Andrew Barker
@DogsBarker
Now retired I am an ex-Risk Manager and BBC TV producer. I am a mathematician by training and have interests in Broadcasting history/policy and video games.
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#OTD - 22nd Aug 1932 - The BBC began making regular television programmes. From this date the TV transmissions by the Baird process were devised & produced by the BBC. Photo shows Louie Freear in Studio BB at Broadcasting House, with the photocells which took the place of…
Grateful to the @Telegraph for printing this letter today, and offering the opportunity to highlight the misleading nature of their recent piece about @BBCRadio3. Very proud of my award-winning team, who keep on drawing in listeners old and new.
Eurovision weekend... So here's a Substack about the role played by Arthur Burrows, first voice of the BBC, in laying the groundwork for it... with his Euro(pean) vision. (read/share/subscribe by all means) open.substack.com/pub/paulkerens…
Posted on behalf of @naffriah49 - a few very interesting points: “Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain…
Save Audio Drama at the BBC - Sign the Petition! chng.it/VWj4nmG5ht via @UKChange
Among those currying favour with Elon Musk, it has become an article of faith that the “mainstream media” ignored the UK’s grooming gangs scandal until the brave truth-tellers of X uncovered it, er, last week. Give over. Feminist writer Julie Bindel first wrote about the…
🎭 Sir Richard Eyre, renowned theatre & film director & ex BBC Governor, shares his concerns: ➡️Cuts to radio drama ➡️BBC's cultural remit under threat ➡️Tensions between public service & commercial pressures 🎧 Listen: podfollow.com/beebwatch/view
Started this on a design-your-own-Christmas jumper website. Stopped when I realised it looks nothing like Hilda Matheson, Peter Eckersley, Arthur Burrows and John Reith.
On the 80th anniversary of the start of the Ardennes Offensive (aka the Battle of the Bulge) a🧵on two of the main information operations run by both sides. First, "Radio Arnhem" or "Arnhem Calling", a German-run station already running by the time the offensive started. 1/12
Polish PM Tusk & Macron mocking Trump’s ridiculous attempt to act tough while arm wrestling Macron during their handshake.
For lovers of the #ShippingForecast this book by Meg Clothier is in the shops now. BBC Radio 4 will mark 100 years of the forecast on Wednesday 1 January 2025
This day in 1978 Cormac Rigby welcomes BBC Radio 3 listeners to "the land at the other end of the cyclorama, wonderful 247m"
And read this book:
Anyone who considers themselves a journalist today should know this crucial media history circa 1980.
Delighted that @BBCRadio3 Unwind is now live on @BBCSounds. A fresh line-up of programmes and presenters, playing a diverse range of music that you simply won’t hear anywhere else. bbc.co.uk/sounds/schedul…
#OTD 5 Nov 1930 - 1st television advertisement in the UK. Demo of the 'Eugene Method' of perming waving was transmitted via closed-circuit by #BairdTelevision at the Hairdressing Fair of Fashion at @olympiaeventsuk from 5-13 November, reported in Television magazine, Nov 1930
The source of this pic is this fab old documentary: Cough and You’ll Deafen Thousands (named after another sign at early BBC studios) It’s a cracking doc inc early BBC/Writtle engineers Rolls Wynn, Basil MacLarty, Noel Ashbridge etc. Now on YouTube: youtu.be/LwKOvdWPPgk?si…
I’ve read about this sign - “BBC: Please Walk In” - but never seen it till now. I think it was Magnet House (1st BBC HQ, late 1922), or may have been Savoy Hill. Or both? The idea was that the Beeb was so desperate for content, any passer-by could pop in to pitch ideas.
My first opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin a question since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It came at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Producer @LizaShuvalova
Balls of steel here. The values and purpose of the BBC in one short clip.
My first opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin a question since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It came at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Producer @LizaShuvalova
There are simple explanations for all these billionaires who once shunned Trump but are now back in his camp. Deals. Elon Musk called him too old and unfit to lead, but now is his biggest surrogate. Deal: unlimited government subsidies, tax breaks, deregulation and the DOJ…
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