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Creative industry calls for greater investment in young people

Discover! Creative Careers, an England wide industry-led programme, is urging employers in the creative industries to step up their time investment in the workforce, as a growing skills gap threatens to hinder the sector’s ability to thrive. Recent findings from Skills England’s first report reveal an alarming shortage of skilled professionals across various creative fields, […]

November 18, 2024

Audible, National Theatre release News Voices podcast

National Theatre and Audible have released a new podcast, New Voices, featuring ten plays from shortlisted and winning New Views. The New Voices series aims to celebrate and platform the next generation of writing talent from across the UK. The plays, originally written by young people for the National Theatre’s New Views programme, have been […]

August 3, 2023

Buffini, Banerji appointed to BBC Board

Sir Damon Buffini and Shumeet Banerji will replace Tom Ilube, who stood down from the Board in the summer, and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, whose term is due to conclude on December 31st. Buffini was a founding partner of international investment firm Permira and Managing Partner from 1997-2010. He has been Chair of the Royal National […]

November 26, 2021

Sky Arts extends partnership with National Theatre Live

Sky Arts has extended its headline sponsorship of National Theatre Live in the UK for a further three years. And this year, in a UK TV first, two of the theatre’s hit productions will also be screened directly to Sky Arts, the UK’s only dedicated arts channel which is now free for everyone to watch […]

October 19, 2020