuff years for wounding a teenager and After an eight-year break she’s not done anything and want to be entertained.’ And the studio? Rather I didn’t know and big com- intending to pervert the course of the ‘Queen of Mean’ is re- the truth is that she looks than hire one every week, panies doing things they justice. He was sacked from the BBC turning to present the re- amazing. The photos have Dragons’ Den feel Unsworth says it made eco- shouldn’t be doing – and as in August following his conviction vamped programme which provoked debate and that’s He is confident that with nomic sense to redesign the for Annie, she’s a delight.’ at Birmingham Crown Court. includes a Top Gear type set making people talk about an expanded and highly existing space within the Try telling that to the and a live studio audience. the show.’ creative team, the chang- atrium of the Media Cen- dodgy bosses in the Watch- Commentator and former The new show, which will In its previous Monday es are ‘more than just cos- tre. Gone is the functional dog firing line and they player Jeremy Guscott has joined be pre-recorded two days 7.30pm slot Watchdog at- metic’ and ‘viewers will Watchdog ‘office look’ and would probably still want to BBC Wales’s flagship rugby before transmission, incor- tracted around 4.5 million own the show like never in its place a set somewhat give the show a miss. But for programme Scrum V, which started porates Matt Allwright’s viewers, so how will the before’: ‘The whole tone reminiscent of Dragons’ Den the rest of us, we probably on Sunday. He is already well Rogue Traders as a regular new hour-long format fare and feel of the new show with brick-effect wall. can’t afford to. known as one of the faces of the strand within the hour and at the more competitive is different, a bit noisier, Unsworth’s excitement Watchdog, BBC One, BBC coverage of the Six Nations. a host of other features. time of 8pm on Thursdays? a bit more high profile.’ at the new show is palpable. September 10 A film about unsung heroes in the world of sport, made by non- content producing BBC volunteers, will be shown on BBC Two at Gotcha – you Imperial College buys 5am on September 10 and will be available on iPlayer. Unsung hero is a category of Sports Personality of dirty great rat Woodlands for £28m the Year. The film tells the stories of people nominated for the award. It’s a rat, but not as we – or ing around on the forest Woodlands, former west London HQ chief operating officer, believed the even the experts – know it. floor, half way up a volcano, of BBC Worldwide, has been sold for site would create new teaching, re- The annual staff photography Natural History Unit cam- before the NHU team was £28m to Imperial College London. search and admin facilities, as well as competition closes on September 10. eraman Gordon Buchanan able to film a live specimen The 7.7 acre site was home to the affordable student accommodation. Details on rules and how to enter gets up close to the giant that had been trapped by BBC’s commercial operations until He also hinted at potential are online at tinyurl.com/spc09 rodent he was first to cap- trackers. last year, when Worldwide moved to research partnerships with the BBC. ture on film by infrared Measuring 82cm in the nearby Media Centre. It is not yet clear whether any tie- As part of the BBC’s environmental camera trap. length from its nose to its The site was included in the up with Imperial would extend to the effort, from September 17, The creature, which tail, and weighing around redevelopment plans for the area sports facilities on the site which had hiring a car exceeding 1600cc has not yet been formally 1.5kg, it’s one of the world’s unveiled by Westfield ahead of the been run by the BBC Club. will require justification when described, was discovered largest rats but the same redevelopment and construction of • BBC R&D will leave its histor- booking. Vans can be hired as by an NHU expedition team kind as is found in city sew- the shopping complex in Shepherd’s ic home in Kingswood Warren by normal. tinyurl.com/bbcselfdrive in Papua New Guinea film- ers. The animal was appar- Bush. Chris Kane, head of workplace, March 2010 after the site was sold to ing Lost Land of the Volcano. ently fearless, having no said the sale offered ‘good value for property developer Octogon. The de- FM&T’s Search and mobile teams The rat was recorded by prior contact with or nerv- licence fee payers’. partment will split between Centre have launched a search service remote camera rummag- ousness of humans. Martin Knight, Imperial College’s House and Salford. on bbc.co.uk/mobile. Searchable content includes news, sport and other web pages, as well as WW distribution deal with Ten Alps tv and radio content on iPlayer (where supported by handsets). Ten Alps, the production company group have used a single international and online broadcaster co-founded distributor, Worldwide will also bene- Learning in Scotland has launched by Bob Geldof, has signed a three year fit from a first-look deal on new con- Pinball, an online tool designed distribution deal with Worldwide. tent. Worldwide’s indie unit will fund to aid creative brainstorming. The agreement covers programmes investment for programme develop- The site, whose tagline is ‘bounce from subsidiaries Brook Lapping, ment and work with the companies ideas around’, was inspired Blakeway, Below the Radar and Films to help identify international oppor- by learning’s research and the of Record, and includes documentary, tunities. Curriculum for Excellence in Some specimen: Gordon history, current affairs and observa- • Matt Pritchard, former senior Scotland. Pinball has been developed Buchanan and his discovery tional output. development producer at ITV, is World- with BBC Blast and training and It is the first time that the Ten Alps wide’s new head of development. development’s ideas bank, Moo. a 08·09·09 Features 5 PHOTOGRAPH:MARK FREELAND: KEN SINYARD KEN FREELAND: PHOTOGRAPH:MARK Vic Reeves and Masters of the absurd: Mark Free- Bob Mortimer, land with comedy heroes Vic Reeves whose cult and Bob Mortimer quiz show Shooting Stars has just returned to BBC Two, have branded mod- ern comedy stale and old-fashioned. Mark Freeland, head of in- house comedy, SUBLIME disagrees TO THE RIDICULOUS

