[Swprograms] Worth a special flight to London? BBCWS Bush House

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

	Last of Bush House I guess.
	And it is a leap-day/year.

	Though in North America we can't receive it
	(except via back-signal from relays) and 
	this new-fangled intertubes.

	Sigh.

Subject:   BBCWS opens doors to celebrate 80th birthday
X-URL: http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/bbcws-opens-doors-to-celebrate-80th-birthday

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BBCWS opens doors to celebrate 80th birthday
   February 15th, 2012 - 16:00 UTC
    by [10]Andy Sennitt.

   Audiences are to be given unprecedented behind the scenes access as
   part of a special day of live programming on 29 February, to mark the
   BBC World Service's 80th birthday. Highlights from the day will include
   a special global audience with Sir David Attenborough and The Strand -
   the WS global arts programme - will be edited by guest artist and music
   producer William Orbit. Audiences will be able to join a special debate
   about what they want from the World Service, both on air, online and
   across social media forums. (#bbcws80)

   The day will give audiences around the world a unique insight into
   production of their favourite programmes and multilingual videos will
   be produced of all the broadcasts throughout the day online at
   [11]bbc.co.uk/worldservice. For the first time audiences will be
   invited to watch and participate in over 12 hours of programmes in
   English and across more than 12 different languages. The day will be
   hosted by BBC Persian's Pooneh Ghoddoosi and BBC World Service
   presenter Ros Atkins.

   BBC World Service's daily morning editorial meeting, which normally
   takes place behind the doors of Bush House, will be opened up and
   broadcast live for the first time. In this meeting - a daily part of
   life in the building - the newsroom's editors discuss and agree the big
   stories and developments and decide on which stories will shape the
   day's news agenda.

   The open courtyard of Bush House will host many of the programmes that
   day. Flagship programmes such as Newshour and World Have Your Say will
   invite audiences to join a conversation about international
   broadcasting and the future priorities of the BBC World Service.
   Listeners around the world - and the audience at Bush House - will have
   the chance to shape the news agenda and debate by making suggestions
   from the floor, or through Twitter, Facebook and Skype.

   Peter Horrocks, Director of BBC Global News, said: "The 80th birthday
   and departure from Bush House means these are historic and changing
   times for the BBC World Service. We want our audiences to be at the
   heart of both the commemoration of the past and conversation about the
   future."

   BBC World Service Commissioning Editor, Steve Titherington, said: "We
   are turning Bush House inside out showing who we are and what we do to
   our audiences and asking what the world wants next from the BBC World
   Service."

   Not only celebrating 80 years of broadcasting, this special day of
   programming marks the start of the BBC World Service's move from Bush
   House, its iconic London home for over 70 years, to a new state of the
   art broadcasting centre in Oxford Circus. The move will see all of the
   BBC's news services - UK and international - based together for the
   first time. The aim is to create `the world's newsroom' - enhancing the
   BBC's global newsgathering and creating a forum for the best journalism
   in the world.

   Programming

   BBC World Service English - much of the day's global schedule from
   07:00 to 23:00 GMT will broadcast live from outside Bush House.
   Programming highlights from this day include:
     * 09:00 - The live news meeting - normally conducted behind closed
       doors, audiences will for the first time be given insight into the
       inner workings of the newsroom.
     * 11:00 - World Have Your Say - the global interactive news
       discussion programme will ask audiences around the world what they
       want the programme to be about on that day.
     * 15:00 - A live global audience with Sir David Attenborough.
     * 17:00 - World Business Report and Focus on Africa will link up to
       broadcast a special programme asking how business journalism is
       reporting the financial crisis with Alistair Darling [Shadow
       Chancellor of the Exchequer] on the panel, and looking at the
       creative energy and entrepreneurship coming out of Africa.
     * 19:00 Health Check - will air a special programme to launch The
       Human Race Season - a raft of programmes examining the human body.
       Endurance runners and sprinters, sports psychologists, doctors and
       coaches will all be in the courtyard to try to answer `What makes
       an Olympic athelete?'
     * 20:00 - 22:00 - Newshour, BBC World Services flagship current
       affairs show, will broadcast a special debate looking at the future
       of international broadcasting.
     * 22:00 - 23:00 - The Strand Extra - BBC World Service's global arts
       show, will be edited by special guest artist and music producer
       William Orbit.

   (Source: BBC World Service Press Office)

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