Listener bugbears on truncating news interviews
Apr 13, 2024•9 min
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Episode description
We hear listeners’ bugbears about one aspect of news programmes that really annoys them: why do live interviewees sometimes get abruptly cut short by the interviewer? We go behind the scenes to reveal the pressures of live news production with one of the BBC’s news editors, Karen Martin.
Plus, a listener tells us what he likes so much about his favourite programme: Weekend.
Presenter: Rajan Datar Producer: Howard Shannon. A Whistledown production for the BBC World Service
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