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BBC Shows and Tours welcome you inside the BBC!
Ever wondered how you get tickets to be in the studio audience for your favourite show or take a tour of a BBC building?
Every year we record hundreds of tv and radio shows in front of studio audiences. From 'Strictly Come Dancing' to 'The News Quiz', 'Friday Night is Music Night' to 'Later With Jools', we've got free tickets for you!
Or take an award winning tour of BBC Television Centre, a tour of the newly reopened Broadcasting House in Central London, or a special CBBC Experience aimed at children aged 7 - 12 years. All tours must be pre-booked and age restrictions apply.
Prices for BBC Television Centre Tours and CBBC Experience
Adult: £9.50
Child: £7.00
Family: £27.00
Student: £7.00
Seniors: £8.50 concession
Television Centre Tours are suitable for children 9 years and over, the CBBC Experience is aimed at children 7 - 12 years.
Prices for Broadcasting House Tours
Adult: £6.50
Child: £4.50
Family ticket: £15.00
Student: £4.50
Seniors: £5.50 concession
Please note, tours of Broadcasting House currently run one Sunday per month and our booking line can advise on the dates. Tours of Broadcasting House are suitable for children 12 years and over.
To apply for tickets for a BBC Show, go to bbc.co.uk/tickets or call 0870 901 1227.
Booking a Tour: Tel: 0870 603 0304
Textphone for hearing impaired callers: 0870 903 0304
Please state which tour you would like when booking.
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Based on 3 reviews
Latest 3 reviews of BBC Shows and Tours
CBBC tour
Went on CBBC tour early August 07.
8 year old boy+dad. Very enjoyable. Guides were very good with the kids. Very interactive, with the kids all playing roles at different stages. Everyone had a great laugh.
Don't want to ruin the surprises along the way, but would recommend this to anyone with 7-10 year old children, who watch CBBC. Might be lost on tourists from outside British Isles.
Certainly good value, considering most other tours in London have become very expensive.
13 August 2007
Such an Anti-Climax
I’m going to get straight to the point about this tour without beating around the bush.
I booked this tour about three months in advanced and was REALLY looking forward to it. I had previously been on the Grananda tour in Manchester (they don’t do it anymore) and got to walk down “Coronation Street”, and go on rides and allsorts.
This tour was a real anti-climax.
You got to go in a conference style room where there was a glass window looking into the BBC news rooms. You saw nothing other than computers.
Then we walked down a corridor and into a studio. Again, separated by a glass window. Nothing but people working and preparing the studio.
Then we got to walk down another corridor and saw yet another studio. Then pretty much the tour came to an end.
I felt like I was back at school. The tour guides were really patronising and constantly asking very boring and silly questions. There were a couple of kids on the tour and I felt the whole thing was really aimed at them. But even they didn’t seem very amused.
This could have been so much more interesting if the whole thing had been organised better.
My estimation of the BBC has declined since this obvious money making tour. I felt ripped off.
If you could see the news being read from behind glass, that would have been more interesting.
If you could walk on the studio floor and have a rough idea about how the cameras work (etc) that would have been more educational.
However, I have been on this tour and I’m none the wiser of the general running and daily activity and “behind the scenes” of the BBC.
I wouldn’t recommend this tour and will never go back.
A note to the BEEB, take a note out of ITV’s tour book. Such a shame. L
16 April 2007
An informative and fun tour
June 2005 was my first visit to London. I had arranged a tour of the BBC Television Centre (White City, London) for Day Two of my trip and, due to an intruder on the tracks, trains on the Underground in the direction I was travelling were seriosuly disrupted. I arrived at the recepetion area of BBC 15 mins late, to be told the tour had left. Staff at the front desk were extremely accomodating and it was not long before a friendly 'tour guide' greeted us and brought us through security. Luckily, there were only 3 people on the tour. We visited some of the production areas (and got to see some filming), the weather area, the news rooms/offices, the gift shop, and more....
This tour is certainly worth a visit. I am returning in August 2006 with some friends and I hope to bring them to the magnificent BBC TV Centre.
7 February 2006
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BBC Television Centre Tours Special event
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A tour of the BBC Television Centre takes almost two hours and features the studios and the BBC News section offering an insight into the functioning of the organisation.
Location Information BBC Shows and Tours
| Address: | Wood Lane, London London W12 7RJ |
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| Telephone: | 0370 9011227 |
| Fax: | +44 (0)28 9032 6453 |
| Email: | bbctours@bbc.co.uk |
| Website: | bbc.co.uk/showsandtours |
| By road: | Follow signposts from station. |
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