Broadcasting Britain: 100 Years of the BBC

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We’re visiting 400,000 school children as part of our Share Your Story education initiative and we opened up our digitised archive to students. Explore our programme anniversaries covering key series made by the BBC, dip in to the early years of the BBC Oral History Collection, and explore highlights from the 100 Voices collaboration between the BBC and University of Sussex.

During our special week of BBC 100 content, audiences can look forward to a mix of exciting new commissions alongside some of our best-loved shows, as they mark a century of broadcasting in their own unique way. BAFTA winner and multiple Oscar nominee Mike Leigh sits down with Talking Movies presenter Tom Brook to look back on his career and celebrate the impact that the BBC has played in his work. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. From his time directing BBC classics like Cathy Come Home and Up The Junction to more contemporary fare like I, Daniel Blake - Loach has a deep association with the Corporation and has helped to define and re-define the British television and cinema landscape. Eyewitnesses and participants in the BBC’s early history recount some of the triumphs and disasters as new frontiers of broadcasting were mapped out – often by accident rather than design.If you have any questions, require more information or if you would like more pictures, do not hesitate to get in touch.

The former marked the beginning of one of the first massive TV brands, and the latter highlighted the importance of the BBC in growing citizenship amongst the nation’s children. In my seventies, its entertaining and nostalgic to pick through the names some of whom you remember, many of whom you will not.Explore 10 years of British History through key broadcasting moments illuminated by images from the BBC archive. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It is not, no more than manuscripts are principally studied by palaeographers or books are sources best left to bibliographers. Work, The Spike Milligan Show, Three Plus One, Cut Off at the Fringe, Three Lumps of Cleese, Wrinkles. How The BBC Began is a Crux Productions and The Garden Productions film for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.