Bonus Q&A – BBC jargon, who makes Today and covering the US election
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
How do independent MPs work together to hold the government to account? What do the producers behind Today do? And why does the programme mark the end of each hour with the pips?
Amol and Nick return with answers to more listener questions.
You too can put a question to Amol and Nick. Get in touch by sending us a message or voice note to WhatsApp to +44 330 123 4346 or you can email Today@bbc.co.uk
Episodes of The Today Podcast with Amol and Nick land first on BBC Sounds. Get Amol and Nick's take on the biggest stories with insights from behind the scenes at the UK’s biggest and most influential radio news programme.
The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.
You can listen to the latest episode of The Today Podcast any time on your smart speaker by saying “Smart Speaker, ask BBC Sounds to play The Today Podcast.”
The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producer is Hatty Nash, research and digital production from Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. Technical production from Hannah Montgomery.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We get it. Life is busy. You want to keep up with the news, but there's just too much going on. |
| 0:06.9 | Which is where Newscast comes in. We do the work, and when you're ready to dig deeper into the day's news, you just pop us into your ears. |
| 0:14.8 | It does mean we have to put in the hard work, though. |
| 0:17.5 | Listen to Newscast every day on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:21.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:25.3 | Hi, it's Nick in the Today Podcast studio, and it's a mole and the pod squad. |
| 0:30.0 | Those lovely people on the other side of the glass have been absolutely inundated with questions from you, our listeners. |
| 0:36.1 | Our metaphorical mailbag is heaving. |
| 0:39.4 | And you know what that means? |
| 0:40.5 | It's time for another Q&A episode. |
| 0:43.8 | A bonus. |
| 0:44.7 | Let's do it. |
| 1:00.8 | Now, coming up, questions about all sorts of things. |
| 1:01.7 | Politics here. |
| 1:04.1 | Politics over the pond in America. |
| 1:08.0 | How we make the Today program and the Pips. |
| 1:09.1 | But let's start. |
| 1:12.1 | Hang on, you've just given away the fact that we know these questions in advance. |
| 1:20.3 | We were going to, we were going to, man, I wanted to see to think we were so clever that we just responded on the hoof. |
| 1:22.0 | Oh, Nick, come on, man. |
| 1:24.0 | We've just been handed this piece of paper now. Literally just been handed it. |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah, yeah, absolutely, literally. |
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