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BBC News Set To Music
A live BBC News bulletin is being set to music by cellist
Julian Lloyd Webber and an orchestra.
The musicians will perform next to a giant screen broadcasting pictures and
sound and react accordingly.
Serious items will be reflected by music in a minor key while light reports
will be in a major key.
Lloyd Webber said he was not sure how the experiment, at Birmingham Town
Hall, would work but said he was "very excited".
The musicians will perform next to a giant screen showing the World News
Today on BBC Four this evening at 19:00.
Lloyd Webber said his cello would play the part of the bulletin's presenter,
Zeinab Badawi.
He and an orchestra made up of students from the Birmingham Conservatoire
have been given a basic musical score to work from.
However, their conductor will divert them from it to reflect the live news
stories.
He said: "I've always been interested in the belief that classical music is
a living, breathing thing that can be involved in contemporary culture.
"This could not be more contemporary than this - it's the news as it
happens.
"It's an experiment - I honestly I don't know how it's going to go but it's
something interesting and I'm very excited about it."
17:28
June
05 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Richard
Hammond To Host New Show
Richard Hammond has signed up to present a new BBC children's
TV series.
The Top Gear host will front Richard Hammond's Lab Rats, set in the world of
a secret underground laboratory.
Hammond, 38, is jointly producing the studio-based CBBC science show through
his own independent production company, Hamster's Wheel.
The £2 million series will ask children to carry out a series of experiments
and messy challenges.
Richard Hammond's Lab Rats will be broadcast early next year on BBC One and
on digital channel CBBC.
Peter Wyles, who devised the format, said of the former Brainiac presenter:
"Richard is the perfect person to host this series - he lives and breathes
the world of popular science."
17:08
June
05 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Tony Blackburn
Goes Nationwide
Tony Blackburn's weekend breakfast show on GMG Radio's Smooth
Radio London is to be networked across four other of the company's network
of stations around the country.
Blackburn joined the London station in February this year and will be heard
on Smooth stations in the east Midlands, west Midlands, the north-west of
England and Glasgow from Saturday. The newly networked show will be
sponsored by Sky.
John Simons, the group programme director of GMG Radio, said Blackburn's
show was a "real appointment to listen".
"Tony is a legend and will be an asset to our weekend schedules on other
stations in the Smooth Radio network. His show will provide our stations
with a strong start to the weekend," Simons added.
Blackburn's show airs between 07:00 and 10:00 on Saturday and Sunday. It
will not be networked on the newest Smooth station, in the north-east,
because of local programming requirements.
17:01
June
05 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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BBC
Correspondent Steps Down
The BBC's Ireland correspondent, Denis Murray, is to retire
from the broadcaster after 26 years.
Murray said he will be taking a break from full-time reporting, but it is
thought he will explore other projects that would use his experience in
covering Irish politics and the Northern Ireland peace process.
"It's a good time to find other projects as Ireland as a world story winds
down," he added.
"I always say that as a BBC journalist I'd love to be on the news programmes
three days a week. But as a citizen, if all I've got to report is that
nothing out of the ordinary happened today, then that's what I'd call a
break-even day," Murray said.
"I think I still have a lot to offer in terms of experience, knowledge and
how a peace process in a deeply divided society can work."
Murray, who turned 57 last month, joined the BBC in 1982 as Dublin
correspondent after starting his journalism career at the Belfast telegraph
and RTE, Ireland's public service broadcaster.
14:19
June
05 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Kelsey Grammer
Returns Home
Kelsey Grammer has returned home from hospital, four days
after suffering a mild heart attack.
Grammer’s publicist Stan Rosenfield said today that the Cheers and Frasier
actor is resting comfortably at his home in Kona, Hawaii.
Grammer was paddle-boating with his wife, Camilla, on Saturday when he
experienced symptoms and was taken to a Kona hospital.
Doctors determined the 53-year-old actor had suffered a heart attack that Mr
Rosenfield described as “mild.”
08:05
June
05 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Star Trek
Reconciliation
George Takei is considering healing his rift with former Star
Trek co-star William Shatner and inviting him to his forthcoming gay
wedding.
The pair fell out while the show was being made; with Takei -
who played Sulu - complaining about Shatner's ego and his insistence on
regular close-ups on his character Captain Kirk.
But Takei's soon-to-be husband Brad Altman has hinted that a
reconciliation could be on the cards - because they are not ruling out
inviting Shatner to their wedding on September 8.
He says, "We have only 200 seats. Our contact list has, like,
3500 names, so we have to whittle it down. I don't know if William Shatner
is going to make the cut."
07:14
June
05 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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