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The World At One
''The World at One'', or ''WATO'' ("what-oh") for short, is BBC Radio 4's long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, produced by BBC News, which is currently broadcast from 13:00 to 13:45 from Monday to Friday. The programme describes itself as "Britain's leading political programme. With a reputation for rigorous and original investigation, it is required listening in Westminster". From 7 November 2011, the programme was extended in length from 30 minutes to 45 minutes. History The programme began on 4 October 1965 on the BBC Home Service and its launch is considered to have been key in making news programmes "appointment to listen" broadcasting. As the then head of BBC Radio, Jenny Abramsky, noted, the programme started at a time when the '' Today'' programme was still in a magazine format. ''The World at One'' "broke new ground in news broadcasting and was one of the reasons why radio is still important today", helping establish a form of current affairs pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Home Service
The BBC Home Service was a national and regional radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 4. History 1922–1939: Interwar period Between the early 1920s and the outbreak of World War II, the BBC developed two nationwide radio stations – the National Programme and the Regional Programme (which were begun broadcasting on 9 March 1930) – as well as a basic service from London that include programming originated in six regions. Although the programme items attracting the greatest number of listeners tended to appear on the National, the two services were not streamed: they were each designed to appeal "across the board" to a single but variegated audience by offering between them and at most times of the day a choice of programme type rather than simply catering, each of them exclusively, to two distinct audiences. 1939–1945: World War II On 1 September 1939, the BBC merged the two programmes into one national service from Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Boyle
Andrew Philip More Boyle (27 May 1919 – 22 April 1991) was a Scottish journalist and biographer. His biography of Brendan Bracken won the 1974 Whitbread Awards and his book ''The Climate of Treason'' exposed Anthony Blunt as the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring. He was born in the Scottish city of Dundee, and was educated at Blairs College in Aberdeen and the University of Paris. During the Second World War he was part of Britain's military intelligence in the Far East. After the war he joined the BBC as a radio scriptwriter and producer. In 1965 he was the founding editor of the BBC Radio 4 programme ''The World At One'' which "gained a reputation as one of the best informed news programs and won an audience of four million". He also wrote the definitive biographies of Lord Trenchard, the father of the Royal Air Force and Erskine Childers, Irish Nationalist and author. Bibliography * * * * * * * Boyle left uncompleted biographies on John Moor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robbins (journalist)
James Robbins (born 19 January 1954) is a British journalist who was the BBC's Diplomatic and Royal Editor, a post he held from January 1998 until his retirement on 9 October 2020. He previously served as its Southern Africa Correspondent (from 1987 to 1991) and its Europe Correspondent (from 1992 to 1998). He led the BBC's coverage of 9/11, making the first report on that evening's ''BBC Ten O'Clock News'', a report lasting over 7 minutes. He was a regular contributor to BBC news programmes. Early life Robbins was born in 1954. He was educated at Eversley Preparatory School, Southwold, followed by Westminster School, an independent school for boys in central London. In 1973, Robbins attended Christ Church College at the University of Oxford. During his time there he edited ''Isis magazine'', Oxford's student magazine, together with the soon-to-be venture capitalist Michael Moritz. Robbins read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), graduating with a BA(Hons) in 1976. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Quinn
Carolyn Quinn (born 22 July 1961 in Camberwell, London) is a British journalist best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as a political correspondent and for presenting the '' Today'' programme and '' PM''. Early life Quinn attended St Joseph's RC Primary School in Crayford, Dartford Grammar School for Girls and the University of Kent where she obtained a degree in French. She trained as a teacher, gaining a PGCE at the Institute of Education in London before becoming a French teacher at a London comprehensive school, but gave this up to be a ward clerk at Charing Cross Hospital. She joined Riverside Radio at the hospital. Career She freelanced before joining the ''Irish Post'' and was then selected for a BBC Local Radio trainee scheme. After training and two years at BBC Radio Solent from 1987–9, she joined BBC's political and parliamentary team at Westminster in 1989 and became a political correspondent in 1994. For 2011–2012 she was elected Chairman of the Houses of Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Sackur
Stephen John Sackur (born 9 January 1964) is an English journalist who presents ''HARDtalk'', a current affairs interview programme on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. He was also the main Friday presenter of '' GMT'' on BBC World News. For fifteen years, he was a BBC foreign correspondent. Early life and education Sackur was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, where he grew up. His father Robert Sackur, a farmer, was the Labour Party candidate for the Lincolnshire constituencies of Horncastle and Holland with Boston in the 1966 and 1970 general elections respectively. Sackur was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Spilsby, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA honours degree in history, and then joined Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government as a Henry Fellow. Career Sackur began working at the BBC as a trainee in 1986, and in 1990 he was appointed as one of its foreign affairs correspondents. As a BBC Radio correspo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Trevelyan
Laura Kate Trevelyan (born 21 August 1968) is a British-American journalist who worked for the BBC for 30 years. She served as an '' On the Record'' reporter, United Nations correspondent (2006–2009),BBC – Press Office – Laura Trevelyan Accessed 5 January 2009 and 11 January 2010. and New York correspondent (2009–2012), before anchoring '''' (2012–2023). Early life and education Trevelyan was born in , |
