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jon gisby

@jongisby

Media, tech, music, art & family. From Cambridge to Canada, via @WildBrainHQ, @WildBrain_spark, @britscreenforum & @cammusicfest

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A UK map of crime book settings at the “murder by the book exhibition at Cambridge university library. Paging @lloydshep and @moongolfer
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Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (@InstituteGC) profile pictureTony Blair Institute for Global Change
@InstituteGC16 Nov 2023
“Early education - it’s so critical to development and if they don’t get it, they’re always playing catch up.”  Watch Tony Blair speaking at @earlychildhood’s #ShapingUs National Symposium, hosted by @KensingtonRoyal: youtube.com/watch?v=yTOxDB2N…
Sir Tony Blair and Lord William Hague in conversation at the #Shapi...

Sir Tony Blair and Lord William Hague in conversation at the #Shapi...

Sir Tony Blair joined Lord Hague, Chairman of the Royal Foundation ...

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Interviewing Lord Grade at British Screen Forum event tomorrow covering his new remit as Chair at Ofcom. We'll cover online safety, impartiality in news, VOD regulation and the way forward for Public Service Broadcasting. Drop me a message if there's anyt…lnkd.in/giAEutxW
The next episode of Lens is up, and I'm delighted to be joined by two industry veterans who were my predecessors as Chair of British Screen Forum. Adam Singer was one of the pioneers of payTV in the UK and around the world before becoming deputy Chair of…lnkd.in/eGQJvvhX
#publicservicebroadcasting #ofcom #bbc | Jon Gisby

#publicservicebroadcasting #ofcom #bbc | Jon Gisby

The next episode of Lens is up, and I'm delighted to be joined by two industry veterans who were my predecessors as Chair of British Screen Forum. Adam Singer was one of the pioneers of payTV in the...

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An overdue post for Episode 5 of Lens in which I talk to Ed Richards. Ed has multiple perspectives on Public Service Broadcasting having been Controller of Corporate Strategy at the BBC under Lord Birt, then a Senior Policy Adviser at No 10 under Tony Bla…lnkd.in/eb-Bg6fa

#bbc #ofcom #publicservicebroadcasting #media #policy | Jon Gisby

An overdue post for Episode 6 of Lens in which I talk to Ed Richards. Ed has multiple perspectives on Public Service Broadcasting having been Controller of Corporate Strategy at the BBC under Lord...

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Great job with a cracking team! #makelifemagic #punchdrunk lnkd.in/e-fJSuFi

#makelifemagic #punchdrunk | Jon Gisby

Great job with a cracking team! #makelifemagic #punchdrunk

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The last political and economic crisis of this scale led to reactionary creativity that produced Monty Python and Bowie, amongst others. Maybe something to look forward to.#brightsideoflife
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Hosting a round table on priorities for screen sector growth with Bill Esterson MP, Shadow Business Minister. Drop me a message if you've got any questions for him. #britishscreenforum #creativeeconomy #screensectors
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When DCMS consulted about the future of Channel 4 it didn't follow its usual process and publish the names of those who'd submitted a response, nor any non-confidential submissions it received from them. So the British Screen Forum submitted an FOI reques…lnkd.in/euURddVG
Starting next week there's a free MOOC on NFT's and the Metaverse, which will be taught entirely within virtual classrooms inside OM, an open metaverse platform. Registration requires minting an NFT, so don't leave it too late. Hop…lnkd.in/eqBSTEaA lnkd.in/ehjtpqmF

Free MOOC on NFTs and the Metaverse | Jon Gisby

Starting next week there's a free MOOC on NFT's and the Metaverse, which will be taught entirely within virtual classrooms inside OM, an open metaverse platform. Registration requires minting an NFT,...

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A bit of catching up for those who haven’t heard it. Episode 5 of Lens is now available in which I talk all things Public Service Broadcasting with James Purnell. James was head of strategy at the BBC under Lord Birt before becoming an MP and Secretary of…lnkd.in/e9MVshJY

#media #publicservicebroadcasting #psb #creativeindustries #bbc #dcms #broadcasting | Jon Gisby

A bit of catching up for those who haven’t heard it. Episode 5 of Lens is now available in which I talk all things Public Service Broadcasting with James Purnell. James was head of strategy at the...

