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LIVE FROM MONDAY 29TH JUNE 2020
Tim Levell, Programme will be able to enjoy engaging and
Director, Times Radio: informed discussions from the
moment they wake up at breakfast
Our promise to listeners is that, with Aasmah Mir & Stig Abell until
in a world of noise and confusion, bedtime with Carole Walker.
Times Radio will offer intelligent and
thought-provoking news, analysis On Fridays and the weekends we
and conversation, hosted by respected have big names and personalities to
and entertaining presenters. keep our listeners hooked, including
Michael Portillo, Giles Coren, Cathy
We have brought together the Newman and Ayesha Hazarika.
peerless journalistic expertise of The
Times and The Sunday Times with Our listeners can expect expert guests
the speech radio and podcasting and commentators and for us to cover
experience of Wireless, the company the biggest news stories of the day,
behind talkSPORT, talkRADIO and from politics and business to arts and
Virgin Radio UK. sport, and feature themes that are
relevant to their daily lives.
Our focus has been to create a stellar
line-up of warm, witty and expert Times Radio will be available 24 hours
presenters from a range of broadcast a day on DAB, via app, smart speaker
backgrounds. Across our Monday and times.radio from Monday 29th
to Thursday schedule our listeners June 2020.
Weekday
Weekend
PRESENTERS
Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with Matt Chorley
Times Radio Breakfast 10am-1pm Monday to Thursday
6am-10am Monday to Thursday
Times Red Box editor Matt Chorley is one of the
Waking up listeners to informative discussion, quality most respected political journalists operating in
news and compelling analysis at breakfast are Sony Gold Westminster, providing insider analysis in his Red Box
award-winning broadcaster Aasmah Mir and broadcaster newsletter and award-winning podcast. In his new
and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Stig Abell. morning show Matt, who also moonlights as a stand-up
Both friendly and entertaining, Aasmah and Stig make a comedian, will bring events in Westminster to life with
dynamic duo and guarantee a thought-provoking listen. an array of political guests and expert commentators.
What do you want your listeners more explaining. We won’t assume always alive to what is going on in You have already hosted an award- For too long politics was seen as
to know about you? knowledge but we won’t play dumb our country, and the world more winning podcast, how will your something that other people did,
Aasmah: I’m a Glaswegian, of either. We’ll be politely tough and broadly, to reflect reality and help new radio show be different? over there, up in London, and
Pakistani heritage. I got a law have a few laughs along the way. everyone understand it better. I’m hoping it won’t be too different, everyone tuned in once every
degree but ended up in journalism We’ll cover all four nations and because I want to retain the feel four years for an election. The EU
via a graduate trainee scheme at the world too. We’re perplexed and What can listeners expect from of listening in on interesting referendum, and the turbulence
STV. I’ve been a radio producer as the breakfast show? people having an interesting that followed, changed all that.
maddened and confused by the
well as a presenter. I had a child Stig: The breakfast show is a place conversation. I also want to keep So I often found myself explaining
news sometimes too and we want
quite late on in life and it’s been a to discover the day: Aasmah and I the humour: politics is a serious to this new engaged audience
to reflect that. Listen in. You’ll find
hilarious struggle. You won’t find will try to focus on all the stories business, but sometimes the best that someone posing for a photo
your radio home.
me at parties or hen weekends or that matter, and go digging to make way of explaining it is through while they resigned or half the
barbecues, but you will find me How is Times Radio different to sure we and our listeners will end levity rather than a lecture. The big frontbench quitting was not
staring at the sea or reading a other stations? each morning understanding a difference is being live, so if a story normal. People want to understand
book. I don’t drink but I have Stig: We want Times Radio - in bit more about what is going on breaks we can turn to our guests this stuff, and we should explain
a filthy chocolate habit. I’m a time when public discourse has in the world than we did when we and get their informed take on it. not just what is happening, but
obsessed by Spain and Spanish so often lacked nuance - to be a started. We will hear from key why and how, and who is behind
and did a Spanish A level last place of warmth, expertise and figures in positions of authority, Your political comedy stand- it. And despite the 2019 election
year. I love being alone but I’m usefulness. To be somewhere you and from experts who can make up show was called This.is.not. resulting in the first proper
really friendly honestly! know that - whatever time you turn sense of their decisions. We will normal, can you explain your
majority government for a decade,
on - you will get thoughtful people talk to the biggest names in arts and approach to covering politics?
the madness looks set to continue.
