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''The World Today'' is
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's high profile,
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-winning, early morning news and current affairs programme, which as of 27 March 2011 was broadcast from 3:00 to 8:30 (GMT) daily. It consisted of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, serious international interviews and in-depth reports of world news. The
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considered it to be one of their most important strands, as shown in 2011 when it was kept as one of four key outlets. It was announced on 27 June 2012 that both ''The World Today'' and ''Network Africa'' were to be axed, and from 23 July 2012 a new programme entitled ''
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'' would take their slot.
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History

''The World Today'' was launched on the
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World Service The BBC World Service is an international broadcasting, international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, British Government through the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Secretary's o ...
in 1999 as part of a shake-up of the news programming. In June 2012 the programme moved to
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in central London.


Presenters

Due to the nature of ''The World Today'' many BBC personalities appeared on the programme. Core presenters included: * Ed Butler *
Fergus Nicoll Fergus Nicoll is a British author and former BBC World Service radio presenter. Early life Brought up as a Roman Catholic, Nicoll was educated at Ampleforth College, Christ Church, Oxford (BA Oriental Studies) and Reading University, where he g ...
* Max Pearson *
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* Julian Keane *
Komla Dumor Komla Afeke Dumor (3 October 1972 – 18 January 2014) was a Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme ''Focus on Africa''. Early life and education Dumor was born in Accra, Ghana. His fath ...
* Tom Hagler *
Roger Hearing Roger Hearing is a journalist and former news presenter. Previously Hearing worked as a presenter on the BBC World Service and at Bloomberg Radio. Early life Hearing was born in London and brought up in west Dorset. Education Hearing was edu ...
* Pascale Harter * Jackie Leonard * Lawrence Pollard * Mark Whitaker * Sunita Nahar *
Durdana Ansari Durdana Ansari OBE (born 1 March 1960) is a British entrepreneur, public speaker and activist for female empowerment. She is a former charity director, journalist, presenter and producer at the BBC World Service. She has interviewed politicia ...


See also

*
BBC World Service The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the British Government through the Foreign Secretary's office. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception a ...
, the home of ''The World Today'' *
BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ...
*
BBC World News BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and S ...
, The BBC's International Television Station


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:World Today, The BBC World Service programmes BBC news radio programmes RNZ International