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Hello, how was it for you? When will you realise that we're not all fascinated with political Life in Westminster overall.

I found the election coverage was pitched about right on the election.

I'll be dissecting the BBC's coverage with the director of journalism the sound of silence so you would just saying they've they've been cut off and how they were communicating dick to carry on.

Ok, and then with plenty of experience Radio 5 Live overnight presenter dotun Adebayo charity tips on the art of filling when it all goes wrong is an opportunity for the presenter to show who they really are what they're really made of and listeners share their reaction to a powerful and uplifting interview on the today for I just wanted to say that was a wonderful interview helping to spell the fast mountain of Fear surrounding conversations on death, but first the election a week on the post match analysis is in full swing not just of the results but also of how it was covered the curtains rust of the 6-week campaign enthralled many listeners, but it was not without criticism hello.

This is Sharon Donaghy from Huddersfield the first thing I do on getting home is turn on Radio 4 in recent years.

Consider myself to be in an abusive relationship with radio for this is because you insist on banging as over the head with the latest shenanigans in Westminster stop on the election tombola trail coming to live from Birmingham Edgbaston than regular programs to extend the are ubiquitous reporting on the election you devoted most of list of July to covering the result of the election which was used to nobody scale of the Challenge for the new Labour government and the fight for the soul of the Tory Party when you realise that we're not all fascinated with political Life in Westminster and I'm ringing from West London in relation to your country do the election station because of the amount of time given to the discussion of opinion polls?

The extent to which these seats might change hands, I would say is disputed was almost no discussion of all depends if I suspect that the time even to Reading the runes on the polls is one of the reasons that the overall turnout was possibly amongst the lowest on record my name is Linda Wilson and I live in Leicester overall.

I found the election coverage was pitched about right.

It was a good selection of gas from the different parties and as ever they presented as challenging questions really trying to get to the heart and I found this really helpful in helping me decide which party to vote for the director of journalism Jonathan Munro Jonathan thanks very much for making time for feedback in what I know has been incredibly busy couple of weeks for you and I spoke to you a few weeks ago now that it's all over.

How did it go I think it went.

There's always going to be in the course of the campaign which goes on 6 weeks or thereabouts some days, which are more challenging than others editorially speaking some stories that come out of the blue nobody for example for saw the big roundabout D-Day I suppose that the big story in terms of journalism during the campaign that the stories around movements in the polls and changing result compared to last time around so in 2019 is an absolutely massive conservative majority will take over 10-years well that was obviously plainly wrong.

We had a meal in the campaign during the campaign on my opinion polls towards the reform party and a big movement away from the SNP so they are all the meteor stories of the campaign and hopefully not all of them through output from a number of listeners.

He felt that there was too much coverage of Reform and not enough of the Green Party who ended up with just one seat less than

And it was the most successful election ever in fact hello.

I'm Louisa and I live in Suffolk and perform at the expense of the Grinch I want to have BBC News can justify it with all the election when the greens have gone and from had none had an election light and immediately after when both parties and for.mps.

My name is Kerry Robinson from Leicestershire please.

Can you explain why the amount of their time devoted to other smaller parties and their achievements has been diminished Nigel Farage in the reform party clearly its case of he who shouts loudest taking 6.8% share of the total vote is a truly seismic a large number of those voting in is selection and clearly demonstrates that green issues and concerns about sustainability matter to a lot of people.

Going to get feedback from audiences that think in one part that we give too much coverage to a third party any other part that we give not enough coverage to certain party and that's because part do the audience some people find certain policies in this would be true of reform but also other parties to to be very attractive and others find them completely unattractive and there'll be a correlation between views and opinions about whether we did or didn't give them too much are time with her time isn't really the great test because somebody can be on the air on a program for you know the Today programme of the world at whatever and they have a really tough time at the hands of our presenters and interviewers and the scrutiny is really important for us to deliver and I think is reform advanced in the polls it became more important than ever that we gave audiences a chance to hear them being scrutinised and to be interviewed properly and reported on properly in our programs the Green Party also perform the selection bias.

