Beyond Today’s People of the Year
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a year. Brexit shenanigans, the #metoo movement, Donald Trump being Donald Trump, the World Cup, a royal wedding … a lot has happened. Christmas is a time for food, presents, and end of the year review lists, but here at Beyond Today we’re doing things a little differently. Let us take you behind the scenes of the making of our list, as we each pick our person of the year. And eat mince pies.
Producer: Harriet Noble Mixed by: Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, you're listening to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Tina Deheelie. |
| 0:11.0 | This is usually the space to ask one big question about one big story, but today's a |
| 0:17.8 | bit different. |
| 0:18.8 | Well, Matthew's here for a start. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, both of us. |
| 0:23.0 | We don't often do this. |
| 0:24.0 | We don't. |
| 0:25.0 | We don't. |
| 0:26.0 | We do. Hello. |
| 0:27.0 | So this is nice. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, Tina. We're both in the same studio at the same time. |
| 0:30.0 | And why? |
| 0:32.0 | Why? Why? Why? |
| 0:33.0 | Why? |
| 0:34.0 | Yes, hi. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, we wanted to do a sort of an end-of-year review. |
| 0:39.0 | It's always nice at this time of year to have a bit of a reminisce about the year and you'll see loads of like best of 2018 lists around but here at Beyond today we wanted to do things a bit differently so rather than just giving you a list, I'm going to take you |
| 0:54.6 | behind the scenes of us making the list. This sounds frightening. Well it all started a few weeks ago when I gathered the Beyond Today team together. |
| 1:04.6 | Are we recording? |
| 1:06.6 | Should we start? |
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