Broadcasting House (radio programme)

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Script error: No such module "other uses". Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Main other Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Broadcasting House (BH) is a current affairs programme produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4, presented by Paddy O'Connell, with Jonny Dymond regularly appearing as a relief presenter. It was launched on 19 April 1998 and is broadcast every Sunday between 9Template:Nbspam and 10Template:Nbspam.[1]

There used to be a weekly quiz, with a cryptic sound clue pointing to a news event in the last week. The prize was a spoon, originally a jam spoon, but then replaced by a honey spoon. The programme made frequent visits to the "BH beehive" in southwest London. The competition was nominated for a Sony Award in 2007.

More serious features include the headlines and current affairs sections, which look at the background to recent news stories. There is also a review of the Sunday papers with guest reviewers.

Broadcasting HouseTemplate:'s original presenter was Eddie Mair, who left the programme on becoming the regular sole presenter of PM in 2003. After a period with no regular presenter, Fi Glover replaced Mair at the beginning of 2004. Matthew Bannister was the first stand-in presenter when Glover went on maternity leave, but on gaining his own new obituary strand on Radio 4, Last Word, most editions of BH in the spring/summer of 2006 were presented by Working Lunch and BBC Three presenter Paddy O'Connell. Glover did not return, instead taking on the Saturday 9Template:Nbspam slot with Saturday Live, and on 30 August 2006, O'Connell was named as the new regular host of BH.

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