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Dec 29, 2019 · Prodigy star Keith Flint, actors Luke Perry, Peter Fonda and Doris Day, chef Gary Rhodes and sporting legends Gordon Banks and Niki Lauda are just a few of the stars we said goodbye to in 2019.
Jan 2, 2019 · Cameron Boyce, 20, passed away on July 6th, 2019. The young Disney Channel star was confirmed dead by his family, who told the press he’d ‘passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a ...
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Dec 13, 2019 · Peter Tork. 1942-2019Cause of death: Adenoid cystic carcinoma Famous for: Being the bassist of the band The Monkees, featured on the NBC sitcom of the same name from 1966 to 1968. 1 of. In 2019 ...
Dec 31, 2019 · May. AFP/BBC. May saw actress and singer Doris Day, comedian Freddie Starr and newsreader Nan Winton depart at the ages of 97, 76 and 93 respectively. We also lost: Actor Tim Conway. Online feline ...
- Introduction
- The BBC in Northern Ireland
- Raising Our N&R Ambition
- Engage, Educate, Empower
- Harnessing The UK’s Full Creative Firepower
- Driving Forward This Ambition
- Conclusion
It’s a pleasure to be here in Belfast, and a real privilege to be able to deliver this lecture as part of the Belfast Media Festival’s tenth anniversary celebrations. And it’s an honour to be delivering the Dan Gilbert Lecture, who did so much to nurture and develop new talent in the BBC. Ten years ago, following discussions at the Creative Skillse...
I’m proud of the role that the BBC plays in and for Northern Ireland. It’s a relationship that goes back 95 years. But the past few years have seen us focus even harder on what we can do to step up our contribution. Two years ago, the BBC made its biggest investment in programmes and services in Northern Ireland in a generation. It’s allowed us to ...
Of course, this goal is not limited to Northern Ireland. The last few years have seen the BBC raise our ambition substantially across all the UK’s nations and regions. Scotland has seen the launch of a brand new channel. It has gone from a standing start to being the sixth most-watched channel behind only the big five. In its first six months, BBC ...
It has always been the BBC’s responsibility to represent and reflect the whole of the UK and all its communities. This was given a renewed focus in our latest Royal Charter. And rightly so: we must serve everyone - whoever and wherever they are. But in my view the BBC must always be looking to see what more we can do to respond to what our audience...
There’s another big reason this rootedness in every part of the UK is so vital. The BBC simply cannot compete in today’s global media landscape unless we are able to draw on the UK’s full creative firepower. We need to be the very best at unearthing, backing and championing talent and creativity wherever it is to be found. We all know in the past t...
So what are we doing to drive forward this ambition? I want to pick out just three examples of initiatives we have been working on this autumn. First, the BBC’s Local Democracy Reporter service. We launched it at the start of last year. It’s a partnership with regional newspapers and the local media sector more widely, and the goal is to support a ...
Schemes like these, I hope, give you a sense of the depth and range of our ambition. As the BBC’s nations and regions division, we are determined to be the front door to the BBC for everyone who wants to forge a career in the creative sector - a front door with a big sign on it saying: 'welcome'. And we want to be the biggest champions of programme...
Jan 3, 2019 · K-pop star Goo Hara died at the age of 28. She was found dead at her home in Seoul, Korea on Nov. 24, the Gangnam Police Department confirmed according to multiple media reports. Hara was a member ...
Dec 31, 2019 · The Mystery of Ric Ocasek: ‘He Tried for Happiness, But Underneath Was a Lot of Pain’. We bid farewell to visionaries, iconoclasts, trailblazers who died in 2019.
