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Intelligent, thought-pro- Sally Hillier 02-26877 In a lively session at the Voice of the Listen- voking television addressing a young audience A 98-year-old great grandmother Planning manager er and Viewer Spring Conference in London, he who are increasingly hard to reach, is becom- from Harrogate has won a Clare Bolt 02-24622 said it was ‘right’ to propose closing 6 Music, ing a hallmark of its output.’ competition to pen the lyrics of a Broadcast Journalists The Asian Network, BBC Blast and BBC Switch, Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts, for example, had tak- new anthem for Yorkshire. Doreen and described the licence en a group of British teen- Brigham’s entry was judged the best Claire Barrett 02-27368 fee as ‘a primitive but agers to India to see the out of 150 submitted for a Symphony Adam Bambury 02-27410 glorious’ funding meth- conditions under which for Yorkshire, to be premiered on Lisette Johnston 02-27630 od; replacing it with sub- the clothes they buy were Look North and BBC local radio Rumeana Jahangir 01 -43756 scription would ‘destroy made. stations on Yorkshire Day, August 1. AV Manager the BBC’, he believed. ‘The series attracted Peter Roach 02-24622 Asked about expens- record numbers of young- BBC Worldwide has completed Digital Design Executives es, he admitted that sen- er viewers and demon- co-production deals with Nine David Murray 02-27380 ior executives were now strated that they too want Network Australia and Discovery Gary Lonergan 02-84229 ‘thinking harder’ about something in their lives US for Great Barrier Reef. The Natural Team assistant their claims, knowing alongside The X Factor.’ History Unit is currently on location Graeme Allister 02-84228 they would be made pub- Yentob also pointed for the three-part series about the lic, but said sometimes it to a recent documenta- world’s largest single structure was necessary to take ex- ry in which a young Lon- made by living organisms. Guest contributors this week pensive flights in the in- doner originally from Af- terests of jobs that were ghanistan had returned ’s Connect and Create Robert seatter, head of History, ‘very demanding’. to her native country to team has been renamed BBC North asks what objects you’d like to keep Pointing to a trip to learn about the lives of its Developing Talent. This distinguishes to tell the BBC story Page 6 New York, where he had started work on land- female population. Women, Weddings, War and it from the staff development project ing then immediately started work again on Me had scored an AI – appreciation index – of also called Connect and Create marek prusewicz, World TV his return to London, he asked: ‘Do you think 95, the highest ever for any factual programme and reflects the fact that, as well editor, gets the picture during an I should have travelled economy? I wouldn’t on any channel. as working with fresh faces, the attachment to Bush House Page 14 have been capable of doing the job.’ The network run by Danny Cohen was doing team now puts more emphasis on As for hospitality expenses: ‘Newspapers of- ‘an important job addressing a generation who developing the skills of those with ten report that Alan Yentob spent £1,500 on could well be in danger of missing out on pub- whom it has already had contact. lunch. They don’t mention that there were 30 lic service broadcasting’, Yentob noted. Ariel mail people at the lunch.’ ‘This channel is emphatically not a casu- Radio Orkney, one of the BBC’s Candida. [email protected] Then he added: ‘Listen, I can’t complain. I alty of the Strategic Review nor is the BBC’s smallest stations, has recorded a Ariel online explore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel am not an unemployed mother who has to pay ardent wooing of this audience a trivial pur- huge increase in hits on its Facebook BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 the licence fee.’ suit. We are determined to raise the bar to page as a result of its efforts to chart Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 He did though use his keynote speech to ensure that there is an audience for the BBC in the disruption caused to Orcadians BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 the VLV to complain about ‘so-called critical years to come and not a gaping hole.’ by the volcanic eruption in Iceland. Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS In one week page views jumped 400 percent, and the site now has more Advertise in Ariel than 2000 fans, equal to 10 percent Ten Alps Media 020 7878 2313 Manager leaves Adil Ray seeks of the island’s total population. www.bbcarielads.com Printing A service of celebration for the life Garnett Dickinson Group after leak report new challenges of Norman Painting, who played Rotherham 01709 768000 in , will be A senior manager left the BBC last week fol- u breakfast presenter Adil held on May 27 at St Martin-in-the- Subscribe to Ariel Asian Network lowing an investigation into the leaking of the Ray (pictured) will present his last show on Fields, Trafalgar Square. Admission Six months: £26, £36, £40 Strategy Review. June 4 after nine years at the station. is by ticket only. Apply to Dinah Twelve months: £50, £60, £68 Neither the person concerned, nor their area He is leaving to pursue other radio and tv Garrett, PO Box 31497, London W4 (prices for UK, Europe, rest of world of work, has been revealed by the corporation. projects including comedy, acting and writing. 3QF or email ddinahg@supanet. respectively) ‘We can confirm than an investigation has ‘I feel now the time is right to take on these com stating postal address, the Cheques to: Garnett Dickinson Print, been satisfactorily concluded and that an indi- challenges and hope to be working across a number of tickets required and the Brookfields Way, Manvers, vidual has now left the BBC,’ it stated, simply. number of BBC platforms and beyond,’ he ex- names of those wishing to attend. Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 5DL The internal investigation was ordered by plains. Tel 01709 768199 Mark Thompson after a draft version of the The Asian Network faces an uncertain fu- Improved SAP training is now Strategy Review document was leaked to The ture, as, along with 6 Music, it has been ear- INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY available for all staff, following a re- Times earlier this year. marked for closure as part of the Strategy Re- build of the Mybusiness/SAP train- Telephone 0800 0688 159 The newspaper carried full details of the view proposals. ing system. To book, search for SAP Page 159www.bbc.co.uk/159 review, which mapped out the future direction Ray’s replacement will be Tommy Sandhu, on learn.gateway or go to http:// Ariel is produced by Internal of the corporation, including details of the pro- who moves from the Drivetime slot. His place learn.gateway.bbc.co.uk/Courses/ Communications for people at the BBC posed axing of digital stations 6 Music and the there will be taken by the current weekend ItandBusinessSystems/Default. 