The Passions of Vaughan Williams. TV programme BBC4

Second-ever performance of chamber music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and performance of a song

Britten’s children

First performances of youthful songs by Benjamin Britten, and Abraham & Isaac.Britten's Children BBC2 (2004): television documentary on Benjamin Britten's Music for Childre

Elgar and the lost piano concerto. TV programme BBC1

Demonstration at the piano of Elgar's imporvisatory techniques, interview on how his Piano Concerto was completed, complete performance thereof

Elgar: the man behind the mask. TV programme BBC4

Performance of Elgar songs and piano pieces. Interview at the piano explaining Elgar's compositional process

The Prince and the Composer. TV programme BBC4

Interview at the piano explaining Parry's compositional process, including new material on disguised sequences

Impartiality on Platforms:The Politics of BBC Journalists’ Twitter Networks

Research shows the prominence afforded to political actors in BBC journalism strongly reflects the balance of power in Westminster, with major political parties, and the ruling party in particular, tending to predominate. This article examines the extent to which these patterns of news access and exposure are also evident in BBC journalists’ following of and interactions with MPs on Twitter, using data from 90 BBC journalists’ Twitter accounts (extracted in February 2019). We find that MPs from centrist parties have the highest average number of BBC journalist followers, and are interacted with and mentioned more by BBC journalists than other MPs. MPs in parties exclusively representing constituencies outside of England are the least followed, mentioned or interacted with. Of the two main political parties, Conservative MPs have the highest average BBC following, and are mentioned more often. Current and former Cabinet members have a higher BBC following and more interactions and mentions than their Shadow Cabinet counterparts. Our findings confirm that elite patterns of news access and exposure have been reproduced on new platforms. Though lending support to claims that the BBC is orientated towards the political centre, they suggest more of an orientation towards the Right than the Left