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Iain Stewart said the service in Scotland should have the same status as Welsh broadcasters.

She said: "I entirely appreciate that certainty of future funding and a strong partnership with the BBC particularly is important for MG Alba to deliver for Gaelic speakers. "And together with my officials what we are trying to do currently is decide whether legislation is the best mechanism to fulfil their concerns via the forthcoming Media Bill, or whether it's better addressed through the future funding review of the BBC and the subsequent BBC Charter review." The Scottish government said support for the Gaelic language was vital.

Jamie is a presenter, podcaster and entrepreneur who currently presents the hugely successful Radio 1 podcast '6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer' for BBC Sounds.

I’d also like to wish Mollie the best of luck for this new and exciting chapter.” I’d also like to wish Mollie the best of luck for this new and exciting chapter. Jamie is a presenter, podcaster and entrepreneur who currently presents the hugely successful Radio 1 podcast ‘6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer’ for BBC Sounds.

Presenter, podcaster and entrepreneur Jamie Laing will co-host Radio 1 afternoons with Matt Edmondson while Mollie King takes maternity leave.

I’d also like to wish Mollie the best of luck for this new and exciting chapter.” I’m a huge fan of Jamie’s and I’m so pleased he’s agreed to step in and co-host the show with me after several begging emails.” “I am buzzing to be bringing you two hours of the very best new pop artists every week.

Police said the Viper E-Scooter being ridden by the pair crashed into a parked white Ford Focus in Plymouth. Emergency services were called to North West Road ...

Police said the Viper E-Scooter being ridden by the pair crashed into a parked white Ford Focus in Plymouth. Two men who crashed an e-scooter into a parked car are in hospital with life-changing injuries. Men suffer life-changing injuries in e-scooter crash

When Falkirk FC played Alloa Athletic, brothers Nicky and Jay Hogarth went head to head in goals.

"But we didn't expect it to happen so soon. Barry, then 20, scored in one fixture at East End Park while Derek made his last appearance at Ibrox in the same season. "Going into it we just had to treat it as any other game. John has also subsequently played with his other older brother Paul for Scotland. "Obviously it didn't turn out the best for us. McGinn came up against elder brother Stephen when John was playing for Hibernian in the Scottish Championship in 2017 against his first club, St Mirren.

Stephen James from Haverhill moved to the area in 2016 and has never gotten an NHS dentist. "All my front teeth are crumbling, my gums are bleeding. I need ...

I need about five or six fillings," he said. She added the need for the charity's dental services had "absolutely skyrocketed" since the start of the pandemic. The 52-year-old said there was "no way" he could afford to pay for dental treatment.

Sam and Emily Stables are recognised for their work on boosting mental health in the sector.

"It can be a very lonely job. He said the charity he set up offered farmers a "judgement free space" in order to talk. A farming couple who set up a mental health charity to combat isolation have been recognised with a national award.

From BBC World Service in December 2022, and based on the classic novel by Susan Cooper, audio drama The Dark Is Rising will star Toby Jones (Infamous, Tinker ...

The Dark Is Rising will be an advent calendar like no other - and a remarkable audio event for families and all ages alike worldwide. Birds are behaving strangely, a blizzard is building, the Walker is abroad - and the power of the Dark is surging. The Dark Is Rising tells the story of Will Stanton (played by Alexander), an ordinary boy who begins to have eerie and magical experiences on his 11th birthday, one snowy December.

Hayley Fern began capturing the churches in watercolour during the school holidays last year.

"Even in a busy town or village it can be the most peaceful part," she said. "It was part of embracing the local area, raising awareness of the beautiful churches, and it just became a lovely way of talking to people and meeting people." An art teacher has said she aims to paint all 310 of the churches in her local diocese to raise awareness of their beauty.

Near the Bosnia-Herzegovina border, a small-town hotel is focused on regenerating a war-scarred village and bringing a community together.

