Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2012
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How the BBC pays contractors
Following recent reports about how the BBC pays people who are not permanent members of staff, I thought it might be useful to outline why we do things the way we do. Permanent members of staff at the BBC pay their taxes through PAYE like most other people up and down the country. However peop...
Combining learning with drama: Secrets and Words
I'm writing this on a train and apart from the odd lurch of the carriage the words come quickly. Before I began writing, I read emails and skimmed some papers without having to make any particular effort to decode letters and words. It's very easy to take all this for granted but for many ...
Schubert Season on BBC Radio 3
Editor's Note: BBC Radio 3 will play all of Schubert's compositions for eight and a half days from Friday 23 March 2012 in a special season entitled 'The Spirit of Schubert'. The season launches with a special broadcast of In Tune in front of an audience as King's Place in London. In this...
BBC Performing Arts Fund shares plans for the coming year
Earlier this week, the BBC Performing Arts Fund welcomed guests from across the arts world to Broadcasting House's shiny new media café to hear about our plans for the coming year. The Fund has been going now for 9 years, first as the Fame Academy Bursary, and is about to reach £4m in grants. ...
Debating the economy across the country
Our Economy will broadcast on BBC One at 2305 on Monday 19 March 2012. At a time when our audience is hungry to understand how the economy will affect their lives, the week of the budget is an ideal moment to put local economic developments under the spotlight and hold those in charge to a...
Religious programming on the BBC this Easter
Easter this year on the BBC is all about passion. It's the name of our two big highlights and it's a reflection as well of all the effort that has gone into making this Easter a stand out in the calendar for our listeners and viewers. The year before I started at the BBC, there had been so...
The BBC's commitment to developing opportunities for women
The representation of women across political, professional and business life has been widely debated in the past few months. For broadcasting too, there has been much focus on the role of women both on and off-screen, most recently on the number of expert women used on TV and radio in a campai...
Knocking through to New Broadcasting House
Editor's note: Director, W1 Programme Andy Griffee blogs about a momentous week at New Broadcasting House in London ahead of the Burmese Service's first broadcast from the building on Sunday. Anyone who has moved house will know that it takes some planning. But not usually 3 years. Howeve...
CBeebies 2011/2012 Launch Event
During a special screening of new CBeebies programmes for 2011 and 2012 at King's Place in central London, Controller of the pre-school digital channel Kay Benbow spoke about the thinking behind the channel and the special connection it makes with its audience. The event formed part of two ...
Susannah Simons introduces Music Nation
Over on the Radio 3 blog, Project Executive 2012 Susannah Simons explains some of the background to the Music Nation weekend of events running across the UK on 3 and 4 March 2012. I spoke to Susannah last week in a brief interview about her work on the project, what she's looking forward to d...