From audio listening challenges to engaging with young reporters on the go, from TV special effects lectures to a symposium discussing the evolution of the BBC. There’s so much to our relationship with the BBC. Take a look at the schedule of events below and a scroll through BBC stories from our alumni.

Enjoy this 20-minute screening, as part of our BBC Centenary inspired events, celebrating the BBC’s pioneering Asian radio programming through exceptional audio-visual artefacts.

Our schedule of events

BU alumni in the BBC and beyond

Helping creative industries and cultural heritage to thrive

We help communities appreciate and understand their cultural heritage and support creative industries to grow and develop.

From our Oscar-winning graduates to discoveries made by our historians, BU’s work underpins the UK’s international reputation in creative industries and cultural heritage.

We have a global reputation for our media and communications courses, with our graduates going on to work with world-leading companies across film, television, games and journalism.

Our Faculty of Media and Communication is the largest UK centre of professional higher education for film and media. Students have access to industry-standard facilities, including TV studios, editing suites, and green screen technology, helping them to hone their skills and hit the ground running in their future careers.

Find out more about our commitment to creative industries and cultural heritage


Explore our media production facilities

Opened in spring 2020, the Poole Gateway Building on Talbot Campus provides 5,000 square metres of space and is predominantly home to a range of high-quality, professional-level production facilities.

These include two multi-camera TV studios equipped with 4K (Ultra High Definition) cameras, a sound stage, music studios, a screening room, edit suites, sound suites, and a green screen and motion capture studio.

BFX Festival

BFX is the UK’s largest visual effects, computer games and animation festival.

Over the years, it has become established as an international event that inspires both current and future generations of artists, technicians and engineers, and that celebrates all aspects of VFX, animation and games’ unique mix of technical and creative practices.

Staff at Outpost VFX, a global visual effects agency for film and TV, explain the value of being in such close proximity to new talent at BU and the added value they offer graduates as an award-winning global animation player set in a highly desirable coastal location.