[Tara Community Association](https://www.facebook.com/Udruga-gra%C4%91ana-TARA-Li%C4%8Dko-Petrovo-Selo-150845278352572/), bringing together the women of the village to share and pass on their weaving and knitting skills. Through all this effort, the hotel team hopes to forge a deeper connection not only with visitors but with the area's history and future. Local goods can also be found in Lyra's restaurant: much of its food is sourced from family farms in the area, and local cooks prepare homestyle recipes for guests. While Plitvice Lakes is the country's oldest and largest national park (opened in 1949), it was also the site of one of the Henka explained that Hotel Lyra was built on the site of the former primary school – and she remembers when it had hundreds of pupils attending. When she returned home to the village, Henka became worried that local Serbian culture and traditions were dying out, so in 2004 she founded the Much of the village burnt down during WW2 and though it was rebuilt in the 1970s, it is still recovering from conflict in the 1990s. "I was shocked by the state of the village, it quickly became clear that our plans for a hotel would need to include regeneration of the village," she said. She started interning at the hotel when she was 16 and now holds a job as receptionist. "I saw the need for a good quality hotel in the area and persuaded Happy Tours owner, Sašo Krumpak, that we should build one." So far, the hotel has worked to refurbish 10 buildings in town, and people have returned to live in some of them. However, the 58-room, newly built property aims to not only offer guests an improved place to sleep – with its modern Scandi design and eco-conscious room amenities – but to also improve the surrounding community, which has remained scarred from the [Balkans war of the '90s](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17632399) and breakup of the former Yugoslavian state.

Irish broadcasting luminaries attend event hosted by British ambassador to mark the centenary of the UK cultural institution.

A fledgling television service began in 1936 and was suspended during the second World War before restarting in 1946. The ambassador highlighted Irish talent on the BBC from Eamonn Andrews and Terry Wogan to Graham Norton. “The BBC’s independence and objectivity and its global reach have never been more important.

Transmission Report will be performed by Simon, along with Jodie Whittaker, Sir Michael Palin, Romesh Ranganathan, Adrian Dunbar, Carol Kirkwood, Brian Cox, Jay ...

[The One Show](https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20589296.one-show-cancelled-temporarily-bbc-alex-jones-says-goodbye-viewers/) will become The 100 Show from Monday, October 24 to Friday, October 28. [The One Show](https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/20155958.2025-uk-city-culture-bradford-appears-one-show/) presenter, said: “The BBC is the heart of the nation, and we’re so excited to celebrate its 100th birthday with audiences. It’s a week not to be missed!” He also celebrates his own show’s 30th anniversary with the BBC. “The BBC centenary is a momentous occasion and The One Show is proud to be a part of the celebrations.” Rob Unsworth, Head of The One Show, said: “We’re looking forward to reflecting on highlights from the BBC’s first 100 years and taking a look at what might come next. [EastEnders](https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23009463.bbc-eastenders-star-jacqueline-jossa-makes-shock-return-special-episode/), watching themselves back for the first time. [BBC](https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/22616585.strictly-come-dancing-2022-everything-need-know-line-start-time/) is celebrating 100 years of service and as part of the TV schedule for the occasion, The One Show is rebranding for a week. [BBC](https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/22640729.new-bbc-strictly-come-dancing-voting-2022-explained/) and it will speak to presenters and actors as well as audience and show participants. The 100 Show will also look ahead to the future and discuss what the next 100 years could look like for the BBC. [BBC EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa makes shock return for 'special episode'](https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23009463.bbc-eastenders-star-jacqueline-jossa-makes-shock-return-special-episode/) [Sir David Attenborough](https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/20661583.david-attenborough-filming-wiltshire-new-bbc-series/) is set to voice a film which looks at how the BBC’s Natural History Unit has documented the wonders of the natural world from every corner of the planet, the changes in technology and how we capture stories and how it has improved our understanding, driving awareness and changing perceptions of the natural world. [Strictly Come Dancing 2022: Everything you need to know from line up to what start time](https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/22616585.strictly-come-dancing-2022-everything-need-know-line-start-time/)

The BBC is the heart of the nation, and we're so excited to celebrate its 100th birthday with audiences. We will showcase some forgotten gems, be speaking to some iconic BBC faces and revealing some exclusive special content.

