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back to earth: As the ◆recession bites, BBC learning’s Dig It campaign team, including Steve Goggin, pictured in White City with team members Vanessa Norris, Illy Woolfson and Ann Kelly, is encouraging a bit of self- Those salad days... sufficiency. Page 5 Calls to rein Faith, hope A finger on the in Worldwide and clarity media pulse

JUST WEEKS AFTER the BBC Trust THE WITCHES were tricky but it THERE AREN’T MANY things that ◆indicated it wants a tighter focus for ◆was Voodoo sacrifice that proved too ◆stump Shepherd’s Bush GP, mother of BBC commercial activity, a DCMS select much for globe-trotting vicar Peter Owen- two, author and tv doctor Sarah Jarvis, but committee has called for Worldwide to put Jones. His spiritual odyssey for BBC Two taking her dog’s blood pressure live on air the brakes on expansion and cut out deals produced a host of insights and a handful for The One Show proved the old adage like the purchase of Lonely Planet. Page 4 of revelations. Page 10 about working with animals. Page 15 > NEED TO KNOW 2 OPINION 10 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 GREEN ROOM 16 162 News aa 00·00·08 07·04·09

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Both the BBC and ITV are backing a The Street, after writer Jimmy When is a tv licence required? McGovern suggested ITV job cuts could jeopardise the BBC One drama. u One in three people consulted in the BBC Produced by ITV, series three of The Room 2425, White City Trust’s first review of licence fee collection thought Street is in post production and due the rules around whether you need a licence to to air in September. ITV said job 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS watch tv on pcs and mobiles were confusing. losses did not mean the end of the The trust now wants the BBC to get a clearer Manchester-based series. Polly Hill, 020 8008 4228 message across, particularly with the rise in BBC commissioning editor for indie on demand viewing, although trust chairman drama, confirmed that the BBC Editor Michael Lyons thought predictions that the wanted to continue working with Andrew Harvey 02-84222 licence fee was threatened by on-demand were McGovern and ITV Productions. Deputy editors a little premature. There was ‘no evidence of a Sally Hillier 02-26877 massive switch to on-demand by people who Round-the-clock coverage Cathy Loughran 02-27360 don’t also watch live’, he said. of the Glastonbury festival will be Features editor ‘Live’ is the key. The licence fee is strictly only broadcast on BBC 6Music for the first Clare Bolt 02-27445 payable to ‘watch or record tv programmes time this year. The station, available Reporters as they are being broadcast’. That’s all tv pro- online, on digital tv and digital Clare Dyson 02-27449 grammes. It’s no get out to say you only watch ITV. radio, will take a ‘dawn to dusk/dusk Carla Parks 02-27630 It also makes no difference what equipment to dawn’ approach to the three-day Peggy Walker 01-43940 you use – whether a laptop, pc, mobile, digi-box, event, which starts on June 26. Production editor dvd recorder or ordinary tv set – you still need a Claire Barrett 02-27368 licence. The GranD National was watched Leading light: Milo Ventimiglia, Art editor However, even though previously broadcast by 8.5 million people on BBC who plays Peter Petrelli in Heroes Ken Sinyard 02-84229 material might have been paid for by the licence One, representing a 61.1 percent Ariel online fee – as on iPlayer – you don’t need a licence to audience share. The race was won Andy Walker (editor) 02-84227 view video online, as long as what you are view- that claims it would make the BBC purer and cheaper by the 100/1 outsider Mon Mome. Alex Goodey 02-27410 ing is not being shown on tv at the same time. So for the public as it wouldn’t be spending money on Business co-ordinator you don’t need a licence for catch-up services. a range of content competitors would be pleased to The BBC news science team received Silvana Romana 02-84228 BARB statistics show that three percent of show. Think Strictly, The Apprentice, Heroes, Radios 1 the Arthur C Clarke award at the Ariel mail households genuinely do not own a tv set. When and 2 … The result, as even politicians who are usually UK Space Conference in Surrey for [email protected] TV Licensing visited the homes of people claim- critical of the BBC generally accept, would be a rump ‘the excellence of its space reporting Ariel online ariel.gateway.bbc.co.uk ing not to have a tv, almost a third were found to organisation that would struggle to win audiences. across tv, radio and online’. own one. Evaders have also been caught watch- The one refreshing thing last week was the coun- Guest contributors this week ing live tv on pcs. ter argument put by John Tate, the BBC’s director of Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 7 are Interestingly, 40 percent of students rely on policy and strategy. ‘The licence fee that pays for so broadcasting a series of programmes Ben Brown on his day among their laptop as the main way to watch tv. The much of the content audiences enjoy remains good throughout April celebrating the the demonstrators Page 3 trust admits that, even though 16m new tv sets value at 39p per day,’ he said. ‘A third of that income life and work of playwright Alan were sold last year, the technology revolution is goes straight to the creative sector, including inde- Ayckbourn, who is 70 on April 12. Peter Owen-Jones, vicar one to watch and is likely to require a change in pendent production. As a universal levy it’s right that and presenter, on the personal the law on licence fee collection in the future. it pays for something for almost everyone. From the Cult panel show Shooting Stars impact of Around the World in Meanwhile, evasion rates are stable at about Japan season on BBC Four to Being Human on BBC has been recommissioned for 80 Faiths Page 10 5 percent (compared to around 25 percent in Three. From EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing to BBC Two, 15 years after it first Italy) and 1000 evaders are caught a day – some Planet Earth and the Proms.‘ appeared. Original team captain Geraldine Coughlan, using new handheld detector devices that can Ulrika Jonsson will be back, with correspondent in The Hague, pin down a tv signal in 20 seconds. u Much as some people would like Jonathan Ross Jack Dee captaining the other reveals some of the city’s Get tone right on licence reminders: Page 4 and Russell Brand to stump up the £150,000 fine team. The show, which will return secrets Page 15 imposed by Ofcom for their lewd phone message to later in the year, will be hosted by u Dressed up in a new pamphlet, an old argu- Andrew Sachs, it isn’t going to happen. Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. ment surfaced last week when the Centre for Policy A number of politicians, including communities BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 Studies talked about the BBC and market failure. This secretary Hazel Blears and Lib Dem treasury spokes- BBC Sport will launch the Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 is the idea that the BBC should limit itself to provid- man Vince Cable, have said they think the two stars 2009 MotoGP season on Easter BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 ing high quality public service content that com- should cough up. But the penalty has been levied Sunday on BBC Three with live Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS mercial rivals either couldn’t make or wouldn’t want against the BBC and not individuals, and making coverage from the race in Qatar. to make as it wouldn’t be profitable. It’s an argument them pay would require a change in the law. Viewers will also be able to watch Advertise in Ariel a preview on BBC Two at 1pm Ten Alps Publishing 020 7878 2319 www.bbcarielads.com Shoot the SUMMER, a feature ARIEL ONLINE EDITOR’S update length film about music festivals Printing shot entirely on mobile phones Garnett Dickinson Group The nations are already doing the business by fans, bands and djs, won the Rotherham 01709 768000 connecting networks category at the At Ariel Online the week has been dominated oured for documentaries and programming in Media Guardian Innovation awards. Subscribe to Ariel by negotiations between the BBC and the NUJ Welsh and Gaelic, was a reminder – if one was Six months: £26, £36, £40 over changes to the South Asian services. needed – of the sheer diversity of our output. Twelve months: £50, £60, £68 Understandably, both sides wished to keep Even as we rightly commit to transferring even (prices for UK, Europe, rest of world their cards close to their chest at such more resources and programmes to the win an iPod respectively) a delicate time but, thanks to a few nations, it’s important to realise the Cheques to: Garnett Dickinson Print, generous tip-offs, we were able full extent of what’s there already. ◆ Siemens is running a Brookfields Way, Manvers, to keep our readers updated, From our Gaelic service, BBC Alba, competition throughout April to Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 5DL- bringing news that strike action to BBC Wales’s remarkable reality promote the password reset tool . Tel 01709 768199 had been cancelled early on series Coal House and the inimita- Registered users will be entered au- Thursday afternoon. Elsewhere, ble and feisty Stephen Nolan in tomatically into draws to win one of INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY we reported on the £150,000 Northern Ireland, the diversity of five iPod Shuffles. To register go to Telephone 0800 0688 159 fine levied on the corporation in our output from the nations is http://passwordreset Ceefax Page 159 www.bbc.co.uk/159 the wake of the so-called ‘Sachs- Stricken star: already remarkable. It takes only a couple of minutes and Ariel is produced by Internal Communi- gate’ affair, Gavin and Stacey star Matthew Horne BBC sport enjoyed a splendid week- is an easy way for staff to reset their cations for people at the BBC Matthew Horne’s collapse dur- end, as evidenced by our story that own password or unlock their ing a performance of Entertaining Mr Sloane both the Grand National and the Malaysian account, without the need to con- and news that Radio 4’s cracking spoof sports Grand Prix had both pulled in huge audiences. tact the Siemens service desk. phone-in, Down The Line, is to branch out on And this is just the start of what promises to Terms and conditions, along with to BBC Two. And the corporation’s success at be another thrilling summer of sport. Next up: further details on how to register, the Celtic Media Awards, where BBC Scotland, the Masters. Can’t wait. can be found at tinyurl.com/pw-ipod Wales and Northern Ireland were all hon- Andy Walker

