Part of the joy of watching a creaky old video, stored for many years, is that, as well as the eclectic mix of programmes collected on one tape, you get all the junk that comes between them: ads half-remembered, trailers for shows long-forgotten, station idents.
However, taken as a whole, no difference was seen in the staff mix of programmes that did or did not specifically recruit patients with heart failure save for the number of nurses who featured prominently and interestingly were represented in higher numbers in centres that did not offer a dedicated rehabilitation programme in heart failure.
We attract students through our research and teaching specialisations – we are different from most universities in terms of the mix of postgraduate programmes we offer, for example our aquaculture, retailing, media and finance and accounting specialisms are quite significant.
So we should make no apology for giving viewers another chance to watch some classic BBC programmes and modern family favourites again, as long as they are used carefully and offered alongside a distinctive mix of new programmes, like we have this Christmas.
Mary Hockaday, controller of BBC World Service English said: "News and current affairs remains the heart of the World Service, but there's room for more breadth and depth – guiding listeners through a complex world and offering more culture and music – and our new schedule will deliver a richer mix of bold programmes and great talent to reflect the breadth of our listeners' interests.
After Untold Stories (2005) comes this book, with a similar mix of talks, prefaces, programme notes, eulogies for dead friends and other fugitive pieces.
The main requirement is for external agencies and governments alike to adopt a pragmatic approach to the mix of project and programme support, and to place less emphasis on blueprints and dogma.
The CEP has now devised a balanced mix of evidence-based programmes that would provide 140 hours of the curriculum in secondary schools, and the Centre will be piloting it over a 5 year period27.
A retrospective analysis of the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database of 480,433 admissions to 178 units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
