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BBC Cymru Annual Review 2007-2008

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26 Controller’s Introduction 29 The Board of Management 30 Highlights across our services 48 BBC Cymru Wales on Network 54 Communities 56 Diversity and Partnerships BBC in Need BBC scheme

58 Awards 2007-2008 60 Facts and Figures

62 Getting in touch with the BBC

25 Controller’s Introduction A rollercoaster election campaign, a Christmas Day blockbuster that entranced over thirteen million viewers, and a little boy who didn’t like piggies...

There were many highlights in 2007, for the first time, a live texting but perhaps our coverage of the service from all the counts. Once Assembly Elections, the continued again, our coverage proved that success of and the audiences turn to the BBC for the extraordinary Coal House project stories that matter. More than 50% best embodied the ambition, scale of viewers and listeners told us that and success of so much of BBC they relied on BBC Wales’ election Wales’ output this year. coverage to keep them abreast of all the campaign developments. The Assembly elections were a real test of our journalistic mettle. Not While news remains at the content with an arduous campaign, of our public service in Wales, it the politicians then embarked on was a real thrill once again to see long weeks of intense negotiation BBC Wales engaging with millions before the final emergence of the of viewers across the UK through Labour-Plaid coalition. It was an the strength of our Network endurance challenge our journalists programming. Doctor Who relished across television, radio and returned for a triumphant third online – in both languages – and series and continued to BBC Wales was the first to reveal bloom on , with the that Labour was considering a deal alien investigators switching from with Plaid Cymru. BBCTHREE to BBCTwo. Both series attracted record viewing, There was innovation in our with Kylie Minogue’s Christmas Day coverage too – the ‘BBC Wales dalliance with topping 60’ brought together a cross- the festive charts with more than section of our audience to debate 13 million viewers and a staggering and explore the key issues, and 52% of the audience. our comprehensive coverage on election night extended to , It should have surprised nobody both our national websites and, that these twin successes would

26 not prove sufficient to sate the Coal House’s greatest triumph was In reality, broadcasting in Wales and creative appetites of executive the light it threw on the pressures across the UK is one continuous producers RussellT Davies and of family life .We will return ‘change programme’ these days, .And so in the early to the Coal House later in 2008. driven by our changing audiences autumn, a third element of the and rapid technological development. global ‘Who’ franchise emerged - Sadly, BBC Wales also a dear The new BBC iPlayer download with The Sarah Jane Adventures friend in 2007, with the untimely service has already changed the debuting on the children’s channel and sudden death of . way a significant portion of our CBBC. Predictably but magnificently, Ray was a public servant in audiences watch television, and it proved a huge hit with its young every sense. He enriched every digital switchover will be upon audience, and will return to the conversation he joined, he shared us all in a few short months. screens for a second series in 2008. his enthusiasms and prodigious talents generously, and he loved It can seem bewildering for In any other year, these his country and its people without many but am confident BBC programmes might have condition. In the face of so much Wales is well placed for this new overshadowed all comers. But grief and sadness among his many digital landscape, so long as we this was the year when a tale of friends and colleagues at BBC continue to invest in the very three families who travelled back Wales, I would like to pay tribute best talent and ideas for our to 1927 to experience the realities to their resolute professionalism audiences. Far from fearing change, of colliery life hooked a nation. in reporting his death and the we are already setting the pace. Coal House was a phenomenon. Its extraordinary public commemoration After all, who would have thought ambition, its scale, its intimacy, its of his life at . that the three most popular sense of place and history: all these programmes on the BBC iPlayer ingredients were brilliantly blended The achievements of our teams during its first few weeks would by series producers, Indus Films. this year – in television, radio all be BBC Wales productions? and online – have taken place The on-screen drama at Blaenavon against an uncertain backdrop, Menna Richards was supported across our services, as the consequences of a lower with extensive radio and online than expected licence fee have Controller coverage and a wealth of resulted in a substantial internal BBC Wales supporting programming. It was change programme. It is to their proof, if it were needed, of the immense credit that they have audience impact that BBC Wales raised the creative bar yet again can generate when our services in such testing circumstances, come together to explore and and I would like to express my debate Welsh life.And in telling the sincere thanks for their relentless story of our shared history, perhaps energy and creativity.

27 28 The Board of Management

1 Menna Richards 1 6 Controller BBC Cymru Wales

2 Cathryn Allen Head of Broadcast Development

3 Rhodri Talfan Davies Head of Marketing Communications and Audiences 2 7

4 Jude Gray Head of Human Resources and Development

5 Clare Hudson Head of Programmes, English 3 8

6 Keith Jones Head of Programmes, Welsh and New Media

7 Mark O’Callaghan Head of News and Current Affairs

4 9 8 Gareth Powell Chief Operating Officer

9 Nigel Walker Project Leader: Change and Internal Communication

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29 Highlights across our serv- ices

Political stories play a key role in News output and coverage of the Assembly Election in 2007 was undoubtedly BBC Cymru Wales’ most ambitious and successful political venture to date. News broke several stories during the election campaign and there was keen audience participation in the television election debates around the country. Election night saw the most comprehensive Welsh results service ever, with television programmes on both BBC One Wales and S4C throughout the night and similar services on Radio Wales, Radio Cymru, Online and Arlein.Television news, using eighteen outside broadcasts, covered twenty-eight counts.

Post election, News reported on that of the deaths of tone and language in all output. some of the most extraordinary of young people in the In addition to the usual editorial and historic events in Welsh county borough.These disturbing discussions, News held briefings politics.They culminated in the events became increasingly with health professionals and One Wales coalition between controversial amid claims that a seminar in Cardiff on the Labour and Plaid Cymru which the media and journalists were coverage, organised with the was covered as breaking news implicated in the story.The BBC College of Journalism. and in live special programmes pressure for measured and on both radio stations and on responsible reporting was intense Another story from Wales which BBC One. News programmes and daily and weekly output made an impact across the world, continued to investigate and endeavoured to produce items was that of Ama Sumani, the report on events at the which reflected what had terminally-ill African woman who and in , with Betsan happened, while avoiding was removed from a Cardiff Powys’ and Vaughan Roderick’s sensationalism, investigating the hospital by immigration officials blogs adding an extra dimension wider implications of each tragic and sent back to Ghana because to coverage. case and providing links to her visa had expired.This account helplines.Throughout, BBC Cymru and Ms Sumani’s subsequent One of the most challenging and Wales kept in close contact with death, aroused strong emotions, sensitive stories of the year was Network News to discuss terms, with The Lancet calling the

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removal “atrocious barbarism” and the Archbishop of Canterbury describing it as “humiliating”.This view was shared by much of the audience, who contributed to a fund for her treatment, though others questioned why British taxpayers should foot .

The first Week In Week Out special was a powerful story about a “transplant tourist” - a Welsh kidney patient who travelled to the Philippines to search for a live donor after spending more than four years on the UK transplant waiting list. This controversial report was picked by other media and ran extensively on Network News and in local and UK newspapers.

There was a magnificent response to If I Ruled Wales – an opportunity for people to put forward ideas that they would like to see made law under the Assembly’s new powers: banning plastic bags topping the poll.The Your Stories strand on proved very successful, with one viewer’s tale of a community without broadband developing into a lead story on the programme as people across Wales told BBC Cymru Wales about the problem. 1 NiaThomas and Garry Owen

31 “News reported on some of the most extraordinary and historic events in Welsh politics. They culminated in the One Wales coalition between Labour and Plaid Cymru which was covered as breaking news and in live special programmes on both radio stations and on BBC One.”

