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On a Scale of Zero to 120 Feet… 28·07·09 Week 30 explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel THE BBC NEWSPAPER ‘WE CAN DO A WHOLE LOT BETTER’: LUCY ADAMS ON RESULTS OF HR SURVEY a Page 10 On a scale of zero to 120 feet… HOOVERMAN, aka ◆inventor/presenter Jem Stansfield, inches his way to the top of the BBC White City building with the aid of only a pair of home-made vacuum gloves. The strictly ‘don’t try this at home’ experiment features in BBC One’s new science series Bang Goes the Theory, which started its run this week. bassett mark : photograph > NEED TO KNOW 2 TECHNOLOGY 6 OPINION 10 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 GREEN ROOM 16 < 162 News aa 00·00·08 28·07·09 NEED TO KNOW THE WEEK’S esseNTIALS NEWS BITES a will return as The Master, JOHN SIMM Salford site for the BP garden arch villian time-lord and sworn enemy of the Doctor, in David Room 2316, White City u THE BLUE Peter Garden will definitely move Percy Thrower revisits the Tennant’s final episodes of 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS north when BBC children’s relocates to Salford, the garden in 1980 with Blue Doctor Who this Christmas. Peter presenter Sarah Greene 020 8008 4228 BBC has confirmed. Managing Editor Unveiled by presenters Peter Purves, John Noakes THE GUIdeLInes for handling royal and Lesley Judd in March 1974 the garden was designed deaths have been updated and placed Stephen James-Yeoman 02-84222 by Gardeners’ World presenter Percy Thrower. It start- on the news site on Gateway. They Deputy editors ed life as a working vegetable garden but five years lat- can be found via the following link: Sally Hillier 02-26877 er was redesigned to incorporate an Italian sunken gar- http://news.gateway.bbc.co.uk/obits Cathy Loughran 02-27360 den, complete with fish pond. Features editor In 1979 the team commissioned a bronze BBC RUssIan has opened its Clare Bolt 02-27445 bust of Blue Peter dog Petra from ‘Guy the Go- radio archive of key historical Reporters rilla’ sculptor William Timym. For many years the moments covering nearly half a bust stood outside Television Centre but when century. The collection features a Laura Scarrott 02-84224 the building was extended in 1984 Petra found recording of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Peggy Walker 01-43940 a new home in the garden. George the Tortoise reading his seminal work One Day Production editor was interred there following his death in 2004. in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Claire Barrett 02-27368 In 1983 there was a national outcry when the Art editor garden was vandalised – plants trampled, flag- RADIO 3’s Free Thinking festival will Ken Sinyard 02-84229 stones hauled up and stonework smashed. Sev- ons was however critical of the executive over an be in Gateshead from October 23-25 Ariel online eral fish died after oil was poured in the pond. appearance by Sugar with the children’s secretary and speakers include Tanya Byron The culprits have never been caught. Ed Balls at an event to promote apprenticeships. and Ken Livingstone. The weekend of Alex Goodey 02-27410 In 35 years the garden has been home to Lessons should be learned from that for the future, free cultural events includes specially Business co-ordinator three time capsules. The first, assembled in 1971 Lyons said. commissioned radio drama, panel Silvana Romana 02-84228 and the second in 1984 were both unearthed in debates, talks and workshops. Ariel mail 2000 as part of the millennium celebrations. A u ORIGINAL UK-ProdUCed children’s pro- [email protected] third capsule was buried that same year and will grammes have taken a big hit in the last four WOMan’S HoUR presenter Ariel online explore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel be reopened in 2029. years, new Ofcom research shows, with com- Jenni Murray has received The garden is used by other programmes and mercial PSB channels spending 70 percent an honorary degree of doctor of Guest contributors this week BBC Breakfast broadcasts the weather from there less than they did in 2004 and BBC spend letters from Brunel University, west every morning. down by a fifth. London. At the graduation ceremony BILL THOMPSON leans towards the The third annual Ofcom report on PSBs also she advised new graduates not to trend of multimedia multi-tasking u THE BBC TRUst has made it clear that they want highlighted cuts in nations and regions news be afraid ‘to start at the bottom’. Page 6 the BBC One schedulers to look again at running investment over the period – down 15 percent the next series of The Apprentice in the run up to for BBC services and 25 percent for commer- ONLY Men ALOUD, winners of BBC JEMMA HardY of BBC South gets a general election, with its star Alan Sugar now cial Channel 3 licensees. Spending on network One’s Last Choir Standing