Amazon as your audience members of Notre-Dame quadrupled are there seats in the House of Commons in this election the voucher however was half that of reform so in terms of the effect of Ra on the overall general election results particularly coming second in a lot of seats dividing the the vote on the right of politics and therefore approximately a little easier and some sweets for to win, so they're effect on the overall Mathematics and the commons significantly greater than the seat tally would indicate Robinsons he who shouts the lido if reform particularly Nigel Farage continue to come up with eye-catching statements and policies does that mean they'll continue to get more coverage than for example the greens policies are on newsworthy in the sense of being in need of scrutiny a lot of parties did things which were I catch and put the most eye-catching party in many ways with a little.

That's because the visual stunts which were sort of meat and drink of their campaign resulted in quite a lot of media attention and their argument was that enable them to talk about things like water pollution in terms of the change of leadership of reform from Richard Tice to Nigel Farage early in the campaign was itself a major news story and therefore the coverage of that as an incident within the campaign was Thomas editorial points did then take the leadership he Mr Farage then took part in a number of debates interviews policy discussions across the BBC and other broadcasters felt appropriate to me and given that the share of the vote they look at the polling day itself was significantly higher than it had been when it was the brexit party in the previous selection that didn't Enfield inappropriate to me, but we will never come into all audiences that the level of scrutiny a pint of any parties uniform near A19 Callaghan has made a point about the lack of discussion around.

Motion of representation the selection with votes but always between a host of parties shows the complete dysfunction of our first past the post voting system does a grand soul in the country introducing proportional representation apart from called Anita Anand you got for stool I mentioned APR because it was raised by listeners on any answers BBC is absolutely beautiful to discuss our wild a voting system continue throughout the election.

That's a massive failure in terms of its basic mandata inform and educate.

He was more fundamental in adult Chrissy and how we elect our government and ensure that everyone's go-karts.

And what were the time to talk about it frankly than during an election very few of the politicians themselves were talking about proportional representation in the selection and if that the big is a PR in the predecessor electoral Cycles have been the liberals and the Liberal Democrats in later years in fact.

They're percentage of votes and the percentage of seats in House of Commons is only 1% out of the system is relatively calmly from my point of view and I haven't said much about it and they might be relationship between those two facts some other parties scored significantly higher in votes than in seats and it is a legitimate matter of Public Concern but it wasn't necessarily on the Ballot in other words none of the parties were particularly proposing changes a major plank of the election manifesto any some ways, it's more of an interesting conversation now that we've got the results than it was in the run of the pole when people making up their minds about how to photoshoot like the economy or Health Service or immigration law crime.

Postal what they think the electoral system should be subject to the term landslide about share issue has been covered to some extent in BBC Reporting of the election, but still being used is landslide which in terms of both the numbers go into labour this result absolutely was not is there a BBC edict on when the term land they can be used no there isn't there is no specific definition of it and that the point of our share of the road is absolutely right, but the landslide refers to the makeup of the House of Commons and the majority that you mentioned and generally speaking.

I think most people who live in the sale of sofology world would be comfortable using the word landslide for any majority more than 100 seats obviously labour.

Got significantly more than that 170c majority along with some of the numbers that Margaret Thatcher secured when she was.

Stuff for the Conservatives and Tony Blair when he was labour prime minister.

I think that term fits into that very significant Commons majority.

It's not it's not a comment on the share of the vote which is widely reported was not as big as some of those previous Prime Ministers had enjoyed and not actually particularly much bigger setting in England than a Jeremy Corbyn scored in night for some listeners.

There was just too much coverage of politics and people like Peter's swallow were delighted by having a whole day free of UK politics on polling day.

Thank you Radio 4 for nearly a whole day without having to listen to politicians refusing to answer the questions put to them whilst repeatedly spell take the Party Line this followed by analysts and presenters a huge amount of points of speculation waffle as I have nothing new to talk about it was a pleasure to hear news from the real world outside the Westminster bubble for a change.

Please Jonathan can people like Peter look forward to a bit less political coverage now or as we're in this new Cycle does the BBC feel that it will be having to Anna is everything the new government is doing or indeed proposing to do or Festival when I got up on polling day and I heard the headlines and there was no politics in a Sunday cos I knew that would be the case to secret I also had a slight save relief that we were talking about some other things on the bottom very strong stories around I think I job in the period that we now in and I think we'll be in for the rest of this year is not the same as a job during election during election we are Duty bound and it's right as a public service broadcaster that we analyse and scrutinise the party still offering their services to your vote in a different space space which is about the new government and it's the first time I've had a proper change of government in this country since 2010.

