BBC News Journalists to stage 2 48 Hour Strikes

Akthar Khan and D'oily Osman.

BBC Radio 5live schedule from midnight tonight:

12.00 Stuart Hall's Archive Box (Broadcast Easter)
1.00 The Best of Beijing (Broadcast Christmas 2008)
2.00 The Galveston Giant (Broadcast Christmas 2008)
3.00 Life After Boxing (Broadcast June 2009)
4.00 Fighting Talk: Old Chestnuts (Broadcast Christmas 2008)
5.30 Wake Up to Money

6.00 Stuart Hall's Archive Box
7.00 5live Breakfast (presenters TBA)
9.00 Fighting Talk (Broadcast September)
10.00 Victoria Derbyshire (best of)
11.00 5live Investigates

12.00 5live News (Including commentary on the Brazilian GP first practice 12-1.30)
2.00 Kermode and Mayo's Film Review (Broadcast 8th October)
3.00 Richard Bacon (best of)
4.00 5live News (Including commentary on the Brazilian GP second practice 4-5.30)
5.30 Rhod Sharp's US Election Tour

6.00 Great Ashes Characters (broadcast last Thursday)
7.00 5live Sport: Kicking Off with Colin Murray
8.30 5live Sport: 5live Formula One
9.00 5live Sport
10.00 The World Cup Years (broadcast June)
11.00 Commentary Selection Box (broadcast August)

12.00 The Best of Beijing
1.00 Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
2.00 Victoria Derbyshire
3.00 Stuart Hall's Archive Box
4.00 The World Cup Years
5.00 Commentary Selection Box

6.00 Fighting Talk
7.00 as scheduled....

If those on strike felt it to be important enough, I doubt anyone would stop them walking back into work.

BBC Radio 4:

6.00 Lord Kitchener's Image
6.30 Off the Page
7.00 Front Row
7.30 Great Lives: Winston Churchill
8.00 Just a Minute
8.30 I've Never Seen Star Wars

12.00 You and Yours (repeat)
1.00 The Bottom Line

5.00 TBA
6.00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!

Does Mishal Husain doing the Ten have anything to do with the strikes?

probably not....just huw away (again) - he might be doing tomorrow, he did a Mon-Wed, Fri last week.

Surely Huw would avoid the strikes like last time?

I suspect that if it was a huge story they would probably decide to cancel the strike.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/04/bbc-trustee-pension-mishandled

This makes very interesting reading. The Head of News - who is also a BBC Pension Trustee - doesn't seem to be entirely happy with the management line on the pension scheme which has triggered the strike. (Basically the BBC have decided to re-jig the pension scheme rules - causing a huge potential loss to many employees - without waiting for the full report on its health...)

The much publicised £2bn deficit may well be half that size in reality... Sure that's a deficit still - but if it is half the size, then the remedy is potentially very different. Of course now the BBC has had it's income frozen in real terms (unless the licence-fee base grows massively) for 6 years the goal posts have been moved again no doubt.

I assume there will be no 12:45 and 17:45 Newsbeat on Radio 1, but they should be able to put bulletins on the :30s out with what staff they have that are freelance e.g. Dominic Byrne

Rod McKenzie will no doubt make an on-air appearance.

So will BBC World News viewers notice any disruption to their service or is this a purely domestic affair?