Over to You

BBC World Service's programme that lets you talk back to the BBC (and challenge the programme-makers). This weekly podcast hands the microphone over to our global audience.

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2009/03/000000_over_to_you.shtml

Updated: 55 min 29 sec ago

Over to You: 05/09/10

2 hours 42 min ago

Rajan Datar discusses news priorities with the editor of news and current affairs for the World Service, Andrew Whitehead, in response to queries from a listener about the relative importance of recent stories about the trapped miners in Chile and the floods in Pakistan. Another listener challenges the editor of The Interview about her choice of interviewees, arguing that there are too many Americans. And Rajan asks whether Digital Planet should have explained the political background to one of its recent stories; the programme’s producer thinks not.

Over To You: 28/08/10

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 23:40

Listeners plead for simpler terms in financial reporting and Taseen Ahmad speaks to the editor of the Burmese Service on the 70th anniversary of its launch.