{"id":3943,"date":"2015-07-15T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=3943"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:34:59","slug":"art-at-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/art-at-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Art at the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Albert Barber<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Just musing, but I wondered where all the artwork at BBC buildings, especially TC, went. The Boardroom at OBH had a wonderful painting of Reith and other DGs – plus the attached:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Blue Peter” had a tapestry on your way in to the canteen and I remember a Dufy on the 6th floor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention the “Jackanory” illustrations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I wrote to “Ariel”, demanding to know what happened to the 6th Floor Dufy. They said it’s now hanging at BH. I wouldn’t have trusted them, but Peter Neil has confirmed this. I don’t know what became of the “Blue Peter” tapestry (image below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The glorious John Piper mosaic and the Huxley Jones sculptures will, presumably, be enjoyed by the new inhabitants of TV Centre – and should be visible to the public, if promises are kept. They are an awful reminder of how cheaply TV Centre was sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Brunt<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s been a long-running mystery of what happened to Huge Carleton-Greene\u2019s huge office painting of a multi-breasted Mary Whitehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A huge number of “Jackanory” (and Bob Broomfield\u2019s “Blue Peter”) artwork was junked when Birt closed down the design department.  Some pieces are in private collections but most are long gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernard Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bob Richardson, who used to be a Chyron\/Aston operator in Pres A, used to go “skip-diving” out the back of the scenery car park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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