Seeing in the New Year across the UK with a special recording of Auld Lang Syne
Ken MacQuarrie
Director, Nations and Regions
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Auld Lang Syne may be a poem that is over 200 years old but it continues to be a feature of celebrations around the world on New Year’s Eve. This year we’ve created a special spoken recording of the poem that includes some of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s radio voices to showcase the range and diversity of our services across the UK and around the globe.
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is reaching and serving an ever more diverse audience - operating in over 30 languages andwith radio services reaching over 150 million people in the UK and around the world every year.
The video is designed to be a simple celebration, so only a fraction of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s radio services are included.
The voices include presenters from our UK language services:
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Alba and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Cymru - CathyMacDonald and Aled Hughes)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scotland - Bryan Burnett
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Wales - Eleri Sion
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Northern Ireland - Kerry McLean
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Newcastle - Alfie Joey
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ York - Richard Stead
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ West Midlands - Adrian Goldberg
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Hindi - Neha Bhatnagar
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic - Adel Soliman
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Chinese Service - Howard Zhang.
Radio 1xtra - A. Dot
Radio 4’s - John Humphrys
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is proud to be able to serve and represent such a wide and diverse audience. New Year is traditionally a time when people come together to celebrate and this video seemed a perfect way to do that.
Ken MacQuarrie is Director, Nations and Regions