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CRAIG OLIVER, editor of the gener- al election results programme, is to be controller of English within Glo- bal News – one of three new appoint- ments to its new streamlined board. Liliane Landor is appointed con- troller of languages, while James Montgomery will be controller of dig- ital and technology. Oliver, who was appointed depu- ty head of the multimedia newsroom just a year ago, will now be responsi- ble for multiplatform commissioning of all Global News output, working with News, Sport, Audio and Music and independent companies. Landor, who will commission language out- put for World Service and translated products for World News, will contin- ue to head the Middle East region. Montgomery will take the lead on the division’s strategy for web and mobile services. He is currently direc- tor of digital content for the World At home and across the globe, wildlife teams innovate for extra impact News English news channel. 8.1m watch ’s NHU scales new heights final debate by Cathy Loughran previously unseen territory from the air, use 700-day time lapses, join vul- on the BBC The BBC Natural History Unit is to serve tures soaring over equatorial glaciers Rally to the call of the wild up a wild night of fund raising and an and follow camels to an oasis hidden An average 8.1 m viewers watched epic and intimate new take on Africa. in an extinct volcano. by Rumeana Jahangir draising packs include a guide to the third and final Prime Ministeri- Next month’s Wild Night In – the n The sixth live Springwatch (from sponsorship and other money-spin- al debate on BBC One, HD and the grand finale of BBC Two’sSpringwatch May 31, BBC Two) will be the first shot In a nation of animal lovers, it’s ning ideas. News Channel – slightly down on Wild season – will be a two-hour ex- in HD. Three Springwatch specials, in- probably surprising that there has The Springwatch team of Chris the audience for the first debate travaganza, hosted by fledgling con- cluding one with Chris Packham on never been a tv fundraising season Packham, Kate Humble, and Mar- on ITV1 (9.4m). But 36 percent of servation charity, the BBC Wildlife climate, will run between May 17-19. for endangered species. That will be tin Hughes-Games (pictured) will Thursday’s audience had not seen Fund. Just in production, BBC One’s n An NHU crew were embedded for a history when the BBC Wildlife Fund’s present Wild Night In with contribu- the previous two debates and the Africa series, for 2012, will use latest year with some of the world’s rarest Wild campaign launches next week tors David Attenborough, wildlife BBC programme, with David Dim- filming technology to capture undis- animals for BBC Two’s three part se- and culminates in BBC Two’s two- presenter Mark Cawardine, Graham bleby, convincingly topped the crit- covered landscapes and their native ries Mountain Gorilla (Tx July). ‘They’ve hour special Wild Night In on June 20. Norton, and Radio 1’s Edith Bowman. ics’ polls. animals, possibly for the last time. captured drama, jeopardy, politics The economy-dominated de- In between, the NHU will deliver and infidelity’ says exec producer bate, which also went out on Ra- major landmark series like Human Sara Ford. Patrick Stewart narrates. dio 4 and online, had an average Planet and Frozen Planet, as well as n Natural World returns to BBC Two in of 7.5m viewers on BBC One and some startling new storytelling and August with cameramen kitted out in a 28.7 percent share. BBC Online’s insights in BBC Two’s Mountain Goril- riot gear to film vicious harpy eagles live video stream of the event at- las and Miracle Babies on BBC One. and an ‘obituary’ tribute to Echo, the tracted 350,000 plays, and the Live It’s a ‘world class’ slate that makes most famous of African elephants. Campaign Coverage page on the Andrew Jackson’s job ‘the best in the n Miracle Babies (January 2011) tells BBC News website got 850,000 UK world’, the new head of the NHU told emotional stories of the lengths peo- page views. journalists at last week’s London ple are going to to preserve threat- screening of upcoming highlights. ened species, including using human Less than six months since he re- IVF treatments on pandas. Douglas joined the BBC, after a gap of 18 n Human Planet (BBC One, Septem- years, he said the move had been a ber) – a collaboration between the huge professional shift: ‘In the com- NHU, Bristol features and BBC Wales The Natural History Unit’s 2007 The Wild campaign will feature in call halted mercial sector you chase profits, at – is ‘the first landmark series to cel- series Saving Planet Earth was the The One Show, nations and region the BBC you chase creativity.’ ebrate man, the most adaptable and springboard for the BBC’s newest and BBC magazines. Coyte hopes Peppa Pig Mike Gunton is exec producer for successful species on the planet’, says charity and even though it had no BBC staff will get involved with fund- Jay Hunt’s Africa commission, an- NHU exec producer Brian Lee. fundraising packs, the Wildlife Fund raising and the UK-wide Springwatch BBC correspondent Torin Doug- nounced last week: ‘If you’re a nat- Its cast of characters includes a father raised almost £2m on its first appeal Wild Days Out in May and June, and las admitted that he was the man be- ural history filmmaker, Africa is still (pictured) who scales a giant tree in night. even get close to bats, owls, newts hind the most unlikely election story, the ultimate wilderness,’ he says. the Congo jungle, risking terrifying ‘This time we are really entering and butterflies at internal launch after Peppa Pig pulled out of a Labour ‘And this is a great time to capture swarms of bees to collect a honey- into the field of live broadcast ap- events in White City (May 10), Pacific party event. the continent amid great change, comb for a family treat. peals using all the creativity of the Quay (May 13), Manchester (May 14). The BBC’s media expert inad- and as countries like Libya, Mozam- n Frozen Planet (BBC One, Autumn, BBC,’ says Amy Coyte, the fund’s All donations will go to UK chari- vertently set the ball rolling by call- bique and Angola are opening up for 2011) takes 83 year old David Attten- director. ties and 80 percent will be spent on ing Five to confirm that their car- the first time. borough from the North to the South The fundraising campaign will overseas projects. It is hoped the toon superstar was appearing at The six-part series would marry Poles, as crews in helicopters film be similar to Children in Need and Wildlife Fund campaign will be an Labour’s manifesto for families epic landscapes with intimate and the biggest hunting pack of wolves Comic Relief. ‘It’s a clear call to ac- annual event. To volunteer, email launch. Five knew nothing about it but emotional moments in the lives of on the planet, baby polar bears’ first- tion, to widen audience engagement Jules Agate. Visit bbc.co.uk/wild for E1 Entertainment, the show’s distribu- individual creatures, he promised: steps, king penguins riding wild surf and raise funds to save threatened more details and to get fundraising tor, revealed that Peppa Pig had been in- ‘It will be very beautiful and very sur- and the complex battle for survival wildlife and places.’ Special fun- packs. vited. To avoid ‘controversy’ it was then prising.’ The filmmakers will shoot on the ice floe. agreed she should not attend.

