Today Programme

Government 'Ignored' Warnings Over NHS Death Rates, Public Health Expert Claims

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.03.2013 | UK

Read More: Sir David Nicholson, Today Programme, Whistleblowing, Radio 4, Sir Brian Jarman, UK Media, National Health Service, Andy Burnham, UK Health, Nhs, UK News

Government ministers and the NHS ignored warnings about persistently high death rates in hospitals which could have claimed the lives of up to 20,000 ...

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‘I Used To Think Girls Were Rubbish’

HuffingtonPost.com | Brogan Driscoll | Posted 19.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Women, UK Women in Media, Sexism in Media, Today Programme, Female Experts, Sexism, The Women's Room, Feminism, Women in Media, Caroline Criado-Perez, UK Lifestyle News

Six months ago, no one had heard of post-graduate student Caroline Criado-Perez. Now, she's becoming one of the most influential women in UK media. ...

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Radio 1 Host Nick Grimshaw's Listener Figures Slide

PA | Posted 31.01.2013 | UK Entertainment

Read More: BBC Trust, Chris Evans, Chris Moyles, Radio 2, Monring Show, UK News, Bbc, Radio 1 Breakfast Programme, Today Programme, Nick Grimshaw, UK Entertainment News

Radio 1 host Nick Grimshaw has pulled in the lowest audience for the station's breakfast show for almost seven years during his first months in the jo...

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The BBC Car Crash Rolls on: Entwistle's Resignation Must Have the Rest of the Media Cackling

Sian Boyle | Posted 11.01.2013 | UK Universities & Education

What next for the great British Broadcasting Corporation? I predict that this car crash will play out, more heads will roll and the internal and external torrent of frenzied accusations will inevitably dry to a trickle. But I think it's important to remember that the BBC has produced excellent journalism, and in the scheme of things, a couple of (albeit very) bad decisions on Newsnight don't constitute the abolishment of the programme or of the BBC's entire 90-year-old reputation.

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George Entwistle's Resignation A 'Terrible Mistake'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 10.01.2013 | UK

Read More: Video, UK News, Today Programme, Bbc Director General, UK Politics, Radio 4, UK Media, Newsnight, Poll, John Humphrys, Jimmy Savile Bbc, George Entwistle, Lord-Mcalpine-Scandal, UK News

George Entwistle's resignation was described as a "terrible mistake" on Saturday night by Labour's former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw. He wrote...

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George Entwistle Resigns As Director General Of The BBC

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 10.01.2013 | UK

Read More: Video, UK News, Bbc Director General, Today Programme, Radio 4, UK Politics, UK Media, Poll, Newsnight, Jimmy Savile Bbc, John Humphrys, Lord-Mcalpine-Scandal, George Entwistle, UK News

George Entwistle has resigned as director general of the BBC. The news was announced by Entwistle and BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten in a statement ou...

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Entwistle Faces Huge Backlash Over Handling Of Newsnight

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar and Paul Vale | Posted 10.11.2012 | UK

Read More: UK News, Today Programme, Bbc Director General, UK Politics, Radio 4, UK Media, Newsnight, John Humphrys, Jimmy Savile Bbc, George Entwistle, Lord-Mcalpine-Scandal, UK News

The director general of the BBC faces an uncertain future on Saturday night over the latest scandal to blight the corporation's flagship Newsnight pro...

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Self-Styled 'Saviour Of Radio 1' Went Out On A Low

PA | Posted 25.10.2012 | UK Entertainment

Read More: Radio 1, Chris Moyles, Chris Moyles Radio 1 Show, Bbc, UK Music, Today Programme, Radio 4, Radio, Video, UK Entertainment News

Chris Moyles bowed out of his Radio 1 breakfast show with fewer listeners than John Humphrys, after his show was beaten by Radio 4's Today programme. ...

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Policing Minister Accused Of Talking 'Boring Waffle'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 14.08.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: Home Office, Video, UK News, Police and Crime Commissioners, Nick Herbert, Evan Davis, Police Commissioner Elections, Today Programme, UK Politics News

The policing minister has been accused of talking "boring waffle" by BBC Today programme presenter Evan Davis, after Nick Herbert tried to deflect acc...

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"We Will Finish The Job": Cameron Pledge On UK Debt

PA | Posted 26.07.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: Ed Miliband, UK News, Vincent Cable, George Osborne, Cabinet, David Cameron, Today Programme, UK Economy, UK Politics News

Prime minister David Cameron has insisted that the government will "finish the job" of getting Britain's debt under control, as he came under intense ...

