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Listener bugbears on truncating news interviews

Why do live interviewees sometimes get abruptly cut short by the interviewer? Plus, a listener tells us what he likes so much about his favourite programme: Weekend.

We hear listeners’ bugbears about one aspect of news programmes that really annoys them: why do live interviewees sometimes get abruptly cut short by the interviewer? We go behind the scenes to reveal the pressures of live news production with one of the BBC’s news editors, Karen Martin.

Plus, a listener tells us what he likes so much about his favourite programme: Weekend.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon.
A Whistledown production for the BBC World Service

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9 minutes

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Mon 15 Apr 202402:50GMT
BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East

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  • Sat 13 Apr 202408:50GMT
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    BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa
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    The BBC World Service’s monthly listener feedback programme