https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/ en-us Copyright 2006 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:28:54 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I saw a fascinating vision of the future (or do I mean the present?) on the seafront in Brighton this week. It happened on the day Charles Kennedy addressed the Liberal Democrat party conference. Our reporter, Sean Curran, went to... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/who_ate_my_lunch.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/who_ate_my_lunch.html Radio news Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:28:54 +0000 Should the BBC’s political editor, Nick Robinson, have asked about UK politics during press conferences over the last three days given by Tony Blair with the Israeli, Palestinian and Lebanese leaders? Nick’s questions - used in his reports on TV... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/questioning_mr_blair.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/questioning_mr_blair.html Audiences Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:57:05 +0000 Recently, we interviewed the leaders of the three main parties on environmental policy - we called our two weeks of journalism 'The Global Challenge'. All of them talk a good game but our listeners are far from impressed with the... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/global_challenge.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/global_challenge.html Radio 1 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:36:30 +0000 The case of the Stornaway schoolgirl Molly Campbell highlighted discussion about "arranged marriages" and "forced marriages". There are very important differences between the two; they are not alternatives. Arranged marriages have a long and successful history in this country and... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/different_arrangement.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/different_arrangement.html Radio news Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:05:18 +0000 Cricket is only a game! The e-mailer, complaining to us at the Today progamme that the ball tampering row was our lead item, wanted us to be crystal clear about this - as if the exclamation mark wasn't emphasis enough... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/news_tampering.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/news_tampering.html Today Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:36:58 +0000 It's like picking your nose with a rubber glove on. That was one Radio 1 listener's description of having sex wearing a condom. We've been involved in carrying out the largest ever survey into the sex lives of young Britons... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/safe_sex_attitudes.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/safe_sex_attitudes.html Radio 1 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:06:13 +0000 As you may have heard, about 150 MPs have called for Parliament to be recalled from its summer break to debate the crisis in the Middle East and last week's security alert at British airports. In a letter to the... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/westminster_debate.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/westminster_debate.html World Tonight Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:48:08 +0000 ...to everyone who's emailed us welcoming Nick Clarke back to The World at One. The emails started after Shaun Ley announced Nick's return at the end of Friday's programme... continued through the weekend... then surged after Nick trailed the programme... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/just_thanks_really.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/just_thanks_really.html The World At One Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:15:07 +0000 More aid workers were killed in July in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur than in the entire preceding three years - that was the stark statement from the UN and aid agencies this week. There has also been the... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/other_hot_spots.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/other_hot_spots.html World Tonight Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:10:00 +0000 One of the programmes I edit, Broadcasting House, really irritates some listeners. There is a small but vocal section of Radio Four devotees who just do not accept the fundamental proposition - that you can have fun as well as... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/is_news_funny.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/is_news_funny.html Radio news Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:15:50 +0000 A correspondent filed a piece on the reopening of the Bath Spa after a series of delays. She opened her dispatch with this sentence - "Many Bath residents will be having a sense of déjà vu". She went on to... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/sense_of_deja_vu.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/sense_of_deja_vu.html Radio news Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:48:10 +0000 This war has all been about semantics and the failure to read the small print. As I write, our reporter in Brussels is filing on the EU foreign ministers meeting that's just ended - the gist of her report is... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/middle_east_semantics.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/middle_east_semantics.html World Service Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:13:15 +0000 You would have had to have been in hibernation for the past few years to have missed the ascent of the environment up the news agenda. We have been suffering a heat wave this week that many people have found... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/environmental_changes.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/environmental_changes.html BBC journalists Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:30:40 +0000 Andy is a bathroom fitter. He's young - a keen Radio 1 listener with a wife and two small children. I spent some time with him recently - not because he's doing my bathroom - but because I went to... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/sex_and_radio_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/sex_and_radio_1.html Radio 1 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:16:19 +0000 So we at the BBC have had one of those “organisational moments�, making substantial changes to how we run ourselves. Mark Thompson’s announcement included an emphasis on BBC Journalism as one of the main planks of what the BBC does... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/restructuring_the_bbc.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/restructuring_the_bbc.html Accountability Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:29:52 +0000