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Elle While from Pentabus, BBC production executive Natalie Bolton, executive producer Vanessa Amberleigh and series producer Anna Perowne at the 2025 BAFTA television awards

Elle picks up BAFTA award for children’s TV show

14 May 2025

Elle While, artistic director of Shropshire-based Pentabus, picked up a BAFTA TV award that celebrates the best of children’s television.

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The Fever

Wallace Shawn

BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Released 19 April 2025

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The Next Act

16 May 2025

We take a look at The Next Act, a podcast dedicated to British South Asian playwrights.

The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals

"The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals 2025" arrives on television

14 March 2025

The broadcast date for the BBC’s transmission of The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals has been announced.

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