Like last year, as part of our guest editor series, we're inviting a team of listeners to edit one edition of Today between Christmas and New Year.
You’ll need 2 or 3 people in your team and applications must be made by midday on Monday 5th November. You can submit your application online or by post – see below.
So if you'd like to try your hand at setting the news agenda - and you think you have some interesting and creative ideas which your fellow listeners would enjoy - please get in touch.
The four best teams will be asked to pitch for the job on air and we'll ask listeners to vote for the team they want to hear. Before you enter please see the FAQs below.
Listener Editor Nomination The Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Room G630, Stage 6
Television Centre
Wood Lane
London
W12 7RJ
FAQs:
How much control will we have? You'll have about half the programme to play with. You will have a lot of editorial freedom but you will have to operate within the BBC's producer guidelines. Today producers will help you throughout the process
What sort of ideas should we come up with? Whatever you think is interesting and newsworthy
How much time will it take? We'd need a couple of meetings with the team early on and regular contact with the team leader - by telephone at least - throughout December. When we get close to the date of transmission we'd hope you'd be in touch with us daily
Will we need to be in the studio when the programme's on air? Ideally, yes
Where is your studio? Shepherd's Bush, London
Will we appear on air? Yes. We always interview our guest editors at the end of their own programmes
Will we have our names read out at the end? Absolutely
Highlights from today's running order will be posted here
Please note: we do not offer transcripts of our programme or individual interviews.
0810am The second of our political leader interviews. This morning its the leader of the Conservatives Michael Howard.
0830am It's the second day of the Non-Proliferation Treaty talks at the UN in New York. New Zealand is one of the leading proponents for disarmament.
0855am Today's election panel has an artistic focus as we discuss election developments with muscian and producer Brian Eno, the writer Frederick Forsyth and playwright David Hare.
0730am Will voters respond to Tony Blair's claim that if just one in ten of Labour's voters stay at home on Thursday or defect to the Liberal Democrats in marginal seats then a Conservative government could be elected 'by the back door'?
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