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by Clare Bolt lecting water can now be spent in education. The lives of dozens of people in Chris Kane, head of corporate a village in southern Africa have real estate, recently visited the Pumped up been made easier, thanks to BBC village, at his own expense, to staff in west London and Ara- open the pump. mark catering supplier. Now workplace is in discus- Proceeds from the sale of One sion with all of the BBC’s cater- Water, which is sold in bottles ing outlets and hopes to start in W12 canteens, have paid for rolling out One Water in other a water pump for Likhoele in parts of the corporation. There is Lesotho. It has ensured a safe, even a film about the project. See clean supply on demand, and the ariel online – http://tinyurl.com/ time children used to spend col- onewater

Time to celebrate: Chris Kane with the children of Likhoele who, thanks to the new pump, no longer have to spend hours collecting water each day

We continued filming as burning missiles fell Startling There were some hairy moments debut for covering the demo, says Ben Brown R4 series In glorious sunshine, I watched a Yard to whack a BBC man round young man standing on the bar- the head, and that they would ‘We wanted to make a splash and ricades outside the Bank of Eng- always go for the chap in the balacl- that’s what we did,’ says Nicola Mey- land, leading a chant of ‘Storm the ava rather than the reporter in the rick, executive editor of radio current banks’: he had the air of a latter corduroy jacket (we’d been told to affairs, about new Radio 4 series The day Robespierre, I thought. dress down, but I didn’t want to go Report, which launched on April 2. Protestors around him chanted so far that I might be mistaken for In his first broadcast interview for ‘revolution’ and, as if to make a an anarchist). five years, Ludwig Minelli, the lawyer start, windows were smashed at the One charge began just as I was In the thick of it: Ben Brown reports live from the ‘wrong side’ of the lines who founded the Swiss right-to-die Royal Bank of Scotland. For a better delivering a live headline, say- organisation Dignitas, described sui- view, we pushed our way up Thread- ing that things had calmed down. day; we ran with the protestors, but I O’Connor and Andy Reed. In charge cide as ‘a marvellous possibility’ and needle Street: me, my cameraman There was another as I interviewed kept talking and Monty kept filming, was Alex Littlewood who hadn’t defended helping British psychiatric Monty Johnson, producer Alex Sinker a bloodspattered protestor, alleg- even as demonstrators threw burn- slept for days. Sometimes you curse patients to kill themselves. and fearless security men Barry Flem- ing police brutality. Manfully, he ing missiles. Usually the gallery tells being part of the BBC machine, but He also spoke of the ‘heavy costs ing and Predrag Stevanovic. continued the interview even as we you to wind up after a couple of min- on days like these you treasure its on the NHS’ of failed suicide attempts Technically, we were on the ran. Not everything went so well. utes, but they were silent. They were resources. and revealed he was even looking wrong side of the lines – with An anarchist snatched my mic as lapping it up and wanted more. Our The next day, outside the G20 into the possibility of assisting the the protestors. It meant that eve- I was trying to report live on BBC microwave link to the top of a meeting at ExCeL, one police officer healthy wife of a terminally ill Cana- ry time the baton wielding riot World, and then we got penned in nearby building was perfect. We told me: ‘You were in the thick of dian who wanted to ‘go’ at the same police charged them, they were by the police for several hours. had a remote controlled camera it, weren’t you? It looked terrific.’ time as her husband. effectively charging us as well. But at 7pm, it all seemed worth there, two radiocam receives and How strange that the police should The interview, conducted by Still, my assumption was that it it. The police mounted perhaps a dual path flyaway satdish, all co- charge us one day, and praise our Simon Cox in Switzerland, and pro- wouldn’t be good PR for Scotland their most ferocious charge of the ordinated by Tracy Varley, Michael coverage the next. duced by Mukul Devichand, made the headlines on, among others, Today, 5 Live, the News Channel, and in the press. Cox also did an edition Hallelujah! Handel’s Messiah to get the big treatment this Easter of From Our Own Correspondent, on his experiences of meeting Minelli. Television and radio programmes commem- Radio 4’s Today programme will be delivered by Radio 2’s Ken Bruce will introduce At The There are frequent stories about orating the 250th anniversary of the death Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canter- Foot Of The Cross – a recorded come-and-sing people travelling to Switzerland to of George Frederick Handel, and a BBC One bury, and Daily Service will go on pilgrimage to performance of Messiah with a choir of more die but, according to The Report team, drama documentary on the wartime expe- Assisi with the Royal School of Church Music than 200 listeners, accompanied by the BBC ‘nobody had really explained who riences of Karol Wojtyla, the Pole who later Millennium Youth Choir. Concert Orchestra – while Radio 3 will broad- Dignitas are, so we decided to do it’. became Pope, are among the Easter offerings. Handel programming includes a celebra- cast Messiah live from Westminster Abbey. This week The Report will be looking On Easter Day itself, the blessing from the tion of Messiah on Songs of Praise and a 60 The Passion, first transmitted last Easter, will at the revival of dissident groups in current Pope Benedict will be broadcast live minute documentary on BBC Two about the be shown again on BBC Four. The drama retells Northern Ireland. It should make for from Rome. famous piece of music, beloved by choirs and the story of the last week of Christ’s life from another strong edition but, as Nicola Good Friday’s Thought for the Day on amateur singers. different perspectives. Meyrick points out: ‘The Minelli pro- gramme will be hard to beat.’

