BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Or maybe, just out of pure speculation, he was late

Rachel Schofield on now, which is also interesting. Did Tim stay on until 4 (or 3.30 when Click came on)?

Unusually today, Louise Minchin stayed until 1100, when Tim Willcox (not so unusually) took over and now, we've got Rachel Schofield on the NC!

Maybe you could look back the last couple of pages and find this information displayed?.

Why does Naga Munchetty always have that little bubble speaker on the desk when she is presenting? Does she listen to Dire Straits in-between reports on foldback?

I've never seen anyone else with it on the presenter's desk.

Nah. His hair is quite an effective snow-plough!

Nice to see Fiona Armstrong on this afternoon, with Jon Sopel

It's also nice to see Carrie Gracie doing HARDtalk! She's very good all-round; her Newsnight report on White Horse Village was outstanding!

Rachel Schofield and Ben Brown on 11-2 today.

Astonishing really, he was on his "normal" shift of 7-10 last night. Did he sleep at Television Centre or something?!

Sure.

What's so astonishing about it?

I agree. Ben certainly has an interesting rota pattern!