Round up week 31 (29 July - 4 August)
Jen Macro
Digital Content Producer, About the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
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A round-up of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output last week.
RAJARS
Latest figures from shows that Radio 4’s audience is at its highest level since records began in 1999, with 11.55 million people listening every week, with the Today programme drawin a record weekly reach of 7.66 million.
Religion and ethics
On Friday the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ announced across Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One and Two.
Announcements and blogs
Drama
Sharon Gless, star of '80s New York police drama Cagney And Lacey will join the cast of when the show returns for it's 31st series.
Filming has begun in Snowdonia on the latest Wales-based crime series - - to be shown next year by Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Wales and S4C.
Comedy
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Three announced new comedy written by and featuring Chieng, known for his monologues on America's The Daily Show.
Entertainment
for a week of live programmes. Presenters Matt and Alex will be making their way up the Causeway Coastal Route as they head from Carrickfergus to the Giant’s Causeway from Monday 7 August to Friday 11 August.
Factual
on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One is a new documentary that follows an innovative Welsh couple who are are researching insect farming and running the UK’s first full-time restaurant serving food containing insects.
On Wednesday Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One announced that it is launching a new cookery competition as Mary Berry leads the charge to find (w/t) in a series presented by Claudia Winkleman.
iPlayer/Digital
For the first time, football fans will be able to starting in the extra preliminary round.
International
comes to South Africa when a panel of politicians and thinkers from across the spectrum join Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ presenter Nancy Kacungira at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg on 10 August.
The call for submissions for opened on Wednesday. A new category has been added for 2018’s festival, for Digital Journalism. All works entered must have been made after January 1, 2016, and reflect on current situations in the Arab world.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India, India’s independence from the British Raj and the creation of an independent Pakistan, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s international news services – Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World News television and the website bbc.com/news –present a season of special features and programmes.
Blogs
Divya Arya, the Women Affairs journalist for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service, gives the background to the letters from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s “Kashmir – the unseen and unheard” series which ran on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service English, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Hindi, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Tamil and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Urdu in .
Senior distribution manager, Neil Walker explained the decision to move the came about.
On Thursday, , graphics and font, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Reith, named after the founder of the corporation, and we posted posted our new weekly round up of what's new on .
We were also sad to her of the death of 'All Creatures Great and Small' actor, , who died on Thursday aged 91.
Broadcast Highlights
Man in an Orange Shirt, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two
- , Saturday 29 July, 9.00pm, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TWO
- , Monday 31 July, 7.30pm-8.00pm, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE
- , Monday 31 July, 9.00pm-10.00pm, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TWO
- , Friday 4 August, 6.00pm-7.00pm, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TWO
- , Tuesday 1 August, 8.00pm-8.40pm, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ RADIO 4
- , Saturday 29 July to Sunday 30 July, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ RADIO 3
- , Saturday 29 July, 12.00pm-1.00pm, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ RADIO 3
- , Monday 31 July, 9.00am-9.45am, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ RADIO 4