the bbc may have been around for 100 years but nearly 50 years ago i came to open up bbc appointment and got an apprenticeship as a bbc news trainee. since then, overthe years i have witnessed numerous men and women, talented people at the bbc who have moved on to greatness in the film industry. the bbc help to train the man who is without any doubt and eldest statesman of british summer, 86 year ken loach. with more than 50 directing credits to his name, he has made such classics as kes, the wind that shakes the barley and i, daniel blake. andy has won the top prize at the palme d'0r, and at the canne film festival twice. this is a british broadcasting corporation. i met him in the