The Today Podcast: Live!

Hundreds of our listeners assembled in the BBC Radio Theatre for
the first ever live recording of The Today Podcast!


Nick and Amol were joined on stage by a panel of experts: former
Labour deputy prime minister Lord Mandelson; Fiona Hill, Theresa
May’s former chief of staff in Downing Street and founder of the
Future Resilience Forum; and University of Oxford Professor Jane
Green, co-director of the British Election Study.


The panel dissected the latest election news and answered
listener questions on topics ranging from voter apathy to why so
many MPs are leaving parliament.


And Roger Tilling, the voice of University Challenge, was on hand
for all the announcements.


Episodes of The Today Podcast will land twice a week during the
election campaign. Subscribe on BBC Sounds to get Amol and Nick's
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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both
presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most
influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor
for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s
also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


You can listen to the latest episode of The Today Podcast anytime
on your smart speaker by saying “Alexa, Ask BBC Sounds for The
Today Podcast.”


The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producers are Hatty Nash
and Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive
producer is Owenna Griffiths. Digital production from Elliot
Ryder and Charlie Henry. Live music was composed by Paddy
Fletcher and Nick Foster and performed by Paddy Fletcher and
James Allnutt.