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Media Fact sheet #246: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat Use  BBC Sounds to listen to Radio 1 . Select a Newsbeat bulletin ( 8 am or 12.45 pm are good options)  and then answer the following questions:  1) What news stories were featured in the bulletin you listened to? 2) How does Newsbeat appeal to a youth audience? 3) How might Newsbeat help fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster?  1) How is the history and launch of Radio 1 summarised in the fact sheet? If you studied this as part of GCSE Media you will already know much of this. Radio 1 was an instant hit. The programming was mainly around  entertainment (because the people who produced the shows had  come from light entertainment). Radio 1 DJs became household  names. The station remained popular for many years, but by  the 1990s Radio 1 was losing listeners. 2) Look at page 3 of the fact sheet . How is Radio 1 attempting to appeal to its 15-29 age demographic?   It aims to entertain and engage young listeners w

  1) What positive points does the review pick out about  Capital ?  What criticisms are made - either of the TV drama or the original novel? They have managed to squeeze an incredible amount into one street, one book, and then further squeeze into three hours of television. A lot of the important stuff, as well as what is most wonderful and most terrible about the place.  It shows  sympathetic  and  unsympathetic  characters.  The  representation  of the neighborhood in Capital is identical to how most neighborhoods look like in London.  It’s not just a brilliant allegorical portrait of London. There are stories to tell, the postcards keep coming, then DVDs, someone really WANTS WHAT THEY HAVE. We’re heading for a crash, big bang, meltdown. Is it that kind of Capital, too: not just principal city and wealth, but also punishable by death? Because Pepys Road, its residents, London itself, has cancer – a tumour of greed, and mistrust, hatred and pointlessness. For the novel, i t received

  Task 1: Mail Online review of Capital 1) Re-read the  Mail Online review of  Capital . Why does it suggest that  Capital  features a left-wing ideology? It sees immigration as positive, mentioned that the hardest worker on the street was an illegal immigrant (Quintina), mentions that the Polish builder had a heart of gold and his Hungarian girlfriend was as honest as Mother Teresa; which shows that most characters that has a positive impact on where those who immigrated to  London  for a better life. 2) Choose three quotes from the review that are particularly critical of  Capital  and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree with the criticisms? Why? Some unknown anarchist was posting ominous cards through the doors in a  gentrified  London street, where property values and parking permits were all-important. Properties rising in value is still a problem London goes through to this day. Everything British came in for a dose of loathing. When investment banker Roger muttered somet