a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them. and we have to sort of remind our talent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers, which attracts younger, well educated listeners. given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to and i wanted to open up to everyone first. lewis, you re here. you ve covered many an election over your very young life. you make me sound so old. yeah, not that old. but you ve managed to get in on a few elections. but could you have ever seen that podcasting would be so central to this one? well, i def
to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them. and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers, which attracts younger, well educated listeners. given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to and i wanted to open up to everyone first. lewis, you re here. you ve covered many an election over your very young life. you make me sound so old. yeah, not that old. but you ve managed to get in on a few elections. but could you have ever see
and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, actually, as a programme, because that is almost a week
controversy around the fact that the prime minister left those commemorations early. in fact, the next day, he apologised for doing that. and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and s
in fact, the next day, he apologised for doing that. and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, act