4 News: Election coverage a 04·05·10 It’s like speeded-up chess We must be ready For Newsgathering’s election ly twists and turns on the campaign planner Anna Eastment the cam- trail. It is a huge operation which paign means long days of incessant has called on the expertise of a wide phone calls, trying to keep on top of range of technicians and journal- last minute changes to the political ists, and she has been planning for it for every eventuality parties’ plans. since last summer. Eastment leads a small team co- Working from mid-day to ‘about

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D late changes; events we would have O for the election team N spent days planning and sent three cameras to we are now doing at the last minute. It’s like a big game of speeded up chess, moving people On the brink of history and resources all over the country at short notice.’ Diana Martin has been working on the BBC’s election And as last Wednesday’s debacle graphics since last summer, when the production team in Rochdale illustrated, events can sat down and tried to predict what would be needed to derail the best laid plans, with Gor- cover all eventualities. don Brown’s schedule hastily re-ar- Martin, one of the deputy editors of BBC One’s election ranged to facilitate an apologetic vis- night and day two programme, says graphics have been it to Gillian Duffy’s home. ‘fine tuned’ in the last month, as the election campaign Eastment pays tribute to the col- sprang its surprises, not least the rise of the LibDems. laboration right across the BBC that ‘Since the campaign began the graphics designers and is helping a difficult task: ‘We are producers and software programmers have been working getting lots of help from colleagues flat out to develop, improve and change things, to tell the in the nations and regions, and of story we’ve got to tell, and to make sure we’re covered for course Millbank, and we are working every possible result and scenario,’ she says. closely with output all the time.’ Martin will be in the studio from 21.55 on May 6 The Newsgathering planning team through to 1800 the following day, along with everyone will be in place until at least May 10 – else working on the big programme. Most will get only a and if the election outcome is uncer- few hours’ break during the 20 hour shift. tain, the lights will be burning not ‘There has been lots of weekend working, late nights just in Downing Street but on the and early starts,’ she says. ‘We have a really committed All in the planning: Anna Eastment planning desk until the very end. team determined to make this the best election we have ever done.’ She herself has worked on every election campaign in the UK – local, national, general, devolved – since 2001, I could be here on my birthday and thinks this is the most thrilling: ‘Nothing comes close [in terms of] the unknowability of the result. What- Cameraman and editor [shoot-ed- Lammiman hopes the natural life Graphic illustration: Diana Martin ever it is it’s going to make history.’ it] Steve Lammiman has spent the of the target team will end on May 7, last month on the road in Newsgath- not least because it is his birthday next ering’s ‘target team’ chasing Liber- Sunday, but he knows the weekend al Democrat leader Nick Clegg the could be a time of political deal mak- The bus now leaving...is going across the UK length and breadth of Britain. There ing and more work following Clegg: ‘I are also teams following Gordon might spend my birthday on the last Brown and David Cameron, and their day of the campaign trail, but I’d like job is to report on the respective lead- to see that as the finish…I’m ex- ers’ every move. pecting at least cake.’

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then the target team has hur- n y be tled up and down the country, nn leapfrogging the LibDem leader as he moves from Scotland to the West Country, to East Anglia and many points in between. They had Sat- urdays off – but worked right through last weekend as the campaign headed into its final days. On call: Claire Gibson Lammiman says: ‘This campaign changed after the first debate. The by Claire Gibson sonal briefings from Brown and senior ministers. LibDems have put on an extra bus My job is to make sure that the team gets to the right because the swell of media has gone During the campaign, my day starts with a conference place in time to set up satellite trucks, radio cars and up tenfold. It has evolved and grown call with the TVC newsdesk at 7am and finishes after broadcast pools. We’ve done about 1000 miles each week and we’ve gone with it; we’ve been 11pm, usually in a hotel room somewhere. My job is to co- of the campaign and visited nearly every part of the UK. swept along…it has been great to be ordinate a ten-strong team following Gordon Brown on Most days we don’t know where we’ll be next day until late part of regardless of your politics.’ the election campaign. afternoon; which is followed by frantic planning as to who There’s a lot of pressure on the We have three seats on the ‘leader’s tour’ which means to move where and when so we are in place in time. shoot-edit. Part of the pool rota, we are transported from location to location as part of It’s a fascinating job – a mixture of monotony and he has to trade pictures with other the PM’s entourage. This sounds more glamorous than it adrenalin surges. We’ve visited countless factories, Sure broadcasters who might not be on is – often while he travels in a car with a high speed con- Start centres and staged garden parties. But there is the same format. He must try to film voy, we languish behind in a Labour battlebus. always the unexpected, like ‘Duffy-gate’ when Brown’s un- material other teams aren’t getting, On other occasions it’s quite fun – our own dedicated guarded on-mic comments meant scrambling people eve- and he also has to edit any tv pack- Road trip: Steve Lammiman carriage in a train, our own section on a plane, and per- rywhere to gather everything we could to feed all outlets. age required. a 04·05·10 Features 5

Adam Bambury reports on a reality show approach to Shakespeare, as students from different parts of join up for a play Shakespeare in the city nicksmithphotography.com

From cutting his plays into bite totally forgets his lines but nonethe- The stakes were made even higher size portions and distributing them via less manages to subsequently wow the by the strong community feel of the Twitter to running workshops on his panel with a freestyle rap about total- project, aided by a collaboration with links to hip-hop, many methods have ly forgetting his lines) through weeks Radio Coventry who covered the sto- been used to get kids into Shakespeare. of preparation to the nail-biting final ry over the summer and publicised Involving them in an eight week long performance. ‘I don’t think I have ever the big screen event. Did the kids do professional production over their been so nervous about anything I have their city proud? You’ll have to watch summer holidays may seem like over- done,’ admits series producer Lynn Bar- and see (it’s tx-ing this week on BBC kill, but as I sit in Coventry city cen- ber of the evening. ‘I was so nervous on Two). Suffice to say, their efforts made tre surrounded by unusually attentive their behalf, really. It was a short peri- spending 90 minutes sitting on the teenagers watching the result live on od of time to do such a sophisticat- pavement in Coventry city centre on a a BBC big screen, I realise the makers ed production – it had more than 20 grey September evening an unusually of When Romeo met Juliet may be on to scene changes.’ enjoyable experience. something. As well as being broadcast live to the city, the performance also forms the climax of a new three-part BBC Two documentary. In it, Paul Roseby, the artistic director of the National Youth Theatre, is charged with staging a professional production of Romeo and Juliet in Coventry’s Belgrade thea- tre using local kids for the cast. The ac- tors playing Romeo and his Montague clan are to be found at an urban com- prehensive, while Juliet and the Capu- lets must be sourced from a Catholic school in the city’s leafy suburbs. Saxby, more used to selecting from the cream of UK talent than lo- cal comps, is aided in his task by mar- ried couple Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti. They mentor the 13-17 year olds from their initial try-out au- Lolita Chakrabarti with some of the cast, outside the Belgrade Theatre ditions (complete with one chap who An attentive audience watches the bard on the big screen apprentices start work

by Cathy Loughran The successful appli- go to university, the first cants, from a field of near- London-based scheme has Day one at the BBC and ly 800, will get the chance attracted a former mar- already in the frame, the to be apprentice runners ket trader, an award-win- first London ‘apprentices’ or production manage- ning young entrepreneur, are filmed by BBC Acade- ment assistants, as well as students with and with- my production trainees come up with programme out media experience and at the start of their year ideas, for tv departments young people who have of training and work ex- in Sport, Factual, Enter- overcome challenging ob- perience. tainment, Drama and stacles, says Julie Dark of Ten paid placements in Children’s. the BBC Academy. BBC Vision have been tak- At the same time, they ‘One of the aims of the en up in the first year of will complete course scheme is to attract peo- the BBC 2012 London Ap- study modules at West- ple who wouldn’t neces- prenticeships scheme, of- minster Kingsway Col- sarily think the BBC was fered by the Academy in lege, leading to a digit- for them and I really feel partnership with West- al media apprenticeship we’ve managed to do that. minster Kingsway Col- level 3 (A level equiva- We have a diverse group lege. lent). The BBC will meet of people who will, I am the £9000 apprentice sure, add a huge amount All trainees together as the pay. of value to the BBC.’ apprentices become guinea Aimed at over 18s with Further placements pigs for a production media ambitions who will be offered in the trainee filming exercise don’t necessarily want to next two years.

6 Features a 04·05·10 cutting What do you want to keep edge to tell our BBC story? ZOE Head of History Robert Seatter wants KLEINMAN to know your choice of iconic moments, and picks one of his own Everyone talks From Upstairs Downstairs bilia in many of our own to Civilisation, we often draw on BBC buildings. the BBC’s vast programme ar- Now we’d like to about apps chive to tell the story of the cor- know what you’d poration. like to keep to I have at least three conversations a week However, a small BBC Histo- tell our story which begin, ‘Do you know much about apps? ry team is telling our story in over the last 12 Because I’ve had this great idea...’ other ways. By creating narra- months. Producers and presenters have quizzed tives around BBC anniversa- Is it Matt me about them just before going on air. Last ries like 40 years of colour or Smith’s audi- week, within two minutes of walking into a 50 years since the first female tion script for restaurant, my friend asked me about their newsreader appeared on BBC Doctor Who? Nes- potential as a marketing tool. She could at tv; through partnerships with sa’s idiosyncratic wed- least have ordered the wine first. national museums and galler- ding dress from Gavin & I am beginning to feel like a cashless ies; through wider media liter- Stacey – or one of those Dragon well and truly out of her Den. But apps acy and academic scholarship Cranford bonnets? The – those downloadable programmes that can and through an evolving collec- latest piece of technical gadg- turn a smartphone into anything from a so- tion of art and artefacts. etry which enabled the NHU cial network hub/games console to a calorie We also have the BBC Collec- to bring us nature in stunning calculator/stock market reporter – have cap- tion – a treasure trove of over close up for their Life series? tured everybody’s imagination. 3500 items, ranging across Or… Inevitably this has resulted in a bit of a technology, props, artwork and To get you thinking, here are gold rush – a company called AdMob has val- branding items. Much of it is a few objects, past and present, ued the fledgling app industry at £1.65bn a on display in the National Me- from our BBC Collection. Let us year, which is undeniably big business. dia Museum in Bradford and know what you’d like to see. It’s interesting that a lot of the focus is on the Science Museum in Lon- We’ll be coming back to you apps for the iPhone (and now iPad), despite don, but you can find Daleks with your Top 10 choices on research suggesting that this is a niche and other props and memora- July 1. market. ‘Apple says According to ana- Should Matt lyst figures for 2009 Smith’s Doctor it wants to the iPhone had just a Who audition 15 percent share of the script be in the maintain lucrative smartphone archive? market. The most quality – popular smartphone was Nokia, with a 39 is it going percent share – that’s 68m units sold around too far?’ the globe. However, with over 140,000 available apps, the iPhone is streets ahead of its rivals on that score – and Apple still approves each one individually. Now it’s getting even stricter about what passes muster. Apple ruffled developers’ feathers recently by stating that it would only accept apps built with three approved tools. Apple says it only wants to maintain quality, but is it going too far? Even before this latest development, it had alienated Joe Hewitt, an influential developer who built the Facebook iPhone app (100m of Facebook’s 400m users access the site via a mobile phone, the com- Memories are made of this... pany claims). Last November he announced he was aban- anniversaries come thick and in the woods around Harrison’s the next month and then every tionship with our ‘natural’ neigh- doning app development – and he blamed Ap- fast in the BBC calendar. This year home in Oxted. spring for the following 12 years. bours. As we read in last week’s ple. ‘My decision to stop iPhone development alone, we have 25 doof-doof years Harrison first became aware Harrison and the nightingales be- Ariel, even hardened Radio 1/1Xtra has had everything to do with Apple’s policies,’ of EastEnders, 60 years of sequinned of the birds one summer evening came internationally renowned djs can still be moved by holding a he told website TechCrunch. ‘I respect their Come Dancing. as she practised her cello in the and she received 50,000 fan let- new-born lamb. Nature touches us right to manage their platform however they One of my favourites crops up garden. As she played she heard ters. Writing in the , – and even more extraordinary, want, but I am philosophically opposed to the very soon. It’s the quirky and idi- a nightingale answer and then BBC managing director John Re- does not ignore us: a nightingale existence of their review process.’ osyncratic story of a nightingale echo the notes of the cello. When ith said the nightingale ‘has swept may answer a cello. In an era in which open source technology and a cello. Once upon a time...on this duet was repeated night after the country...with a wave of some- and data sharing are becoming mainstream, May 19, 1924, BBC radio listeners night Harrison persuaded the BBC thing closely akin to emotional- Apple may find itself swimming against a very heard for the first time an extraor- that it should be broadcast. After ism, a glamour of romance has strong tide with such strict product con- dinary duet LIVE from a Surrey gar- an engineering test the live broad- flashed across the prosaic round of trol. Perhaps this will ultimately prove to be den. The cellist was Beatrice Harri- cast took place. Harrison played many a life’. a chink in its armour rather than a defence son, who had recently performed and the nightingales, eventually, And why does the ‘glamour of mechanism. the British debut of Delius’s Cel- joined in. romance’ still touch me? It’s the Zoe Keinman is technology reporter, BBC News lo Concerto, which had been writ- The public reaction was such belief that, even in this post-indus- ten for her. The nightingales lived that the broadcast was repeated trial age, we still have some rela- a 04·05·10 week@work Features 7 changing places BBC IN ACTION Chris Leek, chairman of the famous society, accessible way’. visited White City to deliver the accolade Picture shows from left to right: We all like to think of ourselves as brainy, to the team. The original nomination was Ruth Alexander (reporter) but the people behind Radio 4’s More or put forward by a Mensa member who Oliver Hawkins (researcher) Less have won the first ever British Mensa believed the programme, which looks at Richard Knight (producer) Intelligence Award after their programme how statistics are presented in the news Chris Leek (chairman of Mensa) was considered to exhibit intelligent and tries to establish the truth behind Richard Vadon (editor) thinking. them, is delivered in a ‘very intelligent and Tim Harford (presenter)

