News Review of the Year
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Amol and Nick review the year in news, featuring the biggest moments and their favourite interviews from the Today programme in 2023. They’re joined by some familiar voices including Chris Mason, Martha Kearney and friend of the pod, statistician Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter. With Gabby Logan on the Lionesses, Andy Zaltzman on The Ashes and Paddy O’Connell on Eurovision. Episodes of The Today Podcast land every Thursday and watch out for bonus episodes. Subscribe on BBC Sounds to get Amol and Nick's take on the biggest stories of the week, with insights from behind the scenes at the UK's most influential radio news programme. If you would like a question answering, get in touch by sending us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 123 4346 or email us Today@bbc.co.uk The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most influential radio news 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. The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producers are Joe Wilkinson and Rufus Gray. Technical production from Mike Regaard and Emma Crowe. The editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | The thing about a program like the Today program is we're always moving forward, we're always looking forward. |
| 0:11.0 | And the thing about a podcast like the Today podcast is it is a chance to take a bit of a step back to think big picture and reflect, not least on how many interviews you and I, Nick, have done this |
| 0:21.9 | year, how many amazing stories and how many wonderful people we've met. Yep, we've counted it up, |
| 0:27.2 | or rather, the producers have, there will have been, during 2023, 881 hours of the Today |
| 0:35.0 | programme. Oh, that is 881 attempts not to crash the pips, |
| 0:39.7 | most of which have been successful if I say so myself. |
| 0:42.3 | And at least, in fact, what was it, 300 odd, 10 past 8 interviews. |
| 0:46.2 | So to round off our year, we wanted to bring you our personal selection of the highlights of this year. |
| 0:51.9 | And it is, as you would expect from this podcast, a completely |
| 0:55.4 | fair, balanced, scientific, rigorous, impartial, wreathian and transparent process. |
| 1:01.2 | Or putting it another way, we've had quite a lot of fun, picking out what we think is interesting, |
| 1:05.3 | what we think is important, and what is just entertaining. And over the next 45 minutes |
| 1:09.5 | or so, we'll be taking a look back at some of |
| 1:11.8 | those big moments in the news, the moments that nearly left you and me speechless, and we'll |
| 1:17.4 | have the old guest popping into. And we're going to have some messages, some voice notes from |
| 1:21.4 | people that you might have heard of about the stories that brought us together. This is the |
| 1:26.8 | Today podcast News Review of the Year. |
| 1:30.1 | Am I allowed to say let's do it? |
| 1:31.9 | What I just did. |
| 1:45.3 | Hello, it's Nick. |
| 1:52.4 | And it's me, Amol, and we've got stuck into a huge amount of politics on this podcast, as you may well have noticed. |
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