contest, fired up on attachment to the green fulfilling his new role as Labour peer and Gordon news across the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five will perform at the BBC Proms In team in London. Page 14 Brown’s enterprise champion. also fell by 13.5 percent over the four years. The Park in Swansea on September Even though it found there was no conflict of Overall, the main PSB channels spent 12, BBC Wales has announced. The interest nor breach of BBC guidelines in Sugar’s almost 15 percent less on original UK pro- BBC shop at TV Centre has tickets dual role, the trust decided that the approach of a grammes – down from £3bn in 2004 to £2.6bn for the London Proms In The Park BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 general election, possibly before May, increased in 2008. Total hours of UK original content event at Hyde Park on September Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 the sensitivity of that position. The Apprentice is broadcast by the main channels fell by three 12. Tickets are £25, staff price £20. BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 normally screened from March onwards, percent to 33,177 hours a year. Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS Any final decision – which would also affect The good news was that, over the last two BBC WorLdwIde has announced scheduling of Junior Apprentice – would be for the years, audience appreciation of the public a licensing agreement with Advertise in Ariel BBC executive to make. service broadcasters has actually increased, in Shine Television to manage the Ten Alps Publishing 020 7878 2314 As a matter of course, the BBC reviews all of terms of quality, trustworthy news and cover- MasterChef brand in the UK and www.bbcarielads.com its schedules to ensure that output is suitable for age of big national events. Ireland. The three year deal include transmission during the period before an elec- BBC One retained its core strengths, Of- live events and publication of Printing tion. The corporation said that if polling day is com reported, and BBC Two continued to be branded books and website. Garnett Dickinson Group announced in the first part of 2010, the executive rated highly. Perhaps more interestingly, audi- Rotherham 01709 768000 would bear the trust’s view in mind. ence opinion of BBC Three and BBC Four has BBC SWITCH is going on the road. The trust clearly disagreed with complaints strengthened since 2007, with regular viewers From August 2-7 Switch djs Annie Subscribe to Ariel made by shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, rating the PSB characteristics of the digital Mac, Nick Grimshaw and Aled Six months: £26, £36, £40 that Sugar’s government appointment – of itself services as highly, or even more highly, than Haydn Jones will be appearing Twelve months: £50, £60, £68 – put BBC impartiality at risk. Chairman Michael Ly- the main channels. at club nights around the UK. (prices for UK, Europe, rest of world respectively) Cheques to: Garnett Dickinson Print, Brookfields Way, Manvers, OLYMPIC SCREEN TEAM TAKE LEAVE OF THEIR SENSES Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 5DL Tel 01709 768199 by Bren O’Callaghan, box featured vintage BBC news plement key moments in Bill For- manager Big Screens reports donated to the North West syth’s hormonal classic. INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY Liverpool & Edinburgh Film Archive at Manchester Metro- An audience of 300 laughed, Telephone 0800 0688 159 politan University. They included gagged, grinned and spluttered in Ceefax Page 159 www.bbc.co.uk/159 It was WITH CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM Morecambe & Wise judging a response to the stink of deodor- Ariel is produced by Internal that I approached London 2012 bathing beauty contest and curly- ant, cut grass, boiled sweets and Communications for people at the BBC open weekend, having nursed not permed teens at a travelling fair boys’ toilets - by far the biggest one but two new commissions for spinning manically to the blare of reaction! The star of the show was the BBC Big Screens in Liverpool Blue Monday. our volunteer Penguin (it makes and Edinburgh. Shoppers immediately grasped sense if you’ve seen the film), who Places of Public Resort is a gi- the voting interface, stepping into wielded corresponding placards ant interactive video jukebox in hotspots and using hand move- and was mobbed by children. Liverpool’s Clayton Square and ments to scroll between clips. Intended to reflect the Olympi- PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR COPY OF ARIEL the first BBC project to receive an Once satisfied, I could leave it ad themes of excellence and inno- Olympic Inspire mark - the gold to run unattended as I was off to vation, the screens team and our medal of the Cultural Olympiad.
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