u PHIL TROW (pictured) who worked at Ra- dio Lancashire, has become the new voice of the breakfast show on Radio , replacing SHANE O’CONNOR. Meanwhile, JILL McKEN- ZIE has moved to the Derby newsroom from Radio York. SHARON HANLEY has been appointed head of communications, Radio 2 and 6 Music. And across the water MICHAEL TUMELTY has been named as the new editor for Radio Foyle. He will have responsibility for shaping the development of Radio Foyle’s local services and its role as a production base for the wider BBC.

No, it’s not a pub, but Speak easy an extreme or unlikely The I.T. Crowd event which ‘shreds prior Learning Curve u Even if you don’t talk risk management strategies’, about it, you’re no doubt fa- according to the blogosphere. If you want to brush up on your new media miliar with the ‘elephant in the Thus a ‘black elephant’ is an skills or think about how to prepare for the room’ – it’s the giant object event which is extremely likely Olympics, then these BBC Academy events which everybody knows is and widely predicted by ex- coming up in London may interest you important but nobody perts, but which everyone will will talk about. But try to pass off as a black swan Making Future Media Work have you heard of when it finally happens. Graham Holliday, blogger and social the black swan? Thanks to software engineer media expert, tells us how people outside Tim Sweetman, who alerted us mainstream media are exploring new ways to the BE. of distributing content. Wednesday May 12, 1-2pm, Room 5, 6th Floor, Television Centre, W12

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World – telling the story of Armitage Jones, a boy So far around 140 people have signed up to SHAMELESS PLUG born in public toilets in a world without choco- the group and I’ve had some great reviews from late. I got a reply saying they received 300 man- the 9-12 age group which it’s aimed at. Lots of Mark Saxby, News and Sport Editor, uscripts a month and took on just two or three ‘big kids’ have enjoyed it too! Hopefully, so many Radio Derby authors a year – and I wasn’t one of them. It was people will sign up to the group and demand to u I always wanted to be an author but decided a dispiriting moment. read the rest of the book that agents and pub- at the age of 14 that wasn’t very realistic. So I I have decided to try a different technique lishers won’t be able to resist. So please show thought I’d become a journalist instead. It took before I send it to any more agents... using your support. You never know, in years to come me another 22 years to come up with an origi- people power. Rage Against the Machine got to you might be able to say, ‘I was there when it all nal idea for a novel. My last good idea was the number one at Christmas through people power, began...’ three-page long Mike’s Amazing Bike which I so why not? I’ve put the first seven chapters on wrote when I was eight. Now lost, it is a missing a facebook page named after the book and I’m http://www.youtube.com/ masterpiece…probably. using a promotional video on YouTube to try and watch?v=41V7cmNL92Y I sent an agent sample chapters of my chil- direct people to it. Just type Last Chocolate Bar http://www.facebook.com/#!/group. dren’s novel The Last Chocolate Bar in the into the search facility. php?gid=248204w034035&ref=ts 8 9 Turning back the years The 80s – all big hair and New Romantics? This month BBC Two has Nick Frost as John Self, a season looking at the decade which saw ‘Greed is Good’ become a the anti-hero of Money mantra. The channel has commissioned three dramas which capture We had some the changes society was going through 30 years ago, and Ariel readers have contributed their own memories of a very different time. Adam Bambury reports hairy moments