32 The untimely death of Ray Gravell founder Simon Nixon. bullock revered by a west Wales was one of the most emotive Hindu community. stories of the year. Coverage Much of the education coverage on all News platforms reflected has focused on controversial Sporting news was important, with the strength of feeling, with school closures and reorganisation extensive coverage of Wales’ Rugby reports and tributes to a man across Wales, with Cardiff, Grand Slam win in 2008, together who was a friend to so many. and west Wales all with the fluctuating fortunes of the On the day of the funeral, affected. News also took part three main football teams. News special programmes provided in BBC Cymru Wales’ School collaborated closely with Sport to live coverage in English and Report Day, where in 2008 cover the . Welsh and on radio and television, journalists and technical staff with live streaming online. linked up with seven secondary New technology provided News schools, sharing media literacy with new opportunities to file The public inquiry set up to skills and involving the teenagers material for broadcast, both from investigate the second biggest in News output.The hope is to Wales and abroad. During the year, outbreak in the UK of a deadly develop some of those links News and Current Affairs upgraded strain of the E.coli bug started throughout the coming year. its television and on-line picture in 2008.The coverage of the editing facilities with a new video proceedings included shocking Welsh-language News sent server system delivering editing to information on the state of the reporters to cover the French the journalists' desktops and to provided for school meals election and the US Primaries, craft edit suites.The server allows in the area where a child died with plans to cover the final programmes to have faster access in the 2005 outbreak. voting in November 2008. to incoming material and enables Other international and UK a better news service for the Business coverage included stories, included the debate over viewers. It is also linked to the a number of stories charting climate change, the threat of existing News radio editing system the unprecedented developments terrorism, the Ipswich murders and facilitates the fast publication taking place in cities and trial and the disappearance of video to the web. towns across Wales, plus mixed of Madeleine McCann. fortunes for jobs and companies in urban and rural areas alike. Other significant coverage included Wales@Work on RadioWales the second and final closure of began a series of interviews with Tower Colliery; the abandonment some of the most successful Welsh of plans to publish the Welsh entrepreneurs, including Silicon language daily paper Y Byd and Valley investor Michael Moritz the unusual story of the slaughter and Moneysupermarket.com of Shambo, the tubercular

33 Television BBC One Wales, BBC Two Wales and BBC 2W

Coal House was the major highlight of the year across BBC Cymru Wales’ English language television services.The multiplatform reality history series took three families back to 1927 for a month to live as a mining community and produced phenomenally high viewing figures, audience appreciation, and impact on television, radio and online.

The series was broadcast three industrial and social history, in a The following are typical of the evenings a week on BBC One way which would be accessible to comments which were posted on Wales in peaktime, and the daily a broad mainstream audience who the website: struggle for survival of the three would not normally watch history families captured the imagination programmes on television. It was of the whole country. Supported intended to be as much about by a strong and ambitious community as it was about coal marketing campaign (which mining.The innovative nature of included trailers screened in the series was matched by an cinemas), the series won the ambitious approach to multiplatform highest audience for any non news production, with BBC Radio Cymru or sport programme since 2001, and BBC Radio Wales and our with 61% of the population of news programmes on TV and Wales saying that they engaged radio in English and Welsh all with the project through TV, radio participating and reflecting the or online.The average audience project in some way throughout for the programmes was just the week.The Coal House website Congratulations to all concerned… over 370,000.The series swiftly became a place where How wonderful all three families attracted a very high share of the people could discuss the events were. It brought back childhood TV viewing audience, particularly in Stack Square, Blaenavon (where memories of tin baths and only among those aged 35-64. the series was filmed), record their cold running water…Thank you all, personal memories of mining how brave you all were and how The objective of the series was to in Wales, and express their lovely to see the community explore a crucial era in Welsh excitement about the project. spirit which developed.

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My kids are fascinated by this - a good show we can watch together and chat about. 2 Amazing, the best reality TV programme I have ever seen, congratulations to the BBC on a well planned experiment, simply brilliant.

We LOVE this programme. The humour and activities have kept us entertained as well as the informative social and historical comment.We have laughed like drains and cried and are enjoying getting to know these fab families.

A range of complementary programmes were also commissioned to accompany the series including a documentary about The Miner in , and an archive based documentary about during the 1920s.

Other highlights in BBC Cymru Wales’ schedules this year included Iolo’s Welsh Safari which returned for two series on BBC One Wales.The series attracted a 3 good audience, with a strong skew towards younger people, and the redesigned /nature website proved very popular, with viewers sending in their

36 own wildlife photos and voting language Welsh poets, Hayoung Lee, British for their favourite bird. R.S.Thomas. The Man Who Went mezzo Christine Rice, Italian Into The West was presented Fabio Armiliato and Spanish Multiplatform projects included by Byron Rogers who wrote baritone Carlos Alvarez. Music a second series of Big Welsh a provocative and revealing included operatic favourites from Challenge which featured Simon biography of his subject. It Tosca and La Traviata, with the Weston, actress , subsequently won the award quartet from Rigoletto bringing rugby player Colin Charvis and for Best Documentary at the evening to a climactic end. all the 2008 Celtic Media Festival learning Welsh with celebrity in Galway, Ireland. Other More than 1000 singers applied mentors.The website and the documentaries on arts and for the chance to compete in special days for learners attracted culture included a profile of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the a great deal of interest. What’s the Cardiff Mela Festival and World Competition 2007. Our In A Name was a series exploring its organisers, and a programme coverage followed the twenty-five the origins of Welsh place in which athlete finalists and twenty-three year old names which was accompanied explored the phenomenon of -baritone Shen Yang from by output on Radio Wales and men and dance, following his Shanghai being crowned BBC a lively and useful website. success in . Cardiff Singer of the World 2007.

Somebody’s Child was a powerful Our coverage of cultural The situation comedy High Hopes observational series about the events in Wales included Elin returned to BBC One Wales for work of Barnardo’s Cymru. Manahan-Thomas presenting another successful series and It covered a range of themes the highlights of Proms in the ’s World Cup Journeys including adoption and fostering, Park from Singleton Park, proved to be a very successful the difficulties experienced by the for BBC Cymru Wales. highlight of the Rugby World young homeless, and the use of The BBC National Orchestra Cup season on BBC One Wales. family group meetings to resolve of Wales and Chorus, conducted Viewers also enjoyed catching conflict. X Ray, the BBC Cymru by Grant Llewellyn, brought up with events in Bryncoed Wales consumer strand, continued a feast of music with a French in the BBC Cymru Wales to be popular: it is now presented connection to celebrate the drama Belonging. by Rhodri and Lucy Owen. Rugby World Cup in . The Faenol Festival also featured In the arts genre, a major with programmes including The highlight was a one hour Hills Are Alive, Opera Night and documentary, produced by When Connie met Bryn. Joining independent company Fulmar, Bryn Terfel for the Opera Night about one of the greatest English at the Faenol were Korean

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BBC Cymru Wales on S4C

In October 2006, the BBC Governors and the announced a new Strategic Partnership for the development of programming and services for Welsh language television audiences.The agreement set out how the BBC would strengthen and extend its support for S4C over a period of three years as the Welsh language channel implemented its programme strategy in the run-up to digital switchover in Wales in 2009.

