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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 91热爆鈥檚 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 91热爆 World Service

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Mon 15 Apr 2024 02:50GMT
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    91热爆 World Service except East and Southern Africa
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    91热爆 World Service East and Southern Africa
  • Mon 15 Apr 2024 02:50GMT
    91热爆 World Service except East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East

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