The World Tonight is a British current affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4, every weekday evening, which started out as an extension of the 10 pm news. It is produced by BBC News and features news, analysis and comment on domestic and world issues. James Coomarasamy is the main presenter, usually presenting the first three days of the week. In the past, the programme utilised other BBC broadcasters, including David Eades, Carolyn Quinn, Roger Hearing to regularly present on Thursdays and Fridays. The programme was presented on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays by Ritula Shah until 27 February 2023. Between 1989 and 2012, the main presenter was Robin Lustig.
Mark Mardell is a British journalist, formerly the presenter of The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4. He had previously served as BBC News's Europe editor, and provided coverage for each United Kingdom general election between 1992 and 2005, before he became North America editor.
Robin Francis Lustig is a British journalist and radio broadcaster, who has presented programmes for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4.
John Martin Stapleton is an English journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work as a presenter and reporter on ITV breakfast television in addition to hosting Nationwide and Watchdog for the BBC.
Paul Welsh is a British television and radio correspondent and presenter. He was born in England in 1961, but moved frequently because his father was a serving member of the RAF. He studied Physics at the University of Nottingham from 1979 to 1982.
Matt Prodger is a former BBC News Correspondent who has appeared on all the broadcaster's television and radio outlets. He formerly worked as a Newsnight correspondent and a foreign correspondent.
Matthew William Price is a British journalist who currently works as Chief Correspondent for the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
Martin Geissler is a Scottish news anchor, presenter and broadcast journalist for BBC News Scotland. He is the host of BBC Scotland’s flagship political programme The Sunday Show and host of Scotcast, the BBC’s Scottish news podcast.
Nick Dixon is a Scottish journalist, television presenter and former television producer, best known for his roles on ITV Breakfast programmes GMTV, Daybreak and Good Morning Britain. In 2005, Dixon joined breakfast programme GMTV as a news correspondent and a stand-in news presenter on the programme. When GMTV closed in 2010, he was transferred to the show's successor Daybreak where he worked as their New York City correspondent. He is now based in London working as a News Correspondent for the current ITV Breakfast show Good Morning Britain.
William Hardcastle was a British journalist, editor of the Daily Mail and first presenter of the lunchtime news programme The World at One on BBC Radio.
Philippa Thomas is a former television newsreader and journalist, both domestic and foreign. At the BBC she was a chief news presenter at BBC World News, presenting evening bulletins on BBC News Channel and BBC World News. She was presenter of Coronavirus: Your Stories on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. She left the BBC in 2021 to become a full-time Executive Coach.
Caroline Wyatt is an Australian-born English journalist. She presents the Saturday edition of PM on BBC Radio 4. She has worked as a BBC News journalist for over 25 years, as defence correspondent until August 2014, when she replaced Robert Pigott as religious affairs correspondent until June 2016, when she revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Martine Dennis is a British news anchor. She was most recently a presenter with Al Jazeera English, and before that BBC World News.
Shaun Dominic Ley is a British journalist and newsreader for BBC News. He currently appears regularly on a wide range of BBC programmes from HARDTalk to BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight and the BBC World Service's Newshour.
James Menendez is a British journalist and radio broadcaster working for BBC News, BBC World Service, and BBC World News. Menendez is one of the main presenters of Newshour on the BBC World Service.
Timothy Henry Franks is a British journalist and radio presenter who presents Newshour, the flagship news and current affairs programme on BBC World Service radio. He also, from time to time, presents Hardtalk on BBC World News, and documentaries across BBC TV and radio. He was previously an award-winning foreign correspondent for the BBC.
Jonathan David Dymond is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the Royal Correspondent for BBC News, having previously been the BBC's Washington Correspondent, Europe Correspondent, and Middle East Correspondent. Dymond is also a presenter of The World at One and The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4. He sometimes presents Broadcasting House and the Today programme. He also presents The World This Week and World Questions on the BBC World Service.