Preparations for and coverage Later that same month, on the eve of of the in . of the National Assembly elections ’s departure from Downing Launched in early October it is on 3 May 2007 were highly Street, BBC Cymru Wales provided S4C presented by Vaughan Roderick and successful with Pawb a’i Farn with a Pawb a’i Farn special looking Bethan Rhys Roberts and broadcast hosting three hustings programmes. back at his legacy and the future of live from the Oriel of the Senedd The debate and questioning from the Labour Westminster government building in a late evening slot on the audience during the second under Gordon Brown’s leadership. Wednesdays during the Assembly term. programme, broadcast from On the panel were the former Colwyn Bay, was particularly lively. Labour MP Denzil Davies, who has The Current Affairs strand O Flaen Coverage of the National Assembly extensive experience of Westminster, Dy Lygaid also managed several Elections by BBC Cymru Wales Dylan Iorwerth the Managing Editor firsts. It was the first full series for S4C, was highly praised, both of Golwg cyf, publishers of Golwg produced by BBC Cymru Wales to editorially and operationally. Full magazine, and Dyfrig Jones, Editor be available ‘’ via the coverage of events began at 22:30, of current affairs magazine Barn. S4C website with on screen four hours before the first results English also available on were confirmed.The eight hour In July, the political magazine the web streams. Polish subtitles long live programme finally went programme Maniffesto was broadcast were offered to viewers of ‘off-air’ at 06:30 the following for the final time on S4C. television screenings of the fourth morning with the audience after lunchtime was a challenging slot in programme in the series, Polska midnight higher than at the time terms of audiences and following Cymru, and were also offered on of the previous National Assembly discussions with S4C as part of the S4C’s Broadband service. An elections in 2003.The Royal Strategic Partnership, the series was O Flaen Dy Lygaid special I Wlad yr Opening of the National Assembly replaced by a new look political Addewid told the intriguing story on 5t June was also covered discussion programme. CF99, which of three young Welsh speakers during a live broadcast. takes its name from the postal code from Cardiff – Joshua Liss, who has

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joined the Israeli Defence Force, The National Eisteddfod coverage documentary programme produced and his sisters Malka and Sarah provided over 140 hours of as a tribute to him by BBC Cymru who have joined him in taking programming and 56 hours Wales for S4C. Audiences for the Israeli citizenship. on S4C Analogue and S4C Digidol, programme were akin to those for over 47 hours of programming on the live rugby coverage of which Other factual programmes produced S4C Digital only, and an additional Grav himself was in the past such by BBC Cymru Wales and broadcast 7 hours offered via the Red Button an integral part, emphasising the on S4C under the O Flaen Dy Lygaid as part of the BBC’s Digital coverage great affection in which he was held. brand included Gadael Gofal, which which was also accessible on S4C2. gained unique access to the lives of Red Button coverage of proceedings Sport continued to be a key part three teenagers as they prepared from the Pabell Lên (Literary Pavilion) of BBC Cymru Wales’ provision to leave the care system and live Monday to Friday, was enhanced by for S4C with Y ’s independently for the first time. the addition of studio presentation audiences being close to 150,000 The experiences of young Muslims and discussion between the on occasions. Live coverage was in Wales were explored in Byw Mewn cheduled events. also provided of the 2008 Six Ffydd, while Dwi Eisiau Bod yn Gymro Nations Rugby Tournament when took a sideways look at Welsh New investment led to the Wales won the Grand Slam. identity through the eyes of American development of Mosgito, a vibrant blogger Chris Cope. Chwaer Fach new magazine programme aimed at Pobol y Cwm ended 2007 strongly i Sasi followed the journey of a the early teens and broadcast live with much higher than average Welsh couple to adopt a second twice a week on S4C.The target audience figures over the Christmas child from Thailand, and Yr Hosbis audience is a challenging one but period and these have been told the moving stories of patients from the start they have been sustained well into 2008.The new and their carers at St Kentigern's attracted by the programme’s strong series producer has overseen the Hospice in St Asaph. on-line and interactive elements. development of new storylines, a complete revamp of the website In May, for the first time, a BBC A two-part documentary series and new titles. A one-off special Network Disasters Emergency Teledu’r Cymry marked the 25th programme – Y Deri Arms – was Committee (DEC) appeal was anniversary of the establishment broadcast in March, providing viewers reversioned by the BBC Nations. of S4C and traced the development with a chance to re-live highlights in S4C carried a Welsh language of Welsh language television the history of the most famous pub DEC appeal and the English and Welsh broadcasting from early BBC in Wales in the company of some of language reversions produced by BBC programmes through to the digital era. its former landlords and customers. Cymru Wales resulted in a 30% The programme from BBC Cymru increase in contributions from Wales Great commendation was given to Wales coincided with the demise - a cash increase of approximately the sensitive coverage of the funeral of the Deri Arms pub, Pobol y Cwm’s £100,000 according to the DEC. of Ray Gravell and to Grav the special watering hole for over 30 years.

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Radio Cymru

This past year was a striking one for Radio Cymru. by Radio1; the provision of video material of live performances by bands It continued to be the most popular radio station for the first time on C2’s web-site; and sponsored drama and comedy writing amongst Welsh speakers in Wales, particularly so courses at the TyˆNewydd centre in Llanystumdwy.There were promotional in the 25-44 age group, with the audience profile campaigns for the station in the press, and onTV and a new look was created slightly younger than in previous years. for the Radio Cymru web-site.

This was important as the station and several new series being introduced The biggest blow of the year was celebrated its 30th birthday during including the Blas programme dealing unquestionably the loss of the giant the year.Amongst the celebrations with food, the arts series Stiwdio, from Mynydd y Garreg, Ray Gravell – were a lively discussion on the future the satirical news-related quiz Bwletîn not just for everyone at Radio Cymru of radio broadcasting chaired by and the nature series Byd Iolo.A and the rest of BBC Cymru Wales, but at the Hay Literary Saturday morning edition of Post Cyntaf also to listeners and viewers in all parts Festival and a week of special began in September at the start of of Wales. At the Urdd Eisteddfod the programmes to mark fifty years the Rugby World Cup tournament audience rose as one in the pavilion as since the publication of Islwyn Ffowc and in the new year Dewi Llwyd Ray took to the stage to present Radio Ellis’ novel Wythnos yng Nghymru became a feature of Sunday mornings. Cymru’s talent trophy following his Fydd.The celebrations reached their surgery, and there was a special climax as Radio Cymru adopted During the year a number of other broadcast from Stradey Park to the Faenol Festival’s Tân y Ddraig well-known voices also presented celebrate his return home from hospital. concert to mark the station’s programmes or series on Radio birthday – apparently the most Cymru – including , Elin By September, he was back and in his successful Welsh language event Manahan Thomas, Dewi Pws, Geraint element, presenting his morning show ever in the festival’s history – and Jarman, , Rhys Mwyn, to the listeners in west Wales on Radio the celebrations came to a close Owen Powell and Bryn Terfel. Cymru.A special series of interviews at the end of the year, with John between Ray and some of rugby’s past Ogwen reading an adaptation of Amongst the other developments seen stars Siorts Grav was also broadcast Caradog Pritchard’s novel, Un Nos during the year was an increase in the at the time of the Rugby World Cup. Ola Leuad between Christmas and number of weekly podcasts from one the new year in the Clasuron series. to five; a change in the pattern of the Then, following his death at the end of C2 and Post Cyntaf presenting teams October,the special service to celebrate Radio Cymru also witnessed several with a strengthening in the number of his life at Stradey Park was broadcast as a changes during the year – with Rebecca presenters from Bangor; contributions special tribute programme to Ray,compiled Jones taking on the early morning slot to the “BBC Introducing” scheme led by some of his Radio Cymru colleagues.