Do Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have handed on the baton to sketch shows isfying. Comedy should both divide One of the programmes I’m most a point? like Little Britain and now we’re seeing and unite. Not everyone will ‘get’ excited about is We Need Answers (BBC No. British comedy is in an amazingly ‘We want renewed innovation in The Mighty some of the niche stuff – the sheer Four) – a quiz show format that will good state. Vic and Bob are my com- Boosh and We are Klang. But it was daftness of Vic and Bob, for example showcase some of our best comedi- edy heroes and I won’t hear a word diversity, not Vic and Bob who ripped up the rule – but we want diversity, not every- ans. It’ll be hosted by Mark Watson, against them, but I think when you’ve book. thing in magnolia. Tim Key and Alex Horne with differ- created your own unique, comedy everything in ent celebrity guests each week and world as they have, anything outside What is the role of comedy on the BBC? What are the challenges for modern their job will be to answer anything it seems baffl ing. In the same way magnolia’ BBC One is still watched in the living comedy? the audience asks. We Are Klang is that plenty of people won’t under- room so the humour needs to appeal Competition mainly. Not only from another of my favourites. stand their sense of humour, a more to the nine to 90 age group. It’s why the cult of the reality show, but mainstream comic like Michael McIn- and Mortimer have their own place there’ll always be a place for Dad’s because tv as a whole is much funnier What comedy series would you take tyre seems like Les Dawson to them. in the post-war comedy timeline that Army. But there’s so much opportuni- these days than when my department to your desert island? began with the Goons and moved on ty now to air new talent that it’s pos- was big enough to have Morecambe I can’t choose one, so I’ll give back Surely bringing back Shooting Stars through Monty Python and The Comic sible for something that begins as a and Wise making sketches about it. the Bible and the Complete Works is exactly the kind of regressive step Strip. From there came French & Saun- small, cult secret to grow into some- Lots of programmes that don’t come of Shakespeare and take the follow- they are criticising? ders – supremely important as the thing huge. The Royle Family is a good under the comedy umbrella are funny – ing six: The Office: Larry Sanders: Dad’s Most lovers of comedy have a great fi rst ‘women on top’ – and Vic and example – or The Offi ce. When it began Top Gear springs to mind. Comedy has Army: Fawlty Towers: Reginald Perrin respect for what’s gone before so Bob were hot on their heels with a we got puzzled phone calls asking is to fi ght to be entertaining. (the original) and Monty Python. there’s nothing wrong with bringing brand of humour that seemed incom- it real, what’s it about? Then it slid back some echoes of the past. Reeves prehensible to some viewers. They into the mainstream. That’s very sat- So what’s new? Interview by Nicki Defago

RICKSHAW RACE? PACK A CAMERA by Joe Inwood, BBC World News intimidating and rewarding experience, The biggest lessons were around the as my brother Tom, our friend Nick and I limitations and opportunities of self AS FAR AS FIRST foreign assign- trundled across a continent. Rickshaws shooting. Commissioning me as a one- ments go, this was fairly intimidat- and cameras rolled from the north- man team was a gamble for the editor, if ing. I was already driving 3000 eastern hill town of Shillong, through an economical one. There were certain miles across India, in little more the chaos of the elections, the contra- shots I could not get as well as I would than a glorifi ed scooter and with dictions of the holy city of Varanasi and have liked. I’d have loved more well- no set route. So why not produce the disappointment of the tiger fi lmed actuality of me interacting with half an hour of broadcast quality reserves, before fi nally grinding to a people we met; instead I had to let Tom tv. In two weeks. On my own. halt on the glorious beaches of Goa. take centre stage, while I observed from I was taking part in the Rick- There were hundreds of hours of behind my viewfi nder. Quality, static shaw Run, the charity race that driving, too many breakdowns to count, drive-by shots are also not as plenti- pits man and machine against too few baths to mention and more than ful as I’d like, but covering 4000km at the worst the Indian roads can a couple of close calls. Meeting villagers 30km/hr, they were a luxury my team throw at them. And I was look- who had never met a European traveller mates would rarely allow me. ing forward to my fi rst proper before was an experience I had pre- That said, we were fl exible, cover- holiday in three years. sumed lost to my generation. ing ground and driving for periods that Fortunately Mike London, Making the fi lms was surprising too: would be beyond a full team. A star is born: Joe Inwood editor of fast:track on BBC from the diffi culties in collecting real This allowed me to focus on captures the colour and World News, had other ideas. voices in remote areas to the reali- the logistics of the race, personality of India He persuaded me to turn the ties of heading off into the unknown rather than on organising biggest adventure of my as a video journalist, not to men- crews. We crossed the fi n- personal life into the biggest tion the challenges of construct- ish line in under two weeks. challenge of my professional one. ing decent narrative while taking Watch Rickshaw Diaries at What followed was the most intense, part in an exhausting event. tinyurl.com/rickshawman

6 Technology a 08·09·09 PHOTOCOMP: KEN SINYARD KEN PHOTOCOMP: Rtyty ty tyty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty tyty ty tyty ty ty ty ty Funny how we ty tytytytyty tyty tytytyty ty tytyty ty yt get our laughs these days By Paul Brannan, editor, Emerging Platforms, BBC News

COMEDY IS KING ON IPLAYER, digital channels punch above their weight in on-demand viewing – but almost nine out of ten people only watch programmes on tv. These are some of the mixed, if revealing messages in a new piece of BBC research which tracked volumes of iPlayer use, broader on-demand trends and audience behaviour between May 2008 – April 2009. The Cross Media Insight (CMI) survey showed that 11 percent (about 5m) watch some programmes online but only 0.1 percent – less than 50,000 – watch exclusively online. Eighty eight percent of people (16 plus) stick to traditional tv viewing and fi ve percent of all tv viewing is now on demand. While there has been a huge growth in video online watching, live tv viewing remains stable, says Simon Nelson, BBC Vision’s multiplatform controller, so despite the warnings of IBM and others, we’re not seeing ‘the end of tv as we know it’. ‘That’s not to say there isn’t something fundamental going on,’ says Nelson – one of the ten percent who say on-demand represents the majority of their viewing. The CMI research shows that: BBC must follow mobiles into augmented reality, insists Paul Brannan • Half of all BBC content drives 98 percent of iPlayer usage. • The bulk of consumption is 48 hours after live trans- mission, although shows like The Apprentice are watched online very soon after fi rst showing and comedy content like Mock the Week bucks the trend, with people looking for ‘snackable’ funny stuff at any time. Better than the real thing • Among 16-24s, 31 percent of all on demand viewing is online; ten percent for 24-34s and three for over-65s. IMAGINE AIMING YOUR MOBILE at a restau- By tagging locations around the All England content so it can be discovered in the • Among all ages, PVR viewing (via hard disc or Sky rant as you walk by and seeing the menu of Club and adding data they were able to offer hybrid place between the virtual world Plus) still dominates. the day on screen. visitors an enhanced experience. and the physical world. • Digital channels do better online than in the linear Or watching the price of a pint at your By pointing the phone in the direction Layers of proximity data might be rep- world. CBeebies and BBC Three both account for four per- favourite pub rise and fall depending on the of a court it was possible to see the court resented in four main bands: cent of traditional BBC tv viewing, but 