{"id":273939,"date":"2025-11-20T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273939\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:15:09","slug":"bbc-campaign-in-birmingham-backing-homegrown-storytelling-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273939\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC campaign in Birmingham backing homegrown storytelling starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The corporation stated that earlier this year it signed the second MOU with the West Midlands Combined Authority and Create Central, a private sector-led industry body established by the authority, as part of the BBC&#8217;s Across the UK strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guz Khan of the Bafta-nominated comedy Man Like Mobeen, Cillian Murphy, who plays Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders, and the late Ozzy Osbourne are featured on the billboards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The documentary Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home follows the last chapter of Ozzy&#8217;s life, as he prepares to come back to live in the UK and return to his hometown for a final performance with Black Sabbath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham is home to various BBC outlets including local station Radio WM, Midlands Today regional TV, Radio 4&#8217;s The Archers, the Asian Network station, Newsbeat and 1Xtra radio shows, as well as the West Midlands&#8217; local online news team supported by the BBC Verify and data journalism teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The corporation stated that earlier this year it signed the second MOU with the West Midlands Combined Authority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}