BBC Local Radio is teaming up with manufacturers, retailers and a loneliness charity to offer free DAB radios to the most vulnerable people aged over 70.
It comes as millions of people are forced to stay in their homes and isolate from their friends and families because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Radio is a vital source of news, information and companionship in these unprecedented times and BBC Local Radio wants to ensure as many people as possible have access to it.
So it will be giving away DAB digital radios to people nominated by Local Radio listeners. It’...
Daisy Griffith is now leading the most popular regional news bulletin in the country, Spotlight, which reaches more than 50 per cent of the South West each week.
Meanwhile Emma Clements is running BBC Radio Cornwall, a station with more than 100,000 weekly listeners.
Stephanie Marshall, head of the BBC in the South West and West, said the experienced journalists would bring “diligence and creativity”, particularly during a "critical time for the the South West and the UK as a whole".
The new appointments came as the coronavirus began to sweep through the UK....
As BBC One celebrates its 50th anniversary of colour TV this week (Friday 15 November), TV Licensing has revealed 18 households in Exeter are still watching TV programmes only on black and white TV sets.
In Devon, Exeter has the second highest number of black and white licences, behind Plymouth at 21, and ahead of Torquay with 7. All other towns in Devon have less than 5.
Across the UK the number of black and white licences has declined considerably over the years. There were 6,586 black and white TV licences at the end of September 2019 - a fall of 575 compared to the same...
Former BBC Reporter Kally Adderkin-Hall met up with current BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty at the Heropreneur Awards.
Kally who is from Exeter was at the ceremony in her role as executive producer of the video production company KAH Productions, where as Naga was their hosting the awards.
Heropreneur is an award ceremony that celebrates former members of the British Armed Forces who have forged a new life in business. Heropreneurs is the only registered charity in the UK which works exclusively to help former members of the Armed Forces, and their spouses, to fulfill their...
The Donkey Sanctuary’s state-of-the-art donkey hospital will be featured on the popular CBeebies show - Ferne and Rory’s Vet Tales. Presenter Rory Crawford spent the day at the The Donkey Sanctuary’s Brookfield donkey hospital near Honiton to film veterinary staff for the popular children’s show. It will feature in their ‘Vets Go’ sequence, where they visit animal sanctuaries and zoos to find out how vets care for their animals, During their visit, the team filmed vets Vicky Grove and Kaz Pickering as they went about their work, treating some of the donkeys in their care. Rory watched the...
BBC Question Time is coming to Exeter and audience members are wanted for the show.
The political debate programme will be at Exeter Northcott Theatre, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter on Thursday 28 June.
David Dimbleby said: "I am very much looking forward to bringing Question Time to Exeter. What really matters is that we have a lively audience who want to speak their mind. It’s a chance for people in Exeter to get their voice heard not just by politicians, but right across the UK."
People from Exeter and the surrounding area can apply to be part of the...
Lisette Johnston, the new Head of School at ScreenSpace is at the forefront of a new industrial revolution. For her new role at ScreenSpace, (part of MetFilm School a specialist university based at Ealing Studios) involves a brand new degree which she hopes will be a game-changer. The BA (Hons) in Content, Media and Film production is a collaboration between MetFilm School and the University of West London. “What’s on offer is a course that is truly integrated with industry and academia – the sort of course that just doesn’t exist anywhere else,” she says. “It bridges the gap and because...
The BBC has launched a new guide for BBC Weather Watchers in partnership with independent think tank Doteveryone and Devon-based charity Libraries Unlimited. At a launch event held at Exeter Library on Thursday 10th August, Bill Thompson and Olivia Lockyer from the BBC’s Make it Digital team unveiled a sixteen-page printed guide, Getting online with Weather Watchers, designed to help people feel more confident about using digital technology.
The new guide is being distributed across the UK via public libraries, where many people go to get online and to develop their digital skills...
The remarkable story of Devon’s wild beavers goes on with the announcement that the Westcountry rodents have now won a top national award.
Readers of BBC Countryfile Magazine have selected the River Otter Beaver Trial based in East Devon, along with the Scottish Beaver Trial, as their ‘Wildlife Success Story of the Year’ for 2017. The public poll attracted 56,000 votes across its 12 award categories.
The accolade is recognition of the work being done with the East Devon beavers by the charity Devon Wildlife Trust. The beavers are the first wild population of the animals to...
Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall will officially open the new BBC South West Headquarters in Plymouth on Wednesday 20 July 2016.
For the last two years BBC South West has undertaken an ambitious redevelopment of its headquarters in Plymouth. The multi-million pound investment is the biggest BBC building project outside London in recent years. The new headquarters is home to cutting edge news-gathering and broadcasting technology and future-proofs the BBC’s commitment to the South West, a commitment that began in 1924 when the first BBC offices in Plymouth were built....
