AudioUK appoints Chloe Straw as Managing Director
9 June 2021
Audio production trade body AudioUK has appointed Chloe Straw as its new Managing Director.
Straw was previously Head of Content and Production at award-winning production company We Are Grape, where she has been based for the last four years, in addition to working as a social media strategist. She has also worked with the BBC and production company Somethin’ Else.
As well as being a Board member at AudioUK for two years from 2017, Straw was the Head of Digital for its training arm Audiotrain. She will take up her new post at AudioUK on 17 June, replacing former MD Will Jackson and subsequent acting MD Tim Wilson.
BBC Opens Huge Shakespeare Archive to Schools and Universities
BBC Opens Huge Shakespeare Archive to Schools and Universities
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The BBC has opened up its Shakespeare Archive to UK schools and universities so that students and scholars have access to an essential piece of British cultural heritage. This is part of the BBC s brief to educate and inform. The BBC material dates from the 1950s to now, it includes the first British televised adaptations of
Othello and
John Gielgud,
Laurence Olivier and many of Shakespeare s famous sonnets in TV and radio broadcasts.
The Royal Shakespeare Company production of As You Like It from March, 1963. Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind and Rosalind Knight as Celia, BBC