World Have Your Say

World Have Your Say
Created byBBC World News
Presented byChloe Tilley
Ros Atkins (until 2013)
Nuala McGovern (relief)
Lucy Hockings (relief)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersSimon Peeks
Richard Pollins
Charlie Humphreys
Production locationsStudio B, Broadcasting House, London
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC World News
ReleaseFebruary 2011 (2011-02) –
June 2017 (2017-06)
Related
BBC World News
BBC World News America
Newsday
GMT
Impact
The Hub
Global
Focus on Africa
World News Today
Business Edition
World Business Report
Infobox instructions (only shown in preview)
World Have Your Say
GenreCurrent events
Discussion
Debate
Running time~50 minutes
Country of originInternational International
( United Kingdom origin)
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC World Service
SyndicatesPublic Radio International
Hosted byRos Atkins
Chloe Tilley
Nuala McGovern
Produced byBen Sutherland
Ben Allen
Simon Peeks
Graham Evans
Senior editor(s)Mark Sandell
Recording studioBroadcasting House, London
Original release2005 –
2017
Audio formatMonophonic
WebsiteWorld Have Your Say
PodcastBBC Radio Podcast

World Have Your Say (WHYS) is an international BBC global discussion show, that was broadcast on BBC World Service every weekday at 16:00 UTC and on BBC World News every Friday at 15:00 UTC.

World Have Your Say won Gold in the 2008 Sony Radio Awards, in the category Listener Participation.[1]

The show described itself as "the BBC News programme where you set the agenda."[2] Typically each edition addressed a question, or number of questions, raised by the users of its blog[3] and Facebook site,[4][non-primary source needed] as well as emailers to the BBC.

It encouraged callers to talk to each other and directed questions asked by listeners to the guests on the programme, intervening as little as possible to keep the show more of a conversation than a talk show.

The show also occasionally worked as a forum for the BBC World Service's global audience to put questions to a particular guest. Previous guests included Aung San Suu Kyi,[5] Philip Pullman[6] and Thilo Sarrazin.[7]

  1. ^ Sony Radio Awards Winners 2008
  2. ^ "BBC World Service - World Have Your Say". BBC. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  3. ^ "World Have Your Say: The US Election Debate". World Have Your Say. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  4. ^ "BBC World Have Your Say - London, United Kingdom - Media/News/Publishing". Retrieved 5 November 2012 – via Facebook.
  5. ^ Ben Sutherland. "World Service - World Have Your Say: Your questions for Aung San Suu Kyi". BBC. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  6. ^ Ros Atkins. "World Service - World Have Your Say: On air: Philip Pullman live on WHYS on Thursday". BBC. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  7. ^ Sarah Holmes. "World Service - World Have Your Say: Thilo Sarrazin talking to WHYS in Berlin". BBC. Retrieved 5 November 2012.