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Liz Ayre says she was lost for words when the ring her late husband had given her was found.

Mrs Ayre got in touch with Mr Bowen to see if he could help search for the ring and the pair met at Shelly beach in Exmouth on 7 September. Mrs Ayre said the ring had "enormous sentimental value". When Geoff Bowen found the ring on the beach a month later Mrs Ayre cried tears of happiness.

“If you believe in universal broadcasting, the pressure is on us to deliver value for every household,” he told delegates at the RTS London Convention 2022, ...

“Final thing is, I think you cannot separate funding model from editorial, intent and delivery.” What I think is really important is are we able to maintain a market-making intervention.” “The challenge is how you deliver that mechanically across every household.

Emma Jenkinson carries cockatiel Snowy in a special carrier to try and lure Pippy, its mate, home.

They are so loving and friendly. "He actually likes it and I go out every day." Ms Jenkinson said: "He actually likes it and I go out every day."

Paul Robeson was embraced then banned, Gracie Fields beat cancer and trilled for the troops, news anchors got a catchphrase – and parental chinwags went ...

The evacuation of British children in wartime led the BBC to explore “co-productions” (a now standard usage that first occurred here) with the places to which they had been sent. “Here is the news, and this is Alvar Lidell reading it,” became the catchphrase of the BBC’s first star anchor. [Television](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television) (which formally launched in 1936) was the corporation’s first live TV broadcast outside. Commentating on the cricket was Captain HBT Wakelam, on the tennis Colonel RH Brand and Major CL Cooper-Hunt (most broadcasters at the time had military titles from the first world war.) Another big genre – the review of topical events – began in January with a weekly Sunday night slot from 9.20pm to 9.35pm, in which a writer took what for decades was called “a sideways look” at the news. At just after 3pm on Christmas Day, King George V made a radio broadcast to the nation from Sandringham, starting a tradition that continues to this day.

Alan Dickson has been appointed Chief Financial Officer and Alice Macandrew has been appointed as the new Corporate Affairs Director.

Alan is a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Alan joined the BBC in 1995 and has most recently been the Chief Financial and Operations Officer for BBC News. BBC Director-General Tim Davie says: “I am very pleased to confirm these appointments as we build a BBC focused on delivering great value for all licence fee payers. She will report to the Director General with responsibility for all corporate affairs. Alan Dickson says: “Starting off in BBC Scotland more than 25 years ago, I know just how much positive impact this organisation can have and I’ve been fortunate to have enjoyed some wonderful opportunities at the BBC. I am very pleased to confirm these appointments as we build a BBC focused on delivering great value for all licence fee payers.

Met Police officer Tom Harrison, 46, has been knocking on over a hundred doors as he treks the country in aid of the British Red Cross' Ukraine appeal. He has ...

He has raised over £4,000 so far. Speaking on why he is doing the "ludicrous walk" for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal, he said: "Their suffering has been far beyond mine. The father-of-two has been given lunches and a bed in a poolhouse as he makes the 263-mile (423km) journey.

Desert Islands Discs launched, a raffish bachelor made sitcom history, hoofers had a riot and a man called Alan hosted Woman's Hour – which revealed how to ...

As competition from TV increased, the wireless Home Service was still launching glories of broadcasting. A primetime BBC celebration of Russia’s Red Army on its 27th anniversary, including a formal tribute to Marshal Joseph Stalin, seems extraordinary now, but reflects UK gratitude to the USSR as an ally against Hitler. Archives show that King George VI personally requested that Thursday 3 September, the third anniversary of Britain’s entry into war, be dedicated a national day of prayer, with a morning service for broadcast in workplaces and an address by the archbishop of Canterbury. After a 1939 radio reading of Tolstoy’s novel by an actor, this was the second of nine BBC adaptations of the book on radio or TV, the most recent in 2016. For some of those listeners, being stranded on an island was a plausible outcome. The celebrity castaway show debuted on the emergency wartime service For The Forces (which ran programmes for soldiers at home and overseas).

New David Attenborough series and advice shows among programmes scheduled to help viewers through 'tough times'

trying to navigate a really difficult world,” said Mottershead. I don’t usually do that.” To which Theroux responds: “That’s a bit passive.” Stormzy replies: “It is but … “It’s about showing people we’re in tough times but also giving them tips and trying to help them navigate it … I’m just waiting for God to present me with my situation and my woman”. I’m all out of ideas …”

BBC has unveiled its factual and arts winter slate which includes documentaries on Elon Musk and Virgil Abloh.

