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.

Making programmes to do good

Last week, I wrote that the BBC isn’t a media company – we’re not trying to beat ITV or Netflix.

We’re a public service – we don’t just make good programmes, we try to do good with programmes.

It’s a month today since we launched BBC Sounds at Tate Modern. The evening included the sight of three Jeremy Vines on stage simultaneously – the real one and his two impersonators from Dead Ringers.

That night we also had performances from Nile Rodgers & Chic, Craig David, Mabel and Tom Grennan alongside Dotty, Greg James…

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…

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.

How we’re implementing our Religion Review

Last Monday, I spoke at the launch of Morality In The 21st Century, which ran last week on Radio 4 and is available on the BBC iPlayer Radio app.

In it, presenter Jonathan Sacks asks whether we still have space for morality. It’s a big idea and a complex…

Podcasts for the inevitable long waits this Christmas period

A couple of friends confessed the other day that they didn’t know where to start with podcasts, and asked for recommendations. I sent them this and and thought I’d share.