Newshour

Genre	News, current events, and factual
Running time	60 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC World Service
Hosted by	James Coomarasamy Lyse Doucet Tim Franks Razia Iqbal Julian Marshall James Menendez Pascale Harter
Recording studio	Broadcasting House
Original release	1988 – present
Website	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnk

Newshour is BBC World Service's flagship international news and current affairs radio programme, which is broadcast twice daily: weekdays at 1400, weekends at 1300 and nightly at 2100 (UK time). There is also an additional online programme at 20:00 on weekdays. Occasionally the programme can run for three hours during major breaking stories such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Each edition lasts one hour. It consists of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, international interviews and in-depth reports of world news. The BBC World Service considers it one of their most important programmes. In 2011 it was kept as one of four key outlets, despite severe cutbacks. It is also broadcast in the United States on various American Public Media stations. Most prominently, WNYC simulcasts the programme's afternoon edition on weekdays, and the nightly edition on weekends.^[1] The programme is broadcast live from Broadcasting House in London. It covers the major news of the day, often interviewing heads of state and government ministers.

History

The programme was first broadcast in 1988.^[2]

Presenters

Current

|} On weekdays the 14:00 & 21:00 GMT editions are presented by different presenters where as on weekends they are presented by the same presenter

Past

• Claire Bolderson, 1997–2012
• Razia Iqbal, 2011–2023
• Robin Lustig, 1989–2012
• Mary Ann Sieghart, 2008–10
• Paul Welsh
• Judy Swallow
• Alex Brodie
• Philippa Thomas 200?-21
• Nick Worrall, 1988 - ?
• Oliver Scott, 1988 - ?
• Hugh Prysor-Jones, 1988 - ?
• Geoffrey Stern, 1988 - ?
• Max Pearson