11 percent and 12 crush at the bar. number, how far away it was, who was ● Real-time: dynamic, rapidly chang- percent of BBC viewing respectively on iPlayer. Imagine a tourist strolling through Par- playing and, most important of all, the lat- ing material such as news. sport weather Comedy plays strongly on iPlayer. For instance, 8.3 liament Square and being able to trigger a est score. Organising information by lay- and travel percent of the total audience for BBC One’s Live at the video of the Queen’s arrival for the State ers, visitors could also fi nd the strawberry ● Historic: in which we unlock the Apollo watched it on iPlayer, making it the channel’s Opening of Parliament. sellers, restaurants, bars, the nearest loo, audio-visual riches of our archive highest performer by catch-up contribution. The stand- Or standing in the shadow of Church- public transport locations and the exits. ● UGC: where people append their own up comedy show also made it into iPlayer’s top fi ve most ill’s statue and hearing him in full orator- Earlier this year, at the material and memories watched programmes. The top four, by volume, were ical fl ight. TED conference, Pattie Maes ● Commercial: Yellow EastEnders, Top Gear, Doctor Who and The Apprentice. The sunlit uplands of augmented real- from MIT Media Lab talked Information pages-type access to goods Among programmes whose audiences were boosted ity are still in their infancy – more rosy fi n- about Sixth Sense, and dem- and services. most by iPlayer, digital channels led the way. Kidulthood gers of dawn for now. But they represent an onstrated a wearable de- is harvested With the Olympic on BBC Three drew 16.1 percent of its audience via iPlay- important change in the evolution of mobile vice for interacting with the Games in the offi ng and er; Page Three Teens, also on BBC Three, 13.9; and BBC and the way we think about smart devices. environment. All very ‘Mi- from the millions of visitors coming Four’s Newswipe 11.9 percent. With AR, the mobile breaks free of the teth- nority Report’, for sure, and to the UK, AR offers tanta- Nelson said entertainment was also cutting through ered world of browsing. It allows information though this might seem landscape lising possibilities. and, over whole series, drama can perform better on- to be harvested from the landscape in real- futuristic and far off, it’s an The unfolding media demand than on linear, but factual was fi nding it hard- time, with context-specifi c information deliv- important area into which and delivered revolution will not be tele- er and might benefi t from a longer catch-up window. ered to the device as its location changes. the BBC must move. vised – it will be mobile. Tellingly, programmes watched on-demand are also At Wimbledon back in June, IBM showed To do so we’re going to to mobiles Paul Brannan is editor, more loved. Time-shifted AIs (appreciation index) for off its Seer application on an Android mobile. have to tag and mark our emerging platforms, BBC News content on all channels average 82-84 – fi gures seldom reached for live transmissions. Digital Olympics fi res starting gun for IBC

A QUICK TRIP TO AMSTERDAM might Olympics, and what that will mean for one • Dirac: demonstrations of compres- mean some hippy fulfi lment to some, per- of the world’s largest broadcasters. sion technology haps a stag weekend for others, but for The conference keynote will be a dis- • MUPPITS: a tool to solve production life- the BBC’s tech community, it cussion between director of FM&T Erik cycle problems means the opportunity to showcase the Huggers and media commentator Ray • Avatar-m: archive research management best of what the BBC has to offer and to Snoddy on how platforms and business • IPTV accessibility: personalised subtitles discuss problems faced by broadcasters models might have to be rethought in and soundtracks over the internet. which can be shared to benefi t the inter- view of changing new media consump- • P2P Next: research project to identify national community. tion habits. the uses of peer-to-peer technology for This year’s IBC opens on Thursday with BBC Research and Development internet tv. a keynote speech from Roger Mosey, BBC will also be mounting six exhibitions: director, London 2012, which will look at • 3D4YOU - developing the key elements A full programme and further coverage People dip in to Mock whether these will be the fi rst truly digital of a practical 3D television system is available at www.ibc.org the Week at any time a 08·09·09 Features 7 PHOTOGRAPH: KATE GILLON KATE PHOTOGRAPH:

Close ties: Karen Raw talent Darragh (left), who features in My New Breast, and Donna wins out for Blackney BBC Films

‘SHE HAS BEEN LIKENED TO and The Damned United. KEN LOACH,’ says Christine ‘Fish Tank is a very small Langan, creative director of proportion of the type of BBC Films, ‘but personally I work we do,’ Langan says, think that Andrea’s style is ‘but the cinematic values of entirely her own.’ what it celebrates are vital Andrea Arnold’s second to our culture.’ full length feature fi lm, Fish BBC Films is now shoot- Tank, is released on Septem- ing Britain’s fi rst 3D dance ber 11 and is one of nine movie, Streetdance, with BBC fi lms selected for the the stars from Britain’s Got Toronto Film Festival this Talent. Also on location is year. Her fi rst, the 2006 Richard Loncraine’s The thriller Red Road, won the Special Relationship, the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival. BBC Films has co-fi nanced and co-produced Fish Tank her latest project. To date, it’s actress Katie follows other Jarvis whose story has en- chanted reviewers: her ‘raw big hitters like talent’ was spotted by a cast- ing assistant while she was The Damned having a very public argu- ment with her boyfriend on United a railway platform. Jarvis – who plays Mia, a 15 year-old girl whose life is third in writer Peter Mor- turned on its head when her gan’s trilogy of fi lms about young mum brings home Tony Blair. The new title, Cancer doesn’t a new boyfriend – was not which follows The Deal an actress, nor a dancer, and The Queen, charts the unlike the character she relationship between Blair plays, so intensive training and Bill Clinton. was needed. ‘She was very shy at fi rst,’ Ariel has four tickets to Langan recalls. ‘She audi- give away, courtesy of BBC work to a plan tioned for the dancing part Films and Curzon Artifi - via video camera because cial Eye, to see Fish Tank A fi lm about reconstructive breast surgery renowned Canniesburn Plastic Sur- she didn’t want anyone else and take part in a Q&A with gery Unit. ‘We looked for women who in the room.’ Andrea Arnold at the Cur- has personal resonance for its producer would let us follow them. We were It has been a busy sum- zon in Soho on September 13. asking to be part of their lives for eight mer for BBC Films, which- Email Ariel Competitions with months,’ says Blackney. makes eight fi lms a year and the answer to this question: by Peggy Walker from the programme’. Understandably, many were reluc- has had recent big hitters What year was the Cannes The title is a nod to other pro- tant to be fi lmed but she found that with Revolutionary Road fi lm festival fi rst held? MY NEW BREAST could have been a grammes about boob jobs for the sake women wanted more information one woman show: Donna Blackney, a of vanity. ‘The documentary is about about reconstructive options. ‘They post production editor at Pacifi c Quay feeling normal, and not being disfi g- wanted actually to see what would in Glasgow, has produced, fi lmed, and ured anymore. I consider it a public happen, not just to look at photos or edited an observational documentary service fi lm.’ have it described to them by their sur- about reconstructive breast surgery. Blackney hopes the fi lm fi ts the geons,’ she says. She could have been the main contribu- ‘intelligent factual’ brief. ‘It’s not Breast implants tend not to be used tor as well, having had breast cancer, sensationalising – just observing. at Canniesburn. Instead, muscle tis- and the surgery, herself. sue is used to make a breast. Another There are many reasons why she option is the ‘diep’ fl ap – taking skin ended up with so many roles. ‘There The footage is and fat from the tummy area. The pro- were fi nancial constraints and also by gramme is graphic and can be hard having fewer crew and avoiding chang- graphic and can to watch. ‘Some people can’t bear to ing crews it made things easier on the watch surgery, but others are amazed patients. I used a very small camera, be hard to watch by it. We wanted to show scenes of sur- with radio mics, to avoid getting in the gery because it’s fascinating, and the way or being too intimidating.’ most positive aspect of treatment for Blackney says that Ewan Angus, ‘This programme is in the most basic breast cancer,’ says Blackney. commissioning editor for BBC Scot- tradition of factual and public service The documentary has been land, took a risk giving her project the documentary, which hopefully we will screened at Pacifi c Quay, to an audi- go-ahead. ‘Cancer doesn’t cooperate, see more of as viewers become less ence of men and women, surgeons or fi t into a classic story structure. It’s interested in the superfi cial approach and patients alike. ‘It was a huge hard to predict how it will end when of reality tv.’ relief that they liked it. It was impor- you start out,’ she explains. ‘But he The ‘strong Glaswegian story’ tant to me that the women and medi- Stylish: director could see the value of the story.’ centres on the special relationship in cal staff who took part were happy Andrea Arnold Blackney declined to take an on- the west of Scotland between plastic with the outcome.’ has been likened screen role because ‘people don’t surgeons and cancer surgeons. The My New Breast, BBC Two Scotland, to Ken Loach need to know about me to gain insight majority of fi lming took place at the September 14 8 BBC IN ACTION week@work

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A TEAM AT BBC NORTH has been keeping a weather eye on the hot social networking site Twitter. Hannah Bayman and her Newcastle col- leagues Paul Mooney and Trai Anfi eld are TWEETING the fi rst BBC weather team to set up their own Twitter account (@BBCWeatherNorth). ‘We usually tweet a twice-daily weather come rain or shine report for the north East and Cumbria during the week, with one a day at weekends,’ Bay- man explains. ‘We have also tweeted lots of viewers’ pictures, programme news and observations that catch our eye –anything from heatwave temperatures to lightning strikes and rainfall totals.’ The team offers bespoke weather forecasts to nearly 800 fol- lowers who also help to build up a detailed picture of the weather across the region by feeding back information. The experiment has been well received so far and the future is looking bright. BBC technology correspond- ent Rory Cellan-Jones is a fan, and tweeted praise after using the BBCWeatherNorth service when he was covering a story in Alston, Cumbria. Other BBC weather teams are now consid- Bright outlook: The beach hut photo was uploaded to the BBC WeatherNorth Twitter site by a follower. ering setting up their own Twitter service. Right: The trio who tweet twice daily, Trai Anfi eld, Hannah Bayman and Paul Mooney twitter.com/BBCWeatherNorth

UP WHAT TO WEAR COMING ◆ Former CBBC controller Anne commissioned by executive editor Karl Gilchrist has commissioned ME AND Warner and channel controller Danny ◆ SUE WILKINSON MY MONSTERS, a 26x30 minute series Cohen and will be made by Avalon. SENIOR PRODUCER FOR ENGLISH about an American family who share Warner will exec produce. REGIONS PROGRAMMING their house with monsters. Set to air in 2010 it will be made by Tiger Aspect ◆ Avalon will also make a six part and exec produced by Sue Nott and series called MOUTH TO MOUTH for Where did you buy the outfi t Plenty. I once wore a Andrew Zein. the channel. Comprising a series of you’re wearing in the photo? disastrous Spanish bolero interwoven monologues about the The dress is from Lulu and Red. outfi t with a fringed skirt at ◆ Comedian Russell Howard will issues facing young people. The series It’s more conventional than I a friend’s music launch. The present a weekly show on topical news will be transmitted later this year. would normally wear but feels long fringing got caught on stories on BBC Three. The 9x30 minute Commissioned by Danny Cohen and comfortable and elegant for the corner of the stage and the series RUSSELL HOWARD’S GOOD executive editor Simon Wilson, it will work. The black leather jacket skirt started to unravel until I NEWS will go out this autumn. It was be exec produced by Wilson. adds a rock ‘n’ roll edge. was trapped like an insect in a Venus fl ytrap. Where have you taken inspiration from? Whose wardrobe would I’ve always been a bit of a rock you most like to rummage AI SCORES chick so I like glamorous and through? ◆ 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE watched unconventional clothes that Kate Moss is the ultimate rock choirmaster Gareth Malone’s return to buck trends. I also love bold chick so I’d love to borrow BBC Two last Tuesday. The Choir: Unsung colours like the monochromes some of her clothes. I’m also a Town saw the singing saviour descend of Chanel and the vibrant fan of Hollywood classic styles on a housing estate near Watford to fi nd colours of Roland Mouret but so I’d like to delve into Rita recruits for his latest project. have never had the budget to Hayworth’s glamorous 1940s As well as exceeding the channel’s buy classic designer labels. wardrobe. timeslot average of 1.71m, it achieved an AI of 87 - six points above the Do you have to dress a What’s the worst outfi t you factual average. Seven in ten viewers particular way for work? were made to wear as a child? said they had made a special effort to Outside work I have a rock My mother is pretty down-to- watch the programme. Audience ‘n’ roll wardrobe with lots earth so nothing leaps out. But comments included ‘inspirational – if of leather, mini dresses and there was a psychedelic ‘70s only every town could get involved’ metallics. At work I have to tank top and matching hot and ‘a refreshing lack of confrontation force myself to tone it down pants ensemble that caused for a reality show’. several notches before they a stir in London when I was a call in the fashion police. teenager. A group of Japanese To fi nd out what audiences are saying tourists made me pose for about any BBC programme visit Have you had any fashion photos, shrieking in disbelief audiencesportal.com. nightmares? as they snapped away.