4 News a 07·04·09 £150,000 Balance ‘tipped too far’ fine for in Worldwide expansion ‘Sachsgate’ Another week, another reminder of Sachsgate. Russell Brand and Jonathan by Cathy Loughran the committee remains ‘sceptical’ Ross’s antics, when they left obscene that a proposed WW partnership messages on the answerphone of An end to deals like the controver- would be the best solution for Andrew Sachs, have landed the BBC sial purchase of Lonely Planet and either party and the industry as a with a £150,000 fine by Ofcom. investment in overseas production whole. And the extra businesses The scale of the penalty reflects the houses are among select committee in which Worldwide would have ‘extraordinary nature and seriousness recommendations for reining in BBC a stake could make the company of the BBC’s failures and the resulting Worldwide activity. ‘even more aggressively com- breaches of the [broadcasting] code’, The DCMS committee also calls mercial’. says the regulator. for Worldwide’s ‘first look’ arrange- The BBC Trust’s interim It adds that while broadcasters ment – as preferred distributor of statement on its own review of must be permitted to enjoy creative BBC programmes – to be scrapped, BBC Worldwide last month con- freedom, its investigation revealed with more open bidding for rights. cluded that there should be clearer that Brand’s Radio 2 show had been Its report into BBC commercial parameters and ‘a more contained deemed ‘high risk’ and yet the BBC operations, published this week, focus for its operations’. had ‘ceded responsibility’ to those urges more BBC Trust scrutiny of Responding to this week’s report, working for the presenter. Worldwide transactions and the – like the acquisition of travel infor- wide’s expansion and we look to the the trust said it already has in hand Brand’s interests had been given removal of chief executive John mation group Lonely Planet, a joint BBC Trust to correct this.’ most of the issues the committee greater priority than the BBC’s respon- Smith from the BBC executive board venture to publish Hello and Grazia The report recommends a return raises. sibility to avoid unwarranted infringe- to ensure separation of commercial magazines in India and taking stakes to pre-2007 trading rules which, the It believed ‘the BBC should con- ments of privacy and minimise the and public interests. in overseas production companies committee says, bound Worldwide tinue to ensure maximum val- risk of harm and offence, says Ofcom. Top-slicing is again the select com- in Australia, Russia, Argentina and more tightly to activity linked to core ue is derived from its intellectual It identified three failings in its mittee’s preferred option, over any Canada as well as some UK indies – BBC content. Currently, only com- property, whilst taking into careful report, published last Friday. These Worldwide partnership with Chan- which had ‘an adverse impact on its mercial transactions of £50m and consideration the commercial cri- were: a failure to assert editorial con- nel 4. And members want World- commercial competitors and risked above require referral to the trust teria set out in the Charter, includ- trol by Radio 2, a failure to follow the wide gradually to withdraw its stake- jeopardising the reputation of the and the select committee wants that ing compliance with fair trading law compliance systems in place, and a holdings in UK indies. BBC’. threshold lowered to £30m. and the need to protect the BBC’s failure of editorial judgement. The report recognises World- Committee chairman John Whit- MPs call for more transparen- brand and reputation’. The BBC has accepted the findings, wide’s success in exploiting BBC con- tingdale commented: ‘There is a bal- cy around the Lonely Planet deal, The trust argues that the Chan- which are the same as those identi- tent for the benefit of licence payers, ance to be drawn between generating although they stop short of recom- nel 4 partnership plans offered the fied in its own review of the affair, as well as the positive attitude to the a return for the BBC and preventing mending a forced sale of the busi- best prospect for protecting value for which resulted in Brand giving up his company from large parts of the cre- damage to its commercial competi- ness, which could lead to a ‘sub- the licence payer and that it was pre- show, Ross being suspended for three ative economy. tors. We believe that the balance has stantial loss’ for Worldwide. On a mature to pre-judge the outcome of months, and the resignation of Radio But it is critical of new activities tipped too far in favour of BBC World- solution to Channel 4’s funding gap, partnership discussions. 2 controller Lesley Douglas. ‘As we said last October, this should never have been broadcast and we apologised unreservedly,’ says a BBC More talks statement. ‘We note that Ofcom Ben Gale is on his way back has found that senior management acted swiftly to mitigate the offence in WS jobs Ben Gale, currently direc- will become head of the south west, based in and damage caused by the breaches of tor of programmes at five, Plymouth. She succeeds John Lilley, who is the [broadcasting] code.’ is returning to the BBC as leaving the corporation. The statement adds that there has dispute head of documentaries The new east Yorkshire and Lincolnshire been a review of compliance across and features in Bristol. boss is David Lloyd, succeeding Cath Hearne Audio and Music, and there is now a He will take up his new who left Hull HQ last month to take up the new policy ensuring that presenters The ‘outstanding issues’ that are still post in May, almost exactly same position in the west Midlands. Lloyd was and their agents cannot be the execu- to be resolved in the dispute over the 12 months after leaving previously managing director of London’s LBC tive producer responsible for compli- south Asia services relate to six peo- the corporation, where he was commission- and held the same post at Galaxy stations in ance on their own shows. ple in the Urdu service. ing editor for factual features and formats. Manchester and Yorkshire. A selection process is under way, He will take over the role that was left va- and the BBC and the NUJ will meet cant when Tom Archer was appointed control- again after Easter to review progress. ler of factual production. He originally joined Anne Mensah has been No more The meeting is scheduled for the the BBC in 2004 from the indie Wall to Wall. appointed head of inde- week beginning April 20, when both pendent drama, but will sides will be looking for a final solu- New regional heads also keep her current role Resources tion to their long running dispute Three new heads of regional and local pro- of head of drama for BBC over the restructuring of the Hindi, grammes have been appointed. Scotland. Following the redundancy process Nepali and Urdu services, which will Stuart Thomas takes over from Aziz Rashid She will lead a more that has seen 220 people volunteer to see jobs relocated from London to the (now head of the north west) in the east Mid- coordinated approach to leave BBC Resources, the company has region. lands, based in Nottingham. He is currently the development and commissioning of inde- been reorganised and given a new Two one-day strikes, planned for editor of ITV’s London News. He will be joined pendent drama. ‘The opportunity to help sup- name. From April 1 it will be known April 3 and April 9, were called off at the BBC by Jane McCloskey, regional direc- port growth and innovation in this sector is as BBC Studios and Post Production last Thursday after the BBC and NUJ tor of ITV in the west and west country, who hugely exciting,’ she says. to reflect more specifically the services agreed that the individuals con- it provides. cerned could be dealt with ‘through Chief executive Mark Thomas has a combination of voluntary sever- merged his senior team into a single ance and redeployment such that Get tone right on licence reminders leadership working across all areas there would not be a need for com- of the business. He has told his staff pulsory redundancies’. The BBC has three months to come up with an the fact that their licence has run out,’ trust that ‘becoming a united company is However, the corporation reiterated action plan to improve aspects of its licence fee chairman Michael Lyons said. The review also a critical part of what we need to do its position that it could not guaran- collection after a BBC trust review recommended found that current payment methods, by direct to survive’. tee there would be no compulsories less heavy handed approaches to people who debit and cash payment schemes, were over A combination of higher costs and in the future. Throughout the talks, haven’t bought a licence. complicated. a squeeze on the prices it charges have which have lasted a year, the NUJ has ‘We want firmness with hard core evaders… n Lyons revealed that he has written to David Cameron, contributed to the company making been adamant that it will not accept but we need to ask if the tone [of reminders] following the opposition leader’s call for a freeze on the a loss of around £1m in the last finan- compulsories. is right for people who may have overlooked licence fee, inviting him to further talks on the matter. cial year. a 07·04·09 Features 5 Easy way to your five a day BBC learning wants more people to ‘grow their own grub’ by Laura ScarRott As it happened, learning had been considering doing something on gar- Pictures of Michelle Obama dig- dening after conducting research All good fun: The Green Balloon Club record the Dig In theme song at Hackney City Farm in London. Presenters Thai ging up the White House lawn have which suggested that, thanks to the Murray-Edwards, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Chris Howard, Adam Wells and Jake Pratt, with Skipper the dog helped put gardening back into the recession, people were keen to get public spotlight. back to traditional ways of living – etables around which the campaign their home-grown produce. ‘It’s our 42nd series and finally ‘like The Good Life but in the modern is centred: butternut squash, car- People will be able to get their hands we’re in fashion,’ jokes Andy Vernon, world,’ says Steve Goggin, Dig In’s rots, beetroot, lettuce and tomatoes. on the five vegetables via a free starter Gardeners’ World series producer. project manager. Learning and horticultural research- pack available from the Dig In website The BBC Two show is support- The research also found that peo- ers from Gardeners’ World chose spe- from April 10 where there will be infor- ing BBC learning’s Dig In campaign ple were thinking more about self- cific varieties of these veg for their mation on growing each of them. which launches this month with sufficiency and wanted to do more hardiness. The campaign also includes a Dig In the aim of inspiring people to ‘grow activities as a family. ‘We wanted varieties that first- tour (see left) where experienced grow- their own grub’ – wherever they can, The campaign is targeting first- time growers would be most likely to ers will share their tips with novices. whether on an allotment, window time growers and young families have success with and also that pro- The Dig In campaign could even sill or in a grow bag. and has enlisted the help of CBee- The next stop on the Dig In tour vide a good basis for recipes,’ Goggin make an impact in the United States, ‘If the Dig In campaign results in bies’ children’s nature show The Green is Portsmouth on April 10 and 11 explains. as Vernon is hatching plans to send people just having a few fresh sal- Balloon Club, whose presenters have where the Dig In van, a re-modelled The research identified a bit of a Barack and Michelle Obama one of ads in the summer, it’s a start,’ says recorded the campaign’s theme song. ice cream truck, will be parked in backlash against the fancy food of the free seed packets. Vernon. Radio 1 dj Sara Cox will be blog- front of the BBC’s big screens. The celebrity chefs. What people wanted ‘Maybe we could send some of the Gardeners’ World approached learn- ging about her first attempt at gar- screens will be showing a medley was advice for basic family meals. So, team out there to help,’ he laughs. ing with the idea because it wanted dening with her young daughter on of gardening films. when the veg is ready to harvest in the ‘Who knows what will happen. We to get more people out of the house the Dig In website (bbc.co.uk/digin). For a full list of the van’s destina- autumn, chef Nigel Slater will suggest could end up filming there – I’m pretty and into the garden. Cox will be growing the five veg- tions visit the Dig In website. simple recipes to get people eating positive about what’s happening.’

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Sue Dougan, presenter, smugness and satisfaction This year my boyfriend and I just rolled up their sleeves for Radio Cambridgeshire in growing my own food. have set ourselves the chal- some serious digging. I was at Radio Kent when I Nothing beats eating the first lenge of living off the land, was drafted in to co-host a thing you’ve grown. I had and have planted some Simon Kempster, production gardening show – with no a glut of courgettes once gooseberries, blackcurrants, coordinator, BBC Bristol prior interest or knowledge which I took into work, but potatoes and parsnips. I’m My partner [production co- of the subject. I’ve learnt not to grow so doing it to be more environ- ordinator Clare Ashford] and I When I joined Radio Cam- many now. mentally friendly, save money decided to dig up a strip from bridgeshire I launched a Dougan Does Gardening, and because I enjoy watching the lawn to use for planting. gardening programme and 11am-1pm, Sundays things grow. I started growing veg signed up to an allotment. I’ve Last year we got five giant mainly as a hobby. It’s nice had it for three years now and Jo Bellingham, interactive carrots and a couple of pars- to pick your own food and grow vegetables, herbs and platforms producer, London nips and were ridiculously potter about, watering after fruit, with varying degrees of I’ve had my allotment for a proud of ourselves. work. Last year was a disaster success. couple of years but I’m not as the weather was rubbish I get a supreme sense of massively green fingered. Lynne Wilson, assistant and the caterpillars had all editor, BBC Essex of our brussels sprouts and My two children have just cabbages. started a vegetable plot Hopefully it won’t happen and are really keen to grow again this year as we’re things. We’ve even made intending to grow more veg. Sense of satisfaction: Radio Cambridgeshire’s Sue Dougan some seed pots from old The added bonus this time copies of Ariel. round is that our first baby is the allotment. When we have a glut of food Ruby, 7, has planted radish due soon so Clare can water At first we had to battle with we donate it to friends and and Joe, 11, has planted broad the garden while she’s on a completely grassed over neighbours. beans and cabbage. His plan maternity leave. plot. It has got easier but you In the winter we visit the is to grow enough food for us still get lots of exercise grap- allotment once a week, but and his guinea pigs. Lyn Edwards, pa, London pling with it –more so than in the summer we go down They became interested in I got an allotment plot nearly going to the supermarket. e very day to keep an eye on gardening when I worked on four years ago – having been My husband and I grow the courgettes which turn a Breathing Places garden in inspired by Alan Titchmarsh’s artichokes, tomatoes, pota- into giant marrows with very Start ’em young: Lynne Wilson’s children, Joe and Ruby Essex last year but have only programme on the decline of toes and giant cabbages. little warning.

