Your Questions Answered
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Who decides which presenter does which interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme? Does it create any tensions? In a busy newsroom how do you work out the facts?
Amol and Nick answer these listener questions and others in this bonus edition of The Today Podcast.
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
Episodes of The Today Podcast land every Thursday. 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.
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 producers are Tom Smithard and Stephanie Mitcalf. The editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. The Today Podcast music is composed by Nick Foster and Paddy Fletcher.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's Amol here in the Today Podcast studio. |
| 0:07.4 | And Nick, alongside you. |
| 0:08.9 | And this is a bonus edition of the Today podcast where we are going to try our best to answer your questions. |
| 0:15.2 | And quite a few of those questions about how we make decisions on this podcast, on the Today program, about what we do talk about and what we don't. |
| 0:23.5 | So, we published an episode about the chances of peace. |
| 0:27.8 | Tough question at a time like this just a few days ago. |
| 0:31.1 | But how do we decide that choice of subject or all the other things that we have to decide on before making an addition of the Today program. |
| 0:39.4 | Let's do it. |
| 0:52.2 | If you've got questions, we are keen to hear them. |
| 0:54.6 | Send us a voice note on WhatsApp to plus 44-330-123-4-4-4-6. |
| 1:00.7 | That's plus 4-4-4-3-4-3-4-6. |
| 1:06.0 | Or you can email us today at BBC.com. |
| 1:09.5 | And to make sure you never miss an episode of this podcast, just click on |
| 1:13.1 | subscribe on the Today Podcast page on BBC Sounds. Once you've done that, every time a new |
| 1:18.6 | episode is released, as if by magic, it will show up on your personalised section of BBC Sounds. |
| 1:24.4 | But let's crack on. Here's the first question, and it comes from Jenna. |
| 1:27.4 | I'm enjoying the Today Podcast and it comes from Jenna. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm enjoying the Today podcast and have a question about the making of the Today program. |
| 1:35.7 | How has it decided who will take the lead on a news item or interview? |
| 1:39.6 | Do the presenters have a say? Or is it solely decided by the editors? |
| 1:43.6 | Secondly, does it create any tensions in the team? Thank you. Tensions? What's you talking about? Tensions, Janet? Good not. What could you possibly be referring to? Oh, the way, thank you, Janet, for that wonderful and thoughtful question. The way it works is we come in with boxing gloves and then when we see that the 8-10 hasn't been decided, me and Nick have a big old to-do, and he says, I want to do it, |
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