Describe to a new listener what discussing the issues that matter, entertainment too. Aasmah and I
they can expect from your show? with knowledge and freedom. We will not take ourselves too seriously,
Aasmah: You’ll be informed, you’ll won’t have to stop something and will not pretend knowledge we
know everything you need to know important to go to pre-booked don’t have. The show should be
plus the bits that occurred to us programming, or to live sport, or one long interesting conversation
that were interesting or needed to start a phone-in. We want to be about everything.
Mariella Frostrup John Pienaar Phil Williams
1pm- 4pm Monday to Thursday 4pm-7pm Monday to Thursday 7pm-10pm Monday to Thursday
One of Britain’s most established opinion- The former BBC Deputy Political Editor
Established broadcaster Phil Williams
forming journalists, broadcasters and John Pienaar will bring his years of wisdom
will take listeners through the big stories
campaigners Mariella Frostrup joins Times and expertise to analyse the big stories of the
of the day from the UK and around the
Radio in her biggest radio venture to date. moment. His show will be a well-informed
world with expert guests and analysis.
Mariella will bring listeners an engaging and exploration of the most important issues, in
Phil will also get into the arts and keep his
educated look at the arts, culture, family the company of one of the most personable
listeners across the latest sports news.
and social issues - as well as discussions and and likeable broadcasters in Britain.
interviews with celebrity guests.
What do you want listeners to fields of politics and science What do you want your listeners something new and so exciting. How will your show be different approach to interviewing.
know about your new show? and popular culture it will be to know about you? to others in the schedule?
In these changing times we’ve essential listening. I know I’m one of those people - Describe to a new listener what My show is different because it’s What do you want listeners to
all learnt that we are more quite small in number and hugely they can expect from your show? the only show with sport and know about your new show?
adaptable than we thought What topics and subjects are gifted in luck - who absolutely My one big ambition for my show culture built in as permanent Listeners need to know that it’ll
and I’d like my show to reflect you passionate about and plan love what they do for a living. is that its leaves listeners feeling fixtures. Each night we have be THE place to hang out with
this opening up of new ideas, to cover in your show? I’ll admit to being a news and better off. Listening to me doing my both the best sports writers the radio in the evening. After
celebrating diversity and the As an autodidact my interests politics obsessive. But I also job should never, ever feel like hard from the Times and Sunday each show, you’ll hopefully have
many pioneering initiatives roam far and wide but I’m very understand that most normal work. I don’t just want listeners to Times, plus stand alone half learned something about the
taking place behind the much hoping that my many years people are neither of those wish they were part of a discussion hour interviews with key culture day’s top stories, you’ll have had
headlines. We all need to play exploring the broader cultural things, at least most of the time, on my programme. I want them to figures. The time of our show at least a smile if not a laugh
a part in how the world is and political world along with so I try to look at stories the way feel as if they are there, sitting at also allows us to reflect the day’s with us. You will also have a new
reconfigured and I’m hoping by my long term advocacy for they appear from outside the the table with everyone else talking events, before forecasting how book/tv show/album/cultural
proactively challenging news women’s and children’s issues political, business and every other directly to them. So no debates the stories will move tomorrow. experience to go and check out.
stories and interviewing original and love of music, film and fun “bubble”. When I joined the BBC that sound like an angry row in the What we’ll share in common The only rule really on my show
and inspiring guests from the will all be in evidence! from the Independent newspaper house next door; and no interviews with the other shows is a real is: No Shouting.