IF YOU HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR WHO OR WHAT SHOULD BE IN WEEK@WORK PLEASE EMAIL CLARE BOLT ‘I’ve got some lovely 9 bruises,’ says Neil Sackley, BBC Solent producer who competed in the Cowes- Torquay-Cowes power- boat race. ‘It was defi nite- blogbites ly harder than I thought.’ Sackley, who produces the Monday station’s H2O show, joined It’s raining in Glasgow... legendary sailor Robin The summer has just been a series of Knox-Johnston and power- cancelled picnics and sodden sporting boat champion Shelley Jory events. The only event that hasn’t been for the race and broadcast affected by the rain was the Great Scottish live from the boat. Swim which I hosted. When you are He also fed reports into swimming for a mile and the water is 14 his own weekend show degrees then I suppose the rain is the least using a mic attached to his of your worries. ‘Wetsuits are compulsory for helmet and the Bluetooth this event’ said the warning notice. My worry application on a mobile is that if this weather keeps up then that’s phone. ‘It was very diffi cult the advice we’ll be giving out at the Great – like broadcasting from a Scottish Run next week as well. rollercoaster,’ he admits. Bryan Burnett, Radio Scotland presenter The team fi nished the race bbc.co.uk/blogs/bryanburnett/ in fourth place with a time of 3 hours, 59 minutes and Tuesday 33 seconds. Fringe benefits The H2O show runs Even the most optimistic Fringe promoters throughout the sum- must be surprised by the fact that the overall mer, covering all sales are up across the board by 21%. And aspects of life on taking into account last year’s problems, the water. that means the Fringe is 9% up on their best ‘The Solent is ever year – 2007. The main reason seems regarded as one to be the high percentage of UK visitors – of the best plac- staycationers spending their holidays not es in the world abroad but at the festival. for watersports. Pauline McLean, BBC Scotland arts We’re never short correspondent of anything to talk bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/ about,’ says Sackley. paulinemclean/ ‘Tomorrow I’m going to jump off a ferry so it can Wednesday get its safety certifi cate.’ Are ‘broken families’ responsible for Making waves: the powerboat race. ‘Broken Britain’? Inset: Robin Knox-Johnston, Neil tinyurl.com/ Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has Sackley and Shelley Jory powerboatrace let it be known he didn’t like my tv piece last night on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) newly published report on children. His disappointment, I suspect, reflects the SHAMELESS PLUG TRADE SECRETS fact that the respected Paris-based think- tank has questioned one of the key pillars ◆ FIONA WILLIAMS of Conservative social policy. The OECD PUBLICIST How to run an event website document interrogates the received wisdom In my other life I’m an opera that broken families are bad for children and director, having trained at the wider society. Mr Duncan Smith chaired the English National Opera. James Cowdery, a INNOVATE. Festivals are Conservative Social Justice Policy Group I’m currently in fi nal re- producer in audio and a great place to try new which argues for a ‘positive policy bias in hearsals for Don Giovanni, stuff. A&M’s distribution support of marriage’. music interactive, gives 3 Mozart’s classic tale of a technologies team are very adept Mark Easton, home editor wanton womaniser on his his top tips at setting up local networks, bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/ road to ruin. Performed in internet connections and video English, Don G is a rock star power and amazing WHAT’S THE STORY? Is editing facilities in the middle Thursday travelling the world with his music. Rodney Clarke, as the it a hip hop artist playing of a fi eld. This year 6 Music built Healthcare row gets physical? personal assistant Leporello. eponymous anti-hero, leads 1 a traditional rock festival an OB studio at Glastonbury, We are used to terms like ‘Nazi’ being bandied Women throw themselves a company of singers who, (Jay-Z at Glastonbury), the fans’ fi lmed 12 hours of broadcast and around in the health debate at overheated at him and he’s addicted to between them, have sung passion for the biggest metal streamed it all live, intercut with town hall meetings.But a new way of their attention and his grati- for all the major UK opera act in the world (Metallica at lovely views of the Pyramid stage. persuading opponents has just emerged – fi cation. But in his wake, he companies. Reading) or the relationship biting off their finger. It reportedly happened leaves a violent trail of des- Don Giovanni is at the between the audience and their DO LESS, BETTER. Don’t in California and the man took his detached perate, desolate women and John McIntosh Arts Centre, favourite dj (Chris Moyles at create too much content. little finger to a local hospital to be sewed their vengeful men. West Brompton on Septem- Radio 1’s Big Weekend)? Don’t 4Focus on your key offering, back on. Did he have insurance? As he was My dynamic young cast ber 11 and 12. Tickets are £15 just focus on the event itself. whether that’s performance 65, was he covered by a government-run, promise a night of action- (£10 concessions) available Build anticipation with profi les videos, photos or interviews. taxpayer-funded scheme? And can any packed drama, raw sexual from www.telltaleopera. of the headliners and audience Think about what people want. Americans out there explain why this debate memories of seeing their Take your lead from what tv and has got quite so heated? favourite artist. radio are doing. Once you’ve Mark Mardell, North America editor CHANGING PLACES Show the arc of the event. decided what’s important, get bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/ Remember that people it out there and promote it. Let markmardell/ acting sbj sport covering experience the event at people know via Twitter, syndicate Richard Fair’s attachment different times – whether to band websites, YouTube etc. Friday at BBC East... LAWRENCE attending, listening on radio Friday’s quote of the day MANN, sbj for Radio or watching on demand. WORK WITH YOUR BBC ‘It was an extremely beautiful place and was Manchester, begins a FRIENDS. Our event sites very green’ – Japan’s first lady-in-waiting four week development MANAGE THE AUDIENCE’S 5are made by developers on her trip to Venus. Miyuki Hatoyama is attachment at Radio Bristol. EXPECTATIONS. We and designers from A&Mi not a typical spouse of a world leader. As Bj CORINNE HILL covers 2deliver a large amount in tandem with indies. The well as claiming her spirit has travelled on his absence... CLAIRE of performance video content. wealth of content delivered a triangular-shaped UFO, she also says she MCDONALD, project Explain upfront what you’re comes from working closely knew Tom Cruise in a past life. assistant in MC&A ,joins delivering and why. Be clear with music entertainment Magazine Monitor ◆ Radio Manchester bj the knowledge team as a about what you’re offering, tv, the radio networks, red bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/ SARAH COLLINS becomes marcomms assistant. for how long and to whom. button and the regions. 