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My memories of the Queen at 90 production

by Ann Wright, June 14, 2016

If you live in the UK, you can hardly fail to have noticed that the Queen had her (official) 90th birthday at the weekend. As usual, this was celebrated with a series of events – a church service at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday, Trooping the Colour on Saturday, and the Patron’s Lunch on Sunday. […]

Filed Under: All posts, General, Television and Video Production Tagged With: BBC, Production, Queen at 90

TV production: at the general election

by Ann Wright, May 8, 2015

Staying up all night is not my usual idea of fun but working on the production of the general election for the BBC was not a job to say no to. The call was to work at New Broadcasting House (of W1A fame) with a great big map – and boy was it big! My […]

Filed Under: All posts, General, Television and Video Production Tagged With: BBC, election, Production

Remembering D Day 70

by Ann Wright, June 9, 2014

Last week I was privileged to be asked to produce the highlights programme for the BBCs D Day commemorations, which went out on BBC2 on Friday evening, after nine hours of programmes on BBC1, which chronicled the commemorations along the Normandy coast. It was a moving and emotional experience for the entire production team, and tears […]

Filed Under: All posts, Television and Video Production Tagged With: BBC, DDay 70, Television

How Google changed journalism & how PRs should react

by Ann Wright, February 11, 2014

Paul Curran, who is one of our media training team, was a reporter for the BBC for over 20 years.  He has experienced at first hand how the internet has revolutionised the way the media operates.   Here he talks about the impact of Google on his working life, and how PR departments –  and those doing […]

Filed Under: All posts, Guest posts, Media Training Tagged With: BBC, Google, Media Training Courses

Trooping Flypast: a story of a few seconds of TV footage

by Ann Wright, June 17, 2013

This year’s Trooping the Colour Highlights programme contained something very unusual. Did you spot it? It wasn’t in the main programme, shown on BBC1 in the morning of 15 June 2013. It was in the Highlights, which were broadcast on BBC2 at 6.30 that evening. Now it’s fairly usual that the Trooping highlights programme includes some […]

Filed Under: All posts, News and Views, Television and Video Production Tagged With: BBC, TV production

Crisis Communications interviews: an interesting example

by Ann Wright, April 1, 2013

If you run a business, the last place you ever want to be is facing Anne Robinson in the Watchdog studio, answering for the failings of your company. She is not an easy interviewer to face – combative and opinionated. Watch what happened when Eileen Downey, from Britannia Hotel Group, which owns Pontins, was held to […]

Filed Under: Crisis Management, General, Media Training, Public Relations Tagged With: BBC, Crisis Communications, crisis communications example, Watchdog

Sinead O’Connor vs Eddie Mair on TV

by Ann Wright, February 18, 2013

On Sunday, Sinead O’Connor appeared on the Andrew Marr TV show, in the regular end of the programme music slot. She was interviewed by briefly by Eddie Mair, and, it’s fair to say, didn’t appear to have enjoyed the process. Viewing the comments below the Youtube link, opinion is divided on who came off best […]

Filed Under: All posts, Media Training, News and Views, Television and Video Production Tagged With: BBC, Eddie Mair, Sinead O'Connor, Television

Bill Gates on TV: the Dimbleby Lecture

by Ann Wright, January 30, 2013

The Dimbleby Lecture is an annual event in which an individual who has made a significant contribution to the culture of our times gives a keynote speech to an invited audience for broadcast on BBC1. Set up in honour of Richard Dimbleby over 40 years ago, past speakers have included the Prince of Wales, nobel […]

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BBC: in defence of public service

by Ann Wright, November 12, 2012

The BBC has come in for some major bashing since the broadcast of the ITV documentary about Jimmy Saville, and is generally deemed to be ‘in crisis’. The resignation of the Director General George Entwhistle came on Saturday afternoon as I was sitting in an outside broadcast truck outside the Albert Hall, preparing for the […]

Filed Under: All posts, General, News and Views, Television and Video Production Tagged With: BBC, George Entwhistle, Production, Television

The Teaching Awards: Uplifting television production

by Ann Wright, October 29, 2012

Teachers come in for a lot of flack – David Laws, the Education Minister is just the latest to take a pop, claiming that teachers fail to encourage children to ‘reach for the stars’. I just hope he was watching the Teaching Awards yesterday afternoon on BBC2. This is an annual event – the Oscars […]

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