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@nexta_tv28 Sep 2022
The #US Embassy in #Moscow urged its citizens to leave #Russia immediately. Earlier, Bulgaria, Poland and Estonia asked their citizens to leave Russia.
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Catching up after recent events...there's a new episode of Lens where I'm in conversation with Lord Puttnam, who has been at the heart of successive debates about public service broadcasting. He argues passionately that PSB is part of the social contract…lnkd.in/gZZznXBk
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Michelle Donelan is the 10th Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since August 2012. I can't think of another Cabinet level role that's had this level of turnover, and it's damaging at a time of unprecedented growth and disruption in t…lnkd.in/eZ3Jyxvz
Michelle Donelan is the 10th Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since August...

Michelle Donelan is the 10th Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since August...

Michelle Donelan is the 10th Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since August 2012. I can't think of another Cabinet level role that's had this level of turnover, and it's...

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Lovely.
BookTrust (@Booktrust) profile pictureBookTrust
@Booktrust10 Aug 2022
What a beautiful poem in tribute to Raymond Briggs from @chrisriddell50. Just... marvellous ❤️
A poem called 'Marvellous, for Raymond Briggs': How many lives did your life touch? Not just the gorgeously slimy bogeyman and that grumpy Father Christmas And the snowman who flew through so many childhoods Your beautiful books are a benediction But the students, like me, who you taught for all those years When fame and fortune could easily have lured you away. It was because of you that the publisher came to college And, to impress you, gave me my first commission. And it was to you I came when I sold my first story. A fluke, a lucky accident, my attempt to be like you, To ask, 'What do I do now?' But it was our weekly tutorials I have cherished my whole life When, in the studio of Grand Parade, You would turn the pages of my sketchbook of half formed thoughts And say 'Marvellous... marvellous... marvellous.' Plus an illustration from behind of Raymond Briggs and Chris Riddell in a studio drawing together.

ALT A poem called 'Marvellous, for Raymond Briggs': How many lives did your life touch? Not just the gorgeously slimy bogeyman and that grumpy Father Christmas And the snowman who flew through so many childhoods Your beautiful books are a benediction But the students, like me, who you taught for all those years When fame and fortune could easily have lured you away. It was because of you that the publisher came to college And, to impress you, gave me my first commission. And it was to you I came when I sold my first story. A fluke, a lucky accident, my attempt to be like you, To ask, 'What do I do now?' But it was our weekly tutorials I have cherished my whole life When, in the studio of Grand Parade, You would turn the pages of my sketchbook of half formed thoughts And say 'Marvellous... marvellous... marvellous.' Plus an illustration from behind of Raymond Briggs and Chris Riddell in a studio drawing together.

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce (@frankcottrell_b) profile pictureFrank Cottrell-Boyce@frankcottrell_b5 Jun 2022
Thé radical loveliness of Paddington is that he embodies the Britain we aspire to be while being verymuch an immigrant . He offers patriotism without nationalism. He doesn’t only have those values. He summons them out of whoever he meets. Childrens books eh.
Cc: @polarben in case you haven’t seen it
The New Yorker (@NewYorker) profile pictureThe New Yorker
@NewYorker26 Apr 2022
On November 13, 2015, Henry Worsley set out from the coast of Antarctica, hoping to achieve what his hero, Ernest Shackleton, had failed to do a century earlier: to trek on foot from one side of the continent to the other. nyer.cm/SFUFw5j
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On November 13, 2015, Henry Worsley set out from the coast of Antarctica, hoping to achieve what his hero, Ernest Shackleton, had failed to do a century earlier: to trek on foot from one side of the continent to the other. nyer.cm/SFUFw5j
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Ukraine's national anthem played across Europe over the last week. Powerful and moving. youtube.com/watch?v=_pWKVJFF…
Hat-tip to @stephenm68 for his moving & perfectly pitched intro to the @TheCBSO concert of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. “The international language of music can perhaps speak more powerfully….than any mere words”. Great concert, now on BBC Sounds.
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