Q&A – lightweight politicians, interviews that made you blush… Ft Esther Rantzen & Stephen Fry

In this bonus episode of The Today Podcast, Amol and Nick take on
more of your questions – on politics, AI and their approach to
journalism.


Friends of the pod Dame Esther Rantzen and Stephen Fry join other
listeners in asking Amol and Nick questions like ‘how did we come
to have such lightweight politicians in charge?’ and ‘have you
done any interviews that went so badly wrong that the memory
makes you blush?’


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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.


The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producers are Hazel
Morgan and Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The
executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. Technical production from
Dafydd Evans. Digital production from Elliot Ryder.