40 1 Ray Gravell 2 Sian Phillips, reading one 3 of the stories in Radio Cymru’s Clasuron series 3 Radio Wales, Jamie Owen and 4 4 Richard Evans

Radio Wales

Radio Wales introduced a new daytime schedule in The show’s podcast has trebled its audience since launch and by the end the year was the autumn with the popular presenter downloaded by 3,000 people every week. moving to the afternoon and the launch of a new New comedy and drama were also introduced to the schedule including two three-hour magazine programme presented by new projects with comedian Chris Corcoran, Nice Club, No Trouble and a Jamie Owen and Louise Elliott. sit-com based in a school, ThoseThat Can't. Dramas made by BBC Cymru Wales and Owen Money retained his weekend Radio Wales was also a key destination first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 were shows while Alan Thompson took over for the reaction of fans during the Six re-broadcast on Radio Wales as part of a the Evening Show. Mal Pope now presents Nations tournament.The footballing Sunday drama season.The radio drama the early morning weekend shows as successes of Swansea and Cardiff and the spin off to Belonging was recommissioned well as his regular Friday night programme. end of an era atWrexham were also and the station also featured a short story covered. Several special programmes season narrated by Eve Myles, There have been some other changes were produced about Joe Calzaghe and and Richard Harrington. to the schedule in the evening with the his family - including I'll ShowYou Mine with end of some of the weekly specialist Enzo Calzaghe and Frank Hennessy and Three new podcasts were added to the music programmes. However there an hour long documentary at Christmas, station’s portfolio during the year,including have also been some additions to the Undisputed - the Joe Calzaghe Story. Scrum V, Rhod Gilbert and a local presenting line up on Radio Wales this podcast for . All Things year with special programmes presented Other programme highlights included Considered remained one of the most by and Eve Myles.There What Sports Stars Do Next presented popular downloads in the podcast portfolio was comprehensive and extensive by Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Wales of the BBC Nations and Regions of the UK. coverage of the Welsh Assembly Observed, featuring the diaries of a mass Elections on Radio Wales with the observation project inWales in 1937; Tower Radio Wales broadcast from all the key Richard Evans lunchtime programme -The Story of Coal and A Doctor's Dilemma - national events such as the National providing a platform for audiences to a moving account of the issues surrounding Eisteddfod, Proms in the Park, BBC Cardiff debate issues and question politicians. euthanasia - which was nominated for a Singer of the World 2007, Hay on Celtic Media Festival Award. Wye Literary Festival,The Royal Welsh Radio Wales was the focus of BBC Cymru Show, Llangollen,Y Faenol and other Wales' coverage of the Rugby World The comedian Rhod Gilbert, his Saturday major concerts such as Katherine Cup with excellent commentary and morning show also nominated for a Celtic Jenkins from Margam Park. Many of build-up to all Wales' matches in the Media Festival Award this year, broadcast Radio Wales' daytime programmes were tournament, followed by a Scrum V from all parts of the globe including also broadcast from all parts the country phone-in with the reaction from fans. , and South Africa. as part of the Here ForYou Campaign.

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New Media

The long term development of the on-line audience podcasts covering topics as diverse as sport, politics, nature, music, continued, with audiences to BBC Cymru Wales websites learning Welsh, comedy and religion. growing by 18% to 1.1 million weekly unique users. Overall audience approval rates exceeded the BBC Nations & Regions average and were level with those of the UK bbc.co.uk website. News sites scored particularly highly.

New homepages were launched aimed at providing an inside 2 for both the Welsh and English track on the political process in language online services at advance of the National Assembly BBC Cymru Wales websites were bbc.co.uk/cymru and bbc.co.uk/wales. Elections in May 2007, but proved recognised by the industry with the so successful that they continued award for Best Interactive site for the as an ongoing service. Coal House website at the Celtic Media Festival.The My Major multiplatform productions Life website was selected as an were delivered for the Coal House Official Honouree at the International website at bbc.co.uk/coalhouse the Webby Awards in NewYork and new Wales Nature site the Doctor Who website received bbc.co.uk/walesnature and the nominations for an International Rugby World Cup bbc.co.uk/scrumv Emmy and a UK BAFTA. 1 In Welsh, integrated multiplatform The BBC iPlayer was also launched, productions were delivered for the with a wide selection of teens’ programme Mosgito programmes from BBC Cymru bbc.co.uk/mosgito; the National Wales being made available to view Eisteddfod bbc.co.uk/eisteddfod; C2 online as streams or downloads. bbc.co.uk/c2; and Pobol y Cwm Another key innovation was the bbc.co.uk/pobolycwm. launch of politics blogs from Welsh Affairs Editor Vaughan Roderick in Online services for Radio Wales Welsh and Political Editor Betsan and Radio Cymru continued to Powys in English.These blogs were develop with the launch of new 3

42 Education and Learning

2007 was a year of new ventures and new audiences through their passion for sport. Led by Colin Jackson the project was for BBC Cymru Wales Education and Learning as it supported by top sports men and women across the world, Raise your changed focus from an education-only department Game used video on the website to motivate young people to develop new and embraced the challenges of developing new strategies, such as those used in sport, to raise their own game in life.A Radio projects for children and young people whilst Wales series extended the service beyond the web. Support from the continuing to offer some services for learners. National Assembly for Wales and the Sports Council of Wales enabled the Mosgito, a brand new multiplatform their quest to learn Welsh and face BBC to enhance the quality of this magazine programme for 12 -15 year challenges set for them.They teamed service, making it relevant to the lives olds on S4C was launched at the up with five fluent Welsh celebrities. and learning of young people. end of October 2007. The aim of the series was to entertain and stimulate people to learn Welsh Coal Stories, a series for primary school Eighty-eight TV programmes a and the website took learning Welsh pupils, formed part of the Coal House year were broadcast live twice a to a new dimension offering interactive project and focused on the influence of week on S4C. Its website offered video as the main tool kit for learners. the coal industry on the life of people masterclasses on a variety of subjects The services featured on every and the landscape in different parts of including producing content for the platform offered by BBC Cymru Wales Wales. It made a valuable contribution programme and gave opportunities with aspects of the series promoted to children’s understanding for material produced by viewers at and featured on Radio Wales and of the industrial heritage of Wales. home to feature in the programme, Radio Cymru programming. During involving the target audience both in the year eight Big Welsh Challenge The sixth and final series of the Bobinogs forming the brand and marketing and learners’ days were held with about was produced and broadcast in 2007/08. as contributors and presenters in the a hundred people attending each This was an excellent series for the programmes. A strategic partnership and during two of the BBC Here foundation educational phase in Wales with Digilabs across Wales helped for You roadshows, ‘drop-in’ learning helping children to develop social skills, provide the necessary skills for young sessions were arranged with support learning outside the classroom in the people to produce films and content from the local language learning natural world and to develop basic for Mosgito. centres in each location. numeracy and literacy skills.

