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Written Ministerial Statement on Television Product Placement

09/02/2010

9 February 2010

I would like to set out the Government’s plans for product placement on television.

Ben Bradshaw’s speech at the LGBT History Month pre-launch at the British Museum

19/11/2009

Harvey Milk is my usual ‘go-to’ activist for a quote on LGBT occasions. But this is one from a straight American activist from a different era, Henry Ward Beecher.

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

Ben Bradshaw’s speech at the School Sports Partnership Conference 2009

15/10/2009

15 October 2009

Have you noticed how Secretaries of State in my department tend to get pigeon holed? It’s a symptom of the rich range of responsibilities of the Department and a tendency in some of our sectors to have the curious expectation that their Cabinet Minister must be a culture vulture, sports anorak and media nerd in one.

Ben Bradshaw's speech to the Royal Television Society, 16 September 2009

16/09/2009

16 September 2009

Twenty years ago I had the good fortune and privilege to be the BBC’s correspondent in Berlin. I had arrived there in the beginning of 1989 – as a rookie reporter from BBC Radio Devon – to a posting considered a bit of a backwater. Not much had happened in Berlin since the wall had gone up. My predecessor’s biggest story in four years was the death of the elderly Nazi, Rudolph Hess, in Spandau Prison. Within weeks of my arrival, the East Germans were revolting and in just a few short months the Berlin Wall was down. In career terms – it was very lucky timing.

Ben Bradshaw statement on Digital Britain Report

16/06/2009

16 June 2009

With permission Mr Speaker I wish to make a statement on the publication of the Digital Britain Report.