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P H O T 15.06.10 Week 24 explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel ograp H: MARK BASSE THE BBC NEWSPAPER TT POETS AND PODCASTS AT GLASTONBURY a Pages 8-9 AS THE BBC CLUB focuses on health, White City senior fitness man- ager Nicola Feustel feels the burn while chief operating officer Dino Portelli looks on. PAGE 4 GYm’lL FIX IT Pay offer: small award Middle East editor Recalling the historic for some but nothing Jeremy Bowen makes broadcast that rallied for others Page 2 his mark again Page 3 France in 1940 Page 7 > NEWS 2-4 ANALYSIS 10 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 GREEN ROOM 16 < 216 News aa 00·00·08 15·06·10 NEWS BITES a Unions greet flat rate FM&T AND Siemens have launched a new service for all BBC staff enabling them to access their BBC email ac- Room 2316, White City count from anywhere, via the inter- 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS net. To set up your access go to email. pay offer with dismay myconnect.bbc.co.uk and follow the 020 8008 4228 instructions using your regular user Editor by Lisette Johnston She said: ‘This has been a tough decision, not login details. Candida Watson 02-84222 least because we know that, in common with Deputy Editor THE BBC is offering a flat rate payment of £475, the public as a whole, all BBC staff are facing A HEALTH campaign spearheaded by Cathy Loughran 02-27360 consolidated, to anyone earning less than significant cost of living increases at the mo- BBC Essex presenter Dave Monk will Chief Writer £37,726 – and a pay freeze this year for every- ment. culminate on June 19 with a station Sally Hillier 02-26877 one else. In addition, the suspension of bonus- ‘However, in the current economic climate roadshow on Canvey Island. Monk, Planning Manager es for directors and senior managers remains where basic pay awards across the UK remain concerned about men’s reluctance to Clare Bolt 02-24622 in place, as do any previously announced pay on average very low, we believe that this offer is be checked for cancer and other seri- Broadcast Journalists freezes. fair and reasonable. It is now even more impor- ous conditions, mobilised Essex’s pri- Claire Barrett 02-27368 It follows talks last week with the joint un- tant than ever that every pound is spent wisely mary health care trusts to sponsor ions, who had bid for RPI plus two percent. to help us deliver value to our audiences.’ awareness-raising events. Adam Bambury 02-27410 Lucy Adams, director of BBC People, said the Bectu, the NUJ and Unite have said that while Lisette Johnston 02-27630 offer would benefit almost 70 percent of staff. they don’t oppose a longer term pay deal, for a RADIO 1 is to feature unsigned acts as Rumeana Jahangir 01 -43756 The unions declared it ‘totally unacceptable’. one year agreement they cannot consider any- part of its daytime schedule. For ten AV Manager Gerry Morrissey, Bectu general secretary, thing less than the BBC’s licence fee settlement weeks from June 21, the station will Peter Roach 02-24622 said: ‘BBC staff deserve a fair increase in pay for of two percent. They also want a clear commit- play tracks from British artists who Digital Design Executives 2010/11, one which rewards their loyalty and ment from the company to promote staff who submitted their music to the BBC In- David Murray 02-27380 commitment and which recognises the contin- ‘act up’ in senior roles for at least two years, troducing evening strand. Gary Lonergan 02-84229 uing high demands placed upon them.’ and to preserve existing agreements on the re- Team Assistant NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear added: deployment of staff faced with redundancy. THE BBC Symphony Orchestra will Graeme Allister 02-84228 ‘We appreciate the BBC is trying to cut the cake Jeremy Dear said: ‘BBC staff have taken on give a full-blown classical music con- to help the lowest paid, but it is unacceptable additional workloads in the wake of thousands cert at London’s Westfield shopping that a third of journalists would receive no pay of job losses and are paying more for their pen- centre on July 9 as part of the BBC Guest contributors this week rise and that for the third year running BBC sions. It is time the BBC recognised their out- Proms Out+About initiative. The con- staff are being offered a deal which is signifi- standing contribution to maintaining quality.’ cert, intended as a ‘pre-season treat RIC BAILEY, chief adviser, politics, cantly below inflation and significantly below The unions also want the corporation to re- for Londoners and their families’, on the challenges and opportunities the rise in the licence fee. Quite simply, the quire all contractors to pay the London living will take place a week before the of covering the coalition Page 10 cake isn’t big enough.’ wage – currently £7.85 per hour – as an abso- Proms start. Adams said the BBC had aimed to direct the lute minimum. CECELIA HUE, freelance producer, available funds, which amount to one percent Talks will continue and a further response COMEDIAN DARA O Briain, host of deals with heat, punctures and tribal of the total pay bill, to the staff who earn least. from the BBC is expected on June 30. Mock the Week, is to take over as pre- rivalries during a trip to Mali for senter of The Apprentice – You’re Fired the Natural History Unit Page 11 when it returns to BBC Two later in the year. He replaces Adrian Chiles who is now with ITV. Meanwhile, Ariel mail Over the moon at MBE a new series of Mock the Week gets Candida. [email protected] under way on BBC Two on June 17. Ariel online explore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel Sporting double: Jackie BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 Fullerton and BBC WALES, BBC Worldwide and US Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 Mike Ingham entertainment network Starz Enter- BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 tainment have signed a three-way co- Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS production partnership to develop a new series of Torchwood. BBC World- Advertise in Ariel wide will also distribute the series to Ten Alps Media 020 7878 2313 broadcasters globally. www.bbcarielads.com Printing GIANANDREA NOSEDA is stepping Garnett Dickinson Group down as chief conductor of the BBC Rotherham 01709 768000 Philharmonic after almost a decade. Subscribe to Ariel However he will continue to spend Six months: £26, £36, £40 time with the orchestra as conductor laureate. His final season will feature Twelve months: £50, £60, £68 music by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, (prices for UK, Europe, rest of world A NUMBER OF BBC people, both past and present, and was ‘stunned and full of pride’ at being in- Liszt and Strauss, concluding with respectively) are among those named in the Queen’s Birthday cluded in the list. Verdi’s Otello. Cheques to: Garnett Dickinson Print, Honours List. Peter Johnston, Northern Ireland director, Brookfields Way, Manvers, They include Mike Ingham, chief football said: ‘This is a tremendous recognition of Jackie’s BBC SCOTLAND’S Write Here, Write Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 5DL correspondent, who is currently with Radio 5 talent as a journalist, presenter and commenta- Now competition has delivered three Tel 01709 768199 live in South Africa covering the World Cup. tor and to his tireless contribution to sport and winners, one from Glasgow, one from INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY He has been awarded an MBE for services to broadcasting over the last 37 years. We are de- Edinburgh and one from East Ren- sport broadcasting. lighted he has been given this accolade. It is a fit- frewshire, who now have the chance Telephone 0800 0688 159 ‘I’ve spent the best part of 40 years talking ting tribute to a great personality.’ to make their mark at the Edinburgh Ceefax Page 159 www.bbc.co.uk/159 on the radio but for the first time ever I pret- In news, reporter Julian Pettifer, who has Comedy Festival in August. They will Ariel is produced by Internal ty much found myself speechless,’ he told Ariel covered a host of international stories for pro- be mentored by experienced people Communications for people at the BBC over the phone on Monday. grammes such as Tonight, 24 Hours and Pano- in comedy production as they work ‘It is very humbling. I was completely rama, receives an OBE for services to journal- on scripts to be read by professional stunned when I found out, and it was fantas- ism and wildlife conservation. actors at the festival. tic when it was announced because of course In recent years he fronted Nature and The it came out the same day as the England game Living Isles for the BBC and currently presents ARIEL WAntS to hear how BBC par- here in South Africa. Radio 4’s Crossing Continents. ents cope with the long summer holi- ‘Apart from my family, the two loves of my Cookery writer and judge of BBC Two’s Great days. Do you package the children life have been broadcasting and sport, so to get British Menu, Prue Leith, is appointed a CBE, off to gran, sign them up for a PGL PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR COPY OF ARIEL recognition for that is absolutely amazing.’ while physicist Brian Cox, presenter of the ac- (Parents Get Lost) activity holiday or Staying in the world of sport, Northern Ireland claimed Wonders of the Solar System, gets an OBE for teach them an early lesson in inde- presenter Jackie Fullerton gets an MBE for servic- services to science.