Few snippets of an anniversary documentary. [link]
Tag: BBC
BBC cuts
I’ve just got this from punch records and while it might not be _your_ niche Asian Network is an important part of the BBC’s output in Brum and I think you should have the chance for a read (and if…
A History of the Birmingham
A BBC/BMAG project to identify ten items that tell the history of the World with some Brum connection. [link]
Danny Smith: Backstabbers Guide to Wolverhampton
In the slow news week between Christmas and New Years the BBC decided that it would be newsworthy to point out how shit Wolverhampton was. My first reaction was ‘have these people never been to Coventry?’ I mean our sister…
Heart By-Pass: Jonathan Meades Motors Through Birmingham
Back from 1998 much of this is still completely relevant: More Meades (and currently doing a series about Scotland on BBC Four).
"Inside" the new Academy
Louise Brierley gets a look inside how the Dome is being re-done. All we get are pretty odd CGI artists impressions tho'. [link]
The zombies are coming
The swine flu series Survivors is coming to town and on Sunday 14th June – 6.30am to 6.30pm – they're doing a huge operation, which includes: "the complete closure of Newhall St from Colmore Row down to Great Charles Queensway…
On Yer Bike
Tony Butler leaves BBC WM: "Outspoken Butler said: “I think it’s embarrassing for the BBC to be employing a 74-year-old when they are cutting here and there, but that’s perfectly reasonable." [link]
Robert Vaughn to live in the Rotunda? The Man from B.R.U.M.C.L.E
Something to do with Hustle supposedly coming to Brum to film, he said: "my wife said 'you've got to find out where I'm going to live!' So tonight after the signings I'm going down to the Rotunda in the Bullring,…