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‘The fact that the trust saw the need Erik Huggers for the BBC to continue its move from linear to on-demand and not throw and his team an important plank of the creative future strategy out the window is really, are at the heart really critical.’ Another area Huggers is champi- of partnership oning is free open source software. This means anyone with program- plans, he tells ming skills can see how programs and tools used by the BBC work, and Alex Goodey potentially improve them. ‘More and more,’ he says, ‘[the audience] have Erik Huggers, future media and capabilities in developing software. technology’s charismatic director, If you can embrace the power of the was in typically expansive mood many to develop an application, it’s a when I spoke to him recently. His very interesting way of working.’ message was clear: the corporation When it comes to developing an must share its technical and organi- application. ‘You can do it in a way sational know-how with others. In this that people build on top of what we ‘The partnership agenda is at the create, resulting in more stable prod- heart of many activities at FM&T ucts, with more features. and across the BBC,’ he says. ‘The dig- ‘We’ve got a long history of doing ital production partnership, Canvas that,’ Huggers says. ‘I recently visited [looking into developing an inter- Kingswood Warren, with Mark Thomp- net-based tv platform], the Marquee son, where they have built a product project [to share iPlayer)] the radio together called Ingex. That’s completely open- partnerships that Tim Davie talked source [automated tapeless produc- about recently, and the research and tion] software. We’ve contributed it to development agenda we have put for- afford to. There are other ways for us with a single company. ‘It would be the industry, it’s being adopted and ward – all are day-to-day activities at to help them.’ He wants to with a set of players, to create a world people are building new features. We FM&T.’ With so many companies out in which it is much easier for the BBC benefit and they benefit.’ And with all of these projects, there to work with, Huggers is partic- to create very rich experiences for the So, according to the man who Huggers explains, the BBC is offering ularly keen to develop relationships create rich audience.’ knows, it’s time for all of us to take the broadcasting industry as a whole with mobile phone operators and And he is pleased that, although our partners and let the dance com- a simple proposition: ‘Let’s work those who work in the mobile hand- experiences the BBC Trust turned down a requested mence. together on digital production.’ set world. ‘It’s hard work to get rich £50m+ extra funding for online serv- He continues: ‘The BBC is modern- media onto a mobile, because there for the ices, it nonetheless approved fresh For an extended version of this ising its production [but] ITV, Chan- are so many different devices.’ investment of £37m over three years. interview, featuring more about nel 4, Five and the independent pro- Taking a wider view, he says that audience ‘It’s absolutely fantastic that we’ve got iPlayer and open source software, go to ductionAN AE HP community Advert AWF simply 31/3/09 cannot 3:35 his pm dream Page partnership 1 would not be any budget increase at all,’ he says. Ariel online.

ADvertisement a 07·04·09 Features 7 See beyond the scars by Clare Bolt with disfigurements affected by What can you change? One week. That’s how long the credit crunch?’ asks Gary Forget the Joker, Herr Flick it would take the audience O’Donoghue. ‘If you’re going (nasty Nazi with a limp in of the Six to acclimatise to to maintain the audience’s Allo Allo) Davros from Doc- seeing someone with a facial trust, you have to persuade tor Who (wheelchair-using disfigurement reading the them that you look at things mutant with melty face), dis- news, says Hilary Salmon. Once that matter to them and figurement has no influence natural curiosity fades and you employ people like them. The on moral character. got to know the person, the more people are seen being Focus on incidental repre- senior exec producer argues interviewed and presenting, sentation: Amanda Redman’s it would become ‘irrelevant’. the less remarkable it is.’ burns are visible without ever Last week The Healing being alluded to. EastEnders is Foundation published the If you work in drama introducing extras with vis- world’s first research study on People with burns live as rec- ible disabilities, so don’t be disfigurement in tv: it showed luses: the gangster will be surprised if the barman at the that disfigurement of any kind scarred; the wheelchair user Queen Vic has a birthmark. is rarely portrayed on British tv, is embittered – historical ‘We wouldn’t dream of despite the fact that one person in archetypes and stereotypes launching a new series with- 111 in the UK has a significant facial are still being drawn upon in out black and Asian charac- disfigurement – from a birthmark drama, the foundation says. ters, but we launch series to congenital condition and ‘Those views are ingrained in without disabled or disfigured disfigurements from accidents. a way we don’t always realise,’ characters all of the time,’ says BBC political correspondent Changing attitudes: Cerrie O’Donoghue sighs: ‘It goes Hilary Salmon. Gary O’Donoghue (whose facial Burrell, Gary O’Donoghue, back to medieval times – and While there has been much appearance identifies him as Amanda Redman the bible is full of symbolism progress in getting disabled a blind reporter) believes that or disfigurement as a stigma.’ actors to play disabled char- the audience is ‘more accepting The association with evil car- acters, the next step is getting of difference than programme points of view, not just repre- actually newsworthy (eg break- ries on into the real world. them into roles which are not makers would have us believe’ senting them on screen, you through surgical procedures). Ewan Marshall, who pro- disability specific. – and cites the fact that the can make insightful tv. Think of using disfigured or duced BBC drama Every Time Finally, remember to use Daily Mail’s message boards Use people as contributors disabled contributors: Chan- You Look at Me, says that the humour, as The Office did with are ’90 percent supportive’ of in generalist factual shows. nel 4 often uses a solicitor lack of parts for disabled wheelchair using Julie Fern- CBBC presenter Cerrie Burrell as It’s a way of debunking one with cerebral palsy as a talk- actors is ‘bad in theatre, chronic andez – research showed it is proof of changing attitudes. myth of disfigurement – that ing head. ‘WhereKTM_ArielAd_140x185.ai are the people 1 in 02/04/2009television’. 10:25 ‘incredibly normalising’. But are we playing catch up? it’s a visible manifestation of Clare Bolt went to the Changing mental incapacity. ADvertisement Faces seminar to find out what we could be doing differently. 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decided to ad lib its programming for a day Tuesday What has your local MP done for you? It’s the stuff of nightmares. Any from the studios in Brighton, free- competition (in which people It’s easy to be cynical about MPs but they haven’t output producer will tell you ing up the other 35 team members to dress up and throw themselves off exactly covered themselves in glory of late, what that staring at an empty running head out and find original stories from a pier) which had been stopped with claiming for their bathplugs and hubby’s order in ENPS is usually guaranteed 20 towns and villages in the area. because of safety concerns. adult entertainment. Now, we had an MP-bashing to bring on a cold sweat. They were concerned they would session on Friday’s programme, so this morning But it turned out to be a run out of stories as the day went We should do this again we wondered whether there was a more positive dream come true for Southern on, but didn’t need to worry. ‘We were overwhelmed with how story to tell about our elected representatives. I’ll Counties radio when it marked Every member of the team well it went,’ says David. ‘It was a admit, I wondered whether it was going to be a its change of name with an entire delivered content and the stories bit of a feat, but we wanted to do slow hour, but in the end we had plenty of people day of off-diary reporting. just kept coming – from an something ambitious and exciting coming on to praise their MP – and some of them Sara David is the assistant editor at exclusive announcement that the on the first day. We actually filled weren’t even close relations. BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey (formerly army barracks in Aldershot would a lot of programmes for the rest Graham Stewart, Radio Scotland presenter Southern Counties) and, with be the main beneficiary of a £350m of the week and it helped us to re- bbc.co.uk/blogs/grahamstewart/ managing editor Nicci Holliday, made investment as part of a new ‘super flect listeners’ stories on air in an the nailbiting decision essentially to garrison’, to the revelation that original way.’ Wednesday ad-lib a day’s worth of programming. NCP parking attendants in the area The station is already The Haggis goes to number one dressed in blue ‘to keep people considering doing a similar John Barrowman will be playing with fire Two thousand schoolchildren in Birdman of Bognor calm’ when they get a ticket, ‘off rota’ day in the future. on his new Saturday night entertainment will be pitted against a mystery celebrity on Clackmananshire can now claim they’ve had a show one of the programmes. ‘John’s fantastic – challenges, Barrowman will be welcoming They both risked blurry eyes to pro- and a campaign to bring back ‘Everyone made so many new Tonight’s The Night. number one hit record. I’ve just received news duce all of Monday’s programmes the infamous Birdman of Bognor contacts they thought we The presenter has been in training Mr showbiz,’ says exec producer Moira Ross guests and encouraging people to live out The variety and unpredictability of the that ‘The Haggis’ has hit top spot in the official show has meant that the set has had to with top flame throwers (filmed above by who has been working on the in-house their performing fantasies. Scottish chart. This song was written by teachers be specifically designed to adapt to its cameramen Dave Hill and Chris Miller) and production since October. ‘We want to turn ordinary people into at Alva Academy – this year’s BBC Radio Scotland demands and reflect the ‘showbusiness Besides embarking on exciting Saturday night superstars,’ adds Ross. SoundTown school – and is being sold in aid world’ it hopes to recreate. ‘We’re a wish-fulfilling kind of show.’ of Comic Relief. 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IF YOU HAVE A suggestion FOR who or what should be in WEEK@WORK PLEASE Email clare bolt 10 Opinion/Analysis a 07·04·09 aview Eighty faiths, 40 countries and three pearls of wisdom CATHY In Easter week, Anglican vicar and tv presenter LOUGHRAN Peter Owen-Jones reflects on the year-long spiritual Daytime drama journey of discovery he undertook for BBC Two packs a punch There is always a point of reckoning at the end of a quest. Peter Owen-Jones witnesses Encouraging to know that, even in I remember as a child being told a Shinto fire festival in Japan straitened times, it’s an ill wind that doesn’t that when Marco Polo returned blow in something out of the ordinary. after his incredible journey he One catalyst for daytime’s classy new drama was dressed in rags and could series Moving On, which had its press screening barely speak his native tongue. last week, was the shortage of work for writers From his pockets however he in the North West after the end of Channel 4’s produced diamonds and pearls, Brookside. It prompted executive producer silks his world had never seen. Jimmy McGovern and Liverpool independent Around the World in 80 Faiths LA Productions to invite ideas and scripts from covered many more miles than local writers for five single films on the moving Marco Polo – 180,000 miles by on theme. plane alone is a massive carbon The result is a powerful series that could footprint and one that I will easily sit in peaktime, starring the likes of spend many years atoning for. Sheila Hancock and Richard Armitage and But in the course of those miles dealing with racism, gun crime, debt, cross- we visited 40 countries trying to dressing and grandparenting. understand humanity’s fascina- Made for the cost of one episode of McGov- tion with the divine. ern’s acclaimed BBC One series The Street, the The two things I have decided five afternoon dramas – to be stripped across since returning is to limit long one week next month – are dramatic proof that haul air travel for the remainder quality occasionally can be done on a budget. of my days and to maintain the Neighbours it’s not. Gritty, moving, funny, self-imposed rule that I started contemporary, original UK drama it is, and out with: always to be the first nobody else does that in daytime. In the busi- to smile, wherever I am and ness of answering the licence fee bashers, whoever I’m with. It costs noth- Moving On is already a winner. ing and changes everything. and occasionally in need of a is certainly becoming one. But Cathy Loughran is deputy editor Having spent some time in I walked out bender – and on that last point I was most moved where the the advertising industry I was no one bends it like the Chinese apparent nondescript nature of amused, on my travels, by the and the Greeks. a universal religion was made way countries sell themselves as of a voodoo If the year was physically gru- local. As in northern Ethiopia, Best of British tourist destinations. The image elling, it was mentally tough in a tiny rock-hewn church. It I was encouraged to construct service too because I was having to was in places like this that ritu- Last Thursday should have been dubbed was in all cases so fabulously try to understand concepts and als were most inspiring because British eccentricity night. inaccurate and so wonderfully ideas of God that were completely they involved the people of the First up, Caravans: A British Love Affair on flawed. Sadly nowhere was this because it alien to me. Among the most dif- place and the geography of the BBC Two. Originally shown on BBC Four, this more apparent than in South ficult moments was meeting the place. When those two things was about more than ‘tin tents’. It was social Africa. North America too has had animal father of a suicide bomber on the come together I think some- history brought to life, charting holiday fostered an illusion of itself that West Bank. Filming with witches thing magical happens. habits over the decades through black and is minus huge chunks of reality in Sydney was difficult because It is still strange to be home. white photos, old newsreels and personal and as a result is probably one sacrifice they were uncomfortable, and I have taken to noticing planes reminiscence. of the most disturbing places given the history between Chris- in the sky and remembering the ‘There are more ways to women’s lib on the planet. Being there was a tianity and witchcraft, I was feeling of going somewhere you than burning your bra!’ declared one wake up call for my own propen- The best food we ate was in uncomfortable too. have never been. It is a feeling of feisty caravanner who had found freedom sity for not examining the hype South Korea in the house of the I walked out of a voodoo serv- liberation and we have it when through taking to the open road. before swallowing it. brother of a Shaman. Simply it ice in Benin because it involved we have no preconceptions. Next we met the equally feisty Claire was a heated iron bowl with rice animal sacrifice – just about I’ve become aware of how Robertson. After starting at Woolworths as a Hell in Las Vegas and vegetables into which you acceptable if you’re going to eat much we were looked after: the Saturday girl, she had progressed to manager Perhaps it is the reflection of stirred a broken egg. the animal at the end of the day, guy who made pizza when we’d and was so dismayed when her Dorchester ourselves that we see in all places, We stayed mainly in cheap but if you’re going to smear its been filming late; all the pre- branch closed that she found a financial who we become in that environ- hotels and I reckon I must have blood over an altar and chuck pared rooms; the drivers who backer, rehired the workforce and reopened ment that is telling. What’s a slept in more than 200 different it away, then I’m afraid that’s knew the roads; the pilots who under another name: party for some, is purgatory for beds – the most memorable, a something that crosses my line. flew the planes. I now know how How Woolies Became Wellies had plenty of others. I found hell in Las Vegas, communist guesthouse perched What have I learned about utterly dependant we are on ‘characters’, including stock buyer Dan, who our director found heaven. literally on top of a mountain, rituals? I think ritual is a com- each other and I hadn’t appreci- stocked up to an alarming degree on picture Northern Iraq was for me 500 miles south of Beijing. There mon language – a visual, emo- ated the beauty of that before. frames and ‘bog rolls’, convinced they would beautiful as was the great In- was a huge hole in the wall, tional language that we can all Much of my journey is still fly off the shelves, and twitchy Trisha, obsessed dian desert, where the sand is where the air conditioning unit share. It celebrates our fragili- a blur – pictures in and out of with arranging goods ‘right up to the edge’. almost pink. I had forgotten how had been, and through it came a ties, our strengths, our vanities, focus. I learned so much but The supporting ‘cast’ included a town crier mesmeric the Australian land- force nine blizzard. I slept fully our ridiculous human nature. there is always a danger of un- and, among the shoppers, identical twins scape can be. We were there in clothed, under the mattress and The common thread, wheth- derstanding so little. I returned who looked and sounded as though they had late autumn – red earth, white woke with snow in my hair. er it’s a Shinto fire festival in perhaps with three pearls of just stepped out of Alice in Wonderland. trunk trees with yellow leaves Companionship. The chemis- Japan or an Aymaran festival in wisdom in my pockets: to dance There was even a celebrity in the shape of and that massive blue sky. In try of the crew is all important Bolivia, is hope. It’s also a crav- like the Suffis, see like the Sad- Chris Evans who opened the new store. But time, and when you are appar- – it seeps through the pores of ing not to be alone. dus and party like the Greeks. never mind him; the real stars were on the ently up against time, your life films, settles into details. We All human ritual emerges Around the World in 80 Faiths shop floor, providing feel good tv at its best. boils down to the three most made good films because we had from the landscape. There are was broadcast on BBC Two earlier Sally Hillier is deputy editor basic necessities. Food, shelter good chemistry. It was alright to universal religions like Chris- this year. Visit the series website at and companionship. be vulnerable, tired, frightened tianity and Islam. Buddhism bbc.co.uk/80faiths/

