World Briefing

World Briefing

Genre	News, current events, and factual
Running time	Weekdays for half hour at 0100, 1000, 1400, 1500, 1800, 2100, 2200, 2300 (GMT) (as at Spring 2011)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC World Service
Recording studio	Broadcasting House
Website	http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnc

World Briefing is BBC World Service's standard news strand. Along with The World Today, Newshour, World Update and World: Have Your Say, it makes up a core part of the schedule's broadcast material. It is broadcast on the hour for a half hour programme whenever other news strands are not on air. Each individual version of the BBC World Service opts in and out of different editions whilst other Public Radio stations around the world carry editions of World Briefing. As of the Spring schedule changes in 2011 the times of day World Briefing air changed to incorporate 11pm and to remove 4am. (GMT)

Presenters

The presenters are:

• David Bamford
• Oliver Conway
• Frederick Dove
• Jackie Leonard
• Andrew Peach
• Valerie Sanderson
• Maddy Savage

See also

• BBC World Service, the home of World Briefing
• BBC News
• BBC World News, The BBC's International Television Station

External links

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnc