Analysis of the day's national and international stories
Reporters
The World Tonight has a team of three reporters. Read more about Jonty Bloom, Paul Moss and Ray Furlong below.
Jonty Bloom
Jonty Bloom is The World Tonight's economics and Europe correspondent.
He specialises in covering International economics and the European Union and travels extensively searching out new and interesting ways of illustrating the workings of the business world, economic trends and European politics.
He has reported on aluminium smelters in Iceland, been out with the US Border Patrol looking for illegal immigrants in the Arizonian desert and attended far too many EU summits.
Jonty was also sent to report for the World Tonight on England winning the Ashes in 2005, but that doesn't count as work. Jonty's reporting on business and economics won the World Tonight the Wincott Foundation 2004 and 2006 awards, for radio programme of the year.
Paul Moss
Paul Moss began his career in the provinces, working in Birmingham, and then serving as Penzance Correspondent for Westcountry Television.
He came to Radio Four in 1997, as a reporter for World at One and PM, and then moved to The World Tonight three years later. Since then he has broadcast from across Europe, from the Middle East, Asia, South America and the US, where he covered the aftermath of September 11th, as well as the political and cultural developments that followed.
Long before he began travelling for work, Paul spent much of his life hauling a backpack around various parts of the world. He still travels for pleasure when he can, and has written articles for The Guardian, New Statesman and The Erotic Review.
Ray Furlong
Ray comes to The World Tonight after 14 years living abroad and working in various professions.
He started as a (totally unqualified) English teacher in the then Czechoslovakia, in 1992. After learning Czech he became a translator at the Czech News Agency, before cutting his teeth as a journalist with Czech Radio's English language service.
Ray worked as a freelance journalist before reporting for the BBC across Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union - focusing on the process of EU enlargement and the transition from closed to open societies.
He then spent three and a half years as the BBC's Berlin Correspondent, where reporting highlights ranged from a moving meeting with returning survivors of Bergen-Belsen to the unbridled - but short-lived - euphoria of German fans during the World Cup.