The second series of The Big Welsh Raise Your Game was a unique online A new programme is in development Challenge was produced in 2007-08. service designed to engage with that will involve children in its creation It once again followed five celebrities in disaffected young people in learning and production.

43 BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

Seventy concerts were given by the BBC National The BBC National Orchestra of Wales continued to make commercial CD Orchestra of Wales during the year, fifty-seven of which recordings with four made in the last year, three involving the were in Wales with seven projects (concerts or recordings) BBC National Chorus of Wales. also involving the BBC National Chorus of Wales. The Orchestra maintained its link with Doctor Who, and recorded The Orchestra continued to explore Puw’s new piece ‘…onyt agoraf y the incidental music for this iconic a very wide repertoire, balancing the drws…’, which was premiered at television series.The Orchestra core classics with new or seldom the Proms, won also added soundtracks for TV performed works.This past year has the Radio 3 Audience Prize for programmes Terracotta Army seen Mayuzumi’s Bugaku, Holliger’s the Best NewWork at . and Torchwood to its portfolio. Tonscherben, Honegger’s Cantata de The Orchestra also played Welsh Noël and Gorecki’s Symphony No.3, music by Huw Watkins,William The Orchestra continued its as well as more familiar territory Mathias, Gareth Glyn and Karl innovative, Wales-wide portfolio such as Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Jenkins during the year. of education and outreach events

Bach’s Magnificat, Tchaikovsky’s including family concerts - Music and Pathétique, Mahlerˆ Symphony No.4 Principal conductor,Thierry Fischer, Pictures and Halloween Spooktacular - and the Janácek Sinfonietta. led the Orchestra on a very mentoring projects, instrumental and successful three-concert tour choral master classes, Composers’ In partnership with the Music of the Czech Republic with two days - where young composers Department of , concerts at the prestigious at Wales’ higher-education music the Orchestra also mounted a Autumn Festival. institutions are given a chance to three-day celebration of the French hear their work performed by the nonagenarian composer Henri Building work continued apace on the Orchestra - school projects and the Dutilleux, Discovering Dutilleux, Orchestra’s new home at the Wales Orchestra’s annual collaborations which featured concerts conducted Millennium Centre, BBC Hoddinott with the National Youth Orchestra both by Principal Conductor, Hall.The new building consists of a of Wales. During the year the Thierry Fischer and Principal custom-built broadcast, recording and orchestra’s work with Wales’ national Guest Conductor, Jac van Steen. Six performance centre together with a youth music organisations extended new works were performed, three second space for education and to include the National Youth of them by Welsh composers outreach work, practice rooms, of Wales – they appeared alongside (Guto Puw,Alun Hoddinott and administration offices, a music library, the National Chorus for Thierry Grace Williams – the backstage facilities and storage.The Fischer’s performance of Fauré’s reconstruction of her Symphony building will open with a special Requiem at the 2007 Henry Wood No.1). Resident Composer Guto festival of six concerts in January 2009. Proms in the Royal Albert Hall.

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45 46 Sport

It was a big year forWelsh sport on BBC Cymru Wales. Sport Wales, a multi-item programme presented by , launched in the autumn aiming to reflect the rich variety of Welsh sporting ambition and achievement.

It proved to be a popular addition and Radio Cymru kept the nation reaching the final of the FA Cup to the sports coverage. Launched up into the early hours of the for the first time in eighty-one just before the Rugby World Cup morning as they broadcast live years. Swansea dominated it featured rugby and football but coverage of both Joe Calzaghe's League Division One for most also shone a on other world title fights against Mikkel of the season and were deservedly sports too. , mountain Kessler and . crowned champions but biking, swimming, athletics, lost their league status and were cycling, netball, motor sport, The roller-coaster year of the relegated.The journey of all three darts, snooker, ice hockey and Welsh national rugby team was clubs was reflected throughout paralympic sports, to name just captured on radio, television BBC Cymru Wales’ output. some, received attention with and online.There was the early a real accent on young people exit from the Rugby World Cup The untimely death of Ray Gravell and women. followed by the next day sacking understandably cast a huge shadow of coach , the over the Department. Coverage BBC Cymru Wales’ sports team appointment of new coach of his funeral and a special tribute tracked the twists and turns of Warren Gatland and then the programme won two BAFTA the Welsh Rugby team’s journey glorious Grand Slam triumph Cymru awards. from the World Cup to winning in the Six Nations. It certainly the Six Nations Grand Slam wasn't dull and it attracted huge through a new chat-show audiences and interest to all format scheduled for an hour BBC Cymru Wales’ services. on the Sunday nights after the international games.The Scrum V In football, ’s national Specials proved very popular with side’s fortunes have been the audience and had very high followed by BBC Cymru Wales’ levels of audience appreciation. radio stations as commentary was provided of every international The BBC Cymru Wales Sports played during the year. On the Personality of the Year trophy domestic front the year had its was again won by Joe Calzaghe ups and downs. Cardiff City to huge acclaim and Radio Wales climaxed a fairy-tale season by

47 BBC Cymru Wales

BBC Cymru Wales continued to build on past successes during the last year, producing output for the BBC’s Networks across a wide range of genres for radio, television and on-line.

Doctor Who:Voyage of the Damned achieved an audience of 13.3 million Drama and a 52% share of the audience. Doctor Who,Torchwood and Kylie Minogue guest starred alongside The Sarah Jane Adventures all in the feature length made a major impact on the seventy minute special broadcast on BBC’s Network schedules this Christmas Day. Voyage of the Damned year. Doctor Who: Series 3 launched the BBC iPlayer service and introduced Martha Jones, played the Doctor Who website led the way by as companion as the first programme site to embed to David Tennant's Doctor. the screening option within its pages - Doctor Who was the No.1 stream The production team created during the iPlayer’s first month. the Elizabethan era for and 1930s The Sarah Jane Adventures starring New for in Manhattan, , was the highlight with locations across south of the autumn season on CBBC Wales including the Senedd, One and the week's most popular being used.The duration of children's programme for seven out Doctor Who Confidential,which of its ten episodes. BBC Cymru Wales is made inWales by a team from also produced an innovative website BBC Entertainment, was extended including fictional video diaries from half an hour to forty-five featuring the child characters from minutes and was BBC THREE's the series.A further series is in highest rated factual series - with production for broadcast later in 2008. the series finale, which included an interview with as Torchwood: Series 2 transferred to The Master, gaining an audience BBC Two (after last year's transmission of over a million viewers. on BBCTHREE) and achieved its

