Sunday Politics
The network part of the Sunday Politics is presented by Andrew Neil and was launched on 15 January 2012 to replace The Politics Show.
The Sunday Politics is divided in to a number of clearly defined sections. The programme starts a short interview on a topical subject making the news that day. This section is branded the Top Story. The main programme interview (the Sunday Interview) is introduced by a short graphic and normally lasts between 10 and 15 minutes. The next section is Head to Head which is introduced by a short film and consists of a debate between two people on a political issue in the news that week. At this point the programme opts to 11 English regional segments, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each opt last 20 minutes apart from Scotland (see below). Following the opts the programme returns with the News at Noon the last section called The Week Ahead featuring three political journalists - Janan Ganesh (The Economist), Isabel Oakeshott (Sunday Times) and Rowenna Davis (New Statesman) the program ends with Weather For The Week ahead.
- Editor: Robbie Gibb
- Presenter: Andrew Neil
- news reader: Maxine Mawhinney
- Political correspondents: Giles Dilnot, Adam Fleming
Read more about this topic: Daily Politics
Other articles related to "sunday politics, sunday, politics, sundays":
... The Northern Ireland segment of the Sunday Politics normally lasts 20 minutes and forms part of the overall Sunday Politics programme ... The Northern Ireland segment is repeated after the late night news on Sunday evenings usually at 10.20 pm ...
... The Politics Show Scotland was BBC Scotland's main political programme broadcast on Sundays ... programmes took place, which resulted axing of "Politics Scotland" Friday edition and Holyrood both presented by Iain Macwhirter, and incorporating them into the ... From 15 January 2012, the programme has been replaced by Sunday Politics Scotland - an opt-out of the national Sunday Politics, which has now replaced The Politics Show ...
Famous quotes containing the words politics and/or sunday:
“The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“When every Sunday afternoon
On the Green Lands I walk
And wear a coat in fashion,
Memories of the talk
Of hen wives and of queer old men
Brace me and make me strong....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)