The Today Podcast: Live!
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Hundreds of our listeners assembled in the BBC Radio Theatre for the first ever live recording of The Today Podcast!
Nick and Amol were joined on stage by a panel of experts: former Labour deputy prime minister Lord Mandelson; Fiona Hill, Theresa May’s former chief of staff in Downing Street and founder of the Future Resilience Forum; and University of Oxford Professor Jane Green, co-director of the British Election Study.
The panel dissected the latest election news and answered listener questions on topics ranging from voter apathy to why so many MPs are leaving parliament.
And Roger Tilling, the voice of University Challenge, was on hand for all the announcements.
Episodes of The Today Podcast will land twice a week during the election campaign. 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.
You can listen to the latest episode of The Today Podcast anytime on your smart speaker by saying “Alexa, Ask BBC Sounds for The Today Podcast.”
The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producers are Hatty Nash and Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. Digital production from Elliot Ryder and Charlie Henry. Live music was composed by Paddy Fletcher and Nick Foster and performed by Paddy Fletcher and James Allnutt.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Live from the BBC Radio Theatre in London, |
| 0:08.6 | in the middle of an election campaign |
| 0:10.8 | that none of us imagined would coincide with this live show. |
| 0:16.3 | Least of all Nick Robinson. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to the Today Podcast Live. Let's do it. |
| 0:27.1 | And now let's meet our |
| 0:28.7 | hosts for tonight from the Today |
| 0:30.9 | podcast, live |
| 0:32.8 | and in person tonight. |
| 0:35.3 | Please welcome Amul Rajin and Nick Robinson. |
| 0:39.3 | Thank you. What would John Humphries make of it all? |
| 1:11.1 | What would John Humphreys make of it all? What would John Humphreys say about this? |
| 1:14.3 | About the music? |
| 1:15.3 | Music, audience, fun. |
| 1:18.4 | You don't get that on Classic FM. |
| 1:19.9 | Nick, they actually like us. |
| 1:21.5 | Look, this is what it's like to be in one of those American super churches. |
| 1:25.9 | Everyone's incredibly excited. |
| 1:29.5 | It's so nice to see you all here. Thank you so much for coming. Look, one of us is dressed for the occasion. The other's wearing a suit. |
| 1:33.2 | Now, it's very unnerving, I have to say, seeing people as you're broadcasting. Because the |
| 1:39.3 | curious thing about our jobs, you see, is that day after day, we get some listener numbers. I used to get viewer |
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