"AmeriCast" is also coming to the on-air schedule; it had been available primarily (exclusively?) as a podcast.
RC On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM Richard Cuff <[email protected]> wrote: > > This sunday marks the B24 to A25 seasonal schedule changes for many > international broadcasters, including the BBC World Service. > > Here's a cursory look at the changes to the weekly World Service > Online schedule. > > Programs leaving schedule: The Global Story, HARDTalk > > It was mentioned this past week that The Global Story was "...taking a > break...". That's too bad; it filled a somewhat unique niche in the > World Service schedule by taking a single issue and providing > background, context, and analysis over a 28-minute weekday program. > Some topics seemed trivial, while most were interesting and relevant. > > The Global Story's program slot will be filled by an extra airing of > several weekly series: The Conversation, In The Studio, The Food > Chain, Heart and Soul, Science In Action, and Unexpected Elements. > > The end of HARDTalk's run had been mentioned a few months back. This > is an interview program hosted by Stephen Sackur that interviews a > single subject over a given program; the subjects tended to be > well-known public figures. The end of the program has not sat well > with Sackur, who is leaving the BBC. See > https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/24/i-feel-really-really-cross-at-incredibly-dumb-decisions-stephen-sackur-on-the-end-of-hardtalk-and-leaving-the-bbc. > > The program is being replaced by "The Interview", which is also billed > as a single subject being interviewed over a half hour, but without > the calling-to-account overtones of HARDTalk. > > There may be some other rotational substitutions on the World Service > schedule, for example with Unspun World departing and The Media Show > filling slots in "The Explanation". > > These changes also don't account for the projected removal of "BBC > Sounds" access for non-UK listeners. As of March 28, BBC Sounds is > still accessible here in the USA. > > Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
