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Thanks for that, Ben. I fondly remember your emails... I organised a talk for the RTS from Simon Parnall about TV Anytime some years prior to Backstage launchi

Thanks for that, Ben. I fondly remember your emails... I organised a talk for the RTS from Simon Parnall about TV Anytime some years prior to Backstage launching and was really excited to see feeds become available from the BBC - and similarly saddened when they died. Ironically, it would have probably been a politically astute thing to keep alive with the push in Government for Open Data at that point.

dotBen 5y ago
A number of people loosely connected with BBC Backstage (from inside the BBC at the time and outside of it) went to work for the UK Gov Digital Service under then-minister Francis Maude, which is where a lot of the Open Data stuff came from. So from that point of view, the work at the BBC did lead to a greater opening from within the government. I miss the BBC days fondly, very different to what I'm doing now but it was a great era.