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Hush Hush Hall Wood Norton in WW2 Page 8 The newspaper for BBC pensioners – with highlights from Ariel online Hush Hush Hall Wood Norton in WW2 Page 8 June 2015 • Issue 3 BBC Pensions customer Lime Grove Location survey Dubbing Theatre filming Page 2 Page 6 Page 7 NEWS • MEMORIES • CLASSIFIEDS • YOUR LETTERS • OBITUARIES • CROSPERO 02 BACK AT THE BBC BBC Films: making a scene for 25 years As BBC Films turns 25, commissioning exec Joe Oppenheimer – who has been with the department for 17 years – reels in memories of weeping buckets, singing about serial killing and favourite scenes. On a favourite scene... We have a film out in May called Man Up – a romantic comedy, directed by The The new Inbetweeners’ Ben Palmer, that is genuinely funny, genuinely romantic and rather wonderful. There’s one scene that I’ve watched BBC Alumni endless times and it makes me laugh every single time. It is filthy, hilarious, beautifully staged and beautifully acted by Lake Bell, scheme who is unknown to most audiences here, playing against Simon Pegg. I just love it. The BBC Alumni is a free, online community for Joe Oppenheimer, on the set of Broken, says BBC former staff. Films makes movies that otherwise wouldn’t be made. BBC Pensioners’ Launched in November 2014, Association AGM we are a rapidly expanding group of ex- On taking risks… On getting the colleagues from all walks of the BBC. You You have to second-guess so many things A very full house greeted speakers at may have left the BBC but you are certainly – and you’re doing it with a concept lines right… this year’s lively BBC Pensioners’ not forgotten and the Alumni scheme lets rather than a finished film. You’re always With development at the heart of what we Association AGM. you and your old colleagues reconnect with anticipating whether cinema audiences do, being asked to name our finest script is Former Chairman Martin Cox gave both the BBC and one another. will want to go and see it, which means like being made to pick your favourite child. a warm tribute to retiring Membership As a member, you would have the anticipating whether cinema chains will We think they are all wonderful and work Secretary Nick Whines, who had served opportunity to enter ballots for tickets to want to show it, which means anticipating very hard on them with the writers. the Association tirelessly for over live events and recordings as well as our whether distribution companies will be able Having said that, I do think Nick Hornby’s 10 years. own exclusive events – including, more to sell it to the cinema chains. adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn, After the formal business, Natasha recently, preview screenings of episodes And we’re in this business to make those which has just screened to great acclaim at Maclean from the BBC explained the from the BBC Two drama Wolf Hall and films that couldn’t be made otherwise. So Sundance, has to be one of the best I’ve read. BBC Alumni project, a welcome recent BBC comedy W1A. We also organise tours there are always risks, but there are times It’s an exquisite script that underpins the film initiative to keep ex-staff in touch of BBC buildings and the BBC’s consumer when those risks are more extreme, which and I’m sure it’s going to be a big hit. and which nicely complements the technology media lab, the Blue Room. can be quite fun. Association’s Memories project. And should you wish tell us about your We have a film coming out in June called Colin Browne of the Voice of the Listener time at the BBC, we would very much London Road. It’s crazy – someone [director On the first film & Viewer Association clearly articulated welcome your contribution to our blog page and LinkedIn discussion board. As Rufus Norris] comes to you and says I want We consider our first film to be Truly, Madly, the challenges facing public service the Alumni community grows, we hope to make a film about a street coping with Deeply. It was the first time the BBC Films broadcasting in a changing political and to expand our offering and appreciate the murder of prostitutes; it will have a credit appeared on British cinema screens – media world. suggestions about what you’d like to see. massive cast of actors, most of whom will be 25 years ago. Sir John Tusa, former head of the If you would like to stay in touch with completely unknown to the audience and, by I remember weeping buckets as I watched World Service, was this year’s the BBC and win tickets to our special the way, they will all be singing. It’s not an it at the Phoenix Cinema in Oxford. I didn’t keynote speaker. obvious call. think twice about who had made it, just that events, please send an email entitled ‘BBC