Jo Ellison, (BA History, Edinburgh) deputy editor of the Financial Times weekend, and editor of the FT's How to Spend It magazine has been saving up some seriously sharp words about the current state of the Today programme on Radio 4.
"Instead of serving news, the show has become a tepid taster of the carvery of podcasts each presenter is trying to shill. It’s a toothless simulacrum of its cantankerous former self.
"The pugnacious political interrogation once deployed has been replaced by chummy conversation and presenters choking on their own empathy. Instead of spicy debate and provocation it’s all windy chit-chat with thought leaders, and interviews that sound like quasi therapy.
"The National Year of Reading 2026, a campaign led by the Department for Education and the National Literacy Trust, has prompted a fixation with children’s books. Every other item seems to be a story about some Edwardian classic now turned into a film. "
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