So this does not happen very often as a scrutiny that.

Natural and proper and I think a lot of specialist journalist will be at the four in that looking at whether proposals for the Health Service or immigration or crime I cut the mustard.

There's another job to do and that is the political realignment and I suspect that's a bigger story in the Conservative Party van in labour and that will be a big Focus for our political Correspondents but not the volume of politics and government will find a different level from the sorts of volumes we were putting out on our are waves during the election campaign itself Jonathan Munro director of journalism you very much I'm next week.

I'm going to be digging into the Increasingly central role podcast seem to be playing not just during the UK election but in BBC's news and politics coverage in are you a fan do let me know your thoughts on BBC News podcasts to get in touch.

This is Dalton Adebayo from up all night on 5 Live and BBC

So, what do you think of BBC's audio output feedback is really keen to hear your take or what you been listening to a very easy way to get in touch is to send WhatsApp voice note 20 334544 and you can also ring that number and leave a message or you can send an email to be back at bbc.co.uk at BBC R4 PBS and added by the voice of overnight radio on 5 live on moreton.on in just a bit because nothing grabs the listeners attention quite like silence on the radio communicating only by messages that simulate the time it would take light to Chris sorry.

I'm just crap week to keep the slightly losing your connection that was the Today programme on polling day.

BBC was a UK politics freezone instead Emma Barnett was talking to Chris lintott astrophysicist and presenter of the sky at night about the year in this project were a group of volunteers has been isolated free year in a shed in Texas the problem with building a bit rocket and that sort of thing but difficult but the problem is actually hue cut off from the world poor communications.

Sorry you were just saying they've they've been cut off and how they were communicating dick to carry on.

Call Chris I just want to hear what you have to say we are after a couple of attempts to reconnect just went to the next item then again.

What do we start the volunteers? Who are you are still struggling a bit with your line which is again.

I wanna talk about connection and Mars and simulator but we're not even on Mars anywhere near it, but they trying to establish connection wasn't to be with a minute still stretching like towards the Pips we got an early weather even with a trail.

There was still 2 minutes to fill before the news also later on in the program to those who are intimately involved in the White House fight back and having to make decisions about what happens and next you are.

To today on BBC Radio 4 with the Emma Barnett and Justin went wow.

They finally made it no more radio silences to fill is a key skill for any broadcaster, but what is it actually take to fill successfully well, I've got an acknowledged master on the end what I hope is a solid and reliable connection doesn't have a bayou presenter of 5 live there all night Dawson welcome the Euro on eir and those wee small hours and I know that there are times when the phone lines go cold and there's often a lots of time to feel so as an objective Observer how do you think that Justin and Emma did I think we didn't need it sounds like she's flirting around that she is urgent and she makes a fight not really want to hear your answer to this, so we'll have another.

Will have it.

I would have another go yes, it's good when you're a double head as recorded in the game when there were two of you presenting because the other person in supposed to have your back at all times.

What's more difficult when you're presenting solo because you have to be both the presenter and if you like your sidekick, so what's going on? What's going on? What's going on? This is going on really well as you know presenting is an art form that everybody looks a bit like that, but I certainly do and part of the it's been out to get out of tricky situations if you listen to the attempt to recover from this failed line the irony which bringing up.

I thought you make more of that to be frank the irony.

We are trying to communicate with people have been simulating communication on Mars and actually this is probably.

What is the long long long long long long long way away? It's always easier of course is not after the fact to to think about clever things to say but just sometimes in the moment when whatever you are expecting to happen doesn't happen.

There is sometimes you can have a mental blank can't you just the words just don't come under super happens.

You were you know you've really thought my god.

What am I going to say next what is coming out of my mind because the one thing about radiators.

You can't have silence.

Can you know you can't have what we call Dad and that is my greatest panic funny enough and it's like you know in England team facing the prospect of penalties in penalty shootouts or extra time you want in real-time without having to go to a Euros to the euros and it is there for you but

Opportunity for the presenter to show who they really are what they're really made of and also may be bringing and got absolutely nothing to do with it, but somehow this for the list of Revelation list and get hold of miles or the equivalent of Mars the simulation of miles upshur you are you know what happened to me yesterday.

I was in the supermarket.

