Roger Mosey is the Acting Director of Vision, responsible for all of the BBC’s TV output and an Honorary Graduand of the University of Lincoln. He was the BBC’s Director of London 2012 – responsible for planning coverage of the Olympics across all genres and platforms. This included the Cultural Olympiad; major events in the build-up to the Games; and co-ordinating the BBC’s activities locally, nationally and globally. Roger’s previous roles include being Editor of Today on BBC Radio 4; Controller of BBC Radio 5 Live; Head of BBC Television News; and Director of Sport. Roger was born in Bradford in 1958 and educated at Bradford Grammar School, followed by Wadham College, Oxford, where he received a degree in Modern History and Modern Languages. After university he joined Pennine Radio, Bradford, as a Community Affairs Producer; and his BBC career began in 1980 when he joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire as a reporter.
Roger’s first job in network radio was on The Week In Westminster, and he then moved to Today as a producer and to the BBC’s New York bureau before becoming editor of PM in 1987. He was editor of Radio 4’s Today programme from March 1993 until his appointment as Controller of 5 Live at the beginning of 1997. Under Roger’s editorship, Today won Sony Gold Awards in 1994 and 1995, a British Environment and Media Award and was named Radio Programme of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild in 1995. Radio 5 Live was named the Sony National Radio Station of the Year 1998; and BBC Television News won a number of Royal Television Society awards for journalism – including Programme of the Year for Newsnight(2002) and the Ten O’Clock News (2004). The Ten O’Clock Newsalso received Bafta awards in both 2004 and 2005. Roger recruited James Naughtie to join the Today presenting team and introduced Nicky Campbell, Victoria Derbyshire and Richard Littlejohn to 5 Live. In his time in Sport he oversaw the coverage of the 2006 World Cup and the Beijing Olympics, as well as the return of Formula 1 to the BBC.
Roger led the Sport Creative Future project that put greater emphasis on digital media and which has delivered considerable growth in audiences online and through interactive services. His interests include football – he is an Arsenal season ticket holder – music and politics. He is a trustee of the National Media Museum in Bradford and of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was elected as an executive board member of the European Broadcasting Union in 2011-12. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lincoln in 2011, and is a fellow of the Radio Academy.
Taking place in the Jackson Lecture Theatre, on the Brayford Campus, Lincoln University, starting at 6.15 pm.
They are free and open to the public. There is no need to book.