We’re experimenting with content for Voice

Every so often a technology comes along that could change how we consume information, ideas and entertainment. Each time the BBC has been at the cutting edge, in big and small ways. We may be experiencing something similar again.

We want to increase our public service role. We just want to do it creatively, rather than as box-ticking.

Radio 4 is special. It’s part of my daily life – as it is for millions up and down the country.

From Today and The Archers to Start the Week, Moral Maze, Life Scientific, The Infinite Monkey…

BBC Sounds reaches 1.3m listeners

I’ve slightly fallen off the blogging wheel, as I was reminded recently on Twitter by StephenCWLL. Apologies for that — I got caught up in the launch of BBC Sounds and then … Christmas! I promise to do better this year, and give regular updates.

Radio and Education: how are we doing?

The Mission of the BBC is to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain.

Reverse mentoring at the BBC

We’re reinventing the BBC for the next generation.

So we thought we’d involve them. We recently held the first session of the Radio and Education reverse mentoring network.

We’ve made some announcements today, in our first ever Annual Plan.

We’re required to do this by our new Charter — so that people can see our plans and influence them.

We are investing in children’s services.

Getting the space to innovate

I said last week that we would be experimenting with new and different types of content. I want to tell you about one way we’ve been doing that — podcasts.

Podcasts aren’t new. The first podcasts — as we now know them — were made in 2004. The same…

What the BBC is doing for social mobility

I’ve been at the RTS Conference this week, and was really glad to take part in a session on social mobility today. The best industry conferences shape what’s on our collective to-do-list and this is rightly at the top.

Making learning personal

As exam season draws to a close, the sighs of relief are almost audible from children and young people up and down the country. The same is true within BBC Learning’s Bitesize team. For the past nineteen years, they’ve played a key role in helping children across the UK get to grips…