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| <title>BBC Genome Feed</title> | |
| <description>The BBC Genome website contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. This blog will highlight hidden archive gems, remind you of historical firsts and moments, and tell you all about the exciting developments in the pipeline.</description> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:16:20 +0100</pubDate> | |
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| <title>On This Day, 1930: The Man with the Flower in his Mouth</title> | |
| <description><![CDATA[On a day like this, 1930, The Man with the Flower in his Mouth - the first television drama ever to be produced in the UK, was broadcast.]]></description> | |
| <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:16:20 +0100</pubDate> | |
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| <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div class="component"> <img src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p02x1nhy.jpg" class="rsp-img" alt=""data-img-src-68="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p02x1nhy.jpg" data-img-src-176="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/192xn/p02x1nhy.jpg" data-img-src-208="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p02x1nhy.jpg" data-img-src-304="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/336xn/p02x1nhy.jpg" data-img-src-440="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p02x1nhy.jpg" data-img-src-576="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p02x1nhy.jpg" ><p><em>The first television play in the world: 'The Man With a Flower in his Mouth', by Pirandello, produced by Lance Sieveking. (left to right) George Inns (the young boy), Lance Sieveking (producer), Gladys Young, Earl Grey, C.Denis Freeman (kneeling), Lionel Millard and Mary Eversley, July 1930.</em></p> </div> <div class="component prose"><p>"Although Television is as yet in the experimental stage, the Baird Television Company, in co-operation with the B.B.C., is this afternoon presenting the first production of a play by television. Care has been taken by the joint-producers of The Man with the Flower in his Mouth to make full use of the limited scope for visual production as yet afforded by the invention, and those listeners who are able to hear and witness the play will find it by far the most interesting television transmission so far attempted."</p> | |
| <p>On a day like this, 1937, <a title="The Man with a Flower in his Mouth" href="genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d6f73bd8fcbb4df9a80eb6fe7f4166c7" target="_blank">The Man with the Flower in his Mouth</a> - the first television drama ever to be produced in the UK, was broadcast.</p> | |
| <p>Watch a recreation of the film</p> | |
| <p> </p></div> <div class="component"> <div id="smp-14368870418778" class="smp"> <div class="smp__overlay"> <div class="smp__message js-loading-message delta"> <noscript>You must enable javascript to play content</noscript> </div> </div> </div><p><em>A re-creation of the television play.</em></p> </div> <script> require(['smp'], function(SMP) { new SMP({"container":"#smp-14368870418778","pid":"p02d2sm7","playerSettings":{"delayEmbed":true,"externalEmbedUrl":"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02d2sm7\/player"}}); }); </script> ]]></content:encoded> | |
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| <title>A mysterious creatured called Blog</title> | |
| <description><![CDATA[As we started working on the brand new BBC Genome blog, it was somehow tempting to make the equivalent of googling ourselves: What do you get if you search for “blog” on Genome? When were blogs first mentioned in radio and TV listings?]]></description> | |
| <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:27:36 +0100</pubDate> | |
| <link>http://www.test.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entries/eceeda3e-78ff-4283-8f55-83ae26fdaf44</link> | |
| <guid>http://www.test.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entries/eceeda3e-78ff-4283-8f55-83ae26fdaf44</guid> | |
| <author>Ana Lucia Gonzalez</author> | |
| <dc:creator>Ana Lucia Gonzalez</dc:creator> | |
| <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div class="component"> <img src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p02x1l3y.jpg" class="rsp-img" alt=""data-img-src-68="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p02x1l3y.jpg" data-img-src-176="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/192xn/p02x1l3y.jpg" data-img-src-208="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p02x1l3y.jpg" data-img-src-304="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/336xn/p02x1l3y.jpg" data-img-src-440="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p02x1l3y.jpg" data-img-src-576="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p02x1l3y.jpg" ><p><em>Script from Women's Hour, May 9, 1960</em></p> </div> <div class="component prose"><p>As we started working on the brand new BBC Genome blog, it was somehow tempting to make the equivalent of googling ourselves: What do you get if you search for “blog” on Genome? When were blogs first mentioned in radio and TV listings?</p> | |