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MPs Accept Sponsor Tickets For 100m Final

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.07.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: London 2012, Yohan Blake, UK News, Olympics, Usain Bolt, Olympic Games, Today Programme, UK Politics, Tyson Gay, UK Sport, Louise Mensch, John Whittingdale, UK Politics News

A group of MPs has accepted free tickets to one of the most in-demand events of the Olympic Games, sponsor BT has confirmed. The telecoms giant inv...

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Please Leave Quietly

Katharine Quarmby | Posted 09.09.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: House of Commons, House of Lords Reform, UK Parliament, House of Lords, Nicholas Soames, Today Programme, UK Politics News

The House of Lords is an anachronism, albeit sometimes a very pleasant and extremely eccentric one, and should be reformed.

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Stop Hiding Behind The Referendum!

Colm Howard-Lloyd | Posted 23.06.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: Cumbria, Lords Reform, Referendum, House of Lords, Av, Nuclear Power, UK Politics, Today Programme, Radio Four, David Cameron, UK Politics News

The Prime Minister's comment, on this morning's Today Programme, that there should be a referendum on House of Lords reform depressed me greatly.

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Shout of Africa

Justin Forsyth | Posted 16.06.2012 | UK

Read More: West Africa, Bbc, BBC World Service, Today Programme, Africa, Liberia, John Humphrys, Save the Children, Bong County, UK News

As the clouds gathered over the small village house in the Liberian bush early on Tuesday morning where John Humphrys was preparing to co-anchor the Today programme, little could he have known that a Twitter Storm was about to rain down on his head.

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The Bishop of Liverpool's Awful Thought for The Day'

Chris T-T | Posted 29.05.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: Thought for the Day, Today Programme, Radio 4, Bishop of Liverpool, Mammon, Quaker, James Jones, Church and State, UK Politics News

The Right Reverend James Jones, Bish Bosh of Liverpool, started his three minutes by telling us of an opulent feast he'd attended, hosted by the Labour Council to make Lord Heseltine a Freeman of the City.

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Beware The Microphone! The Political Bloopers Files

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: Sarah Montague, Michael Howard, Margaret Thatcher, Video, UK News, Jeremy Hunt, Today Programme, Jim Naughtie, Jeremy Paxman, George Galloway, NHS Reform Bill, Simon Burns, UK Politics News

This week didn't have the best of starts for Today programme presenters Sarah Montague and Jim Naughtie. Both of them assigned Tory MPs to the wrong ...

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Ten Things I Hate About EU: Cameron Movie Names

Posted 06.01.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, Today Programme, UK Politics News

David Cameron has made it to the big job, but will he ever make it onto the big screen? He doesn't think so. During a discussion about The Iron Lad...

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Grant Shapps Three Minute Bust Up With John Humphrys

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 25.11.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Conservative Party, Bbc, UK News, Grant Shapps, Housing, Today Programme, Stoke, Radio 4, UK Media, UK Diary, John Humphrys, Video, UK Politics News

Did Grant Shapps pull out of the Today programme yesterday or didn't he? That was certainly the impression Radio 4 listeners were left with on Thursda...

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On Banking, Cameron is Clueless

Ian Fraser | Posted 05.12.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Bank of England, Today Programme, David Cameron, Banking, Rbs, UK Banking, Conservative Party Conference, George Osborne, UK Politics News

David Cameron displayed an astonishing lack of understanding of the banking sector in his interview with Sarah Montague on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Tuesday morning (as I'm afraid did Sarah, given her blinkered obsession with "bonuses").

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Kabul Attack Underlines Western Failure In Afghanistan, Former Envoy Says

PA | Posted 20.10.2011 | UK

Read More: Taliban, Today Programme, Alistair Burt, Kabul, Afghanistan, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, British Council Attack, UK News

PRESS ASSOCATION -- The Taliban attack on the British Council offices in Kabul has underlined the failure of the western strategy in Afghanistan, the ...

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Veteran BBC Presenter Robert Robinson Dies Aged 83

PA | Posted 13.10.2011 | UK

Read More: Stop the Week, Television, Entertainment, Bbc, Radio, Robert Robinson, Today Programme, Radio 4, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Veteran BBC broadcaster and presenter Robert Robinson has died at the age of 83 following a long period of ill health, it has bee...

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Sanctions On Syria Extended Following Emergency U.N Meeting

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 30.09.2011 | UK

Read More: Deir Ez-Zor, William Hague, Today Programme, Bashar Assad, Syria, Hama, Bashar Al-Assad, UK News

Sanctions against Syria have been extended by the European Union following a further crackdown by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Five more o...

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BBC Journalists Strike Again Over Job Cuts, Disrupting Radio And News

Press Association | Press Association | Posted 30.09.2011 | UK

Read More: Michelle Stanistreet, Today Programme, Bbc News, National Union of Journalists, Nuj, Bbc, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Strikes, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme has been disrupted as thousands of journalists staged a strike in protest against compulso...

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