President of audio at bauer. Paul is in charge of a whole host of stations, such as magic, kiss, absolute, and many, many others. Paul, you can t have the time to listen to all of those every morning, so do you vary the clock radio or do you just compromise and listen to the today programme? you can be honest, you are amongst friends. I have the privilege of listening to fabulous radio from the uk and across seven other countries around europe where we operate as well. So four nordic countries, most recently the republic of ireland, poland and slovakia, and everywhere we are, we find that radio as a medium, as a platform, is enduring and growing. Very diplomatic answer. You are not naming one. But also with us today are iain lee and katherine boyle, presenters of the late night alternative. Iain, for our listeners who are not familiar, how would you describe the programme? it is a surreal, psychedelic phone in show, where instead of stirring hate and pointing out others that look and s
Now on bbc news, the media show. Hello, we are talking radio today. Good old fashioned radio, with its cosy celebrity presenters, its familiar blend of pop songs, but also, let s face it, traffic updates, car insurance ads, annoying jingles. And if you don t like it, well, you willjust have to wait for those bits to be over, orwill you? because one of the uk s commercial radio groups is launching ad free versions of their stations for a monthly fee. Is this radio s secret weapon to defeat spotify and the streaming services? that is the question we will be asking paul keenan, president of audio at bauer. Paul is in charge of a whole host of stations, such as magic, kiss, absolute, and many, many others. Paul, you can t have the time to listen to all of those every morning, so do you vary the clock radio or do you just compromise and listen to the today programme? you can be honest, you are amongst friends. I have the privilege of listening to fabulous radio from the uk and across seven
phil, we ll be talking a lot in the programme about the revolving door between journalism and politics. times radio havejust snapped up ruth davidson, the former scottish conservative leader. why are ex politicians so popular with you radio executives? any room for one more on boom radio? well, i think we. i actually started back in lbc when i was chief exec there in 200a. we invited tony blair to do a phone in and literally sit there and push the faders and take the calls. so i m probably to blame for all of this. now they re all at it, aren t they? i think we took the view and certainly the people that now run lbc have taken this to a fantastic level that actually it s great to have an unmediated opportunity for listeners to speak directly to politicians. it s great whatjournalists do, and journalists have got knowledge and detail to bring to the party, but it s great also to be able to have real people, unmediated, talking directly and getting the views of politicians.
mindfulness to the west. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. welcome to newsday. it s 9:00 in the morning in singapore, and 8:00 in the evening in washington, where the us state department has ordered eligible family members of its embassy staff in the ukrainian capital, kyiv, to leave. it s also advised americans against travelling to russia. it said there were reports that moscow was planning significant military action against ukraine and urged us citizens to leave the country now, using commercial flights. us secretary of state, antony blinken, has promised a significant response if moscow invaded its neighbour. later on monday, european union foreign ministers are to discuss ukraine at a meeting in brussels. here s our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams. in california, fresh supplies of american weapons destined for ukraine. hardly enough to defeat an invading russian army, but the message to moscow is clear if you do this, it ll come