Alex Jones, The One Show presenter comments: “The BBC is the heart of the nation, and we’re so excited to celebrate its 100th birthday with audiences. Between the 24 and 28 October, the programme will take a look back through BBC history and speak to a host of presenters, actors, and audience and show participants to celebrate the momentous occasion. The BBC is the heart of the nation, and we’re so excited to celebrate its 100th birthday with audiences.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the broadcaster, herewith its greatest series across drama, documentary, comedy, arts, music and science fiction.

And though he had started as a wildlife broadcaster with Zoo Quest in the 1950s, it was in 1979, with Life On Earth, that Attenborough and the BBC Natural History Unit conjured, out of thin air, the wholly new genre of blockbuster wildlife telly. That has been so whether the character was played by William Hartnell in that original 1963-1966 incarnation, by the soon-to-depart Jodie Whittaker today, or (I suspect) by her successor, Ncuti Gatwa. Sometimes you simply want to nibble on something tasty and inconsequential — and that is the function Bake Off serves (even if it did migrate to Channel 4 in 2017). But series one and two were pure sleuthing magic and Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman had the sort of grumpy chemistry you just can’t manufacture. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss lost the plot, figuratively but sometimes literally, in the final few seasons of their Baker Street blockbuster. It all fizzled out in the end, but Killing Eve season one was a short, sharp shock of TV perfection. And so, while ‘only’ 26 years old, it feels far more ancient — like a relic from a creepy analogue era that was ending even as it was broadcast in the summer of Britpop. What’s the point of satire in the age of Partygate? Arts and crafts featuring paper, scissors and enough Sellotape to wrap the Statue of Liberty twice over. Kids’ TV peaked with Blue Peter and would never rise to such heights again — with the possible exception of Tom Hardy doing the Bedtime Story on CBeebies. Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie and companions go over the top — and the camera cuts to modern-day Flanders and poppies in the breeze. In later seasons, the series tended to trip up on its cleverness, as well as feeling increasingly detached from the real world.

As UK public broadcaster the BBC celebrates its 100th birthday, its influence continues to spread far beyond UK borders. Jessica Berman of the University ...

The BBC’s regional approach and its limitations can help us see both the promise and failures of the [West Indian Federation](https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/history-of-politics/4250/), the short-lived political union between various islands in the Caribbean between 1958 and 1962. Read the [original article](https://theconversation.com/bbc-at-100-a-trusted-international-news-source-but-its-important-to-remember-whose-values-it-reflects-192658). Given a mission to educate, inform and entertain, the Empire Service (later World Service) developed programs to reach those in the colonies and dominions and allow them to access British civilisation and its values. These examples point to the complex relationship between the BBC’s Empire Service and British political interests which have implications for today. Many programs relied on listeners to be interested in life in London and the progress of the second world war from the British perspective. The rise of Empire Radio in the 1930s and 1940s shows how the BBC navigated the conflicting roles of bringing the benefits of broadcasting to listeners in the British colonies while forging stronger bonds across the empire. Caribbean Voices would champion local writing and language, spoken on air by those from the islands, in a way no other entity had done before. The program listings of The Indian Listener, AIR’s official magazine, in the early 1940s show excerpts from the Mahabharata, Indian classical music, a Hindustani lecture on religion in public life, a feature on the changing role of women and programmes for villagers in Tamil, Telugu, or Bengali. AIR devoted airtime to Indian music and developed cadres of performers to produce radio plays in Indian languages. Although the BBC is a public-service corporation separate from the British government and has seen its fair share of [announced](https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2021/bbc-reaches-record-global-audience) that its World Service achieved its highest-ever audience, with an average of close to 500 million listeners globally each week. Since its founding in 1932, the BBC’s international output has been crucial to those seeking fair, honest and comprehensive news and cultural broadcasts around the world.