Broadcasting Britain: 100 Years of the BBC

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Award-winning directors from the world of cinema including Ken Loach, Steve McQueen, Mike Leigh, Mary Harron, Sally El Hosaini and James Marsh participate in a special Talking Movies season looking at the role the BBC has played in nurturing their career. There are also interviews from the BBC’s own Oral History project, most of which have never been broadcast before.

Going back to the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, the music choices include titles such as Twiddling with the Knobs on the Radio by Dorrie Dene and We Can’t Let You Broadcast That!As the government’s national archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, The National Archives hold over 1,000 years of the nation’s records for everyone to discover and use. Head of BBC History Robert Seatter charts the story of a broadcaster and a nation, reflecting the story of all our lives across ten tumultuous decades.

That the German language version of The Archers was directly responsible for the death of Adolf Hitler. Participants chart the BBC’s first, stuttering, attempt at rolling news on the night of President Kennedy’s assassination and the presenter James Burke tells how the Queen Mother helped to shape the BBC’s coverage of an Apollo space mission.Central was the concern in the BBC's early days about what should be commissioned for the license-fee paying audience, and whether 'high' or 'low' culture should be the focus. Since the first TV chef, Marcel Boulestin, appeared on our screens in 1937, the BBC has created an abundance of iconic culinary stars, from Marguerite Patten to Ken Hom, Delia Smith to Madhur Jaffrey – enlightening, entertaining and educating the public to the widest range of global cuisines.

It uses archival BBC news programmes to introduce schoolchildren to the actions of and reactions to marginalised groups in 1960s Britain.Ronnie Archer-Morgan is delighted to meet Playschool favourite, Baroness Floella Benjamin together with Humpty and Jemima, while Fiona Bruce chats to actor Neil Pearson who brings along an original script from the legendary comedy series, Hancock’s Half Hour. Natasha also dips into the BBC archive as she takes a journey through 100 years of memorable moments, starting from its radio launch way back in 1922. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. She was also an activist, championing women’s rights, the rights of black people, literacy programmes, the education of children, and working with the deposed Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie. Plus Radio 2 also marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Madonna’s first single, Everybody, in Sounds of the 80s presented by Gary Davies (Saturday 1st October).

The conventional way to present a documentary is for the presenter to do pieces to camera, then to lay down commentary and then to host interviews. Its a darned good read, not too hard on the grey cells, and of course, quite congratulatory, and why not, even though their current wokeness leaves me open mouthed. One avid collector of TV memorabilia arrives at the Roadshow in Del Boy’s Ford Capri from the hit sitcom Only Fools and Horses, while expert Will Farmer gets the chance to play quizmaster when he comes face-to-face with the original Mastermind chair brought in by Sally Magnusson.Antiques Roadshow is at Alexandra Palace, the birthplace of television, for this special edition programme to celebrate 100 years of broadcasting. We find out why the Queen’s Coronation made you the most popular house on the street, if you had a telly, and how the launch night of BBC2 went awry, with not only a power cut, but also an escaped kangaroo. Battle of the Brows: Philip Hensher explores how the early 'culture wars' and public debates about British cultural life were played out at the BBC and beyond from the 1920s onwards. Once the students graduate from the course, they go on to forge careers in their chosen craft, using their much-needed talents out in the real world. In the end it's little more than a very bare list of programmes aired during the BBC's long history with inadequate textual diversions.