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Partnership too far time you read it you will know what In the article about English regions happened. joining news (Ariel, March 31), much World Cup goals that slipped through the net Jon Webster is made of the advantages of the Elstree network teams working more closely Yawn. I stayed up an extra half hour on Wednes- miss) with plenty of waffle and shots of ‘single- with the regional staff; the network day after Fiona Bruce promised me ‘all the ac- minded’ Capello. to benefit from local contacts estab- tion’ at 10 o’clock. Shouldn’t we at least show all the goals from Stumbling block lished by the regions, the regions So I looked forward to at least all the goals from the home nations’ games, for the vast major- Adrian Dallingwater is right to gaining use of resources like sat the ‘crucial World Cup qualifiers for the home ity without sports package subscriptions and identify in his letter (March 31) that trucks provided by the network. nations’. Of Kevin Geary’s 112 seconds 25 min- the 35 percent of households without the inter- ‘times are indeed tough, economies A spokesperson for Midlands have to be made and belts tightened’. Today is quoted in the article as say- utes later, 19 were about Wales (one goal out net? (And would the group tables be asking too BBC workplace is not unique in hav- ing that ‘by working together, [we] of two shown), 15 about Scotland (one goal out much?) Or was this to do with rights? ing to manage costs rigorously and had processions shots and voxes to of three) and 13 about Northern Ireland (one of Either way, we shouldn’t promise ‘all the action’ constantly balance what we can and use, which Central … didn’t have’. one). England’s game, the only one available on if we’re not showing it (see Editorial Guidelines: can’t do. Ahh, but they will soon, won’t terrestrial (it had just finished on ITV1) to the 83 ‘We should not knowingly do anything to mis- The reason for one of the turn- they, if this ludicrous idea of merg- stiles at TV Centre main reception Ten ing regional BBC newsrooms with percent of viewers who live in England, got lead our audiences’). remaining out of action is simple. Jamie Woodward, Parliamentary liaison, WS/global news ITV goes ahead... 65 seconds (three goals out of three – and a An immediate replacement of the David Croxson turnstile would have cost the BBC senior tech op, BBC Oxford £120,000 which we felt to be too necessarily applied to internal com- ded on a patch of black ice and fell high. We have worked with BBC cor- munications, particularly where off my Vespa. That was my fault, too.) porate security to explore a range of Their debt, our loss unions are concerned. Andrew Craig options for a better value for money In a week when we lost four staff at Anyone reading the Ariel online Bush House newsroom solution and now have a reduced BBC South, it was a shock to hear that reporting of the dispute between cost of £76,000 which includes the BBC won’t be forcing Jonathan World Service management and the upgrading the other two turnstiles. Ross or Russell Brand to pay the NUJ could be forgiven for thinking Don’t do it to death In the current economic climate £150,000 fine imposed by Ofcom. the union had refused to speak to I write in response money spent on infrastructure is If they had – and the corporation management until the M/FoC meet- to Sally Hillier’s money taken away from programme had kept the money – maybe those ing held on Monday, March 30. This column about Jade making. This is an illustration of four people could have stayed for at isn’t the case. The NUJ has always Goody (Ariel, March what’s in our mind when we take deci- least an extra year. The fine would the fact that they had read the books been open to, welcomed and even 31) and as one who sions to spend money on buildings. have more than covered their pay. on which the series is based. requested meaningful talks. complained about Tim Cavanagh Mike Powell Well done to the controller who Matt Seymour the disproportion- operations director, BBC workplace bj, Radio Solent took the bold decision to screen FoC (acting) BBC York ate coverage on the this series. It is so refreshing to see Gaby Logan show another aspect of life in Africa and on 5 Live on the day High hopes Clued-up controller hear the clear African accents. The Finding fault of her death. I write in response to David Tutt’s let- I must tell you this... I was so excited dramatisation is sensitive to the Simon Hall and Rich Preston in your As Sally said, the response needs ter ‘Step too far’ (March 31). Clearly to learn of the scheduled screen- books – and respectful to the daily last two letters columns are both to be measured. The BBC should re- it’s important to have the right tools ing (BBC One, Sunday 9pm) of the moral decisions, affecting others, wrong about accidents. port what will undoubtedly be a and equipment in order to carry out Number One Ladies Detective Agency that that the main character has to make Last week, chopping a carrot, I large event – thousands of people, a task safely. Without the right tools I stood up in church, on the day of – something millions of people do cut my finger. I didn’t mean to do traffic chaos, etc etc. But surely that the job shouldn’t be attempted if it the first episode, to announce this to every day. it; it was an accident. But it was my should be it. No intrusive long range means putting yourself at risk. The the congregation and Josephine Onike Hazeley fault, because I was careless. Similar- shots of the coffin or family; no ce- manager is now aware of the issues explained why they should watch it. deputy editor, Focus on Africa, WS ly, most ‘RTCs’ -- crashes, in English lebrity interviews and certainly no and is making the relevant arrange- My message was greeted with -- are accidents, even though they’re sanctimonious talk of how she was ments to get the equipment needed. spontaneous applause by worship- someone’s fault. an icon to a generation and raised Further information about ladders pers comprising mainly Africans and Happy to talk ‘Accident’ implies that the event awareness of cervical cancer. And and work at height is available from Caribbeans, but some Europeans too. It’s a shame the editorial standards was unintended, not that no one was the last person I want to see is Max myRisks/Gateway. After the service some of the we all must, quite rightly, adhere to to blame. (And not all road Clifford. Andrew Walsh Europeans came up to share with me for public facing BBC output isn’t accidents are collisions; I once skid- I write this in advance. By the safety advisor, BBC safety

