5 live Breakfast - Covering the Cuts
5 live Breakfast is going to be an extra big production on Thursday morning.
We'll be coming to you from a series of live locations around the UK - bringing you reaction and analysis as people begin to absorb the impact of the spending review.
Nicky Campbell will be at the heart of the civil service, in Whitehall. Shelagh Fogarty will be broadcasting from a fire station in Leeds.
James Shaw is in Glasgow with the outlook for Scotland, Mark Hutchings is at a hospital in Cardiff and 5 live's Stephen Nolan - normally one of our evening presenters - will be reporting live from central Belfast.
We also have Stephen Chittenden in Norwich, Nick Garnett with public sector workers in Morpeth - and Andy Verity in the City of London with reaction from the financial markets.
From 10, it's 'Your Call' - your turn to go on air to give Nicky your reaction to the spending review. It's going to be a big, ambitious show - and we're aiming to connect people across the UK as we all get to grips with the biggest public spending cuts since Word War II.
Before all that, don't forget 5 live's comprehensive coverage of the spending review announcement itself today. Victoria Derbyshire is at Westminster. She'll be joined by politicians, experts and 5 live listeners - and, of course, she'll also be crossing to the Commons chamber to hear the Chancellor's statement.
Big outside broadcasts like this are the hallmark of 5 live. They're a large part of what makes us distinctive - and they put us in touch with people on the ground so that our audience can have first hand experience of what people at the centre of news stories really think and feel about what's going on.
Related Links
Spending Review - detailed coverage from BBC News Online
Scott Solder is the Editor of 5 live Breakfast
Comment number 1.
At 13:35 20th Oct 2010, carrie wrote:Norwich? Cardiff? Belfast? Leeds? At least you are going somewhere but...........
pity about the South West, North East and North West, the South.............
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Comment number 2.
At 14:26 20th Oct 2010, ryanw wrote:I am sure unlike BBC Question Time 5Live will seek out a cross section of people from all walks of life and parts of the country not just Labour strongholds...
Question Time's next EIGHT programmes have a common thread... can you spot it.
21 October - Middlesbrough (Labour)
28 October - Glasgow (Labour)
4 November - Sheffield (Labour/Lib Dem)
11 November - London (tbc)
18 November - Swansea (Labour)
25 November - Workington (Labour)
2 December - Coventry (Labour)
9 December - Exeter (Labour)
Your list doesn't look much more balanced.
I hope you make a point of interviewing people in the PRIVATE sector who have already gone through this pain and also ask why our state has got so bloated, why there is so much waste and why the previous government didn't do more to insulate the country from the dire economic situation is left us all in.
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At 14:32 20th Oct 2010, Dom wrote:Can I ask that 5 Live stops using the Tory propaganda term ‘Gold plated public sector pensions’ and instead simply refers to them as public sector pensions? As Hutton said, “The average pension paid to pensioner members is about £7,800 a year. About half of pensioners receive less than £5,600 a year.” Hardly gold plated unlike the pensions of BBC directors.
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At 16:02 20th Oct 2010, Ellie Reuter wrote:Hi ryanw and Carrie,
Since I left 5 live interactive, I've been working with the station's regional journalists. They're based around the UK, and have been heavily involved in our plans for covering the spending review and the build-up to it.
We want to hear from people across the country and from all walks of life, not just the politicians at Westminster. But you can't always predict what the most important or interesting elements of a story will be -- so although we've been working on our plans for weeks, we only decided exactly where our reporters should go and what they should do once George Osborne had finished speaking.
So on Drive, our North West of England reporter Steve Blears will be in Manchester looking at transport spending.
Lesley Ashmall is Drive's dedicated reporter -- she'll be talking to a middle-income family in Potters Bar in Hertfordshire.
And our political reporter Chris Mason will be in Thanet in Kent, looking at the welfare budget.
Then we've sent our East Midlands reporter Sarah Sturdey to a school in Nottingham for tomorrow's Breakfast programme. Before that, she'll be on Tony Livesey's show tonight, looking at what the future holds for the children who'll be brought up in the post-Spending Review world.