Money is one of the quintessential with her (it is her favourite book af- always going to present a challenge, 80s novels. Jammed full of thwart- ter all), the team worked out what but luckily they had a secret weapon ed ambition, sex and conspicuous was to be done. The result is split in Nick Frost. spending, it makes the perfect cen- into two one hour long sections and Evans says writers Tom Butter- tre-piece for BBC Two’s 80s season. has, says Evans, ‘a very classic rise worth and Chris Hurford had Frost There’s only one small problem: it’s and fall trajectory’. in mind when making the screen- unfilmable. play (‘apparently James Corden was Or, at least, it was. The book unavailable’, Frost quipped at a re- has been under option since even In some ways cent preview showing) and some- before it was published in 1984, but how his naive charm makes Self until now no film or television adap- extremely watchable. ‘It was very tation has ever made it to the screen. you’re killing difficult to find an actor who could It’s probably safe to say the main give you that nastiness, with an abil- reason for this was its writer, Mar- your babies ity to play the comedy,’ says Evans, tin Amis, who in writing Money cre- ‘and could make the audience sym- ated a dense, multi-level, post-mod- when you pathetic towards him as a character. ern work of literature that endures It’s impossible to see anyone else in to this day. A gleeful 80s bonk-buster the role.’ it is not. So, how to adapt the unad- adapt a book Even Amis has had a hand in the aptable? making of the film, casting his eye ‘The process of adaptation is you love over early drafts of the screenplay. editing, really. It’s trying to find a ‘There were things he was less keen way of rationalising the rich mate- Ben Evans on; there were things he was more Caroline Boots old gems such as Malcolm McLaren’s rial of the novel and translating it keen on,’ says Evans carefully. ‘One clear that our budget wasn’t going Head of communications Double Dutch, as well as finding some into a televisual screen play,’ asserts of the main points of discussion was to cover relocating to NY for the du- Mailbox new ones – I never knew Haysi Fantayzee producer Ben Evans. ‘In some ways The thriller element has been the nature of the novel’s voice and ration, so we had to be ingenious My best memory of the 80s was rubbing existed! you’re killing your babies when you brought to the fore, as has the come- how we would be realising that – a about how we did that,’ says Evans. A Boy in search of good karma shoulders (or was it shoulder pads) with I was only nine in 1983, but I do adapt a book you love. You’re inev- dy. Much of this amusement hinges combo of voiceover, dialogue, action Most filming occurred at Pinewood Duran Duran (pictured) at the Rum Runner remember the school discos. They were itably going to lose vast swathes of on the story’s central character, ad- and music; a totality approach.’ studios, which had a set that could A drama set in a small Welsh village feeling the ant New Romantic music subculture, writer Tony sured that for the team this period detail has had night club in Birmingham at the height of the social event of the year and they what you love about it.’ man turned movie-maker John Self. Music from the 80s, which direc- be transformed into the seedy un- negative effects of Thatcher’s free-market Basgallop’s script also finds time sensitively to its lows as well as its highs: ‘Make up has been an the New Romantic era when they were weren’t complete without Superman by A painful process perhaps, but in He is a drunken, arrogant, misogy- tor Jeremy Lovering says is ‘key to derbelly of early 80s New York. policies, and a Boy George biopic documenting explore a young gay man’s coming of age. extraordinary job in itself,’ laughs Richer. ‘They first starting out. The worst of the 80s Black Lace. I remember getting the mu- the lengthy three year development nistic slob with abandonment issues understanding the visuals’, is very To add extra authenticity, Lover- the singer’s coming of age in the decadent ‘Boy George was a specific part of a specific found it took a very long time to put on in the had to be my hair style – I looked so awful sic teacher to dance to Relax by Frankie process, during which project in- and an unfortunate habit of drink- much in evidence while Frost’s voi- ing was dispatched to New York with London music scene. On the surface, two very counter-cultural movement, but he was also morning.’ that I have destroyed all photographic Goes to Hollywood and all the girls dress- stigator Janice Hadlow moved from ing whiskey in his boxer shorts. Mak- ceover – Self narrates his life with a lightweight stills camera which different 90 minute films set in the 80s. But look a boy trying to find his way in life, looking for evidence of myself during that ing like Boy George. I also remember buy- controller of BBC Four to BBC Two ing him likeable enough for view- an acerbic vividness at odds with could also capture HD film. He ar- past all the hairspray and lipstick and you’ll find new freedoms, looking for new ways to express period! ing my first 7” single, Eurythmics’ Sweet and took the adaptation ers to continue watching was his blinkered incompetence in the rived home with a stack of images stories that still ring true today. himself,’ says Richer. ‘The film looks at the Dreams. It still sounds great today. real world – is used and general views which have been Tiger Aspect’s Royal Wedding is set against the way we live. It was a moment in time Ngunan Adamu sparingly. There cunningly stitched into the final edit backdrop of the 1981 Charles and Diana mar- where he suddenly comes to realise BBC News School Report Maria Felix Vas was even a plan for – a practice strikingly similar to that riage, an infectious bout of monarchism that – actually maybe anyone can get on co-ordinator, North of Producer /reporter, BBC Lancashire Amis to appear in used in much of 80s film-making. had people across the nation hanging out the tv. The beginning of modern fame, I England I was a kind of psychedelic goth in the the background of But while the film may be drip- bunting and making conversation with their suppose.’ I’m the younger end of 80s, and went from liking the band Japan one of the scenes, in ping with the decade’s image- neighbours at celebratory street parties. While But 80s’ aficionados shouldn’t the 80s, but I remember (and the gorgeous David Sylvian) to the a wry nod to the nov- ry, sound, and references, Evans is writer Abi Morgan’s script has made sure there’s panic, as there’s still plenty of the hi-top hairdo that all skinny leather trousers of Pete Murphy el’s then shock- quick to argue that it acts as more plenty of room for nostalgia and amusing period glitz and glamour to bask in while black men had, and Vanilla from Bauhaus. Dress wise I must have ing device of in- than a polemic against the kind of detail, she has also found room for a more seri- George finds his way from boy to Ice trying to style it. looked hysterical, as I had a Human troducing the unchecked avarice that so character- ous side to the start of the decade. Boy. ‘It’s absolutely gorgeous,’ League-style, long fringed bob, which author into his ised the 80s in popular conscious- ‘It was a moment in time where women were Richer enthuses. ‘It is just so Ed Cross I back-combed. I wore all black, with own narrative ness and is once again filling news- coming out of the 70s, faced with a lot of choic- much fun to watch – the cos- Interactive producer jumble sale-bought dressing gowns, and in the form of a paper front pages. es and asking questions about their marriages, tumes, the make-up and the At the moment it feels tons of black eyeliner and lipstick. God, character named ‘I don’t want the audience to relationships and working lives,’ says exec pro- music. That moment in time is like I am living in the 80s. how I thought I was cool. No, I am not Martin Amis, which come to this piece expecting a rath- ducer for the BBC Lucy Richer. ‘Something about all there in a blaze of glory.’ I’m working on the supplying a picture. he, perhaps sensibly, er grim, depressing story about cap- the collision of Diana, the princess, with Thatch- To complete the look, the interactive content turned down. italism and its many corrupting er, the face of the future, gave Morgan a way to cast were surprised by cos- for the last series of Michael Banbrook Jerry Hall plays ageing The novel’s key set- influences,’ he says. ‘It’s an enter- look at the lives of ordinary women against a tumes dug out from Culture Part of the Culture: Ashes to Ashes and am Music system administrator, Radio 2 soap star Caduta Massi tings in London and taining, human story which is top- bigger backdrop.’ Club drummer John Moss’s Roy Hay (Jonny Burt), producing compilation My defining memory is wasting huge New York of 1981 have ical but with a universality. When Similarly, while Red Production Company’s attic, some of which were Boy George (Douglas videos of Top of the amounts of time playing games such been fully realised, the haven’t humans been obsessed with Worried About the Boy could easily have gone for even stained by authentic Booth), Jon Moss Pops from 1983. I’ve as Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum latter in particular prov- getting on in the world and making typical 80s style over substance in its depic- 80s New Romantic lipstick. (Mathew Horne), Mikey rediscovered some computer. ing a challenge. ‘It was hay while the sun shines?’ tion of Boy George’s initiation into the flamboy- An exciting find, but be as- Craig (Dean Fagan)

