Main content

Listener bugbears on truncating news interviews

Why do live interviewees sometimes get abruptly cut short by the interviewer? Plus, a listener tells us what he likes so much about his favourite programme: Weekend.

We hear listeners鈥� bugbears about one aspect of news programmes that really annoys them: why do live interviewees sometimes get abruptly cut short by the interviewer? We go behind the scenes to reveal the pressures of live news production with one of the 大象传媒鈥檚 news editors, Karen Martin.

Plus, a listener tells us what he likes so much about his favourite programme: Weekend.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon.
A Whistledown production for the 大象传媒 World Service

Available now

9 minutes

Last on

Mon 15 Apr 2024 02:50GMT
大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East

More episodes

Previous

Oona Chaplin reveals her grandfather鈥檚 blacklist

Next

20/04/2024 GMT

See all episodes from Over to You

Broadcasts

  • Sat 13 Apr 2024 08:50GMT
    大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East & South Asia
  • Sun 14 Apr 2024 04:50GMT
    大象传媒 World Service East and Southern Africa
  • Sun 14 Apr 2024 08:50GMT
    大象传媒 World Service Europe and the Middle East
  • Sun 14 Apr 2024 15:50GMT
    大象传媒 World Service News Internet
  • Sun 14 Apr 2024 21:50GMT
    大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa
  • Sun 14 Apr 2024 23:50GMT
    大象传媒 World Service East and Southern Africa
  • Mon 15 Apr 2024 02:50GMT
    大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East

Podcast

  • Over to You

    Talk back to the 大象传媒 and challenge the programme makers.