10 Opinion/Analysis a 08·09·09 A year ago, we could not have aview pulled off a season like this n As BBC global news mounts a month of CATHY LOUGHRAN programmes on the economic downturn Richard Sambrook explains how a ‘quiet Warm blast to revolution’ in commissioning is delivering ease chill wind NEXT WEEK'S RTS CAMBRIDGE convention more for regional and global audiences has a late addition – a session with Mark Thompson and former culture secretary One year on from the collapse of live reports from expert pre- James Purnell called The BBC Under Fire. It’s of Lehman Brothers, the reces- BBC senters across the world in addi- THE hot topic, since James Murdoch went sion may be coming to an end Local tion to special editions of World for the jugular at Edinburgh, accusing the but people are still living with Business Report and India Business BBC of state-sponsored journalism, chilling the consequences. From Middle Report. ambition and calling for it to be cut down to America to the Middle East, the impact For BBC global news, After- size. A chill wind, commentators observed. aftershock of the biggest bank- shock is more than just a land- The Murdoch view gained some support ruptcy in US corporate history is n BBC World Service’s mark season of programmes; it in the industry, but not so on the streets, if being felt everywhere. Albanian, Azeri, Burmese, is an opportunity to get all the the results of the latest Guardian/ICM poll The biggest challenge for an Indonesian, Nepali, Sinhala, specialist expertise that is availa- are to be believed. Despite the cumulative international news provider like Swahili, Tamil, Uzbek and Viet- ble to us working together, mak- effect of first Hutton, then the fakery scan- the BBC is to offer a coherent namese language teams ex- ing such an ambitious project dals, Ross/Brand, salaries and expenses, the picture that accurately reflects plore the effect of the finan- more than the sum of its parts. BBC is more trusted than it was in 2004 and a wide variations in people’s lives, cial crisis on money sent back greater source of pride. experiences and economic cir- home by migrant workers – Integrated content If BBC editors need to heed the finding cumstances across the globe. and the impact on the eco- Behind the scenes a quiet revolu- that most people (58 percent) thought there A drama about the collapse nomic and political situations tion has taken place in the way a was no difference in reliability between BBC of a bank may have seemed in- in their home countries season like this is conceived and and commercial news, there is clearly no ap- conceivable a few years back, n BBC Arabic engages its managed. Bringing together petite for the kind of charging for BBC news and even stranger choice of gen- audiences in a conversation the complex operations of BBC online that Murdoch would like – 79 percent res to launch a season. The be- about the situation in the UAE World Service, BBC World News are against it and only 16 percent in favour. hind the scenes negotiations of and other Gulf states television and BBC.com has Crucially, more people give their vote the boardroom would, on paper, n BBC Persian talks to a enabled us to transform com- to the licence fee (43 percent) as a funding seem to be the last type of mate- billionaire businessman who missioning across the differ- method, as opposed to advertising (24 per- rial to enthuse audiences or get lost a fortune in the collapse ent languages and platforms in cent) or subscription (30 percent). Only 31 to the heart of the issues at the n BBC Russian looks at which we now operate. percent backed the licence fee in 2004. core of the global recession. whether the influence of oli- Demonstrating the benefits Continuing support by only a minority garchs has been affected of joint commissioning, BBC for licence fee funding gives scant cause for Drama of Wall Street n BBC Hindi examines the World News tv and BBC World celebration. But in the midst of a recession, One year on from the collapse of story of the Indian economy Service radio both air versions with daily headlines about star and execu- Lehman and the financial fall- surviving the slump of Robert Peston’s documenta- tive salaries and any future Tory government out, times have changed and it n BBC Swahili explores the ry Lehmans: How a Busted Bank promising at least a licence fee freeze, this now seems perfectly natural to impact of the slump on Ken- Changed the World. On television, perhaps surprising turnaround in public atti- be opening the Aftershock sea- ya’s flower trade to Europe BBC World News and BBC Per- tude is better than – well, another salvo. son with the premiere of the and on tourism sian have co-produced Working Cathy Loughran is deputy editor of Ariel radio drama The Day That Lehman n BBC HAUSA assesses the Lives: Dubai, following the expe- Died on BBC World Service. John Dryden, director of The Day Nigerian federal govern- riences of local people ranging A fictionalised account of That Lehman Died, outside the ment’s reduced state funding. from a taxi driver to a billion- events in the build up to the de- New York Stock Exchange aire. On radio, World Service is TOGs twitter mise of the bank, this project airing The Crash: The Bank that was born out of collaboration world to visit six key markets to involved via telephone, online, Bust the World, re-versioned from their lament with BBC Two and recorded on look at the impact of the global mobile or Twitter and follow BBC Two’s Money Programme. It was a rude awakening yesterday for location in New York with the recession one year on. From a the debate on World Service and Over the last year we have millions of TOGs (Terry’s Old Geezers) when assistance of one of our partner sugar factory in upstate Sao Pau- BBC World News. At bbc.com/af- made stronger efforts to inte- Sir Terry announced his retirement from stations, WNYC Public Radio. lo in Brazil to property markets tershock people can share their grate our content across plat- Wake Up To Wogan. The decision to step down The drama of Wall Street in Dubai, this will be a whistle own experiences in a special glo- forms, build on projects like from his hugely popular show, he said, was launches Aftershock, but the ex- stop tour to gauge the temper- bal interactive mood map. the US election bus and India the hardest of his career. For his devoted lis- periences of people around the ature of the economy in these This season cements the train. A season like Aftershock teners, nearly 8m of us, it was devastating. world is a key thread that runs markets and find out what peo- transformation of business pro- couldn’t have happened across Within minutes WUTW was inundated throughout the season. Across ple are saying on the streets. gramming as a core part of the platforms in this way even a year with emails, Twitter was buzzing and even language services on radio, tv It’s important that we put au- mainstream news across our glo- ago. One thing is for sure: the the TOGs’ own website appeared to have and online, BBC Global News diences in the driving seat across bal news services. Providing the aftershocks are far from over in crashed. Mornings will never be the same teams have added a unique glo- platforms. Our 238m weekly insight and expertise to make the global economy and it’s a without Wogan gently poking fun at the bal perspective to this crisis. Our audience trusts us to host a fair sense of the big news stories and story that will continue to affect world. We will miss the good natured banter journalists map the aftershocks and incisive debate – where they demystify some of the jargon. us for a long time to come. with newsreaders Alan ‘Deadly’ Dedicoat and of the crisis, showing how glo- can put their views and engage Steve Evans was in Las Vegas I’d like to think that the af- John ‘Boggy’ Marsh and legendary contri- bal events shape up local chang- in discussion with people the on September 7 for BBC World tershocks of this new and excit- butions from ‘listeners’ such as Mick Sturbs es which, in their turn, induce other side of the world. Service’s Business Daily to exam- ing way of working will benefit and Chuffer Dandridge. No offence to Chris new processes and connections. BBC World Service’s daily ine the state of the US housing staff and audiences for some- Evans, but Terry is simply irreplaceable. While we track the local interactive show World Have market, one year on from the time to come. The last words here should be his: ‘So this impact, it’s also important that Your Say will be in the forefront collapse of mortgage firms Fan- Richard Sambrook is is not goodbye, it’s not even au revoir…As we try and assess the global forc- of gathering that reaction and nie Mae and Freddie Mac, while director of BBC global news they used to say when I was a lad, See you es that underpin seismic chang- debate. The programme will Lesley Curwen is in Dalian, Chi- Aftershock runs from this week later alligator…in a while, crocodile…’ And es in the world’s economy. host a special multiplatform na to cover the world economic and throughout September. please Sir Terry, on behalf of TOGs every- BBC World News has sent pol- debate to find out how global forum annual meeting of new http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ where, just make it snappy. itics producer Richard Pattinson audiences have been impacted champions. BBC World News tel- indepth/business/2007/ Sue Llewellyn, reporter and TOG on a whirlwind trip around the by the downturn. They can get evision follows up with a series creditcrunch

