The World This Weekend was launched on 17 September 1967. It is a weekly news and current affairs programme broadcast from 1pm to 1:30pm on
BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
every Sunday.
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The World This Weekend was launched on 17 September 1967. It is a weekly news and current affairs programme broadcast from 1pm to 1:30pm on
BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
every Sunday.
Its current presenter is the former BBC political correspondent, Shaun Ley. Other occasional presenters include
Brian HanrahanBrian Hanrahan was the Diplomatic Editor for BBC News and a well known correspondent. Recently, he has presented The World at One on BBC Radio Four and previously appeared on regular cover shifts on the rolling news channel BBC News 24.Hanrahan was educated at the St Ignatius' College in Stamford...
,
James RobbinsJames Robbins is the BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, a post he has held since January 1998. He had previously served as its Southern Africa Correspondent and its Europe Correspondent . He led the BBC's coverage of 9/11, making the first report on that evening's BBC Ten O'Clock News, a report...
,
Jo CoburnJo Coburn is a British journalist and political correspondent for BBC News, previously with special responsibility for BBC Breakfast. She has also previously worked as BBC political correspondent for London, most notably during the 2000 London Mayoral election...
and
Guto HarriGuto Harri , is a former BBC Chief Political Correspondent. In May 2008 he was appointed as supposed Communications Director for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson's administration at London City Hall...
.
Presenters
- James Cox (1994-2005)
- Nick Clarke
Nicholas Campbell Clarke , was an English radio and television presenter and journalist, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4....
(1989-1994)
- Gordon Clough
Gordon Clough , was an English radio and presenter and journalist, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4.A scholarship boy from Bolton School, he read French and Russian at Magdalen College, Oxford....