Media
BBC Radio 4 is to launch an interactive version of its long-running news and current affairs programme PM.
The weekly programme, which has been titled iPM, will go out at 5:30pm on Saturdays and will be shaped by listeners' contributions to a blog on the BBC website during the week. Like the regular weekday version of PM, the new programme will be hosted by Eddie Mair.
Peter Rippon, who edits PM and Broadcasting House, said today that iPM will be "more like an ongoing conversation on the web that will have a programme attached to its once a week".
In a post on the BBC editors' blog, Rippon explained: "Our intention is to distil the very best of the web to produce a new type of programme that is in the best traditions of BBC Radio Four. We'll be as transparent as we can about the ideas and guests that make it to air. Our blog will explain why some ideas and stories get dropped or squeezed out. Also, by posting our rough ideas in front of the audience, we're also inviting the well-informed and blog-savvy to help us develop a particular idea."
He added that iPM could be thought of as "a small contribution" to the debate about a "missing link between old and new media".
The first show will go out on November 10 and a tentative running order has already been posted.
The weekly programme, which has been titled iPM, will go out at 5:30pm on Saturdays and will be shaped by listeners' contributions to a blog on the BBC website during the week. Like the regular weekday version of PM, the new programme will be hosted by Eddie Mair.
Peter Rippon, who edits PM and Broadcasting House, said today that iPM will be "more like an ongoing conversation on the web that will have a programme attached to its once a week".
In a post on the BBC editors' blog, Rippon explained: "Our intention is to distil the very best of the web to produce a new type of programme that is in the best traditions of BBC Radio Four. We'll be as transparent as we can about the ideas and guests that make it to air. Our blog will explain why some ideas and stories get dropped or squeezed out. Also, by posting our rough ideas in front of the audience, we're also inviting the well-informed and blog-savvy to help us develop a particular idea."
He added that iPM could be thought of as "a small contribution" to the debate about a "missing link between old and new media".
The first show will go out on November 10 and a tentative running order has already been posted.
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