| <p> What we found is that the first-ever mention of the word is a 1947 radio comedy on the BBC Home Service called <a title="Blog in the Escutcheon" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2ff3674a2c374702a79ab6c9b38632a9" target="_blank">The Blog in the Escutcheon</a> No, it wasn’t a typo but an actual play of words on the expression “a blot in the escutcheon”.</p> | |
| <p>On the play, written by Russell Davies, an American asking an aristocrat daughter’s hand in marriage rattles the family skeletons by mentioning one “Laetitia Blog”, who is described as “a most respectable girl of good minor yeoman stock, who did her best to atone for her presumption.”</p> | |
| <p> The next mention of the term“blog” skips a decade to 1960 and it concerns a talk on <a title="Woman's Hour" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7b69bce8eb7341b895fcaa33129308eb" target="_blank">Woman’s Hour </a>in which Cynthia Muir finds a solution to the recurring problem of losing things at home:</p> | |
| <p> "Ours cannot be the only household in which thins disappear mysteriously. That pair of scissors which we were using only yesterday and which was certainly put back in its proper place; the bedroom slipper which should be – but unaccountably is not – with its fellow; these are the sort of things which must occasionally go a'missing in most homes. The usual cry at such times is either: 'Someone has had…!' or 'Who’s taken…?' while the children accuse each other which leads to indignant recrimination.</p> | |
| <p>"Well, in our case at any rate, I can offer a solution to this problem. We have a Being – unseen, so far, by anyone – who is known as Blog and it is he who is responsible for any loss or disappearance."</p> | |
| <p>The first mention of an actual weblog or blog as we now know it comes courtesy of <a title="Analysis" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1d03c2f430964c298792cdafcc9ad75d" target="_blank">BBC Radio 4’s Analysis</a>, which mentions the internet being a “key political battlefield” in the 2004 US Elections “with thousands of people debating the issues on their own web pages, or "blogs".</p> | |
| <p>Obviously, this doesn’t mean that blogs or weblogs were mentioned by the BBC for the first time as late as 2005, as listings cannot describe everything that is ever said in programmes. But they are just a very useful indication of when some trends and new words started to be used.</p> | |
| <p> And since we want to be this blog to become a space for sharing oddities and findings… have you searched or any particular terms and when they were first used in listings? What have you found?</p></div> ]]></content:encoded> | |
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| <title>Spies</title> | |
| <description><![CDATA[Producer Andrew Martin on the history of spies at the BBC.]]></description> | |
| <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:22:06 +0100</pubDate> | |
| <link>http://www.test.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entries/8b89ac2c-3360-423e-b89b-82d2d3096d54</link> | |
| <guid>http://www.test.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entries/8b89ac2c-3360-423e-b89b-82d2d3096d54</guid> | |
| <author>Andrew Martin</author> | |
| <dc:creator>Andrew Martin</dc:creator> | |
| <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div class="component"> <img src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p02x1pzv.jpg" class="rsp-img" alt=""data-img-src-68="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p02x1pzv.jpg" data-img-src-176="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/192xn/p02x1pzv.jpg" data-img-src-208="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p02x1pzv.jpg" data-img-src-304="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/336xn/p02x1pzv.jpg" data-img-src-440="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p02x1pzv.jpg" data-img-src-576="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p02x1pzv.jpg" ><p><em>Spies caption</em></p> </div> <div class="component prose"><p>With the feature film spin off from “Spooks” on release, and retro spy-thriller “The Game” having recently ended, spy stories show no sign of going away. Espionage has been a popular subject for fiction for over a century, 2015 being the centenary of the publication of John Buchan’s “The Thirty-Nine Steps”. As well as its famous film versions, the story has been adapted for radio, too many times to mention each one here, both as a <a title="Drama" href="genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/282b2d777b5c40488dbff96ffd235d20" target="_blank">drama</a> and as a <a title="Reading" href="genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b584c29d401143ba8a6da1bb0c0b68de" target="_blank">reading</a>. It was also made into a television film in 2008, with Rupert Penry-Jones as Richard Hannay.</p> | |
| <p>Buchan wrote several further novels about Hannay. “Greenmantle” was a <a title="Book" href="genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a2ea6d699f8d4676b5fe5fc7f1bfe5ee" target="_blank">“A Book at Bedtime”</a> in 1949 , featured in “Story Time” in 1980 , and was dramatised as a <a title="RAdio 4" href="genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d2fa32793da241eb8f30e2863c42a189" target="_blank">Radio 4 classic serial</a> in 2005.</p></div> ]]></content:encoded> | |
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