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This is the page that everybody reads. Please email [email protected] You can also contribute to the mail page directly from the Ariel Online home page mail OBITUARY include The from the BBC in 1990. He contin- Breakfast blues Give platform to BNP Two Ronnies, ued into his seventies as a freelancer How will I get I think the BBC is right to allow Ever Decreasing until his worsening back problems to work in the the BNP airtime – no matter what RON GREEN Circles, Black- forced a halt. morning without our personal views may be on any In 1954 Ron Green was working at adder, Paul He is fondly remembered by all, the legendary political party, we have to remain Cossor Electronics testing television Daniel’s Magic for he had a knack, not just of tech- chat, wit, gentle impartial and professional. Some sets. In the next test bay was Len Sho- Show, Oppor- nical brilliance, but of getting on humour and licence fee payers voted for the rey. They spotted a recruiting ad for tunity Knocks with people. He even had a fan club sarcasm of Terry BNP and their views should be the BBC, keen to replace staff lost to and, despite in LWT and Granada who used to Wogan to send me on my way? aired along with those of others. the nascent ITV, and applied for jobs his fame as tune in to ‘Ron Green’ productions. I wish we could get him to do a This is the democratic thing to in technical operations, reasoning a light entertainment cameraman, These shows were a watchword for two-day week to ease the pain. do. And if we don’t, we will not be that making television sounded a lot Z Cars, Softly Softly, King Lear and, for ‘How it should be Done’. He makes you laugh out loud, refl ecting the real Britain of today, more interesting than making televi- the arts, Mass For Man, The Beggars With his prematurely greying but never in a bitter, malicious way. which would be a tragedy. sions. Successful, in the spring of Opera and Cosi fan Tutti – these just hair, (he was fondly dubbed ‘the Sil- Hopefully the new presenter will There is always the danger that 1955 they walked through the doors scratch the surface. ver Haired Smoothy’ when still in his take some of his style on board. this kind of support might go fur- of Lime Grove for the fi rst time. In 1989 he crowned his BBC twenties) he seemed to be unchang- Having listened on and off to ther underground if we do not Ron took to camera work like a career with a Bafta for The Ginger ing. It gave him an air of indestruct- Wogan since I was four, I doubt take it seriously. So let some seri- duck to water. By the mid-sixties he Tree, the BBC’s fi rst venture into high ibility that makes it all the harder to anybody will be able to replace ous questioning by David Dimbleby was the natural choice to take over defi nition. It was executed in his realise that he has gone. him, really. But I’d rather have Liza and others on the panel take place Crew Seven from the retiring Mike inimitable way and he adapted Ron’s last few working years were Tarbuck than Chris Evans – or per- – I don’t think Nick Griffi n and co ‘Paddington’ Bond, and for the next seamlessly to a ‘fi lm’ style of single marred by the loss of his eldest son haps the two could share the slot. would have a leg to stand on, but 25 years Ron Green and Crew Seven camera production. Richard in 1999 and wife Betty, in Evans is good, but a bit manic; Liza that’s not up to us to decide. were virtually synonymous with tel- Ron’s secret was that he loved 2001. He is survived by his younger Tarbuck is a little more laid back We’re here to report as fairly and evision excellence. camerawork for its own sake and son, David. and easy on the ear. impartially as we can. It’s what the These were the heydays of televi- with his almost magical skills he It is a measure of the regard in Terry Wogan has been, and con- BBC stands for and the reason why sion and Ron’s brilliant camerawork could infuse style into any produc- which Ron was held that the funer- tinues to be, a huge BBC talent, but so many people and other broad- graced shows such as Top of the Pops, tion. A Playschool, a Late Show or a Blue al address was given by James Moir, weekday mornings will never be casters around the world admire, Vince Hill, Rolf Harris, Shirley Bas- Peter received the same care and at- former head of tv light entertain- the same again. and respect us. sey, Lena Zavaroni, Grace Kennedy – tention as a Jonathan Miller opera. ment. A collection in aid of the RNIB Laura Bate Nazma Chowdhury classic examples of the Stewart Mor- The demand for his services lasted raised over £900. production co-ordinator BA, Inside Out West ris/Ron Green genre. Other credits well beyond his offi cial retirement Peter Fox

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    Just my                     cup of tea                  Fiona Fraser, marketing                assistant, brings TV             Centre down to size                I WAS EXCITED ABOUT JOINING such a large and  prestigious organisation and a little overwhelmed         by the size and structure of MC&A, where I was        to be part of brand and planning. The marketing   team I’d worked with in my previous events manage-           ment role at Central Saint Martins College of Art and   Design was an offi ce of two.         I got my head around things, though, and soon    knew that I would love an opportunity to work in         the oh-so glamorous Television Centre.     Eventually an attachment came up as marketing         and communications assistant on Front Desk public-  ity. After a competitive round of interviews – made       more stressful as I knew people who were going for      the same job – I was lucky enough to be offered it. I         turned up on my fi rst day with my tea cup to fi nd out   there were no sinks to wash it in! So the glamorous                      You may            spot     Stephen                      Fry          twittering      in the lifts             Television Centre wasn’t so glamorous after all. But I        loved it all the same.       We are the frontline press contacts for television     publicity and, having never worked with journalists      before, my fi rst week was interesting to say the least.         Tv journalists are defi nitely a breed of their own, but       I’m beginning to understand both them and the tv          planning process.  Day to day, I send out programme information to        planners and previewers and promotional dvds to   reviewers, write comments to send to usually new       journalists and press releases and set up interviews       with talent and press.    I’ve been to the GMTV studios and got close to        the lovely Ben Shephard, got up extremely early to  go down to BBC Breakfast with the gorgeous George    Lamb (I hope he doesn’t see this!) to talk about his      programme Legal Highs and attended photo shoots at    the Mirror’s studios with Baby Beauty Queens. The list      goes on…      I enjoy being in the middle of things. You may see         the bands smoking a fag between rehearsals for Jools      Holland or spot Stephen Fry twittering in the lifts. It     feels like an exciting place to work and you can’t help      but be motivated by that.       This role has also made me realise that I want to       develop my skills and I begin studying for my profes-    sional diploma in marketing this week. I don’t know        what will happen for me come next September, when          my attachment ends, but I do know I will have bags of         experience that you can’t get in many other places.     Been anywhere nice? Send your attachment stories to Clare Bolt                  

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14 OCTOBER 08 ARIEL a 08·09·09 What am I doing here 15 PHOTOGRAPH: MARK BASSETT MARK PHOTOGRAPH: JULIE SHEPHERD foreign PRODUCER, 1XTRA bureau

