Up All Night (radio show)
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| Genre | News |
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| Running time | Monday - Sunday 1.00 am - 5.00 am |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 5 Live |
| Recording studio | BBC Television Centre |
| Air dates | since 1994 |
| Audio format | FM, AM and Digital radio |
| Website | Official website |
Up All Night is a programme broadcast on the national radio station BBC Radio 5 Live in the United Kingdom, and is on air between the hours of 1 am and 5 am every night. It is also broadcast on most of the BBC's local radio frequencies across England as well as on Radio Scotland, Radio Cymru and Radio Ulster.
[edit] History
Up All Night has been broadcast continuously since Radio 5 Live's launch on Monday 28 March 1994. One of the show's two main presenters, Rhod Sharp, had proposed the idea of an all-night radio show for the new station that made use of the BBC's correspondents from all over the world. He has continued to present several shows each week ever since. Rhod currently presents the show from Monday night to Wednesday night. Dotun Adebayo is the show's second main presenter, hosting the show from Thursday night to Sunday night. Previous presenters included Richard Dallyn, Dalya Raphael and Russell Fuller.
[edit] Features
The show has a heavy interest in the United States and often features news and interviews from there. The Super Bowl has also been broadcast in an extended programme; this however is streamed from another provider and thus is not allowed to be broadcast live on the Internet due to copyright regulations.
The programme has gained a cult audience because of its off-beat approach to the news combined with various regular features, such as the latest Bollywood news with Anil Sinanin and World Football Phone-In, with journalists Tim Vickery (South America), Sean Wheelock (North & Central America), Andy Brassel (Europe) and Durosemi Thomas (Africa) covering some of the world's football hot beds. From the start of the programme in 1994 film critic Dave Aldridge has contributed regularly to the show.
Another major feature (with its own podcast) is the Dr Karl science phone-in where members of the public put science questions to Dr Karl who joins the show from the Australian ABC network. When Karl is away, Cambridge University's Dr Chris Smith from the the Naked Scientists stands in. From 2007 "Up All Night" has also been pioneering in featuring a monthly live mental health phone-in with regular guest, Martin Seager, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and adult psychotherapist who heads an NHS psychological services department in the London area. On Mondays, Up All Night also airs a 25 minute analysis of the week's top science news produced by the Naked Scientists, which is also made available as a podcast.
The programme has now launched a couple of twitter pages and has a group on facebook.
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