[IRCA] Fwd: [mwcircle] UK+world : BBC announces worldwide simulcast

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

from MW Circle:




Radio Reunited, a global simulcast curated by Damon Albarn to mark 90 years of radio

 

The BBC today announced plans for an unprecedented global simulcast across its
radio networks â?? including every UK station (local, network and national) and
many World Service outlets â?? curated by Damon Albarn to mark 90 years of radio.

The simultaneous broadcast, called Radio Reunited, will take place on November
14 at 17:33 GMT â?? 90 years since the first broadcast from the British
Broadcasting Company in 1922 - to a potential global audience of 120 million
people across every inhabited continent.

The three-minute transmission will be based on recorded messages from listeners
around the world on the theme of the future. Each of an estimated 60 BBC radio
stations will choose one message and many of them will then be mixed together
and set to a musical score specially composed by the Blur frontman.

It will form the centrepiece of the on-air celebrations to mark 90 years of BBC
Radio, which will also feature a wide range of special programming across BBC
stations, full details of which will be announced nearer the time.

The process of gathering the messages begins this week, when listeners will be
invited to contribute a single, short missive to their radio station addressed
to future generations to be listened to 90 years from now. The message could be
a hope, a fear, an observation, question or piece of advice, and could be
tweeted, texted or e-mailed. Listeners whose messages are chosen will be invited
by their chosen station to record their thought. One message from each of the
stations involved (listed below) will be sent to Damon, who will use the
recordings as the basis of the simulcast. 

All the messages received by the BBC will be passed on to the Mass Observation
Archive at the University of Sussex to ensure they are preserved for another 90
years and can be made available for academic research.

Listeners can find out more about the project and how to get involved at
bbc.co.uk/reunited <http://www.bbc.co.uk/reunited> . The website will also
showcase the best of the messages contributed by members of the public once the
project is completed. Listeners will be encouraged to use the hash tag #bbc90 if
tweeting their message.

Tim Davie, Director BBC Audio & Music, said: â??This ambitious project will
bring all of the BBCâ??s UK stations together for the first time in their
history to mark 90 years of radio broadcasting. It is great news that Damon has
agreed to curate Radio Reunited and join us in looking forward to the next 90
years of radio.â??  

Tim has also  <http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio/posts/BBC-Radio-at-90> blogged
on the project here.

Damon Albarn said: â??I love the idea of stations across Britain and the World
Service coming together, with all of our different lives and circumstances, even
if it's only for a few minutes. It's a powerful idea.â??

Radio Reunited is one of the key broadcasts to mark the anniversary. Two of the
other major programming projects launched today to celebrate 90 years of BBC
radio are:

- The Listenersâ?? Archive â?? on October 11 the BBC begins a major initiative
to recover the lost gems of the broadcasting archive by calling an â??amnestyâ??
on recorded media.  Listeners are asked to scour their lofts, garages and
cupboards for tapes, cassettes and other recordings of BBC radio programmes from
1936 to 2000, and hand them in at BBC Centres around the UK on â??Amnesty
Dayâ??. BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5live, BBC Local Radio in England
and the BBC Nations are all involved. Central to the project will be a series of
shows on Radio 2 and 6 Music around the 90th anniversary, where clips of the
recovered content â?? and possibly whole programmes - will be played, and
introduced by the person who originally recorded them. 

- 90 x 90 (from November 14) â?? a series of 90-second miniatures that
celebrate, calibrate and curate the diversity of radio in its widest form.
Serious, funny, evocative, personal, provocative - each episode represents one
year of the 90. They will be broadcast across BBC Radio 4 Extra starting after
Radio Reunited and continue for the next 11 days. They will also feature across
other BBC radio networks over the same period.

The BBC stations taking part in Radio Reunited are:

BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1xtra, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6music, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4,
BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 5live, BBC London 94.9, BBC
Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio Kent, BBC Oxford, BBC Sussex, BBC Surrey, BBC Radio
Solent, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Essex, BBC Three Counties Radio, BBC Radio
Norfolk, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Newcastle, BBC Tees, BBC Radio Cumbria, BBC
Radio Manchester, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC
Radio Lancashire, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC
Coventry & Warwickshire, BBC Radio Derby, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio
Leicester, BBC Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC
Radio Shropshire, BBC WM, BBC Wiltshire, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio
Bristol, BBC Radio Cornwall, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Guernsey, BBC Radio Jersey,
BBC Somerset, BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Foyle, BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal, BBC
Radio Scotland, Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and many BBC World Service outlets,
including Arabic, Swahili, Hausa, English Language services


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-- 
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC

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