Round-up week 29 (16-22 July)

A round-up of BBC announcements and press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output last week.

BBC+ app

From Monday, the brand new BBC+ app became available to download, putting the things you care about from across the BBC at your fingertips, read more about it on the blog.

Announcements and blogs

Drama

John Thomson and Sarah Hadland to star in BBC One Daytime’s new adaptation of mystery adventure classic The Moonstone. 

Factual

It was announced that Sheku Kanneh-Mason, winner of this year’s BBC Young Musician, will be the subject of a BBC Four for BBC Music (1x60) documentary, Young, Gifted And Classical (working title), along with his six musically gifted brothers and sisters, Sheku also blogged this week about his win.

Meanwhile, BBC Three launches Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared, a real-life investigation into the twenty-year-old case of a British teenager's disappearance.

Children's

A new CBBC series, The Zoo (working title), is set to star animals at Paignton Zoo. The world famous BBC Natural History Unit is collaborating with independent kids’ content company, DHX Media to produce the show.

Radio

BBC Radio 5 live will be offering the perfect tonic to another disappointing summer for English football fans with a week of special programming to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1966 World Cup win.

Regional

On Wednesday HRH The Duchess of Cornwall officially opened BBC South West Headquarters; Mark Grinnell, Editor BBC Radio Devon blogged about the new building.

Wales announced that new figures reveal that even more people followed Wales at Euro 2016 than was first thought.

International

A powerful immersive film from BBC Media Action tracks a refugee’s journey via mobile phone. This striking film, designed to watch vertically on a mobile phone, helps the viewer to experience with immediacy the confusion and fear facing refugees making a perilous journey by boat.

Blogs

In addition to the blogs already mentioned, Phil Fearnley, Director of Homepage and myBBC blogged about the most personal summer of live events from across the BBC; Diana Reid talked about BBC Outreach’s Media on the Move conference; Gardeners' World's Paolo Proto shared his thoughts on Bringing the very best in gardening and horticulture to our viewers; Kieran Clifton, Director BBC Distribution and Business Development wrote about The Rio 2016 Olympic Games, live on the BBC; while blog editor Jon Jacob penned Strictly on the Radio.

Broadcast Highlights

• The Secret Agent started on BBC One on Sunday 17 July
• One Night In 2012 - An Imagine Special was on BBC One on Sunday 17 July
• Proms 2016 - Gospel Prom was on BBC iPlayer from Tuesday 19 July
• The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home was on BBC Two on Thursday 21 July
• The First Time With Yoko Ono was on BBC Radio 6 Music on Sunday 17 July
• Primo Levi's The Periodic Table a major new dramatisation started on on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 19 July
• Here We Come, The Monkees at 50! was on BBC Radio 2 on Tuesday 19 July