A passionate advocate of Reithian Alumni Prospero’ to: [email protected] It’s a feature film version of a wonderful it was Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman principles, he spoke about his frustrated play put on by the National about the in this wonderful piece of writing that had with your name, BBC staff or National attempts to get answers to awkward Insurance number, last BBC office building Ipswich community that suffered the murder been rendered into this gorgeous film. questions put to the BBC Trust and of five women in 2006 and the arrest and That film has always stayed with me. It and the first half of your home postcode. government especially about the We very much hope to hear from you. subsequent conviction of Steve Wright. encapsulates a lot of what we would like to funding of the World Service. It’s unlike any film you’ve ever seen – think BBC Films is about – great writing, Visit us at: www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/ Full audio recordings from the insidethebbc/whoweare/alumni remarkable and moving, stirring and striking wonderful performances, real people, real AGM are available on the open part and fresh. Who knows how it will play in emotions, a great role for a woman at its Or of the BBCPA website: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/ the cinemas? There’s nothing to compare it centre and undeniably British. BBC Films www.bbcpa.org.uk. to. It’s been a risky business but I think it’s stands for all of those things. BBC-Alumni-669837/about paid off. Please send your editorial contributions, or comments/ feedback, to: Prospero, BBC Pension and Benefits Centre, Prospero is provided free of charge to retired BBC Broadcasting House, Cardiff CF5 2YQ. employees, or to their spouses and dependants. Prospero Email: [email protected] provides a source of news on former colleagues, Please make sure that any digital pictures you send are developments at the BBC and pension issues, plus classified scanned at 300 dpi. adverts. It is available online at www.bbc.co.uk/mypension To advertise in Prospero, please see page 12. The next issue of Prospero will appear in August 2015. To view Ariel online, please visit www.bbc.co.uk/ariel. The copy deadline is Friday, 3 July 2015. PROSPERO JUNE 2015 03 BBC Pensions customer survey BBC Music BBC Three From time to time we ask for feedback The survey will remain open until 30 June Library Exhibition move ‘delayed to help us monitor the satisfaction of and we will publish the results of the survey members in respect of the Scheme-related in the October edition of Prospero. this summer until 2016’ services provided. The BBC Music Library is proud to present We would be grateful if you could take a free exhibition celebrating over 90 years Plans to move time to complete this survey. The responses supporting the BBC’s musical output on you give are confidential and all questions TV, radio and at the Proms. BBC Three online have are optional. To complete the survey, please The exhibition will take place this visit www.bbc.co.uk/mypension. summer at the Barbican Library between been delayed as the Alternatively you can request a paper 7 July and 28 August and will chart the Corporation waits for copy from the pension service line on: history of the library through the years 029 2032 2811. with many musical examples and artefacts. the BBC Trust to If you have any questions about this It will include many rare and unseen survey or your pension, please contact the treasures from the depths of the approve its proposals. pension service line on: 029 2032 2811 BBC Archive. or email: [email protected]. For further information, please The channel was originally supposed to email the music library manager: become an online-only brand in autumn [email protected] 2015, but its boss said the shift would not now occur until ‘after Christmas’. ‘We won’t be rushed. We will do what’s right for our fans, not to satisfy deadlines,’ said Damian Kavanagh. BBC unveils plans for heritage trail The Trust is expected to deliver a decision on the move around September. It is currently running a public value The BBC will mark its ‘We want to celebrate its reopening with commemorate buildings with historical test, after which it will publish provisional everyone, so we’re launching a brand new significance. conclusions and seek comment from broadcasting history with a historical plaque trail, starting here and While they have been commissioned the public. working its way across the capital.’ by the BBC, English Heritage has approved ‘Once we have the Trust’s final decision, series of plaques placed on The blue plaques are similar in design the design.
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