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You’re a star letter High hopes? more than 1000 miles from Bratis- salary is so huge that their parents no I enjoyed reading in Ariel about the Getting delayed in America due to lava to the UK via Vienna, Frankfurt, longer see a need to leave them any ‘pet hates’ of BBC staff who are an- the ash cloud had one bonus – we Brussels, Bruge and then a ferry to money, the answer is not to keep the noyed by some of the language that got to see the first episode of the Hull … finally making it back to my figure secret, but to pay them less. ends up on air (April 20). What I find new series of Doctor Who, that had home town 46 and a half hours later. Andrew Craig just as irritating are the stock phras- been aired in the UK as we flew out. It was a tiring trip but I was happy World Service newsroom es used by staff in the office. Having adverts disrupt a show to contribute radio programmes dur- I can’t think of anywhere else you’re used to being advert free ing my travels. It was also expensive where I’ve been told to make sure is slightly annoying, but when all but, having taken out a comprehen- No idea what he means I’m ‘across it’ by ‘this arvo’ or ‘before the adverts are for the show you’re sive multi-trip policy through MyDeals It is reassuring to know that Vision’s the end of play’, but what really irri- One’s primetime programmes? watching, you do question what the on Gateway, I wasn’t too worried. chief creative officer can provide tates me is the reckless use of ‘that’d Paul Weaver point is. They had adverts for Doc- I’ve now been told, however, that such clarity of thought: ‘The way you be GREAT thanks’ which is so hack- systems development engineer, FM&T tor Who and Doctor Who Confidential I’m not covered for the current ‘vol- get to get big ideas is to have the off- neyed that it’s lost any of its intend- between the action of the main pro- canic ash’ scenario. Not because it’s the-wall ideas which can be beyond ed politeness. gramme. It makes the licence fee an ‘act of God’ but because the can- the pale, but as you dial back in from There’s also ‘thanks, you’re a Trailer trash? seem worthwhile just to keep the cellation was down to the Civil Avia- those, you can get to the big ideas star’ which, more often than not, Following the uproar over a Doctor action flowing. tion Authority, not the airline. which can be real game changers.’ is dropped into an email before I’ve Who ending being ruined by over- Comparatively, the Over the Rain- Can anybody offer any help in Enough said. even agreed to fulfil its request. zealous promotion, I’ve been won- bow DOG seen on the latest episode claiming back the costs I incurred? Nick Bagge If we could think of some new dering, given the BBC’s much touted (now we’re back in the UK) was not Liz Roberts ex-tv newsroom ways to patronise our colleagues be- passion for all things audience, has on the HD feed. Is this a ploy to get bj, Radio Shropshire fore the end of play, that’d be great. anyone in the organisation ever done people to switch their viewing habits? Chris Barker any research on whether our audi- Phil Haworth Scannell memories interactive ences actually like our trailers and broadcast engineer, TVC The will to cut pay I am working on the authorised biog- promotions and our policy of scatter- Pat Younge, the chief creative officer raphy of poet Vernon Scannell, who bombing the schedule with them? of BBC Vision, laments the effect on did a lot of broadcasting work for the Taking a pop I’d love to see the findings of any Cloud over journey individual BBC executives of the dis- BBC from the 1950s on. It wasn’t a ‘trail’ that ruined Doctor such research. Like many others, I decided to go closure of their pay and expenses, I would love to speak to any BBC Who, it was a popup advert, usually And if it does exist, I wonder why away during the Easter break and quoting the case of someone whose staff who worked with him. You can found on low-end websites, and the it isn’t being more widely and enthu- again, like others, I was forced to parents left them out of their will contact me at andrew@andrewtaylor. type that used to plague the internet siastically promoted? make alternative arrangements when they found out how much their uk.net or on 01628 826822. until a few years ago. Paul Richards home after the cancellation of my offspring earned (Ariel, April 27). Andrew Taylor Will this be the future of BBC development producer, FM&T flight. This involved a journey of Pat misses the point: if someone’s former BBC tv news FEELS GOOD TO PAY LESS FOR TRAVEL INSURANCE

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        Got any                           pictures?                   World TV editor Marek               Prusewicz has been to         Bush House, building                links for video news            I came to Bush House in September for a six     month attachment, after 11 unbroken years work-    ing on tv news at Television Centre.              It’s rather daunting walking down Kingsway to-      wards Bush House on your first day – an impressive          building you see almost the moment you turn out     of Holborn tube station. Add the reputation of the     World Service for the finest output and the history        behind the place (WS has been at Bush House for 70             years) and it’s easy to feel a little intimidated.    My brief was a wide one: find ways of bringing         people at Bush making and using video closer to    people at TVC doing the same thing.    Video at Bush? Yes, more and more of it. When I     arrived ten language services used video, mainly on            their websites; now it’s 15, and increasing.                      Users                 around             the globe                 like pretty              similar              things       But when I arrived, the most reliable way to send            out video to other parts of the BBC was to take it on    the Underground. Now it can be transferred simply       and directly into the Jupiter System at TVC, and a      dedicated video producer at Bush looks for the best     video from the language services and plays it out.         Apart from the technical challenges, you need to    convince people that something they’ve made for             their own service is of interest to others and not to   be bashful in offering it up. You’ve also got to alert       potential recipients that this is really good stuff        they’re going to want.     We’ve had some great examples. BBC Mundo      returned to Haiti weeks after the earthquake and          provided first person video accounts of life since      the quake, which was picked up by World News       America. We’ve just sent out a BBC Vietnamese         video about online gaming addiction in Vietnam –     I’ll be interested to see how that goes.       Online video users around the world like pretty        similar things – strong pictures, look at that! vid-         eo and big stories – like Haiti. They also like any-      thing quirky or about technology. A BBC Click re-   porter trying the world’s first ‘unbreakable’ phone      – and promptly breaking it – was a hit in several     languages.                 I’ve loved meeting the people at Bush. They are hugely skilled and knowledgeable. I’ll go back to Television Centre as their cheerleader, selling their      output to News, and alert for TVC material I now know might interest Brazilians or Hindis.          Been anywhere nice?      Send your attachment stories to Clare Bolt

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14 OCTOBER 08 ARIEL a 04·05·10 What am I doing here 15 Anna Williams planning editor, BBC World News foreign