OBITUARY She quickly set up a large wall 2002, Cath developed a rare and chart on which she planned all the ultimately terminal illness, the only from the vault routine maintenance and laughed cure for which was a lung transplant. CATHERINE BUNNEY loudly when the engineers added While waiting for the transplant she April, 1964 Catherine Bunney joined the BBC in ‘Studio YG’ (Yorkshire Grey) to the had to use a wheelchair and take an By introducing coverage of go-kart racing, tv producers are further 1980 as a trainee transmitter engineer. end of the chart after Studio Y5 oxygen cylinder everywhere with antagonising Grand Prix motor racing enthusiasts for whom kart- She was among the first women to be (Yalding House). Her laugh was one her, but I never heard her speak in a ing is a poor imitation of the real thing. recruited into the BBC in an engineer- of her most enduring and endearing self-pitying way. ing role. At that time the engineering features. When she laughed she did In 2005 Cath received a double Motor racing is a major attraction, a study of attendance figures training centre accommodation had so with her whole body and soul. It lung transplant and, for a short time, will show this; yet on the small screen it comes off very poorly. communal toilets and showers for the was infectious and could be heard was much fitter, able to walk, stand There are three obvious defects of production. The use of the zoom ‘Gents’ but no facilities for the ‘Ladies’ from some distance away. at the sink and hug Emily and do lens, which robs the sport of its main attraction – speed. A zoom so she had to be accommodated in the After a brief spell in Manches- many of the things we all take for lens mounted on a camera on a tower 80 feet high can hold a car in sick bay, which offered the only ‘en ter, Cath returned to network radio granted. Her husband Simon was view for half a mile, keeping it exactly the same size against an un- suite’ room. in London to head the production quick to point out that she had four broken background of tarmac, making it impossible to judge speed. I first met Cath in 1981 when she equipment centre. In 1994 she be- years of washing up to catch up with. The technique of following the leading car only and showing joined the outside studios mainte- came manager of operations in W1. Sadly, the process of Cath’s body little of the rest of the field detracts from the excitement of watch- nance team in London W1. She was Her pioneering spirit had not dimin- attempting to reject her new lungs ing more evenly matched drivers fighting for lower positions. quite an addition to the team, turning ished with promotion and she was accelerated in 2008 and she died in Lastly, the commentator usually has only a few minutes to intro- up for work in bright green Doc Mar- among the first managers to com- hospital following a chest infection. duce the event. There is much scope here for interviews with driv- tens boots. Despite being the newest plete the BBC MBA course. Everyone who knew her will miss ers, mechanics and officials, and it is missed. member of the group, she was soon Cath left the BBC in 1998 to work her and many of us will hear her Colin Young, sound technical operator, Broadcasting House organising everyone, including me, al- for Sky Broadcasting. Shortly after laugh every time we think of her. though I was, in theory, her boss. giving birth to daughter Emily in Rupert Brun