Guto Harri
Guto Harri (; born 8 July 1966) is a Welsh broadcaster, writer and strategic communications consultant. He most recently served as Downing Street Director of Communications, having been appointed by Boris Johnson in February 2022. Harri spent 18 years as a journalist at the BBC. From 2008 to 2012 he was director of external affairs for Mayor of London Boris Johnson. He worked at News International from 2012 to 2015, Liberty Global from 2016 to 2017, Hanover Communications from 2018 to 2020, and Hawthorn Advisors from 2020 to 2022. In May 2021, Harri joined GB News as a presenter; he was suspended and subsequently resigned in July 2021 after he took the knee on air. In February 2022, Harri was appointed Downing Street Director of Communications by Prime Minister Johnson, following the resignation of Jack Doyle, and left the post in September 2022. Early life and education Guto Harri was born in Cardiff to writer and psychiatrist Harri Pritchard-Jones and Lenna (née Harrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Hanrahan
Brian Hanrahan (22 March 1949 – 20 December 2010) was a British television journalist, who was the Diplomatic News Editor for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Early life, education and early career Hanrahan was born in the county of Middlesex, England, on 22 March 1949, the son of a construction worker. He was educated at St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, in Tottenham, and subsequently studied Politics at the University of Essex, where he was a member of an amateur dramatic society. In 1970, Hanrahan joined the BBC as a photographic stills clerk. He was one of the six news trainees appointed by the BBC in 1971, and went on to become a news scriptwriter with the organisation, and then a Duty Editor in the BBC Television Newsroom. He worked for a spell as the BBC's Northern Ireland correspondent, during which time he reported on The Troubles. Falklands War As a BBC war correspondent Hanrahan joined the press corps attached to the Task Force dispatched by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Ley
Shaun Dominic Ley (born 14 June 1969) is a British journalist and newsreader for BBC News. A former regular presenter of ''The World This Weekend'' and ''The World at One'' on BBC Radio 4, he currently appears regularly on the BBC's domestic BBC News'' and international BBC World News channels, as well as on BBC Weekend News'' bulletins on BBC One. He also frequently hosts '' Dateline London'', and has presented a wide range of BBC programmes from ''HARDTalk'' to BBC Radio 4's '' PM'' and ''The World Tonight''. As of October 2021, Shaun Ley is a regular weekday evening presenter (20:00-21:00 & 22:30-23:00 & 23:30-00:00) on BBC News. He sometimes hosts the afternoon news (14:00-17:00) occasionally and was the last main presenter of '' Dateline London'', before it ended in October 2022. Early life Shaun Dominic Ley was born on 14 June 1969. He was educated at two state schools in Devon in south west England: at Lynton Primary School, in his home town of Lynton, and at Ilfracomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Clarke
Nicholas Campbell Clarke (9 June 1948 – 23 November 2006), was an English radio and television presenter and journalist, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4. Biography Clarke was born in 1948 in Godalming, Surrey, and educated at Westbourne House School, West Sussex, Bradfield College, Berkshire and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Clarke began his career in newspapers on the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'', before joining the BBC in 1973 as Northern Industrial Correspondent. He then joined '' The Money Programme'' and eventually joined ''Newsnight'' in 1984. His first major job in radio was on BBC Radio 4's ''The World This Weekend''. He presented Radio 4's lunchtime news programme, ''The World at One'', from 1994 until his death. During the 1991 Gulf War he was a volunteer presenter on the BBC Radio 4 News FM service. He also presented the ''Round Britain Quiz'', the debate series ''Straw Poll'' and, when Jonathan Dimbleby was away, ''Any Questions?'' Clarke was a reporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Naughtie
Alexander James Naughtie FRSE (surname pronounced ; born 9 August 1951) is a British radio and news presenter for the BBC. Between 1994 and 2015, he was one of the main presenters of Radio 4's the '' Today programme''. In his 21-plus years on ''Today'', Naughtie had anchored every BBC Radio UK election results programme since 1997 and had worked on every US presidential election since 1988. Early life and career James Naughtie was born to Alexander and Isabella Naughtie and brought up in Milltown of Rothiemay, near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was educated at Keith Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and then Syracuse University in New York. He is a Fellow of the British-American Project. Naughtie began his career as a journalist in 1975 at the Aberdeen '' Press & Journal'', moving to the London offices of ''The Scotsman'' in 1977. The following year he joined the paper's Westminster staff, and became its Chief Political Correspondent. In 1981, he worked fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Day
Sir Robin Day (24 October 1923 – 6 August 2000) was an English political journalist and television and radio broadcaster. Day's obituary in ''The Guardian'' by Dick Taverne stated that he was "the most outstanding television journalist of his generation. He transformed the television interview, changed the relationship between politicians and television, and strove to assert balance and rationality into the medium's treatment of current affairs". Early life Day was born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, the youngest of four children of William Day (c. 1885- c. 1948) a Post Office telephone engineer who became a GPO administrative manager, and his wife Florence. He received his early formal education at Brentwood School from 1934 to 1938, briefly attended the Crypt School, Gloucester, and later Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight. During World War II he received a commission into the British Army's Royal Artillery, with which he served from 1943. He was deployed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |