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Radio 4's Today announces this year's guest editors
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91Èȱ¬ Radio 4's Today announces this year's guest editors who will take over the programme between Christmas and the New Year.
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They are:
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Zadie Smith – Award winning novelist
Jarvis Cocker – Musician and former lead singer of Pulp
Sir Win Bischoff – Citigroup Chairman
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor – Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales
Zaha Hadid – Pritzker Prize winning British Iraqi Architect
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Among many other ideas:
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Zadie Smith reports from Liberia, and investigates whether British comedy is still all about class. Ìý
Jarvis Cocker gives his own personal take on the credit crunch and asks whether we get bland politicians because we're too censorious about what they do in their private lives.
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Sir Win Bischoff examines what business can learn from the staggering success of the British Olympic team and puts Robert Peston and Chris Hoy head to head in a cycle race.
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Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor plays four hands with one of Britain's top concert pianists in an effort to find out what makes certain music spiritual.
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Finally, Zaha Hadid asks whether the Eiffel Towers and Sydney Opera Houses of today are being built in the Gulf, and reflects on life in Baghdad's glory days in the Fifties and Sixties. Ìý
Today Editor, Ceri Thomas, said: "The guest editors have turned into one of the highlights of the Today year: they think of things that wouldn't normally occur to us; they take us places we wouldn't ordinarily go. I think this year's group is the most fascinating we've ever worked with."
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Guest editors are responsible for between a third and a half of their programme's output. Today's duty editors, producers and reporters are on hand to help to turn their ideas into high-quality radio journalism and make sure that material chosen is newsworthy and meets the 91Èȱ¬'s Editorial Guidelines.
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Previous Today programme guest editors include Damon Albarn, Dame Stella Rimington, Bono, Professor Stephen Hawking, Anthony Minghella, Yoko Ono and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.
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Notes to Editors
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Today is Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme – over the last 12 months it has reached an average of just over 6 million listeners every week.
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Presented by five of the most respected journalists in broadcasting – John Humphrys, James Naughtie, Sarah Montague, Edward Stourton and Evan Davis – it is generally considered to be one of the most influential news programmes in Britain.
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