In case you haven’t noticed,Radio 4’s flagship news programme has been celebrating a significant birthdayThere are, it is said, or people in the remoter parts of Burkina Faso who are unaware that it is the Today programme’s 60th anniversary. If so,that can only be a fault of technology rather than publicity. For seldom has the BBC, no stranger to its own promotion, and achieve such a prolonged campaign of self-celebration together as that heralding this landmark of late middle age in Today’s broadcasting life.final week,it was the turn of former Today presenter Michael Parkinson to give his critical appraisal of the reveal on the reveal, when he was grilled by Garry Richardson on what Today meant to him.
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Source: guardian.co.uk