Voices of the BBC

From the BBC Oral History Collection here are some of the key personalities, producers, and innovators that tell the inside ...
BBC

BBC Studios unveils gripping new podcast revisiting defining stories of our recent past - The History Bureau

Hosted by award-winning journalist Helena Merriman and available on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds We're launching The History Bureau to take advantage of two resources unique to the BBC: our 100-year-old ...
World Screen

BBC Factual Commissions Five History Programs

BBC Factual has made four brand-new history commissions and renewed A House Through Time for BBC Two and iPlayer. “The titles we are announcing today show the incredible richness of BBC History,” said ...
The Conversation

100 years of the BBC: the rebels who reshaped broadcasting – and paid the price

In his 1941 book The Power Behind the Microphone, Peter Pendleton Eckersley, the BBC’s former chief engineer, described his “dream” for the future of radio and television: I see the interior of a ...
Press Gazette

How BBC History is bringing content about the past to tomorrow’s audiences

Immediate Media’s BBC History has proved again that it is not living in the past when it comes to current publishing strategies as it has launched a new Substack newsletter and podcast. The Substack, ...
Deadline.com

BBC Natural History Boss Exiting To Take Up New Role At NHU

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC‘s natural history chief is swapping commissioning for program-making by taking up a newly-created role at the fabled BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU). Sreya Biswas, whose ...
BBC

BBC Factual orders five new history commissions

BBC Factual has announced four brand new History commissions for BBC Two and iPlayer: Escaping Idi Amin (w/t); Legacy: Michael Jackson (w/t), Captured By IS (w/t), and Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder ...