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22-02-2022, 01:20 PM | #1 | |||
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BBC journalists Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel have announced they are leaving the corporation to launch a new podcast and host a radio show together on LBC. Newsnight's Maitlis and outgoing North America editor Sopel have signed a deal with LBC's parent company Global. Details haven't been revealed but Maitlis called it a "major new podcast" and Sopel said "opportunities like this just don't come along very often". They follow Andrew Marr, who moved from the BBC to Global at the end of 2021. Sopel and Maitlis worked together as co-hosts of the BBC's Americast podcast, which launched in 2020. Maitlis also made headlines and won awards for her 2019 interview with Prince Andrew. On Twitter, she described the new daily podcast as an "amazing opportunity", adding that she and Sopel "are so thrilled Global is giving us this opportunity to be big and ambitious with this project". She added: "Nevertheless, it will be a wrench to leave the BBC after 20 phenomenal years. I am so grateful for the opportunities I've had there." Sopel tweeted: "Opportunities like this just don't come along very often. But am sad to leave the BBC which has been home for so long." He described it as "a wrench" to be leaving the BBC after almost four decades. "I leave with nothing but good feelings towards the Corporation, and wish all the best to my colleagues and friends there," he wrote. Global said full details of the pair's new podcast would be announced later this year. Maitlis suggested in a statement issued by the media company that it would "build on everything we've achieved with Americast over the last few years - and it will find new audiences and a new home with Global". Americast has covered topics including the US elections and last year's Capitol Hill riots, becoming one of the BBC's most popular podcasts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60479609 |
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22-02-2022, 01:25 PM | #2 | |||
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22-02-2022, 01:27 PM | #3 | |||
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22-02-2022, 01:45 PM | #4 | |||
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This Witch doesn't burn
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First Marr, now these two, LBC must be offering big bucks
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22-02-2022, 02:03 PM | #5 | |||
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22-02-2022, 02:22 PM | #6 | |||
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gross pair
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22-02-2022, 03:14 PM | #7 | |||
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One other is Leaving with them
A top editor Dino Sofos https://twitter.com/IainDale/status/1496123570992390149 Last edited by arista; 22-02-2022 at 03:15 PM. |
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22-02-2022, 05:39 PM | #8 | |||
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Well thanks for helping bring down Andy (no sweat ) Winsor.
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22-02-2022, 06:34 PM | #9 | |||
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BBC is a joke anyway , i guess nobody is allowed to speak out and criticise this ridiculous government then?.
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22-02-2022, 07:01 PM | #10 | ||
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22-02-2022, 07:08 PM | #11 | |||
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she did a great job on the prince andrew interview
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22-02-2022, 07:22 PM | #12 | |||
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