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Over to You: Listener bugbears on truncating news interviews

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13/04/2024 GMT

Listener bugbears on truncating news interviews

BBC World Service - Over to You, Listener bugbears on truncating news interviews

Why do live interviewees sometimes get abruptly cut short by the interviewer?

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.
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