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The end of an in-depth interview programme
Listeners react to the proposed closure of the flagship interview programme Hard Talk. Plus, a listener argues that special effects used in some programme trailers are off putting.
Hard Talk is a long-standing in-depth interview programme but it is now facing the chop. Listeners give us their views about its proposed closure.
And the BBC tells us why the decision to end the show is being taken.
Plus, a listener argues that special effects used in some programme trailers are off putting.
Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon
A Whistledown production for BBC World Service
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Mon 11 Nov 202403:50GMT
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