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Nick Robinson discusses election interviews, and your views on, Orwell v Kafka.

Andrea Catherwood discusses political interviews with Nick Robinson and the BBC’s director of journalism, and hears your views on Radio 4's Orwell v Kafka weekend.

Four weeks into the UK election campaign, Andrea discusses interruptions and impartiality in political interviews with Today presenter Nick Robinson and the BBC's Director of Journalism, Jonathan Munro. 

Also, we take a dystopian deep dive into Radio 4's Orwell v Kafka weekend. In all, 10 hours of the network's weekend schedule were given over to the two authors - including readings of  George Orwell's 1984, a dramatisation of Franz Kafka's The Trial and six half hour discussions hosted by Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis.  It was loved by many of you, but was a Kafkaesque/Orwellian nightmare for others.  Andrea and Matthew Dodd, Radio 4's Commissioning Editor for Arts, discuss the thinking behind the idea at the foot of Orwell's statue outside Broadcasting House.   

And after the tragic death of Dr Michael Mosley, we hear Feedback listeners' tributes to a broadcaster who changed the lives of millions.

Presented by Andrea Catherwood
Produced by Pauline Moore 
A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

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