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————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— Fresh ­thinking PROGRAMME MAKING Tutti Viola-BBC Philharmonic International HR & Assistant, TVCA Manchester Development Manager Belfast - Broadcasting House Editor, Newsround Grade/Ref: 8645409 Europe/FSU 3D/Ref: 8653809 London E C 26-Apr-09 Kiev C 19-Apr-09 is the ­beauty TV Centre 10D/Ref: 8564209 C 14-Apr-09 A 12 months 11P/Ref: 8848709 JOURNALISM C 15-Apr-09 A 12 months ————————————————— NEW MEDIA ————————————————— International HR & of BeebCamp Producer, Holby City Producer/Director Development Manager for Editor, BBC Internet Blog Elstree (Senior Broadcast Journalist) Africa London 9P/Ref: 8969009 Plymouth Nairobi E C 16-Apr-09 A 2 years 10D/Ref: 8564009 Broadcast Centre Media Village ————————————————— 8P/Ref: 8293309 One of the first dates in Philip Trippenbach’s diary C 17-Apr-09 A 09 months C 14-Apr-09 A 12 months 9D/Ref: 59879309 after starting his new job was a trip to the 2007 London Senior Producer ————————————————— ————————————————— C 16-Apr-09 A 06 months Network Development Senior Broadcast Journalist / Resource Manager ————————————————— gaming festival. Already a keen gamer, the assistant Belfast - Broadcasting House Reporter Multi Location Senior Content Producer producer’s new (now current) role involved developing 9D/Ref: 8655609 Belfast - Broadcasting House 10D/Ref: 8475209 Blast Online video gaming ideas. He went along for inspiration. C 15-Apr-09 A 12 months C 12-Apr-09 ————————————————— 8D/Ref: 8653709 ————————————————— London He was staggered when the first audience question C 14-Apr-09 A 12 months White City he heard came from a man who announced that he Producer/Director ————————————————— Business Affairs 8D/Ref: 8942809 too was from the BBC. ‘I realised there were lots of (Senior Broadcast Journalist) Senior Broadcast Journalist Manager/Rheolwr Materion Busnes C 13-Apr-09 A 06 months Birmingham Persian Television BBC folk doing the same stuff – and they just didn’t Cardiff ————————————————— 8D/Ref: 8288909 London know about each other,’ he says. E C 13-Apr-09A 10 months 10D/Ref: 59874309 Business Manager Broadcasting House He left the festival determined to organise some- ————————————————— C 11-Apr-09 London 8D/Ref: 8341709 ————————————————— thing that would enable internal networking to take Producer, 1Xtra 8D/Ref: 8931109 London C 14-Apr-09 Continuing Various Marketing Scientist place – an event which wouldn’t involve either death- ————————————————— C 16-Apr-09 A 06 months Yalding House Audience Measurement Senior Broadcast Journalist / ————————————————— by-Powerpoint or a lethal budget. 7D/Ref: 8645509 London Producer, NCA Production Co-ordinator As we have previously explained in Ariel, BeeB- C 18-Apr-09 A 09 months White City London Camp was inspired by US barcamps – gatherings ————————————————— Belfast - Broadcasting House 9/10/Ref: 8917409 Reversioning Producer 8D/Ref: 7675909 E C 20-Apr-09 Media Centre ­organised by people who realised that often the high- BBC Radio 7 C 14-Apr-09 Continuing Various ————————————————— 5D/Ref: 8965409 light of a professional conference is the chat you have ————————————————— London Senior Project Accountants C 23-Apr-09 A 12 months with a random delegate in the corridor after the offi- UN Reporter, Newsgathering Broadcasting House London cial presentation. New York Bush House 7D/Ref: 8654609 TECHNOLOGY The inaugural BeeBCamp, organised by Trippen- C 20-Apr-09 8/9S/Ref: 8964309 8D/Ref: 8934009 ————————————————— C 24-Apr-09 A 2 years C 20-Apr-09 bach, social media exec Roo Reynolds, senior techni- Researcher, In Our Time ————————————————— ————————————————— Project Manager cal project manager Mark Simpkins and CoJo’s ­David Washington Reporter A&M Factual Finance Analyst London (World Service Radio) London, TV Centre London White City Washington 8D/Ref: 8886709 Broadcasting House 8D/Ref: 8937509 8/9D/Ref: 8905609 E C 15-Apr-09 5D/Ref: 8957309 C A C A ————————————————— 15-Apr-09 06 months C 15-Apr-09 A 04 months 24-Apr-09 06 months ————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— Project Manager, Campaigns Station Assistant (Operator) - Senior Broadcast Journalist London Business/Technical Analyst Part Time 5 live Media Centre London Birmingham London 8D/Ref: 8645009 White City C 13-Apr-09 A 12 months 5/7H/Ref: 8680809 TV Centre ————————————————— 8D/Ref: 8937409 C 27-Apr-09 A 10 months C 13-Apr-09 A 06 months 8/9D/Ref: 8902509 Assistant Resource Manager ————————————————— C 20-Apr-09 Continuing Various ————————————————— Cardiff Researcher (Broadcast ————————————————— Project Manager - No Tube Journalist) P/T, Inside Out Senior Broadcast Journalists 8D/Ref: 8476109 C 12-Apr-09 London Nottingham BBC Arabic ————————————————— White City 5/7D/Ref: 8893709 London Publicist, BBC Arabic 8D/Ref: 8645209 E C 17-Apr-09 A 05 months Broadcasting House ————————————————— London, Bush House C 13-Apr-09 A 12 months 8/9D/Ref: 8886509 Broadcast Journalist 7D/Ref: 8867509 ————————————————— E C 17-Apr-09 E C 19-Apr-09 A 12 months (Producer), BBC Radio Stoke ————————————————— ————————————————— Senior Software Engineer Stoke on Trent Broadcast Journalist Assistant Project Manager (Perl Developer) 5/7D/Ref: 8538009 (Producer) Spotlight London London E C 17-Apr-09 Broadcast Centre Media Village Off the cuff: Hayward, took place in October ————————————————— Plymouth Bush House 5/7D/Ref: 8791009 7D/Ref: 8643709 8D/Ref: 6563609 Philip 2008 and a second was held last Learning & Audience C 21-Apr-09 A 06 months C 20-Apr-09 A 12 months E C 14-Apr-09 ­Trippenbach month, with staff coming down to Development Administrator ————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— says White City from Wales and Man- London Broadcast Journalist Building Engineering Services Project Manager Broadcasting House ­preprepared chester (Trippenbach hopes BeeB- BBC Radio Norfolk Technician BBC Monitoring 4D/Ref: 8629809 Belfast - Broadcasting House presentations Camp 3 will be outside London). Norwich Reading E C 14-Apr-09 A 05 months 5H/Ref: 7676009 are banned You turn up, sign yourself up ————————————————— 5/7D/Ref: 8532809 8D/Ref: 6054109 E C 17-Apr-09 A 10 months E C 16-Apr-09 to informally discuss an area of Production Management ————————————————— C 15-Apr-09 ————————————————— ————————————————— expertise/interest with a table of people for 20 min- Assistant, A&M Factual Investigative Researcher (BJ) Researchers, BBC Monitoring Software Engineer utes, and you stay for discussions with others when Birmingham Inside Out West Reading London it’s their turn. Powerpoint is banned. 3D/Ref: 8994909 Bristol 5D/Ref: 8357809 C 21-Apr-09 C 14-Apr-09 Henry Wood House BeeBCamp is inevitably a hive of creativity. The ————————————————— 5/7D/Ref: 8502709 ————————————————— C A 7D/Ref: 8599009 problem with big organisations like the BBC, says Broadcast Assistant 17-Apr-09 04 months Part-time - Team Assistant - E C 13-Apr-09 Trippenbach, is that ‘institutional inertia’ can put a Silver Street RAD ————————————————— Birmingham BUSINESS SUPPORT London stop to the flow of ideas. How many times have you Technical Operator / 3D/Ref: 8653509 ANDZ MANAGEMENT Henry Wood House discussed something with your team only to conclude Sub-Editor, BBC Monitoring C 19-Apr-09 A 12 months 4D/Ref: 8655109 that it’s either too obvious or too risky? Yet someone ————————————————— Reading HR Service Delivery and C 15-Apr-09 A 18 months else might see it from a completely different perspec- Broadcast Assistant ————————————————— 6D/Ref: 8867009 Compliance Manager tive, and make the idea workable with an approach Inside Out Production Support Finance E C 28-Apr-09 A Various Manchester London Assistant that comes naturally to them, but not you. White City Manchester At BeeBCamp 2 discussions included how best to 3/4D/Ref: 8809209 BBC WORLDWIDE C 14-Apr-09 A 12 months 11D/Ref: 8994509 4D/Ref: 8654909 employ the official BBC feed on Twitter (twitter.com/ ————————————————— C 14-Apr-09 A 12 months C 19-Apr-09 ————————————————— bbc) and what to do with all the extra data that jour- BBC Drama Production ————————————————— Reconciliations Analyst Director of Programme Marketing and Publicity nalists gather but don’t use while chasing a story. Col- Writers Academy 2009 (Talent Accounting) London Acquisitions, UKTV Assistant laborations with R&I were also officially established. London TV Centre London London Trippenbach has first hand experience of the ben- Media Centre N/A/Ref: 7674509 160 Great Portland Street Broadcasting House efits – when the first BeeBCamp took place hewas 2W/Ref: 59878809 E C 05-May 09 Freelance 10D/Ref: 8857309 4D/Ref: 8629709 ­engaged in a project looking at how to put long Various E C 15-Apr-09 E C 14-Apr-09 A 05 months E C 14-Apr-09 A 06 months ————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— ————————————————— form current affairs documentaries on mobiles. He got chatting to Jason DaPonte, who happened to be managing editor of mobile platforms – and who had FULL DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS already developed the very platforms he needed to make his idea work. Full details and how to apply are on Gateway at: Vacancies published on this page are open to BBC Staff. ‘He works upstairs in my own building and I didn’t https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc02.asp Where indicated (E ), external applicants may also be considered. Please contact (quoting For assistance contact BBC Recruitment’s Response Team on: 0800 082 8080 the appropriate ref.no.): Recruitment BBC HR Direct, PO Box 1133, Belfast BT1 9GP Tel: know he existed,’ exclaimed Trippenbach. or 0370 333 1330 0370 333 1330. Textphone: 028 9032 8478 Zoe Kleinman

