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Changes to the Today website
Nigel Smith
Interactive Editor
Because of technical changes on News Online, from now on there will be only one homepage for Today.
Today on Feedback; Your questions for the R4 Controller
Roger Bolton
Editor's note: You can leave your questions for Roger to put to the Radio 4 Controller on next week's Feedback in the comments on this blog post - PM. Just after 4am in the Today office at BBC Television Centre in west London. The programme team has been working since eight the previous e...
The Today programme: The "radio show that one in eight of us now tune in to"
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
Jon Henley's written a profile of Radio 4's Today programme in The Guardian: The Today programme is, of course, a legend, but now we know it has never been more popular: the latest figures put its audience during the first three months of this year at 7.03 million, 600,000 more than last year...
When the crime writer met the Director General
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Crime writer and radio pugilist PD James has won one of the most prestigious awards in British journalism - the Nick Clarke Interview Prize. She won it for her on-air punch-up with BBC Director General Mark Thompson, during her guest editorship of the Today Programme on Radio 4 last new year's e...
The end of the affair
Gwyneth Williams
Editor's note: Radio 4's new Controller has been in the job for three weeks. Her second blog post concerns the party conferences, poetry and anagrams - SB. The End of the Affair - I mean the party conference season. The Today Programme's set of leader interviews was unmissable. Ingredients: tak...
In defence of trails
Roger Bolton
Editor's note: this week's item from Feedback, Radio 4's weekly accountability programme, concerns the highly contentious issue of trails. Putting his head in the lion's mouth to defend them is network manager, Denis Nowlan. Brave man - SB What is it about trails that so excites or rather infla...
David Cameron, tipster
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
If you're a regular Today listener you'll know that the daily racing tips are a treasured (and sometimes comical) element of the the programme's sports coverage. So it seems quite appropriate that when Garry Richardson, the programme's long-serving sports presenter, came into the Today studio at...
The making of Radio 4's election night highlights
Hugh Levinson
edits BBC Radio current affairs programmes, including Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent
Editor's note: listen to the 15-minute montage of Radio 4's election night coverage below - it's a real rollercoaster - and it was delivered minutes after the programme went off-air. I asked Hugh Levinson, who made the montage with colleague Tom Brignell, to tell us how they did it - SB. Our mi...
The BBC Trust's Thought for the Day ruling
Mark Damazer
The Thought for The Day ruling by the BBC Trust was never going to be greeted with universal applause - or anything like it. In a nutshell the Trust says that restricting Thought for the Day to speakers who espouse a faith does not breach the BBC's obligation to impartiality - but the Trustees ...
An interesting week for Radio 4 in the media
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
The Today Programme is always in the news. The Telegraph runs with the Voice of the Listener and Viewer's gong for Today (and Radio 4 in general). In the same paper Tim Walker wonders why Today didn't send Naughtie or Humphrys to the Tory conference in Manchester. The Times (and everybody else)...
