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 28th December: Bono from U2
After last year's success of inviting well known people to come and be a guest editor on the Today programme, we thought we'd do it all over again.
U2 frontman Bono said of his editorship "I have to confess, I'm not a natural editor... I want to start the countdown to next year, when Britain can change the world for the poorest people on the planet."
Bono asked us to interview Sister Benedicta, someone he counts as one of the most inspirational people in the world. She's a German nun who runs the Missionaries of Charity Hospital and Orphanage in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. He also requested interviews with Gordon Brown and Bill Clinton on the future of development.
Bono believes 2005 is an opportunity to - literally - "make poverty history". He commissioned our political editor, Andrew Marr, to examine whether the British government is behind such a radical step forward. He also asked to speak to one of the leaders of the 'Make Poverty History' campaign.
We explored the theory that North African and Irish folk music are linked; a theory which Bono is tempted to believe. He commissioned Thought for the Day from Archbishop Ndungane of Cape Town - the first time 'TFTD' has been commissioned by someone outside the Corporation. And he asked to use music 'stings' to introduce our regular sports, business and Thought for the Day slots - an innovation which, to his amusement, enraged some listeners.
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