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The pension deficit: a roadmap to recovery 6-7 August 2009 Number 6 SHARE DELIGHT Page 7 With highlights from Ariel Watching the waste-line: the BBC's green campaign page 9 Photograph Olivia Woodhouse News 20 candidates for Trust election Twenty names have come forward for the next few weeks election forms will be sent personal details and a brief manifesto from role of pensioner elected trustee on the out to all pensioners by Electoral Reform each candidate. BBC Pension Trust. The current term in Services. Accompanying the ballot papers Members will have until September 4 to office expires at the end of the year. In the will be an explanation of the process, plus submit their votes. BBCPA Your stories built tour into Memoryshare The BBC’s memories site for past and The idea, as Robert explained to members details present staff and contributors has been of the Pensioners’ Association recently, is to By David Allen merged into a BBC-wide memories project use memories to reinforce bonds with the Every autumn members of the BBC with a view to capturing the nation’s history. audience. Pensioners’ Association Committee hold The BBC’s head of history projects ‘We want to put history back in the PROSPERO three regional meetings to give retired staff Robert Seatter says the aim is to build a brand. We have this fantastic legacy and August 2009 who can’t reach London for the Association’s body of memories that is comprehensive we’re not making the most of it. With AGMs a chance to catch up. and valued. So contributions from Hugh Memoryshare we can tap into what I call These are opportunities to find out what Burnett ( Face to Face ), Roger Wilmut (Mrs our place in the national memory. So it’s we know about the state of the pension fund Thatcher interviewed at World Service), about really engaging with audiences, and and a range of pension or BBC related Dick Buckby (local radio) and others, what the BBC has meant to all our Prospero is provided free to issues, and we are glad to hear of things generated by the BBC’s heritage site, are audiences.’ which may concern or delight you about now part of an enormous and growing • Robert Seatter is planning a history retired BBC employees. It can retirement. resource, searchable by anyone. seminar this autumn focusing on the BBC also be sent to spouses or The gatherings are informal and we wel - Click on http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna in World War 2. Historians and come members and non members. Where /memoryshare/ and you can read mem- broadcasters will be taking part, and he is dependants who want to keep possible meetings are on BBC premises but ories, research events and link to context particularly keen to hear from ex-staff who where there’s no suitable room (as this year material relating to any date back to were at the BBC before and during the war in touch with the BBC. It in Norwich and Edinburgh) we try to find January 1 1900. If you register you can years. Email [email protected], or includes news about former somewhere agreeable nearby. contribute your own memories and use the phone 0208 008 5513. These are good occasions to meet old service to store and share your accounts of Claire Bolt at Ariel (0208 752 7445) colleagues, pension issues, colleagues over tea and biscuits. So do feel any aspect of your life. You can also post would also like to hear from veterans for a and developments at the free to come along. The venues are: comments on other people’s contributions. BBC-at-war feature. • Edinburgh – October 8, 2.15pm, The BBC. Prospero includes Tun, Jackson’s entry, EH8 8AE (off Holyrood Road). The BBC shares a classified advertisements. To building with Scottish Enterprise. We are Club votes for dry afternoons advertise in Prospero or the meeting in the Scottish Enterprise Meeting The BBC London Club is to call time on afternoon, and bar opening times could still Room. Contact BBC Scotland (Catherine alcohol sales between 2.30pm and 5pm to be extended for special events. BBC Staff magazine, Ariel, Cameron 0131 557 5888) bring opening times more in line with busi - • The Club in London has taken the first • Cardiff – October 15, 2.15pm, BBC ness hours. steps towards incorporation into a company see page 11. Club meeting room Llandaff, CF5 2YQ. Members agreed to the move, following a limited by guarantee. The move is to Phone 02920 322000. request from the BBC, at their recent AGM. remove personal financial liability from club • Norwich – October 22, 2.15pm, The Currently, alcohol is on sale from midday trustees. Subscription information for Music Room in the Assembly Rooms NR2 through to 11pm most days in bars at The idea received initial support at the 1RQ (across the road from BH Norwich). Television Centre, White City, Bush House, AGM. Members (including retired Ariel is on page 12 Phone 01603626402 W1 and Elstree. members) are invited to vote on the issue For queries about the meetings call me on Those premises will continue serving tea, at an extraordinary general meeting on 02089481982. Alternatively, contact Nick coffee, soft drinks and snacks in the September 23, 6pm, sixth floor TVC. Whines (membership secretary) by e-mail at [email protected] Calling Prospero Doreen Forsyth As Prospero went to press, engineers were tinkering to restore Prospero’s voicemail Doreen Forsyth has died after a long illness, line (0207 765 1414). Readers who left messages for Prospero after the July issue aged 78. She was producer of Woman’s Hour appeared are advised to call again. (The connection was broken after contractors and latterly the Week’s Good Cause in a BBC Siemens changed the way messages are left and accessed on BBC extensions.) career spanning 40 years. Editorial contributions CROSPERO 141 1 2 Devised and compiled by Jim Palm • • 3 4 Write to Robin Reynolds Complete the square using the clues; these apply only to words • • The Editor, Prospero running across. Then take these words in numerical order and 5 6 BBC Pension & Benefits Centre extract the letters indicated by a dot. If your answers are correct, these letters will spell out the names of two transmitters. • • Broadcasting House 7 8 9 Cardiff, CF5 2YQ Please send your answers in an envelope marked Crospero to The • • • Editor, Prospero, BBC Pension and Benefits Centre, Broadcasting Tel: 020 7765 1414 House, Cardiff CF5 2YQ by August 19. 10 [email protected] • Clues: 1. Work surface (4); 2. They catch the wind (5); 3. Chemise 11 (5); 4. Tree (3); 5. Heir (3); 6. Birmingham suburb (5); 7. Chop down Please make sure that any digital • (3); 8. Eastern sash (3); 9. Decade (3); 10. Neckwear (3); 11. Small 12 pictures you send are scanned measurements (11); 12. Suitable (3); 13. Cereal (3); 14. Completion (3); 15. And so on (3); 16. Mouthlike opening (5); 17. Mimic (3); 18. • at 250 dpi Cooked dish (3); 19. Underground worker (5); 20. Famous racer (5); 13 14 15 Design & production editor: Ann Ramsbottom 21. Valley (4). • • • 16 17 Solution to Crospero No. 140: Algae; Old, Spa; Lido; Spray; Ems; Sepoy; Oke; Urn; Gnu; Sign; Adam; Dad; Rom; Gym; Below; • • Mixed Sources Lei; Besom; Toby; Vau; Sen; Ether. 18 19 Product group from well-managed forests, controlled sources and • • recycled wood or fiber WWW.fsc.org Cert no. SA-COC-1468 The performers were Gladys Young and Mary Wimbush 20 21 c 1996 Forest Stewardship Council The winner of Crospero 140 is Mr Tom Watts of South Gloucester. • • 2 • • August • 2009 News Spotlight on visitors as six new volunteers sign up y k rris lynck son e Dun ise Mead yn Ha rushe Robin Valeri Eric W Roger Meril Leo K John BBC 1968-1982. Worked in BBC local radio BBC 1970-1999. Worked in Radio all through BBC 1979-2007. Worked BBC 1976-1989. Worked Started in personnel, for more than 30 years, Photographic Manager her career, starting in in Radio throughout, in Engineering Designs moved into production, starting at Radio Durham, working in Graphic CAMP and finishing in starting as a studio department at Western ended up on Tomorrow’s and finishing at Radio Design. Trained as a docs, with a spell in manager and finishing as House, W1, on Ceefax, World and Horizon . Now Merseyside. stress manager, and set continuing education along a producer in Current Nicam 3, RDS, an occasional invigilator at Patch: Merseyside. up his own business the way. Still freelancing for Affairs. microprocessors and real two London universities. consultancy providing Radio 4. Patch: London E1-16 & computers. Patch: Wandsworth and advice and training. Patch: London SW19 and WC1/2 Patch: South-west Essex Southfields, London Patch: South East London SW20. (Romford and district) Bush veterans recall the last days of the Soviets Welfare on the agenda Bridget was the Around 130 of the BBC’s 180 Volunteer Visitors gather in Cardiff at the end of the month for their annual two-day conference. The visitors – all ex-staff whose prime heroine of Latvia responsibility is to keep in touch with ageing and vulnerable former The power of the BBC behind the Iron Organised with the Open University’s power, because they had no credibility.’ employees on their patch, will hear Curtain was evident the day Latvia’s Tuning In Project and World Service head The seminar was recorded by students from specialists on a number of issues assembly voted for independence from the of Governance and Corporate Affairs Hugh from the Open University, it will feed into including state benefits for the elderly Soviet Union.
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