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Today in Parliament is a British radio programme that covers the daily proceedings of the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), on BBC Radio 4. When re-broadcast the next day, it is known as Yesterday in Parliament.
The programme began on 9 October 1945 at 22.45. [1] It is the only programme that the BBC is required to make under its charter.
In 1978 the public were allowed to hear MPs in parliament.
In 1998 Yesterday in Parliament stopped being broadcast on FM. Instead it was broadcast only on long wave, opting-out from The Today programme .
In April 2024, following the end of Radio 4's long wave opt-outs, Yesterday in Parliament moved to BBC Radio 4 Extra [2] , with a later start time of 9 am.
The broadcast begins with the Speaker announcing Order, order. It is available daily as a podcast.
It is presented on rotation either by Susan Hulme, Alicia McCarthy or Sean Curran.
Today in Parliament claims to have a regular audience of around 500,000 listeners.
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BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. He replaced Gwyneth Williams, who had been the station controller since 2010.
Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme. Broadcast on Monday to Saturday from 06:00 to 09:00, it is produced by BBC News and is the highest-rated programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. In-depth political interviews and reports are interspersed with regular news bulletins, as well as Thought for the Day. It has been voted the most influential news programme in Britain in setting the political agenda, with an average weekly listening audience around 6 million.
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