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Share But he said: ‘It would be superficial if we weren’t also radically shifting our focus across network television – if I was to say: “Let’s give BBC1 a northern voice.”’ Mr Talfan Davies said there will be a shift in ‘focus and garnering of stories’ to areas outside of London in the initiative. Programmes such as BBC2’s Newsnight, presented by Emily Maitlis (pictured) is set to go on the road Programmes such as BBC2’s Newsnight and Radio 4’s Today will go on the road to different cities. Mr Talfan Davies said: ‘If we’re all living within the M25 bubble, that inevitably has an impact on the editorial choices we make. So I believe it will make a difference.’ ....
BBC One will speak to northern viewers in their own accent Bespoke service will employ regional announcers in bid to make corporation feel less London-centric 3 June 2021 • 6:35pm The BBC s London headquarters, Broadcasting House Credit: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg BBC One viewers in the north will hear continuity announcements in their own accent, in the corporation’s latest attempt to move outside “the M25 bubble”. The “bespoke” service will be applied in the North West, North East, and Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, with each employing announcers specific to the region. “We are tailor-making the feel of the channel for those areas,” said Rhodri Talfan Davies, who is spearheading the BBC’s ‘Across the UK’ plan to make the corporation feel less London-centric. ....
With the Middle East in a state of persistent change and upheaval, there has long been a need for a comprehensive, yet readable, study that can give the intelligent and interested ‘lay-person’ a greater understanding of this diverse, complex region. ....
Century, 240pp, £14.99 Every so often, someone reopens a forgotten door into the natural world and magic ensues. In May 1924, the British cellist Beatrice Harrison found such an opening when she arranged a live BBC recording in her garden – accompanied only by the sound of a nightingale. The performance soon became a global phenomenon, offering something “all of us in this busy world unconsciously crave and urgently need”, as Lord Reith wrote at the time. Sam Lee, a folk singer and Pan-like intermediary for wilder things, now picks up where Harrison left off. His book tells the story of humanity’s relationship with the nightingale in all its international and artistic depth; from Byzantine song to the Blitz. Through this, Lee also shares his contemporary journey into the nightingale’s “melodious plot”, stretching through his co-performances with the birds, live lockdown broadcasts and the recent Extinction Rebellion protest in Berkeley Square. At a time wh ....
Robbie Gibb’s appointment shows how No 10 wants to politicise the BBC Some of the broadcaster’s staff are troubled by the appointment of an ideological Brexiteer to a supposedly neutral body. Boris Johnson’s government has appointed a known partisan to the BBC board, in an overt bid to politicise a governance body supposed to be free from political influence. Robbie Gibb, a former aide to two Tory politicians – he served as Theresa May’s director of communications in No 10, and as chief of staff to former Tory shadow chancellor Francis Maude in the 1990s – has been made the board’s member of England. The role was previously filled by Ashley Steel, the former global head of transport for KPMG, whose political anonymity was typical for those on the BBC board. Gibb, by contrast, is a political appointee filling what has historically been an apolitical role. ....