48 49 50 highest ratings to date, opening rated strongly and was Lizzie Lewis and a ten-part reading with 4.2 million viewers.Viewers recommissioned in 2008. of Richard Yates’ Pulitzer Prize- had several choices as to when winning novel Revolutionary Road, and how to watch the series Mistresses followed the illicit read byTrevor White for Book including a specially edited pre- and complex relationships of four at Bedtime. watershed version for a 7pm slot thirty-something girlfriends. on BBCTwo.The series, starring A second series is due to shoot An anthology of short stories and Eve Myles, in the autumn. Stuart:A Life by Welsh writers aired in the attracted guest stars of UK and Backwards told the story of a life out Afternoon Readings slot. Owen international calibre including James of control, based on Alexander Sheers adapted If I Should Go Marsters,Alan Dale and Ruth Jones. Masters’ acclaimed biography of Away, based on the letters and The website team invited would-be Stuart Shorter.The television film poetry of Alun Lewis. Gwyneth Torchwood members to embark on starred (nominated for Lewis’ play Stardust - A Love Story a mission via a unique interactive the BAFTA award for best actor) about particle physics had the game. Behind-the-scenes series and won best Single Drama at the biggest positive reaction from Torchwood Declassified, which had Awards. the audience of all the year’s originally been commissioned output. Gwyneth’s previous piece, primarily for online, also moved Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk Sunbathing in the Rain, won a from BBC THREE to BBC Two. to was produced for Mental Health in the Media Award BBCTwo and BBC FOUR and in October 2007. was broadcast in June 2008. There were several star-studded A number of individual dramas were productions including the Wooden produced for BBC THREE, including Overcoat, adapted by West 10 LDN, written by Noel and starring David Tennant and Clarke, Mrs Inbetweeny and Being . Solo Behind the Iron Human which told the story of an Curtain was inspired by Robert unusual flatshare between a vampire, Vaughan’s adventures in Prague in a werewolf and a ghost.The latter 1968 and his participation proved was commissioned as a series. of great interest to the press.

A wide range of drama was Other highlights included Pavement The team behind last year's, produced for Radio 4's flagship Stars by Gillian Clarke and Catrin BAFTA nominated Life on Mars slots including No Name by Wilkie Clarke which starred Richard moved on a decade to the 1980s Collins for the Classic Serial, an Harrington, and How I Live Now, with Ashes To Ashes, starring Philip Afternoon Play about Jane Austen's a five-part adaptation of Meg Glenister as Gene Hunt.The series love life called Jane and Tom by Rosoff's book for Woman's Hour.

51 across the world.The BBC Cymru Factual Wales New Media team is now Several successful series of Factual producing , the website programmes were delivered to the which launched Parry’s next project BBC Network. Following the success for BBC Two, also made by BBC of the BBC Two series The Museum Cymru Wales. (profiling the British Museum), the BBC Cymru Wales Factual team made a major one hour documentary for BBC Two about China’s Terracotta Music Army, presented by . The BBC Cardiff Singer of the World The team also contributed two 2007 Competition was one of programmes to the third series of the obvious musical highlights of Coast for BBC Two, and make regular the past year with the BBC Cymru films for the BBC One strand Wales Music team producing daily . programmes for BBC FOUR and BBC Radio 3 from the competition, The third series of Tribe, presented by and the final being transmitted , transmitted in autumn by BBC Two. 2007, gained very high audiences, great critical acclaim and was BBC Cymru Wales Music also nominated for numerous awards. The managed the music documentary Tribe website, also produced by BBC strand Legends for BBC Two Cymru Wales, gave users a chance and BBC FOUR (with some to get much closer to Parry and his programmes being sourced from encounters with remote peoples sector).The year’s programmes included profiles of Ella Fitzgerald and Jacques Brel. The Music Department also produced a wide range of output for Radios 1,2,3 and 4, including Composer of the Week, The Choir and Radio 3 Requests (presented by Chi Chi Nwanoku) for Radio 3, Radio 1’s Session in Wales, and features about Glenn Gould and Bing Crosby for Radio 4.

52 Education was filmed and placed on line, ensuring open access. A booklet & Learning of her tips and a specially written story was distributed Education and Learning is a to libraries across Wales.The UK- multiplatform production department wide children’s story competition which inspires, informs and educates also included a category for learners of all ages in Wales and stories written in Welsh. beyond. BBC Cymru Wales was commissioned by CBeebies to produce a second series of Take – was launched six months in a Bow comprising twenty-five short advance of the broadcast at programmes.The series was filmed New bbc.co.uk/amazon, where the online throughout the UK to celebrate audience could follow the drama children's performing talents. Media of the production as it happened Over three hundred children had 2007-08 was a record-breaking as Bruce and his team travelled the opportunity to star and 'Take year for online and interactive the length of the world’s longest a Bow' in this well received series. Network productions from river. The BBCYoung Musician of BBC Cymru Wales.The Doctor the Year website was launched to As the BBC’s Literacy campaign, Who website proved to be one support the ever-popular competition RaW, moved into looking at of the BBC’s most popular with at bbc.co.uk/youngmusician. storytelling and story writing skills over half a million users per amongst its target audience of week during the broadcast period On Christmas Day 2007, the twelve million adults with limited at bbc.co.uk/doctorwho. revolutionary iPlayer was launched reading and writing skills, BBC following the Doctor Who Christmas Cymru Wales was commissioned The Torchwood website broke Special - Voyage of the Damned. to target Welsh speakers. Daily new ground for the BBC with The iPlayer allows audiences to master classes were held at the online interactive games at watch their favourite programmes National Eisteddfod in Mold in bbc.co.uk/torchwood. Interactivity when they want to for up to early August, led by award for The Sarah Jane Adventures seven days after broadcast so winning author Caryl Lewis, and included a new website at that they are not confined to the workshops were rolled out across bbc.co.uk/sja and an interactive restraints of traditional scheduling. Wales from the autumn onwards, TV game on the red button.The In the first three months since including one held with Welsh- success of Tribe on BBCTwo was launching the service, twelve of speaking fathers at Altcourse extended online at bbc.co.uk/tribe the top twenty most popular Prison just before Christmas. A and a highly innovative website for programmes on iPlayer were master class of Caryl’s top tips Bruce Parry’s next series – Amazon produced by BBC Cymru Wales.

53 Communities & Campaignss

During 2007-2008 BBC Cymru Wales’ face-to-face Here for You team visited Colwyn Bay, Newtown, Maesteg and , bringing the grand total of residencies to twelve across Wales over the past three years.

In Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 2200 scriptwriter Gareth Roberts attending programmes.These new voices were people visited the Roadshow, which for a question and answer session. heard at least twice weekly and some included the revealing of the inside also wrote contributions on the local of the DoctorWhoTARDIS for The BBC Blast truck visited two BBC websites for their areas the first time.The town was of the Here for You locations represented with its community during the year, in a collaboration In Dolgellau Ysgol y Gader school stall, including BBC archive material with Coleg Llandrillo in Colwyn benefited from several BBC Cymru of the area.Weekly story clinics Bay, and Maesteg, giving young Wales related activities. Projects were held in collaboration with people between the ages of thirteen included a visit by the team the County Times newspaper in and nineteen an opportunity to take from News who worked with Newtown, where local people took part in a range of workshops and pupils to create items looking at advantage of BBC Cymru Wales’ media related activities such as various aspects of the environment presence to discuss issues that animation, editing and design. of the area, journalism workshops mattered to them at a local level. in the school led by BBC Cymru A Weather & Water concert by the The BBC Cymru Wales Bus took Wales’ Education correspondent BBC National Orchestra of Wales part in the Bank Holiday Promenade Colette Hume, Llyˆr Edwards from held at Theatr Hafren – presented Day, the highlight of Colwyn Bay’s the Bangor news team, and Jess by and Jamie events calendar. Around 60,000 Swinburn from X Ray, as part of Owen – was well attended. enjoyed the day and Radio Wales’ the School Report initiative and a Early Birds show and Roy Noble, and workshop in the school by the Digital Premieres of Network shows were Hywel Gwynfryn for Radio Cymru, Storytelling team to create short shown as part of the Here for You broadcast live from there. films using mobile phones. The project giving local young people a stories were made available on the taste of glamour. A packed Theatr In order to deepen BBC Cymru bbc.co.uk/cipolwgargymru website, and Colwyn saw a premier of an Wales’ relationship with audiences in the BBC Cymru Wales Bus team unshown episode of Doctor Who Wales the face-to-face team worked held a radio workshop in the school. during the BBC’s time there, and with Radio Wales Community Maesteg Town Hall was the venue Reporters.Thirty volunteers from Swansea City Council, local wildlife for a screening of The Sarah Jane across Wales were trained by the groups, and BBC Cymru Wales Adventures with the star of the show, team to record items about their co-hosted the ground breaking actress Elisabeth Sladen and locality and make live contributions to Festival in June 2007.

