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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’ 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 ±«Óătv’s 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 ±«Óătv World Service

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9 minutes

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Mon 15 Apr 2024 02:50GMT
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    ±«Óătv World Service except East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East

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