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Ros Atkins says they are filming bits of the radio version today for a promo. How do you know it is less than a month? I thought we only knew it was coming in early 2014.
BBC World News from New Broadcasting House
Less than a month until Outside Source is launched on BBC World News, have we heard any more about it.
Ros Atkins says they are filming bits of the radio version today for a promo. How do you know it is less than a month? I thought we only knew it was coming in early 2014.
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Komla Dumor, BBC World TV presenter has died.
BBC yet to confirm but other sites saying heart attack. Very sad.
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BBC News: Presenters & Rotas
Brian Taylor will I'm sure be the leading figure for the coverage. But they will need extra people due to the quantity of it. I'm sure Brian Taylor will do a lot for Radio 4 and BBC News nationally as well as all the Scottish news outlets.
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BBC World News from New Broadcasting House
Did question time get aired on World as well this week?
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BBC News Mandela Coverage
Very dissapointing that they are using Dimbley. I wondered if they would send Huw Edwards out, but expected them to just do it with George Alagiah and Jon Sopel.
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He getting cheers! I cant be sure but I think its the current president of SA.
Yes, it's been a bit like pantomime with all the cheering and booing. Jacob Zuma the big enemy.
Nelson Mandela aged 95 has died
He getting cheers! I cant be sure but I think its the current president of SA.
Yes, it's been a bit like pantomime with all the cheering and booing. Jacob Zuma the big enemy.
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BBC News Mandela Coverage
Also a technical nightmare it appears with very heavy rain and everything thrown together with very little notice.
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BBC News Mandela Coverage
Special programme currently coming from South Africa. George Alagiah in the stadium, Jon Sopel anchoring outside and Clivr Myrie on the ground outside the stadium. Memorial supposed to start at 9 but the stadium is still not full so they are doing a lot of time filling!
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Just to summarise the Radio 4 coverage.
They broke in to the repeat edition of In Our Time for a news reader announcement at about 9.50
At the end of news reader announcement they joined the world service.
At 10pm Radio 4 did a special one hour edition of The World Tonight, with David Eades presenting as he would have been had the news not broke. All Mandela.
Finished by playing the South African anthem, leading to joining the world service for continued coverage from 11-12.
At midnight radio 4 then did the midnight news as normal, with a heavy focus on Mandela, but not exclusively.
I don't know what happened between 12.30-1 - but they would join the world service at 1 anyway.
The key difference with tv is that radio 4 had a bulletin at midnight. It would have been inappropriate for the News at Ten to cover anything but Mandela, but by midnight you could do that.
And, to summarise world service coverage.
Newshour broke the story live, presented by Tim franks
He then continued at 10pm with a rolling news hour, not scheduled.
At 11pm there was more rolling news, now with Tim franks and Audrey Brown from the African Service.
At midnight Julian Keane took over, I don't know who with though.
All in all, the world service coverage was excellent. And I think radio 4 made the right decision in carrying so much of it.
BBC News Mandela Coverage
It's interesting to note that Radio 4, certainly on their midnight news which I listened to, took a rather more balanced approach than their television colleagues. The bulk of the programme was about Mandela, but they also included pieces on the floods and the Autumn statement, and (IIRC) even included them in the main headlines at the top of the programme.
As for the argument that flood coverage should have been consigned to local radio: I was particularly interested in listening out for affected relatives in Norfolk and the North East while I was in London. I personally don't think it's unreasonable to expect a brief precis of the national picture now and again on a national bulletin, as I'm sure very many viewers will be interested in very many others outside their local area. I think Radio 4, as so often, judged this better than the TV news on this occasion - but I accept that it's a finely balanced judgement, and others will disagree.
As for the argument that flood coverage should have been consigned to local radio: I was particularly interested in listening out for affected relatives in Norfolk and the North East while I was in London. I personally don't think it's unreasonable to expect a brief precis of the national picture now and again on a national bulletin, as I'm sure very many viewers will be interested in very many others outside their local area. I think Radio 4, as so often, judged this better than the TV news on this occasion - but I accept that it's a finely balanced judgement, and others will disagree.
Just to summarise the Radio 4 coverage.
They broke in to the repeat edition of In Our Time for a news reader announcement at about 9.50
At the end of news reader announcement they joined the world service.
At 10pm Radio 4 did a special one hour edition of The World Tonight, with David Eades presenting as he would have been had the news not broke. All Mandela.
Finished by playing the South African anthem, leading to joining the world service for continued coverage from 11-12.
At midnight radio 4 then did the midnight news as normal, with a heavy focus on Mandela, but not exclusively.
I don't know what happened between 12.30-1 - but they would join the world service at 1 anyway.
The key difference with tv is that radio 4 had a bulletin at midnight. It would have been inappropriate for the News at Ten to cover anything but Mandela, but by midnight you could do that.
And, to summarise world service coverage.
Newshour broke the story live, presented by Tim franks
He then continued at 10pm with a rolling news hour, not scheduled.
At 11pm there was more rolling news, now with Tim franks and Audrey Brown from the African Service.
At midnight Julian Keane took over, I don't know who with though.
All in all, the world service coverage was excellent. And I think radio 4 made the right decision in carrying so much of it.
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