Tony Livesey himself has been watching George Osborne's statement with listeners in Liverpool -- you'll be able to hear their reaction tonight, along with reporting from Stephen Nolan in Belfast, Mark Hutchings with drinkers in a Cardiff pub, James Shaw on the banks of the Clyde, and Nick Garnett in South Shields (he's normally our Yorkshire reporter, but we've sent him to the north-east of England while Shelagh's in Leeds).
Phew. And that list doesn't include all the other work our reporters have been doing in the run-up to today's Spending Review, like finding guests and good tales from their areas, helping programmes with their outside broadcasts, and covering stories like yesterday's strategic defence review -- you might have heard our South West of England reporter Sarah Ransome in Plymouth and Laura Maxwell in Elgin and Forres, close to RAF Kinloss.
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Comment number 5.
At 16:18 20th Oct 2010, ryanw wrote:Ellie,
Can you please tell me how you select your audiences at this live events?
On the face of it the chances of the coverage being decidedly weighted against the Coalition is high.
Steve Blears will be in Manchester (Labour)
Tony Livesey... in Liverpool (Labour)
Stephen Nolan in Belfast (Alliance, Sien Fein)
Mark Hutchings... in a Cardiff pub (Labour)
James Shaw on the banks of the Clyde (Labour)
Nick Garnett in South Shields (Labour)
Sarah Sturdey to a school in Nottingham (Labour)
Lesley Ashmall ... Potters Bar in Hertfordshire (Conservative)
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Comment number 6.
At 17:40 20th Oct 2010, Jackstumps wrote:Rachel Burden has just claimed that Sheffield is "here in the North East!"
Get out more love.
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Comment number 7.
At 17:43 20th Oct 2010, Jackstumps wrote:and another - Lesley Ashmall is Five's dedicated reporter ... dedicated to staying as close to London (Wimbledon maybe?) as possible.
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Comment number 8.
At 18:10 20th Oct 2010, lunchtime_legend wrote:We've already had four months of whinging since the emergency budget. Please, no more.
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Comment number 9.
At 22:48 20th Oct 2010, carrie wrote:The number of broadcasts Lesley does from Penge makes me think she is a resident of Bromley or Croydon. But Potters Bar is near Thameslink so she could also perhaps live in Sutton.
And welcome.
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Comment number 10.
At 07:02 21st Oct 2010, worcesterdee wrote:At 2:32pm on 20 Oct 2010, Dom wrote:
Can I ask that 5 Live stops using the Tory propaganda term ‘Gold plated public sector pensions’ and instead simply refers to them as public sector pensions? As Hutton said, “The average pension paid to pensioner members is about £7,800 a year. About half of pensioners receive less than £5,600 a year.” Hardly gold plated unlike the pensions of BBC directors.
Totally agree with Dom's comment. Fed up hearing this used as part of the public sector bashing by the likes of the CBI and the likes. The child tax allowance savings will bring in more money than the banks taxes. Who caused the crises children or Banks?
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Comment number 11.
At 07:48 21st Oct 2010, carrie wrote:Leaving aside party politics and the lack of access to certain regions in all this coverage, I do think there has been some great broadcasting on a very difficult subject requiring instant responses from the huge team on this over the last 24 hours. Particularly Tony Livesey, who had a great show and was on top of his subject and had been broadcasting during the day too, quite something.
There you are you see, I don't always moan and grumble.
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Comment number 12.
At 09:11 21st Oct 2010, ryanw wrote:Lesley Ashmall lives in West Wickham, Bromley, United Kingdom ... Carrie you are so insightful sometimes!
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Comment number 13.
At 09:17 21st Oct 2010, carrie wrote:Blimey that was just a punt!
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Comment number 14.
At 09:18 21st Oct 2010, carrie wrote:So going to Penge, where I truly have heard her broadcasting from on many occasions, means a journey of about three miles!
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Comment number 15.
At 07:45 26th Oct 2010, carrie wrote:I think these cuts announced by the government include the jobs of Hasit, Nigel and AVK, as they have not been seen or heard from in some time, although they always promise to answer questions and keep in touch. Either that or they have been abducted by aliens, which I think is the more likely.
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