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The Westminster Hour
GenrePolitics and current affairs
Running time1 hour Sundays from 22:00
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
Hosted byCarolyn Quinn
Recording studioBBC Millbank
Original release12 April 1998
Websitewww.bbc.co.uk/westminsterhour
Podcastwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrs6c/episodes/downloads

The Westminster Hour is a British political news review produced by BBC News, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 each Sunday evening between 22:00 and 23:00 (starting with a national and international news bulletin). The programme began to be broadcast in April 1998.[1] It replaced The Week in Westminster which had been broadcast on Saturday mornings.

Despite the reference in its title to the Palace of Westminster – meeting-place of the Houses of the United Kingdom Parliament – the programme also deals with topics and events connected with the work of the UK's devolved legislative assemblies in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, and London.

Presenters

The programme is currently hosted (2015) by Carolyn Quinn a former presenter of Radio 4's Today programme. It was previously hosted by the journalist Andrew Rawnsley.

References

  1. ^ "Westminster Hour - A Quinn-tessential guide - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2018-03-12.