Saul Nassé - Inspiring Lives Full of Learning
Saul Nassé, Controller of BBC Learning, outlines his mission to combine the best broadcast content with the best technology to inspire everyone to learn. He describes how the BBC aims to meet its obligation to support learning and education by extracting the learning potential of some of its best known brands, applying whatever technology offers the best solution and working with partners inside and outside the BBC.
Biography
Saul is responsible for the BBC’s formal learning content, including the highly popular Bitesize, as well as for commissioning key factual TV programmes, formal and informal online Learning content, and off-air events and campaigns like Headroom and Breathing Places, which promote education and learning to all audiences.
Saul has spent the last 20 years working for the BBC. Prior to joining BBC Learning, Saul was based in Mumbai where he was General Manager and Creative Head of BBC Worldwide Productions India from 2007 to 2009, producing the Indian version of Strictly Come Dancing amongst others. Before that, the popular and critically acclaimed India and Pakistan season in 2007; and he was Creative Head of Development for Specialist Factual in 2006.
In 2004/5, he was Head of Religion and Ethics, where he ran a department producing religious programmes across all media including the highly praised coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II; in 2002/2003 executive producer of the BBC World Trust Service Haath Se Haath Milaa, a programme to help promote AIDS awareness in India; and from 1997 – 2001 he was the editor of Tomorrow’s World, BBC One’s popular science programme.
