The 主播大秀 Trust have today published an in-depth review of Radio 5 live and 5 live Sports Extra, based on extensive consultation with our listeners and detailed analysis of the station鈥檚 performance.
The report concludes that the stations are performing well and delivering real value to licence fee payers.
It praises our news coverage as having breadth, depth, wit and intelligence and nine out of ten listeners rate our sports coverage as high quality.
There are a number of recommendations and actions which we鈥檒l be considering in detail over the next few weeks and developing plans to put into practice.
You can read the Trust鈥檚 full report here.
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It's a stunning approach. The surrounding hills have a thin veneer of snow carpeting their upper reaches. Below us, Gare Loch. The sort of view that has you instinctively reaching for your camera. Loch Lomond and the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park are close by, the Argyll Forest Park just to the west. But as the road begins its descent into Garelochhead, you get a sense this is no typically stunning Scottish vista.
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Try having a conversation about Scottish independence, and see how long it lasts before the word 'oil' features. You're not likely to be kept waiting long.
So, for day four of our roadtrip for 5live, Radio 4 and the 主播大秀 News website, we turned up in 180 miles up the road from Wednesday's stop over in Coldstream.
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There are six months to go until the in London and many British athletes are on course to hit peak fitness at just the right time. But the threat of injury is never far away, as heptathlete Jessica Ennis found out in 2008.
Tipped to win a medal in Beijing, she because of a stress fracture to her right ankle. On Thursday, 主播大秀 Radio 5 live's London Calling will investigate how Olympians deal with the fear of injury and illness in the biggest year of their sporting lives.
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So we made it to Scotland in time for the big night. Only here in about a mile over the border, it turns out the big celebrations to mark the birthday of Scotland's national poet, Rabbie Burns, aren't happening until the weekend.
Apparently raising a glass or two to Scotland's most famous son is far too serious a business to be conducted on a weeknight.
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We're propping up a bar. McEwans Export is available on draught. Amongst the strong stuff in front of us is Gordons gin and Bells whisky, the bottles hanging upside down in front of two Saltire flags. A picture of , variously described as Scotland's favourite son and the nation's best loved poet, hangs proudly on the wall. Rich Scottish accents abound.
So where are we? Wick? No - Northamptonshire.
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By 5 live Sport producer Patrick Nathanson: From Oman to Barbados, Honduras to Senegal, an exotic assortment of diverse nationalities ply their trade on Premier League pitches up and down the country.
But just how easy is it for a foreign player to settle in the UK? What are the main cultural challenges and how much support is given to players to help overcome them?
On 鈥楾he Culture Club鈥 we wanted to get the personal experiences of players who've been through the adjustment process - some with great success, others less so - managers who've gambled with foreign signings and the people behind the scenes who help players from different cultures adapt off the pitch so they deliver on it.
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So Day 1 of 5 live's 5 big questions about Scottish independence brings us to Guernsey. We are about as far away from Scotland as you can get whilst still being in the British Isles. But this place offers some fascinating insights into the constitutional dilemma Scotland faces.
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is back and 5 live helped launch the 2012 campaign, with a host of star names joining Eleanor Oldroyd during Thursday's 5 live Sport.
spoke to her about their Sport Relief single '', while fretted about attempting his Big Splash swimming challenge. Gary Lineker and Fearne Cotton chatted moments after , and Miranda Hart, Stephen Fry, Amir Khan and all recorded special messages for the programme.
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In three years time Scotland could be independent. In the last few weeks, the rhetoric and campaigning on both sides of the debate over Scotland's future has stepped up, with it looking likely there will be a referendum in Scotland in the autumn of 2014.
With the rhetoric come the questions. A lorry load of questions. So, on 5live Drive, the 5live blog, the 主播大秀 News website and on Radio 4's PM, we will be trying to find some answers next week.
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We were told we had 15 minutes. Not roughly, or approximately. Exactly 15 minutes. And sure enough, almost to the second, one of his aides hollered, 鈥淭hat鈥檚 it.鈥
The allotted quarter of an hour included the time for handshakes, small talk and sound checks. Ex-Presidents are busy boys. And impressively adept at switching subjects.
The interview took place on the 18th floor of a glass-fronted edifice in the financial district of Manhattan. The offices form the New York headquarters of the , and we were shown to a waiting room alongside two American TV crews.
In orderly (almost military-style) succession, Clinton gave his (15-minute) take on an Arkansas basketball coach, a female governor of Texas... and the greatest sportsman who ever drew breath.
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Stargazing LIVE returns to 主播大秀 2 tonight, and to mark听the new series听主播大秀 Radio 5 live's Tony Livesey will be broadcasting live from the set on Tuesday night from 10.30pm.
The show is filmed at the , which is run by Manchester University, and is located in the leafy Cheshire countryside.
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The UK is about to get a new city, as part of the Queen鈥檚 Diamond Jubilee celebrations. It鈥檚 rare that city status is granted, and 25 towns have applied. Just one of them will be reclassified as a city next month. Being called a city doesn鈥檛 bring any additional powers or funding, but that hasn鈥檛 stopped the contenders from mounting fierce campaign to win the honorary title.
But what if where you live wouldn鈥檛 ever stand a chance of being made a city? On 5 live, we think size doesn鈥檛 matter, and we want to celebrate all that鈥檚 brilliant about where you live. So we鈥檙e searching for 5 live鈥檚 City of 2012.
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On 17th December 606 decamped to the 主播大秀 Philharmonic Studios across the plaza in Salford to welcome a live audience to the show for the first time.
Mark Chapman and Jason Roberts hosted affairs, and if you called the show that evening you not only put your point to Mark and Jason but also to 250 audience members.
As part of Celebrate Sport our listeners finally watched and contributed to the behind the scenes madness of a live 606 show.
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| 11:00 UK time, Monday, 30 January 2012