“I’ve been in my new role for four months and I’ve been blown away by the sheer range, scale and quality of programming coming out of the factual, arts and classical music departments,” said Kate Phillips, director for unscripted. “Agatha Christie: Mystery Queen” (working title): BBC Studios produces this three-part series about the queen of crime novels, Agatha Christie. We’ve got plenty more to look forward to in the months ahead and I’m excited to unveil such an impressive array of diverse new content featuring big and upcoming talent, and bringing us new perspectives, incredible access and big moments for everyone.”

Louis Theroux, Stormzy, Virgil Abloh and Simon Schama feature on a BBC factual slate including season three of Race Across the World.

Starting in Vancouver, the show, in which pairs of travellers set off across the globe chasing a £20,000 ($21,400) prize, was described by the BBC as “the most extreme to date.” Virgil Abloh: How to be Both (working title) will show how the founder of Off-White and Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton menswear was able to liberate a generation. Specialist Factual commissioning head Jack Bootle commissioned Mission Jurassic (working title), profiling a unique dig site in Wyoming where a mass dinosaur graveyard lies. Phillips was promoted in a protracted restructure following the departure of Patrick Holland to Banijay last year and she now oversees a huge brief incorporating documentaries, factual entertainment, specialist factual and arts. “We have to do something to bring eyeballs back to our screens and as part of that we need to make noise,” said Popular Factual and Factual Entertainment commissioning Editor Clare Mottershead. “People are burning through our shows faster than ever on iPlayer and so we need something to give them,” she added.

Louis Theroux interviews Stormzy, Dame Judi Dench, Rita Ora, Bear Grylls, Yungblud and Katherine Ryan in revealing new series.

This is the story of one of the most famous - and most complex - woman of the 20th century. The Executive Producer is Paul Overton and the Commissioning Editor is Tom Coveney. For the first time Agatha Christie and her art will be forensically examined, providing a unique portrait of a society in flux. During her time in London Una wrote and produced a play for London’s West End, the first Black writer to do so. Agatha Christie is the most successful novelist of all time, outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. In our own turbulent times, when so many of the values we have taken for granted are once again hanging in the balance, the series is a hopeful reminder of what great art is for. - Virgil Abloh: How To Be Both is a WhyNow production for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer. He went on to become Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton menswear, one of the first Black men to head up a couture house. Louis meets icon of stage and screen Dame Judi Dench in her countryside home and is invited on stage in the West End. The Executive Producer is Arron Fellows, and Commissioning Editor is Max Gogarty. Whatever your passions, we’ll take you on a deep dive with some of the most inspiring and provocative figures of our times.” The Executive Producers are Mark Saben, Stephen Day and Tim Harcourt and the Commissioning Editor is Michael Jochnowitz.

Race Across The World, Louis Theroux and David Attenborough lead a 'distinctively British' new BBC autumn line-up as broadcaster promises shows streaming ...

[Louis Theroux](https://inews.co.uk/news/louis-theroux-films-global-paywall-bbc-plan-replace-lost-licence-fee-money-1552926?ico=in-line_link) immerses himself in the lives of Stormzy and Dame Judi Dench in another highlight of the season which would “distinguish the BBC from streaming platforms by telling stories about people in the UK,” Kate Phillips, BBC Director of Unscripted programmes said. Drama producers now want to turn the Farah story into a movie. One sequence, shot at a Somerset meadow, shows baby toadlets seeking shelter in the woods, being hunted down by giant leeches. Theroux’s interviews are a huge iPlayer success with young viewers. However, Mr Whittingdale was sacked soon after and the prescription has not been advanced by his successors. Ministers said they would ask Ofcom to draw up a workable definition of the concept.

Theo, from Hemsby near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, picked up the national climate change champion title in the BBC Bitesize Regenerator competition. Actor and ...

"When we first met Theo he inspired us to look very carefully at what packaging we were using was going to be biodegradable or compostable - I think the lesson there is that we can all do more." "Anybody can do this - if I can do it, you can do it," said Theo. Actor and WWF ambassador Cel Spellman, one of the judges, said Theo "really stood out" among the candidates.