SERGEI BERETS EXECUTIVE EDITOR (RADIO) BBC RUSSIAN, MOSCOW ONE GUY CALLS OUR OFFICE almost every Sunday night. He never identifi es himself and is always high, either on alcohol or drugs. ’Help! I’m a British spy! I need money! NOW!’ We hang up. He calls again. There used to be more of his sort. Once a guy said he was calling from a phone booth in St Petersburg. ‘Rescue me! I’m surrounded by tanks. They’re about to capture me!’ She misses her native Scotland but On Sunday evenings, the BBC offi ce is a loves her job, which has taken her quiet place. Unless of course there’s another crisis, and Russia is never short of those. to the Caribbean and South Africa The Russian service team is the largest in the Moscow bureau, producing fi ve and a half hours of radio programmes Monday- You were born in Dundee but live study media technology and 4. Radio 2 had only a small team Any disasters? Friday, plus articles and videos for bbcrus- in London... production at university. at Pebble Mill but produced a It can be quite stressful doing sian.com, reporting in Russian and English. I worked my way down Eng- lot of programmes so there was OBs because you’re not famil- Until the 1990s, the BBC had only a land from Scotland. I went But you made a mistake... the opportunity to get involved. iar with the environment but newsgathering presence here. But with per- to uni in Yorkshire and then In Scotland degree courses are After six months I got a job as a usually, as soon as you go live, estroika and glasnost, the Russian service worked in Birmingham but four years and I didn’t realise researcher in Radio 2’s special- there’s a feeling of calm. I was started fi rst to fi nd stringers in Moscow, and I’d always wanted to live in that English university courses ist and live music department. doing one at Bournemouth uni- then locate staff here. By the mid-1990s, London. A lot of people I grew were any different. So, I applied versity with dj Blakey and fi ve newsgathering, up with now live in London. to start in the second year of a Have you always been interest- minutes into the show every- Monitoring and the course at the University of Brad- ed in music? thing went silent and we fell Offi cials are Russian service What do you miss most about ford, thinking I would have the Music has always been a big off air. It turned out that had moved under home? second, third and fourth year. passion in my life but I after doing his fi rst link Blakey not always one roof. Having The further north you go the But [because it was a three year never thought it would be had leant back and put his staff and output friendlier the people. When I course] I ended up being there a means to getting a job. foot on the wall turning off happy with based here gave go home I end up talking to for only two years. I do regret the switch. In such a situa- us access to sto- random people on the streets, that because I absolutely loved What’s your favourite music? tion you have to be methodi- what we say ries in a way that but if you do that in London uni but I suppose I got out into At the moment it’s hip hop cal, and in that instance it was was not possible people just think you’re com- the working world quicker. and R’n’B. I think that’s quite easy working out what and write when based solely pletely mad. I also miss fresh air what attracted me to 1Xtra. had happened and turning in London. and the countryside and I went What did you do when you left With hip hop it’s the depth the switch back on. The whole Russia has given the BBC a lot of stories: through a phase of buying Edin- uni? of the storytelling and, soni- thing lasted only a few min- the second Chechen war; the Kursk disas- burgh rock every time I visited. I thought I would start apply- cally, I think it’s more experi- utes but it was just the enor- ter; the Dubrovka theatre siege; Beslan; last I really like haggis and tried ing for jobs towards the end mental than other genres. mity of everything going off. summer’s Russia-Georgian war; the murder feeding it to people in London of my degree course so that by When I worked at Radio 2 of journalist Anna Politkoskaya and, more but no one was having any of it. the time I graduated I would I got into old soul music. You’ve also travelled quite a bit recently, of human rights campaigner I probably go back every three have got used to being turned That’s the best thing about with 1Xtra? Natalia Estemirova; the London killing of months but my family come down. But then I got a job as my job – you gain an apprecia- I went to the Trinidad Car- Alexander Litvinenko and the fallout that to down to London quite a lot. a BBC trainee a day before my tion of the world of music. nival when I worked on the this day impacts on UK/Russia relations. fi nal show at uni. I wanted to drivetime show. It’s the big- Being a locally-recruited journalist Have you always been creative? work somewhere that made You joined 1Xtra pre-launch. gest carnival in the Carib- brings a different perspective to our I always take the mickey out of quality programming and Did that worry you? bean. We would go to the car- reporting. For members of the Russian my mum, calling her a ‘pushy would give me training. The I was terrifi ed, not because I nival all day and night and service, what happens in the country they stage school mum’ for send- BBC was an obvious choice. thought it wouldn’t do well then sit round the pool doing are covering has implications for them- ing me to ballet, tap and jazz, but because all of the pro- a show at 9am in the morn- selves and their families. The service has majorettes and singing classes. What did you do? grammes I’d worked on in ing. It was good fun but hard come under pressure from the authorities But she insists that I want- I mainly worked for Radio 2 on the past had been pre-record- work. We also did some shows who are not always happy with what we ed to go from a young age. If its music programming but also ed and now I had to pro- from Johannesburg on the say and write. But we don’t lie and we fol- you start off doing stuff like did some work for Radio 3 and duce live programmes. hip hop scene in South Africa. low the same editorial guidelines and BBC that it makes you creative. It’s very political over there values as colleagues in London. so it was really interesting. It’s the quality of journalism and the What did you do when you left BBC’s reputation that attracts young jour- school? CV What do you do in spare time? nalists who keep sending their résumés I applied to study English at Born: Dundee I’m into fi lms and like to hoping to join the service despite anti- university but when it came First paid job: Silver service waitress at the travel, especially in Mexico western trends so vivid in modern Russia. to it I didn’t want to do it. I Golf Open in Carnoustie and America. I also go to a lot Reporting Russia and Russian-related didn’t know what I wanted to Education: Perth College of Music & Media, BSc of gigs, partly out of inter- affairs is tricky. You wonder how little the do, so I studied media at col- (Hons) in media technology & production at est and partly because I need BBC and other western media understand lege for a year and specialised University of Bradford, specialising in fi lm to know what’s going on in Russia. You wonder, too, what little effort in radio and fi lm production Career landmarks: Working with Paul Weller on his the music scene. You have to Russians make to understand the outer in my second year. After that I Radio 2 Northern Soul show and launching the 1Xtra work hard to strike a balance. world. But BBC journalists based in Mos- decided I wanted to do some- breakfast show with Trevor Nelson & Zena cow are doing an important job in adding thing practical so I applied to Interview by Laura Scarrott understanding to the story, for audiences in Britain, in Russia and around the world. > CONTACT PEGGY WALKER TO SUGGEST A COLLEAGUE FOR THIS FEATURE 16 a 08·09·09 green room ▲ THE ARIELAT0R WE HEAR THAT. . . A weekly take on life at the BBC: ‘GOOD TO see the DG in the Channel Islands last ▲ who’s up, who’s down, who’s off week,’ writes Andrew Connolly, general manager UPSIDE Adult Ori- of BBC Concert Orchestra. He even provided the ▲ ented Rock fan and accompanying photographic evidence (pic- Radio Devon pre- tured right). Sadly Andrew had no time for talent senter Ian ‘Calvie’ spotting and ▲ Calvert could have couldn’t con- a break out hit on fi rm it was the ▲ his hands after cre- man himself, ating a song dedi- but the ▲ cated to his be- ‘electronic loved county. 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