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Geraldine coughlan Correspondent the hague They tell me that the Royal City of The Hague, with the stork as its emblem, is one of the Netherlands' best kept secrets. It has a reputation as being a bit snooty and bor- ing, but once you discover the secrets, you find its beauty.I t's because 'our Queen' lives here, the locals, or Hagenaars, say, grinning. The BBC bureau is smack in the city centre – in Hofkwartier, or Palace Quarter. It is con- veniently located above the local journalists' pub, three minutes' walk from parliament A doctor, mother and author, and doors away from the palace. Sarah Jarvis manages to juggle This the city where the philosopher Hugo Grotius drafted the Hague Peace Accords in the many balls, but admits that she 1600s, when The Hague first became known as the International City of Peace and Justice. has little time to herself They say that The Hague, a small city, like a village, has everything: international courts, woods, the beach, parties. Since the You’ve been a GP for the last 19 years, a media the time of the Gloucestershire floods to talk media jobs that fitted around them. I’d say yes old trading days, it has been known as the doctor for the past 18. How did this develop? about the risks of infection. Then they asked me to Breakfast when Rosemary Leonard [the usual diplomatic city with the 'whispering corri- Totally by accident. As chair of the Royal back again. Now I’m on the show between once doctor] was on holiday, or to Late Night Live after dors of power'. Today, it is still full of secrets. College of General Practitioners’ women’s task- or twice a fortnight. I sit on the couch talking to the children had gone to bed. Now, at 12 and 14, From my office window, I hear tourists beg- force, I was asked to speak at a conference on the presenters about a medical issue. Sometimes they’re more independent, but I do try to keep ging their guides for more information about women and alcohol. ITN was picking up on I stay to comment on other subjects – being a red- weekends free. war-time secret churches and old-time reci- some of the themes and needed somebody to head, for instance, when Bonnie Langford was the pes for kornjenever – the local corn gin, still interview – I was on site and they couldn’t find guest, or being left-handed. Your practice is in Shepherd's Bush… available if you know where to find it. I con- anybody else… Yes, it means I can whizz down to Television Cen- clude that the Dutch have the secret recipe A couple of weeks later they rang me at You also make films for the programme and once tre in no time. It also means that I have a number for having fun. the surgery for my views on another medical gave your dog a check-up on air… of BBC patients. John Humphrys has been a I am watching the preparations in the story. Before long I was their lunchtime news doc- Yes, it was for blood pressure week. It was a Satur- patient of mine for ten years, and for the last streets below for Queen's Day – Queen Beat- tor, with a weekly slot. If the queen mum had a day afternoon and I walked around Holland Park five we’ve been writing a book together. The Wel- rix's birthday, on April 30 – a national holiday. fall, I could talk about osteoporosis; if the Duke of with my dog, asking people if I could take their come Visitor, which is about the ethics of death, The Dutch have a saying, 'Nederlanders Edinburgh suffered a nose bleed, I’d talk about blood pressure. Then someone had the bright came out on April 2. John writes about the sub- zijn gek', or 'we are crazy', and on Queen's Day, high blood pressure among the elderly. I was sub- idea of checking my dog’s blood pressure on air. ject from a societal perspective, and reflects on they aren't afraid to show it. The town turns tly influencing the news agenda, which was a I couldn’t actually find the artery, but, then, I’m the deaths of his father, brother and ex-wife. orange, the national colour. There are people remarkable thing to do, and making sure com- not a vet! I look at it from a medical perspective, draw- with orange hair, banners and balloons. mon sense got out. I saw it as allowing the facts to More recently I’ve been filming for the ing on my experiences with patients. End-of- When I watch the queen ride in the get in the way of a good headline. curious complaints week in May. It’s about life care has been an interest of mine for some golden coach, to give the annual budgetary those medical problems years. The book’s final chapter is speech to Parliament, I can hardly get out of Ten years ago you became Good House- about assisted suicide which, as the door for the crowds. keeping’s doctor (a position you still a doctor, goes against an instinct Between parties, I cycle to the beach with hold) which led to work for BBC radio… to treat people. My view is that my dog in her basket on the front of my bike. Someone at 5 Live’s Late Night Live CV sarah Jarvis there is a very limited place for When I pass the Peace Palace – an impos- must have read my column and BA Cambridge, 1983; BM, BCh Oxford, 1986 euthanasia, but with the strict- ing Gothic structure, otherwise known as invited me on to do an interview. Degrees: est safeguards. the International Court of Justice – I think of I became a ‘friend’ of the pro- First job: Surgical house officer, Hereford County Hospital Hugo Grotius and wonder how on earth he gramme, doing occasional interviews Career Landmarks: Scholarship to Cambridge University Do you have time for yourself? managed to lay the foundations for today's in response to something in the news. (age 16); elected GP trainee on the council of Royal College My family is my first priori- conventions on international law. The Hague It put me in pole position when Radio ty, being a GP is second, being hosts several international courts, including 2 was looking for a doctor. GPs; spokesperson on women's health; GP trainer; chairman a media doctor third and I’m the International Criminal Court, the Interna- of healthcare committee of HEART UK; Radio 2; One Show my fourth priority. I do try to tional Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the What does the Radio 2 doctor do? Awards: Fellowship of the Royal College of GPs, 2003 eat healthily and keep fit, but Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Spe- I have a regular monthly slot on Jeremy formal exercise is difficult. So I cial Tribunal for Lebanon. Vine’s afternoon show. It’s a phone-in, Family: Two children, Seth (14) and Matilda (12) cycle to work and walk up stairs. I ponder the secret logistics of manoeu- usually around a particular subject but I feel I should be an example, so I’m taking vering today's high-profile war criminals sometimes an open surgery. They never tell me in that people need to know about, but which part in the London to Paris cycle ride in July, and their visiting relatives around this advance what the questions are – I think they like are rarely spoken of, such as excess body hair which is an extra incentive when the weath- peaceful city, and give the security services to hear the cogs turning. The great thing is, I can in women or varicose veins and bad breath. er’s bad and I’m tempted to get in the car. a nod of respect. always advise people to see their GP. I’m also called I cycle home through Binnenhof, or Inner in to respond to news – be it Jade Goody’s battle Did broadcasting come naturally? Did you always want to be a doctor? Court, where journalists like myself, in the with cervical cancer or a new report showing that Yes. I talk to people for a living. What was more Since I was eight. A GP came to my house Foreign Press Association, held a party the number of people with diabetes is rising. difficult was fitting media work in with my day and gave my father an injection. He took me attended by Queen Beatrix. Imagine a queen job and with family life. I work 30 hours a week through the contents of his doctor’s bag and coming to your party! You’ve also added The One Show to your remit in the surgery and have been a GP trainer for the gave me the used needle and syringe to play Rubbing shoulders with royalty in Hofk- The producers were building their One Show fam- past 14 years, so I’m not always available – but with! I used it to give my teddy injections. I wartier, they tell me, is the best-kept of all ily and had heard me on Radio 2. I was asked to the One Show likes the fact that I’m a jobbing GP. was absolutely hooked and never wavered. the secrets in The Hague. come in to the studio – just the once – around When my children were young, I’d only take Interview: Claire Barrett

> CONTACT carla parks to suggest a colleague for this feature 16 a 07·04·09 green room ▲ THE ARIELAT0R SPIKE OF LAND WE HEAR THAT. . . A weekly take on life at the BBC: Green Room wasn’t sure if this email message ▲ who’s up, who’s down, who’s off was a polite reminder about filling in forms, or something more sinister: ‘Hello, incident report- ▲ ing in MC&A was very low during the last quarter. Please see below how to report an incident/ac- ▲ cident/near miss.’ Should we start laying out banana ▲ skins? Speaking of ▲ which, we can almost hear the shaking heads ▲ UPSIDE A thumbs up for Patrick Moore and the and tuts of ‘health and safety Sky at Night team. When Bede World Museum gone mad’. Apparently Aardman ▲ held an opening event for their new Bede the Studio, where the likes of Wallace Scientist gallery, they invited Sir Patrick along – and Gromit are created, has an A&E ▲ only he couldn’t do the journey. Instead, at the corner in the event of ‘any of the characters usual monthly Sky at Night recording from the In a league of its own being injured during filming’. ▲ presenter’s study, the team recorded a message to be played at the museum. ‘He was our first Thinking of making that move? tellyvision thing last month...’ There were collective groans at green room ▲ astronomer really,’ commented the presenter Here’s a helpful insight gleaned from But be advised that the tellyvision this week when ‘MC’ Bill Turnbull revealed his about Bede. a Salford familiarisation visit and schedule may not be what you’re previously hidden hip-hop credentials. As Radio reported upon in the children’s used to... A recent continuity 1 and 1Xtra celebrated 30 years of hip hop, Bill ▲ ‘It’s not often we get a popstar on our little pro- department March eBulletin. ‘Some announcement: ‘Coming up next, greeted Zane Lowe and Mobo founder Kanya King gramme,’ said Paul Doran, the producer of Stor- people were surprised at the size of Keeping Up Appearances, and if you’re to the breakfast studios with a gangster pose ▲ mont Live, which covers the political develop- central Manchester, commenting in the north of England - it’s the and casual ‘Wassup?’ Nor did it stop there. After ments in Stormont. But a motion on autism was that there appeared to be less to do Superleague Show.’ listening to Zane and Kanya explain the history ▼ being passed and Keith Duffy, former Boyzone than in London.’ With on cue ‘north- Quaint comedy drama for the south- of rap music, Bill enthusiastically introduced the and Coronation Street star, came on the show to ern humour,’ green room’s Manches- erners, and men running about next item with ‘we’re going to ‘hip hop’ over now ▼ chat about it. ‘He was very knowledgeable, and ter friend quipped: ‘We got canals, getting bloody and muddy for the to the news, travel and weather where you are…’ It has a daughter with the condition,’ said Doran we got whippets, we even got that northerners. looks like Eminem and Snoop Dogg can rest easy ▼ while updating his autograph book. for the time being.

Downside Clare Balding lost a few fans after When Obama came to town Those eager to see ▼ her interview with Grand National winner Liam Clarkson hanging Treadwell. Not content with the jockey’s closed off the edge of a ▼ 1 2 3 cliff will have to wait a while ▼ longer. Top Gear plans to ▼ recreate the cliffhanger ▼ scene from the Italian ▼ mouth smile, she asked him to open his mouth Job have been so the viewers could see his teeth – dentures she scuppered due described as ‘not the best in the world’. Balding to costs. ▼ then went on to suggest he get them ‘done’ now. Inhabitants of the 1 This BBC footage of the First Lady children’s, Richard Deverell (left). White City building had a very exciting Thursday ‘hugging’ the Queen received many 3 Good old operational errors. last week – after months of climbing stairs, the headlines about a potential breach of Look North presenter Clare Frisby front lifts were working again. Equally excited EARWIGGING protocol. But green room’s initial treated viewers to a dance when she was the man given the role of ‘lift host’ for the response? The Queen looks tiny next to thought she was off air. The regional morning – a mole said he seemed overjoyed OVERHEARD AT THE BBC the new president’s wife. station should have been transmitting when his invitation to press a button was taken 2 GEE, you look familiar. We think the national news with live coverage of up. The host even had leaflets to hand out. …Can we get the vicar there’s some kind of BBC/G20 doppel- Obama’s visit to London, but ‘an opera- Although the information on access services pissed at Frankie and ganger thing going on. The top picture, tor at BBC Yorkshire mistakenly put the was useful, advice such as ‘press the landing snapped at the summit, shows Domin- studio on air…’. Clare’s impromptu moves button in the direction of travel only’ and ‘allow Benny’s?... ique Strauss-Khan, md of the IMF (right), made it to YouTube. the doors to fully open before entering/leaving with a fellow delegate. And the bottom 4 This picture of Obama, Paxman and the lift’ was perhaps less so. ...You can’t have a pic is of their long lost twins, online sbj Mark Urban, Newsnight’s diplomatic editor Steve Schifferes (right) and controller of is asking for a caption. Email green room. It wasn’t only the BBC that U2 had an impact floating accordion... on a few weeks ago – it seems the BBC made an impression on them too. Bono told MC&A that …A cappuccino and a horse please… he loved the BBC typeface and wanted to know what it was – Gill Sans if you want to be ahead of …Your lady larynx won’t allow it … the trend. …God’s least-favourite printer is about to get a serious duffing-up… PS Looking for someone to walk off into the sun- set with? As part of her fundraising for the Lon- Next week, mini earwigs... please don marathon, producer Jenni Regan is holding email overheards from your a singles night. Held near Leicester Square on children. April 22, attendees bring along a single friend – a bit like mysinglefriend.com without the internet preamble. Go to ree-cycle.com for details.

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