BBC’s Director-General, Mark Thompson, praised Radio 4’s Daily Service.
The BBC’s Director-General, Mark Thompson, has praised Radio 4’s Daily Service ‘as a little jewel of broadcasting and we are very lucky to have it’. The tribute followed the programme’s 80th anniversary broadcast, last week. Eight decades before, the first Director-General had allowed the service after a lengthy letter-writing campaign by a determined radio listener, Kathleen Cordeux. Michael Wakelin, head of religion and ethics at the BBC, praised the programme for ‘a format as sure as Desert Island Discs’ and ‘production values as high as anything else on the network’. Evangelical Alliance director, Revd Joel Edwards described the programme as ‘a great gift’ for both ‘the Christian community’ and ‘people of faith on the edge of conventional church life’.
When adults bend their minds to weighty issues at the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church in Edinburgh (July 11-14), they’ll have the help of children to keep them to task.
DOZENS of new youth projects have been given the green light by a panel of young people, which is working to decide how best to spend more than £100,000 in government funding to benefit Camden's youth.
A schools programme ran by an ex-offender is the winner of the Outstanding contribution to tackling youth crime award in the 2007 National Justice Awards.