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The 9 o'clock bit of the show
It's the most important bit of our programme - I liken it to the front page of a newspaper - so what is the nation talking about, what are people reacting to, and should we ignore the news agenda and go with a subject or issue that we know is bubbling under the surface of the conventional news agenda?
We start thinking about what to talk about at 9am from 5.30am that morning. The whole team is listening to/watching a variety of channels/radio staions (Talksport, R4, LBC, Sky etc), plus we monitor the emails and texts coming into our own Breakfast programme, scour some blogs and see what the most emailed story is from Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Online (usually it's about a man marrying a goat in one of the smallest countries in the world. And frankly who can blame anyone for emailing their mate that?).
Once we've selected a subject, we then decide on the question. Many subjects have been in the news before (abortion, knife crime) so we try to think of a new take on it.
What do you expect when you turn on Five Live at 9am? Does it have to be something big and important? Or for example yesterday (a bank holiday), could we have done the Eurovision story at 9? Sometimes listeners tell me the subjects at 9am are a bit depressing - but then that's the nature of news isn't it?
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