News Review of the Year 2024
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson are joined by Today programme colleague Justin Webb to discuss a bumper election year that saw the UK elect a new prime minister and the US re-elect a president. Plus, Emma Barnett looks back at her first few months as a Today presenter and Garry Richardson returns to pick out his sporting moments of 2024.
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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. 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.
This episode was made by Lewis Vickers with Nadia Gyane and Grace Reeve. The technical producers were Ben Andrews and Mike Regaard. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
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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. |
| 0:25.5 | 2024 has been quite the year. |
| 0:27.9 | Over on the today program, we said goodbye very sadly to Martha Carney, Michelle Hussein, |
| 0:32.2 | and Gary Richardson, who's actually going to be helping us to review the year in sport later. |
| 0:36.2 | But we also said hello to our new colleague Emma Barnett, who's going to bring us some highlights from her first few months on today. It's also been a huge year for democracy around the world, with a few bumps along the way. So we'll look at the pivotal elections that have happened here and elsewhere with our colleague Justin Webb, and we'll talk about some of the other seismic events that have |
| 0:54.8 | happened around the world. So that's what to expect over the next 45 minutes or so as we bring |
| 0:59.4 | you our today podcast news review of the year. And because 2024 was the year we did our first ever |
| 1:05.3 | today podcast live show, we thought we should start this festive episode with the theme music played live on stage at the BBC Radio Theatre. |
| 1:14.8 | This is fantastic. Let's do it. |
| 1:39.8 | Music Hello, it's a mole in the Today Podcast studio. |
| 1:40.8 | And it's Nick. |
| 1:45.9 | We're going to start our review of 2024 in what we're calling Election Corner. |
| 2:01.5 | We're going to hear from Justin Webb, of course, in a few minutes time, who covered the big one, the election in the United States also covered as it happens French parliamentary elections because it was a massive year for democracy and for elections. |
| 2:02.4 | And quite a bad year. And we're going to come to the UK election where it was a bad year for incumbents too |
| 2:06.5 | because the Tory's got voted out after 14 years. |
| 2:08.7 | But if there was a theme all around the world, it was a pretty tough year for people who |
| 2:11.7 | are in power. |
| 2:12.6 | So some of our listeners will be of Indian heritage or perhaps even in India. |
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