Why are you a journalist? because he couldn’t shrink report I was on a work placement a window on his computer. in Russia in 1991, with a Rus- CV sian bank, when the coup Education: BA politics and business; diploma in Russian What does your current role Jimmy happened. So I called up involve? CNN and asked if they nee- and international commerce; Trinity College, Dublin. In 2004 I moved to what was innes ded any help because it was First job: Six month internship with a bank in Russia. then BBC World, now World obvious it was going to be a Career landmark: Joining the BBC News, as a planning edi- big story. That led to me wor- Married to Todd Baxter, with two sons, Conor and tor. That was when World king for them as a produ- Family: News was just beginning. It cer in Moscow for six years. Dylan was a time of change and a case of figuring out what So you probably didn’t intend to we were. The job I do now is be a journalist? not like the job I did then. I fell into it. Growing up in Ire- thing and go anywhere and ex- What was moving to the BBC When we started out it was land journalism never occur- plore all the boundaries of the like? half hour bulletins and now red to me. I was always going former Soviet Union. It was a It was a huge culture shock. I it is a rolling news channel. to be a lawyer – it had been really privileged experience. was a duty editor. I couldn’t But we are not stuck on one my ambition from the age of understand why they did format, and at the weekends 10. I’d done a business degree Why did you leave? things the way they did. I think our output is more re- Tanzania Country and was going to go on and There comes a point where And there were little things flective. It is a constant challen- do law and then my Dad saw you are doing the same sto- where people used different ge but I have seen the channel Director, BBC World a Russian language course. ries again and again, and so- language. At CNN they tal- go from strength to strength. Service Trust I had always been fascinated by meone suggests doing a story ked about fonts and the BBC Russia, loved Russian history about Lenin and whether he talk about astons and they Is there such a thing as a typical and communist politics in col- is ever going to be reburied, talk about stand-ups and day? Freedom of Information is at the lege, so I went for it. And from and you think – we have done BBC does pieces to camera. Now I tend to go to far more heart of all good journalism, but in too that I went to work in Russia. this. Every six months or a meetings than before. I meet many parts of the world media writers and It never occurred to me to go year the same thing comes up other producers from radio, broadcasters simply do not have the free- into journalism because Ire- and I think when you are not Journalism never tv and online and talk abo- dom to produce accurate, impartial, fact- land was a very closed shop excited about doing a story ut what we are planning to based reporting. in those days – you only went then you shouldn’t be there. occurred to me, cover. For example, with the Their freedom as journalists can be to RTE if you knew someone My now husband was also mo- World Cup we would like to compromised by a host of political, social working in RTE. There was no ving to London and I knew I as I was going to profile the African nations and cultural factors. This is as true in Bang- one in my family who was a would move eventually. I did and the simplest thing would kok as in Bulawayo, Baghdad or Bristol. journalist so as a career it imagine I would return, go be a lawyer be for us to go and do that In elections and war zones, through never crossed my mind. away for a couple of years and but we have got to figure out crises and oppression, we the readers, go back, but I never did, not what other outlets are doing watchers, listeners and browsers find What was it like working to live. But it seemed like the because there is no point in ourselves having to read between the in Russia in the 1990s? right thing to do at the time. The hard thing at the time I two crews going to Ghana. lines, to try to differentiate fact from spin It was great because started was that World tele- I will plan anything from the or propaganda. This is why freedom of the it was a time when So you came to London; did you vision was separate, so you next day to looking at the press is so important. the country was join the BBC immediately? wouldn’t know what the Ten Olympics in 2012. It’s impor- We should not have to put our audienc- opening up. We When I first arrived I worked O’Clock News was doing if tant for me to have a sen- es in a position where they have to could do any- for CNN, but then I came to you were on World and eve- se of what is going on in a decipher and interpret our messages. the BBC. At first I was on the ryone was compartmentalis- month, six months or a year. The truth foreign newsgathering desk, ed, though about then things Tanzania should always be just at the point the system were starting to change. You Is there one thing you are most clear and open was going bi-medial. didn’t just call up and get one proud of? benefits from for all to see. At the time that was quite bureau, one person to speak CNN and BBC were such dif- World Press a revolutionary change for to, which was different, ferent periods, so if I went a vibrant Freedom Day everyone involved, and but that was also because for when I was with CNN it on May 3 was all since then we have gone the BBC has so many out- would be October 1993 when media about the impor- through one change after lets. In 1999 they collated Yeltsin shelled the [Russian] tance of truth another every few years. all the desks and sudden- White House, where I think environment and fact; and I started off, like everyo- ly all the world duty editors we did an amazing job. But that is an admi- ne does with the BBC, with a were together on one desk. in terms of BBC, I think the rable aim in any walk of life. three month contract, then most satisfying thing over- This year is election year in Tanzania, six months, then a year. Did your job change then? all is that I am so very proud and with six months to go to polling day, As a WDE my job changed over of the channel which I always the campaigns are slowly rolling into gear. the years. I did stints on plan- see growing and improving. Although perennially on the list of the ning as well as on the day desk. It’s also really satisfying to world’s poorest countries, Tanzania ben- When I started people were see how we have got on with efits from a vibrant media environment, grappling with ENPS and online and WS radio. At the with better than average freedom of the it was a huge shock be- end of the day, it is nice to press and political commitment to the cause people were think you have done somet- same. These are building blocks for this not used to using hing well. You always think year’s elections. Windows. I remem- you could do it better if you The BBC World Service Trust is working ber one colleague had more resources, but it is with the Tanzania Broadcasting Corpora- thought I was Ame- a really great place to work. tion (TBC) to help them to implement the rican and asked most impartial, fact-based and quality me to help him Interview by Lisette Johnston election coverage there has ever been in this country. Through journalist training, editorial support and co-production, TBC and the trust are striving to uphold the principles of freedom of information, helping audi- ences to understand the issues, and not have to read between the lines in search of the truth.

> CONTACT CLARE BOLT to suggest a colleague for this feature 16 a 04·05·10 green room ▲ THE ARIELAT0R WE HEAR THAT. . . A weekly take on life at the BBC: Manchester staff couldn’t resist watching ▲ who’s up, who’s down, who’s off Gordon Brown come out of the studios after his apology for calling a voter ‘a bigoted woman’. ▲ He had completed his live interview with Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show when scores of workers ▲ spilled out on to the car park and leaned out of first-floor win- ▲ dows to catch a glimpse of the ‘penitent’ PM. But it’s not the first ▲ time a political leader UPSIDE It’s up the arielator for BBC Shrop- has dropped by the ▲ shire editor Tim Beech (above, left) and Manchester studi- down the arielator for everyone else at the os recently. On the ▲ station after their boss swooped in to win morning after the their Super 7 football prediction competition first prime ministerial ▲ on his second go. For the last four months, debate, David Cameron staff have been trying to guess the winners of popped by for a local radio ▲ seven games in the Premier League. After a 15 phone-in only for the Home time rollover, the stakes were high. ‘The prize Secretary Alan Johnson to arrive unexpectedly fund had reached a staggering £247, people towards the end. In the interests of balance, ▲ had begun to dream of what they would do with Green Room wonders if Nick Clegg will drift by to the money, and then the boss decided to have grace the northern base with his presence be- ▲ a go,’ says bj and tournament organiser Adam fore polling day. Or SNP’s Alex Salmond or Plaid Green (pictured). ‘Of course, he ruddy won the Cymru’s Ieuan Wyn Jones for that matter… ▲ thing didn’t he?’ Adam assures us that Tim ‘has bought cakes for the office’, but sadly this has Look out W12 lunch eaters – a singing flash ▼ ‘only slightly softened this devastating blow’. dressed to mob is coming to a canteen near you. 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