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Listener bugbears on truncating news interviews

Why do live interviewees sometimes get abruptly cut short by the interviewer? Plus, a listener tells us what he likes so much about his favourite programme: Weekend.

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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service

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9 minutes

Last on

Mon 15 Apr 2024 02:50GMT

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