''Europe Today'' was a daily

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show on the

BBC World Service The BBC World Service is an international broadcasting, international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, British Government through the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Secretary's o ...

about public affairs throughout Europe, broadcast at 17:00 GMT every weekday. The first presenters, in 1991, were Andreas Gebauer and Ruth Hogarth. Other presenters were Teresa Guerreiro, Liliane Landor and

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. The programme was presented by Audrey Carville from 2004 - 2009. The last programme was presented by

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on 25 March 2011. Originally a 30-minute programme broadcast four times a day to Europe (three morning programmes and one in the evening), it gradually morphed into a one-hour programme broadcast in the evening, broadcast worldwide and with a wider, global focus. The ''Irish Times'' described the programme as "an informative and entertaining look at the day’s events on the continent" In 2008, William Horsely called it "perhaps hebest daily radio programme on European affairs."

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External links

''Europe Today'' official website
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