54 This took place in the grounds of Over 350 local people packed out the National Waterfront Museum. the venue at an evening where People were invited to take part series highlights were screened, in nature activities, and to see how coupled with comments from local they could help the environment people showing how popular the as part of the Breathing Places series was in the town.The event initiative. Swansea was one of only also included a question and four major Breathing Cities across answer session, chaired by Radio the UK. Wales presenter Louise Elliott, where members of the audience could put their questions to all of the families.

Events On March 1st 2008, the 25th The Roland Mathias prize anniversary of the opening of ceremony for English language St David’s Hall, Cardiff was writers was held in in marked with an event hosted April 2007.Won by Dannie Abse, jointly by BBC Cymru Wales it was an excellent opportunity and Cardiff City Council for BBC Cymru Wales to gather which included a concert given views from opinion formers in by the BBC National Orchestra the mid Wales area. of Wales. In the same month BBC Cymru Wales provided A set replicating the interior of the a big screen in the centre of TARDIS was used at public events Cardiff for members of the over the Summer of 2007 and public to watch the culmination proved extremely popular, with of Wales’ Grand Slam Six over a thousand visitors per day Nations’Tournament campaign coming to visit it at the Urdd and although the weather was Eisteddfod in alone. poor many families appreciated Radio Cymru’s 30th birthday was the opportunity to savour the celebrated during the Faenol fantastic atmosphere in the Festival in August with guests being without taking children invited to join in the celebrations. into pubs and clubs.A large In November an event was held to screen was also provided to mark the end of the first Coal provide coverage of Cardiff City’s House series in Blaenavon. appearance in the FA Cup Final.

55 Diversity, Partnerships, BBC

Diversity and Partnerships Charities

The Cardiff MELA Festival was featured for the first During 2007-2008 BBC Cymru Wales broadcast twelve time in a half hourTV documentary on BBC 2W as charity features on radio, in Welsh on BBC Radio Cymru well as given coverage across our online and radio and in English on BBC Radio Wales and broadcast four TV services. In BBC Cymru Wales’ Network output, charity features in English on BBC One Wales. Five online Torchwood and Doctor Who continued to deliver features were produced for BBC Cymru Wales’ websites tremendous depth and range of diversity. Take a Bow in Welsh and English. Additional information continues to for CBeebies, celebrated the performing talents and be available on . Detailed information about the achievements of children from across the UK and was BBC’s charity broadcast policy appears on the BBC deliberately designed to reflect the music and dance website (bbc.co.uk/walescharities and bbc.co.uk/elusennau). of all the cultures of the UK. The Wales Charities Advisory Forum of the BBC Mosgito, a new multiplatform interactive service for continued to flourish as an independent committee a Welsh speaking youth audience broadcasts twice contributing advice to the BBC on its engagement with a week on S4C and features a wide cross-section charities. During the year a seminar was provided for of young people from across Wales. Current Affairs WCAF members on the theme of editorial policy and the strands, Week in Week Out and O Flaen Dy Lygaid impact for charities.Two new members were appointed to continue to cover challenging and sometimes WCAF, to replace two who were retiring.They officially controversial subjects and Wales Today’s Your Stories took up their appointments January the first 2008. proved to be a particularly effective discussion forum for disability issues. BBC Children in Need

A Faith and Broadcasting Conference was held this Following the huge success of the 2006 BBC Children in year in which Faith Communities from across Wales Need Appeal, the charity was able to distribute over were invited to contribute to the debate around how £2.5 million to a wide variety of projects the length we portray issues of faith and religion on our services. and breadth of Wales in 2007, and it was pleasing to see an increase in the number of grant applications - BBC Cymru Wales continued to attend a range of slightly bucking the UK trend.As always, the effects of recruitment events across Wales and work with a domestic abuse on children featured strongly in the number of partners to provide traineeships and bursaries charity’s work. Recognising the trauma felt by children to assist individuals from groups under-represented in the in such circumstances led to the needs of this group BBC workforce to develop skills and talents which being prioritised and over the years, specialist child increase life and work opportunities.A DVD for use in workers and other activities in approximately half of schools and further education establishments which aims the Women’s Aid refuges in Wales have been funded. to portray BBC Cymru Wales as an inclusive workplace Discussions with the Welsh Assembly Government have has also been produced. begun regarding the need to recognise such provision in

56 the core funding of refuges in the future in order to Welsh Language Scheme place this essential provision on a firmer footing. The BBC is committed to treating the English and Welsh Example: BAWSO is a specialist agency working with languages on a basis of equality in conducting its public mothers and children from black and minority ethnic business in Wales.The BBC's revised Welsh Language communities who are escaping domestic violence and abuse. Scheme was adopted in November 2006. The provision is able to pay particular regard to cultural sensitivities in this situation.The grant of £109,314 over BBC Cymru Wales' Board of Management is responsible three years will enable the provision of specialist child for implementing and monitoring the scheme in Wales. support. However, it is not only traumatic situations that This work is led by BBC Cymru Wales’ Head of Marketing, are dealt with.The best work is often about offering children Communications and Audiences, with the support of a and young people new opportunities and . monitoring group drawn from across BBC Cymru Wales.

Example: £16,000 was awarded to Bocswn in Holyhead. The BBC's General Counsel is responsible for ensuring Music is a medium that appeals to all and for many the corporation complies with the scheme outside Wales. children this project is the first chance they have of The next assessment of the BBC’s compliance with playing an instrument and taking the first towards the scheme is being undertaken in Summer 2008. developing a musical talent. Many have gone on to take music lessons, and form bands/groups. One participant BBC Wales and the environment started his own record label, and one group who started out with Bocswn has just signed to another label.There In 2007-2008 BBC Cymru Wales continued to improve was an improvement in the participating children's social on environmental performance including the successful and language skills and their confidence and self-esteem. extension of ISO:14001 registration from Cardiff to The project was the turning point for many of the include the BBC’s site in Bangor. children who had participated. Over the past two years this commitment to A further 123 organisations in Wales benefited from environmental management has enabled us to: grants ranging from £1,444 to £108,000.

• reduce our CO2 emissions (from gas and electricity In November 2007 the year culminated in yet another consumption) by 2% record breaking appeal resulting in a grant fund for Wales • reduce our water consumption by 12% during 2008 of an unprecedented £2.8 million.The • reduce our waste sent to landfill by 15% generosity of the Welsh public continues to be astonishing. • increase our recycling from 16% to 29% The charity was deeply grateful to colleagues in the broadcast production teams, on TV, radio and on-line, whose Over the next four years BBC Cymru Wales intends to creativity generated such an animated appeal that informed, improve these figures even further in support of the moved and engaged the public in such a tangible way. commitments made by the BBC.

57 Awards 2007-2008

BAFTA Cymru Scrum 4 The Chatterley Affair BBC Cymru Wales O.B.Team, Best Light Entertainment Best Drama/Drama Serial for TV The Royal Opening of the Senedd April 2007 April 2007 Best Live Coverage/O.B.Team April 2007 Mark Hutchings, Doctor Who Campyfan Best Lighting Director - Not Camera Best Children's Programme: Coast April 2007 April 2007 Best Factual Programme April 2007 Mark Waters,Torchwood Sheelagh Wells, Neill Gorton Best Director of Photography Doctor Who Tribe Interactive Drama Best Make-Up Best New Media TV or Film Related April 2007 April 2007 April 2007

Lynfa Jenkin, Iolo's Welsh Safari Louise Page, Doctor Who Eclips Best Camera: Not Drama Best Costume Best New Media Not Film April 2007 April 2007 or TV Related April 2007 Crispin Green, Doctor Who Torchwood Best Editor Best Drama Series , Doctor Who April 2007 April 2007 Best Screenwriter April 2007 Dylan Griffith/Aled Phillips/Bait, , Iolo's Welsh Safari Paparazzi Best On-Screen Presenter , Doctor Who Best Graphics/Titles: April 2007 Best Director: Drama April 2007 April 2007 Taro Naw Murray , Doctor Who Best Current Affairs James Smith, Tribe Best Original Music Soundtrack April 2007 Best Director April 2007 April 2007 Tribe Edward Thomas, Torchwood Best Documentary/ Eve Myles, Torchwood Best Design Drama Documentary Best Actress April 2007 April 2007 April 2007

58 David Tennant, Doctor Who , Best Actor Sunbathing in the Rain April 2007 For Radio 4, Radio Drama Award October 2007 WEBBY Awards My Science Fiction Life National Television Awards Official Honouree Doctor Who April 2007 Most Popular Drama October 2007 BAFTA Awards Life on Mars David Tennant, Doctor Who Pioneer Audience Award Most Popular Actor April 2007 October 2007

TV Quick &TV Choice Awards Doctor Who Best Loved Drama September 2007

Torchwood Best New Drama September 2007

David Tennant, Doctor Who Best Actor September 2007

Mental Health Media Awards Chris Duggan, for his contribution to BBC Radio Wales’s Eye onWales: Combat Stress programme Speaking Out Award October 2007

59 Facts and Figures

Expenditure Allocation and Output by Service Radio Wales 2007/08 2006/07 Hours BBC Wales 2007/08 2006/07 Originations 7213 6918 Hours Repeats 294 472 Originations 766 814 Repeats 306 291 Total 7507 7390 Total 1072 1105 £M 10.5 10.5 Cost per hour £K* 1.5 1.5 £M 24.4 24.6 Cost per hour £K* 32 30 Radio Cymru 2007/08 2006/07 S4C Hours Hours Originations 7767 7764 Originations 566 506 Repeats 334 392 Repeats 36 18 Total 8101 8156 Total 602 524 £M 9.9 9.6 £M 22.5 20.6 Cost per hour £K* 1.3 1.2 Cost per hour £K* 40 41 BBC Radio Wales 2007/08 2006/07 Analysis of Output (Hours) Originations News & Current Affairs 1660 1538 BBC Wales (incl. BBC 2W) 2007/08 2006/07 General 5553 5380 Originations 7213 6918 Drama, Comedy, Music & Arts 32 43 Repeats 294 472 Daily,Weekly News & Current Affairs 455 475 7507 7390 Sport & Leisure 203 201 Education, Factual & Religion 76 94 BBC Radio Cymru 2007/08 2006/07 Children’s 00Originations 766 814 News & Current Affairs 1057 1033 Repeats 306 291 General 6710 6731 1072 1105 7767 7764 Repeats 334 392 BBC Cymru on S4C 8101 8156 Drama, Comedy, Music & Arts 173 160 Daily,Weekly News & Current Affairs 273 260 BBC Radio 1-5 2007/08 2006/07 Sport & Leisure 95 70 (excluding Orchestral output) Education, Factual & Religion 4 16 Hours of originations 524 477 Children’s 21 0 £M 1.9 2.4 566 506 Cost per hour £K* 3.6 4.9 Repeats 36 18 602 524 S4C2 (National Assembly & Eisteddfod Digidol)* 505 655 BBC Radio 3 Orchestral Output Hours of originations 86 84 £M 1.3 1.3 BBC Cymru Wales output for BBC Networks Cost per hour £K* 15.1 15.4 (delivered)# BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBeebies 2007/08 2006/07 Hours of originations 117 140 # Includes all content delivered and executive produced by BBC Wales. In its £M 43 49 Annual Report and Accounts 2007/08 the BBC reports Nation’s Network Cost per hour £K* 368 350 television spend on the basis of broadcast programmes meeting the definition of Nation’s production. Using this definition the television content from Wales transmitted on the BBC networks is as follows: Staff Numbers (Effective Full Time) 2007/08 2006/07 2007/08 2006/07 Hours of originations 107 109 Effective full time equivalent 1175 1169 £M 29 34 (including Orchestral Players) Cost per hour £K* 271 312

* Excludes Repeats

60 Audience Figures for 2007-

Approval of the BBC in Wales (mean score out of 10) Website Weekly Unique Users General impression of the BBC BBC Cymru Wales English language sites 6.75 1,250,000 6.78 960,000

Value for money of the licence fee BBC Cymru’r Byd 4.76 39,000 4.87 37,000

BBC is an important part of Welsh culture Source: BBC 6.03 KEY: Audience Figures 6.10 2007/08 Source: PBTS/TNS 2006/07

Weekly Reach (Adults) Weekly Reach (Adults)

Radio Wales Radio Cymru 440,000 152,000 461,000 160,000 Source: Rajar / Ipsos MORI Source: Rajar/Ipsos MORI

BBC Wales Television (2007-2008) BBC Cymru on S4C (2007-2008) TopTenProgrammes/AverageSeries Audience (Thousands) TopTenProgrammes/AverageSeries Audience (Thousands)

Coal House 371 Grav (Tue/Sat) 140

Coal House at Christmas 288 Y Clwb Rygbi 73

Max Boyce’s World Cup Journey 257 Pobol y Cwm (Fri/Sun) 72

Wales Today at 6.30pm 255 Pobol y Cwm (Wed/Sun) 72

Wales Today at 10.26pm 215 Pobol y Cwm (Thu/Sun) 72

Grand Slam Uncovered 213 Gala Operatig Gwˆyl y Faenol(Sun/Sat) 72

Coming Home: Olivia Newton-John 200 Pobol y Cwm (Mon/Sun) 71

Katherine Jenkins Live at Margam 194 Pobol y Cwm (Tue/Sun) 71

Ray Gravell: A Wonderful Life 186 Y Deri Arms (Fri/Sat) 70

Donny Comes Home – Concert 179 Cymanfa Ganu Eisteddfod 65 Sir Fflint a’r Cyffiniau Source: BARB Source: BARB

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