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Out This Week is a pioneering LGBT+ weekly news programme that ran on BBC Radio 5Live for five years from 2 April 1994 - 1999, [1] with as one of its founder/presenters Nigel Wrench [2] and also featuring Justine Buchanan, Alison Hennegan [ citation needed ] and latterly Rebecca Sandles. Wrench and producer David Cook won a Sony Radio Award [3] [4] in 1995 for a landmark programme presented live from New York about Stonewall 25. [5] [6] Shortly after the award, the BBC extended their run to a full year. [7]

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