Broadcasting Britain: 100 Years of the BBC

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If your preferred viewing is nature programmes (and David Attenborough in particular), or the news, or other event-driven broadcasting, you might be happy. 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. This means that there is material of values in its archives to anyone working on any aspect of life and thought in 20th century Britain and beyond. We also hear from leading academics and her friends, who consider Una’s life as a black woman in a professional role in Britain at a time when that was highly unusual - and the personal costs attached. As the BBC celebrates 100 years since its first broadcast, Radio 2 celebrates other cultural firsts.

This is a well produced book, and I chose this for a friend who used to be a TV weatherman and is a bit of a BBC fanatic. It is how we remember where we come from and who we are - from the Moon Landing to the 9/11 attacks, from Monty Python to EastEnders , from Live Aid to London 2012.Our Non-Fiction Range includes: Academic, Photography, Audio books, Business, Cook Books, Craft Books, Health and Fitness Books, Mind, Body, Spirit (Tarot). Places - Interactive map From famous studios to iconic broadcast locations, to mark the BBC centenary explore this interactive map of 100 key BBC places around the UK – a new collaboration between the BBC, Historic England, Historic Environment Scotland, Cadw - Wales, and the Department for Communities - Northern Ireland. television comes of age with the Coronation of the current Queen, as the Corporation comes into the age of mass media. They sit down with Talking Movies host Tom Brook to explain how their early years working as BBC staff and working on BBC projects gave them invaluable storytelling skills and experience for their later very successful film and documentary filmmaking careers. As you can appreciate, it wasn’t easy to select what to include and even worse what to leave out, so the key criteria I used were to ask: what defined the decade?

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I’m a profound believer in the existence and importance of the BBC, but I thought that, instead of just joining in with the eulogies of praise, I would look at the occasions on which things have gone wrong, and how the BBC has handled them, to discover what can be done in the future to improve. In short, the perfect coffee-table books, especially at it's a reasonably compact size (rought 9x7in, 23x18cm). On Wednesday evenings, BBC Four will continue to reflect the BBC 100 / BFI Gamechangers collection, with special introductions from famous faces including David Harewood for A Man from the Sun and Alison Steadman for The Singing Detective.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. How, for instance, can a biog of Top Of The Pops only include positive stories and quotations of the 1970s? Spanning the generations are Tony Blackburn, Zoe Ball and Rylan Clark chatting about their life on air, including memorable outside broadcasts, earliest BBC memories, their first songs played on air and lots more (Saturday 15th October). He talks to Tom about his early days at the BBC, taking cameras out of the studio and helping to show the realities of working class life on British television.

As well as delving into the archive, we’ll be showing what the BBC offers us all today with our team of experts. In a special show to celebrate the BBC’s 100th birthday, two teams of famous faces go head to head at an antiques fair in Newark.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. There really is something for everyone and we’re looking forward to sharing this moment with audiences across the UK and beyond. 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.