The World Today is BBC World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

's high profile, Sony Radio Academy Award

Sony Radio Academy Awards

The Sony Radio Academy Awards , started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. They are run by ZAFER Associates in association with the Radio Academy...

 winning, early morning news and current affairs programme, which as of the 27th March 2011 will be broadcast from 0300 to 0830 (GMT) daily. It consists of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, serious international interviews and in-depth reports of world news. The World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

 consider it to be one of their most important strands, as shown in 2011 when it was kept as one of four key outlets.

History

The World Today was launched on the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

's World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

 in 1999 as part of a shake-up of the news programming.

Presenters

Due to the nature of The World Today many BBC personalities appear on the programme. Core presenters include:

• Fergus Nicoll
  Fergus Nicoll
  Fergus Nicoll is a freelance journalist, author and news presenter with the BBC World Service. He is one the presenters of the current affairs programme The World Today.- Education :...
  
  
• Max Pearson
  Max Pearson
  Max Pearson is a BBC journalist and news presenter with the BBC World Service. Currently he is one of the presenters of The World Today and Newshour....
  
  
• George Arney
  George Arney (journalist)
  George Arney is a journalist for BBC and was until 2009 one of the hosts for The World Today and Outlook on the BBC World Service. He was educated at Clifton College and Cambridge....
  
  
• Julian Keane
• Komla Dumor
  Komla Dumor
  Komla Dumor is a Ghanaian journalist. He was born in Accra, Ghana in 1972. Dumor is currently a television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World, presenting BBC World News and Africa Business Report...
  
  

• Roger Hearing
  Roger Hearing
  Roger Hearing is a journalist and news presenter with the BBC World Service. Currently he is one of the presenters of The World Today.Roger Hearing was born in London and brought up in west Dorset. His journalism career began with the Birmingham Post and he joined the BBC World Service in 1987...
  
  
• Pascale Harter
• Madeline Morris
• Sunita Nuhar
• Lawrence Pollard

See also

• BBC World Service
  BBC World Service
  The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
  
  , the home of The World Today
• BBC News
  BBC News
  BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
  
  
• BBC World News, The BBC's International Television Station