''Afternoon Live'' is a programme broadcast on the
BBC News Channel
The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC. The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London from which it is anchored during ...
between 2:00pm and 5:00pm weekdays. It first aired on 2 October 2017. Very early in the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
, reduced presenter availability in the official lockdown periods ended the programme. The final edition was on 17 March 2020. The programme did not return with the merger of BBC News with BBC World in spring 2023. A programme now called
Verified Live
''Verified Live'', also called ''Verified Live with Matthew Amroliwala'', is a news programme that premiered on both the UK feed and international feed of BBC News channel on 22 May 2023 as part of a refresh following the merger of the two new ...
runs between 3:00pm and 6:00pm UK time, normally presented by
Matthew Amroliwala
Matthew Amroliwala ( ) is a British television newsreader, who is one of the chief presenters on the BBC News Channel. He has also been an occasional relief presenter of the ''BBC News at One'' on BBC One. He also presented ''Crimewatch'' alo ...
.
Presenters
The programme's main presenter between 2017 and March 2020 was
Simon McCoy, who tended to present the programme Monday to Thursday.
Simon
Simon may refer to:
People
* Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon
* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
continued to present programmes on the BBC after Afternoon Live ceased but later resigned from the BBC in March 2021.
Former presenters
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Carole Walker (2018-2019)
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Nicholas Owen Nicholas Owen may refer to:
* Nicholas Owen (Jesuit) (c.1562–1606), one of the ''Forty Martyrs of England and Wales''
* Nicholas Owen (priest) (1752–1811), Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian
* Nicholas Owen (journalist) (born 1947), BBC new ...
(2019)
*
Carrie Gracie
Carrie Gracie (born 1962)Ben Dowel"Carrie Gracie profile: Award-winning journalist with years at World Service" theguardian.com, 12 May 2009 is a Scottish journalist and newsreader best known as having been China Editor for BBC News.
She resign ...
(2019-2020)
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Simon McCoy (2017-2020)
See also
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List of current BBC newsreaders and reporters
This is a list of newsreaders and journalists currently employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio.
Presenters and journalists appear across BBC television, radio but also contribute to BBC Online.
BBC News provides television journalism to ...
References
External links
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