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BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4, as well as solely for BBC Sounds. The BBC has over 5,500 journalists [1] based both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
The Today programme on BBC Radio 4 in the UK hands over the editorship of the flagship programme to notable outsiders for the week between Christmas and New Year. This is the full list of the individuals involved since the practice was started in 2003 by Peter Hanington.
Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme.Broadcast on Monday to Saturday from 06:00 to 09:00 (starting on Saturday at 07:00), it is produced by BBC News and is the highest-rated programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. [1]
Williams joined the BBC World Service in 1976 as a trainee, having briefly worked as researcher at the Overseas Development Institute.In the 1980s she became producer and duty editor of BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, and then Deputy Editor, Special Current Affairs Programmes, responsible for broadcasting general elections and other major events.
Brian Hanrahan – long-serving BBC correspondent, reporting regularly both from home and abroad during the 1980s and 1990s, his final role being the BBC's diplomatic editor: he also occasionally presented The World At One on BBC Radio 4. He died in 2010.
Formerly the media editor of BBC News, he has been a presenter on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 since 2021 [2] and University Challenge on BBC Two since 2023. [3] Before joining the BBC, Rajan was the editor of the newspaper The Independent from 2013 to 2016. [4]
BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2.It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards.
Mohit Bakaya, Hon. FRSL (born 12 November 1964) [1] is the controller of BBC Radio 4. [2] He joined the BBC in 1993 [3] and produced programmes such as Front Row [4] and Night Waves [5] before becoming the commissioning editor for factual in 2008. [6] He was appointed as controller of Radio 4 in 2019, replacing Gwyneth Williams. [7]