(which I joined at its launch that always sound like a harsh warmth and a non combative
and where I covered politics and interrogation in a bad cop movie,
wrote occasional parliamentary with no confession at the end.
sketches and diary columns) I There’ll be time and space to listen
meant to stay around two years to and explore arguments and
and go back to print journalism. ideas, as well as test and challenge
That was three decades ago. I’ll them. It’s called conversation. And
always be proud of my time at the I believe it’s what people want, and
Beeb, and now I feel beyond lucky maybe need just now.
to be, again, in at the birth of
OTHER PRESENTERS
Carole Walker Jenny Kleeman and Gloria De Piero Giles Coren Cathy Newman
10pm-1am Luke Jones with Times 10am-1pm Friday 1pm-4pm Friday 4pm-7pm Friday
Monday to Thursday Radio Breakfast with Tom Newton Dunn
6am-10am Friday to Sunday 10am-1pm Sunday Renowned Times columnist & Respected broadcaster and the
Experienced and high-profile restaurant critic, as well as a TV first female main presenter of
journalist Carole Walker brings Luke Jones, who has presented Former Labour MP, member presenter and podcaster, Giles Channel 4 News, Cathy Newman
with her over 20 years’ experience numerous news programmes, is of the Shadow Cabinet and Coren will take a distinctive and will bring her thorough and
as a BBC political correspondent. joining forces with investigative political editor of GMTV, Gloria humorous look at the news with engaging journalism to Times
Her late-evening show will wind journalist, author and De Piero has her own show on a range of well-known writers Radio as she analyses the big
down the day with informed documentary-maker Jenny Friday mornings and on Sunday and personalities. events of the day. During her
conversation about the main Kleeman. They will get listeners morning is joining forces with career Cathy has exposed political
issues that set the agenda. up-to-speed with the biggest Times Radio’s Chief Political scandals and high-profile sexism.
stories of the day and set up Commentator Tom Newton Dunn.
the weekend with intelligent
conversation and features.
Michael Portillo Kait Borsay Hugo Rifkind Alexis Conran Ayesha Hazarika
7pm-10pm Friday 10pm-1am Friday to Sunday 10am-1pm Saturday 1pm-4pm Saturday & Sunday 4pm-7pm Saturday & Sunday
Broadcaster and former Warm, modern and sincere, the The Times columnist, critic and The charismatic and engaging Columnist, broadcaster, former
Conservative Cabinet Minister news and sports presenter Kait broadcaster Hugo Rifkind, winner broadcaster Alexis Conran will stand-up and government advisor
Michael Portillo will represent Borsay will delight listeners to her of both ‘Critic of the Year’ and the host three hours of entertaining Ayesha Hazarika will bring her
his broad range of his interests show. She is best-known as one ‘Best of Humour Award’ at the news-based conversation each insightful and unique opinions
and specialisms in his new of the founders and presenters of Press Awards, now has his own Saturday & Sunday. Alexis is best and observations on current affairs
weekly show. It will look at the popular football podcast, The radio show. It will take listeners known for co-hosting the BBC and politics to her new show.
cultural highlights from the Offside Rule. around the world, around the UK Three show The Real Hustle and is
weekend ahead and review the and will look at the best of what a member of the Magic Circle.
week in politics with guests the weekend has to offer.
from across the political divide.
Special features & podcasts Jones will present a series looking at how
businesses are getting ready for Brexit.
Other big names to join Times Radio for
specially-commissioned shows and podcasts Award-winning Times columnists Rachel
include former Conservative Home Sylvester and Alice Thomson will host
Secretary Amber Rudd with her journalist an interview series in which they talk to
daughter Flora Gill, talking about their leading figures about how overcoming the
different takes on the world, picking up challenges of their early lives shaped the
on their popular social media interactions. people they have become. Confirmed guests
And international businessman, leading so far include Sajid Javid, Tony Blair, Kirstie
Brexiteer and broadcaster Lord Digby Allsopp and Tom Daley.
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