Just the other night actually at the supermarket and it comes up to me and said is this good olive oil and I'm like what I don't know the difference.

So just go for the cheapest are particularly now, but when is quadruple gym prices cetera? How many says Cineworld reason I'm asking is because I'm talking to someone like you Turkish fitting up your lot did really well my Euros didn't know you have a date especially holiday Google is a conversation and that's what life is when you communicate you see how important is to communicate if you can't get the line.

You were trying to communicate with you can find somebody to talk to that's communication in Emma has been a presenter on overnight program.

So she knows she's one of our own as we 5 Live radio for my climber today, but she came through as you went through the best best educational presenters that you can get which is not Radio 4.

What did you expect me to say goodbye you thank you John Wilson the presenter of Radio for this cultural life about his in-depth and often revealing conversation with some of the world's leading artists and creatives.

It was part of our annual search for the feedback interview of the year and I asked for your nominations for standard can't get out of the car moments.

Thank you all so much for your suggestions and to keep them coming.

He was one recent interview which a number of listeners flagged up this week.

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Collier from Aylesbury I put forward the interview with Simon Bowers on the Today programme as a contender for interview with the year in September of last year my next guest was diagnosed with cancer aged 46 Simon Bowers was told it was terminal and he only had months to live he began writing about his feelings towards life and death in his local newspaper.

It's stopped in My Tracks as I visit myself around the kitchen.

I realise have scared most English people are of death funerals etc this put it all into perspective as this amazing young man prepare the end of his life.

I was fortunate enough to be able to talk to Simon last week and what he expected to be one of his very last interview then I started simply by asking how we will start date.

I'm really well.

Thank you.

I mean I've my pain is under control and I'm I'm telling me happy it sounds weird to say I'm as happy as I've ever seen in my life, but it's been such a great bonus.

I used to think I'd rather be hit by the proverbial bus but having a couple of months now.

This is coming as really help me both do the kind of boring deafening and I just kind of get my thoughts and prepare myself and feel so accepting of what's to come.

My name is Nigel clothes from howgills accommodation in said that I have to say that we listen to one of the most uplifting pieces with ever heard.

It's a joy to know that there is such wonderful optimism in a person and pure appreciation of the situation and the party is played during his time on this page work and quite a lot with the UN and I've lived in places.

Where death is something not just the background, but which is often impossible.

My name is I am calling from North Dorset I just wanted to say that was a wonderful.

How to spell the fast mountain of Fear surrounding conversations on death children also have Simon's wonderful ability if parents and people can summon the courage to hear child died in 2012 of the brain tumour and he had managed to develop Simon's Attitude but it was very very hard for us to learn to hear and I'm so glad we did hear thank you is your family in a similar place to you on this I know you have a partner and I know you've got my day family and friends that you're very close to you and I was just wondering how the hell somewhere they've got to a similar place.

See you through the most difficult is not the natural order of things most people at least in the west.

I think they are surrounded and I think will I hope anyway that my kind of

Leaving of Life might help them in the next few years.

I thought you were great compassion and sensitivity.

It's one of the best interviews.

I've heard on Radio 4 for a long time.

What really made me stop in My Tracks was his comments about how all our lives are little books or someone else's life and they're going to keep writing beautiful chapters when you're gone and no sauce in suit skin around brief perspective and when I hope is that people will think I'm glad I read that Simon story but just because it's over doesn't mean it's gone.

I wish you as much peace and joy as possible and I'm thinking of you and your family.

Thank you as Julia Norwich said all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things to be well now is Emma Barnett interview with Simon Bowers which was on the date last Thursday it's a contender for interview of the year and to keep your thoughts coming know before we go.

I thought you might enjoy this from feedback listener and cold Glasgow I was pathetic my first-time voter 19-year old son was and that he had no intention of ot but listen to call Jonathan pie General Election special which I thought was highly amusing your first election congratulations.

I couldn't wait to be old enough to vote was major Blair voting for when a 21-year old are on the programme queried where do you register to vote what you do? Just woke up at The Voice

No, you've got to register my son immediately asked me the same question Amazon Paris with the answer given on the programme was good girl woman lady.

I also registered my son's about he stayed he refused to say who voted for anyway he voted so thank you BBC Radio 4 and thank you and coles well.

That's it for this week from me and the team.

Thank you for listening and for giving us your feedback goodbye.