Dateline London

*Dateline London*
Dateline London
Created by	BBC News
Presented by	Shaun Ley; Geeta Guru-Murthy; Martine Croxall
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Production locations	Studio E, Broadcasting House
Editor	Nick Guthrie
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	TV Talk
Release
Original network	BBC News; BBC World News
Picture format	DVB-T 576i 16:9; HDTV 1080i
Original release	1996 –; present
External links
	Dateline London

Dateline London is a weekly BBC News discussion programme. A panel of four leading journalists, lecturers, and foreign correspondents discuss top news stories from an international perspective.

Dateline London is shown every Friday at 7:30 p.m. on The BBC News Channel.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there are only three guests; two are joined virtually and there is just one in the studio with the host.

Hosts[]

Dateline London was first hosted by Charles Wheeler, and subsequently by Gavin Esler. Shaun Ley and Maxine Mawhinney all served as stand-in hosts during Esler's tenure.

Esler hosted his final edition on 25 March 2017, and Mawhinney on 8 April 2017. Since 15 April 2017, Dateline London was hosted on rotation by Jane Hill or Shaun Ley, while Carrie Gracie and Tim Willcox provided occasional cover.

Carrie Gracie had presented Dateline London following her return from paid leave in mid-2018. After 33 years with the BBC, Carrie Gracie left in August 2020. Since then, either Shaun Ley or Geeta Guru-Murthy has presented the programme. On 21 May 2021, Martine Croxall presented Dateline London for the first time.^[1]

As of October 2021, Shaun Ley is the main presenter of Dateline London. Other presenters occasionally seen hosting the show are Martine Croxall, Ben Brown and Geeta Guru-Murthy.

Regular panelists[]

Lyse Doucet chief international correspondent and presenter BBC News
David Aaronovitch is an Orwell Prize winning journalist
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is an Orwell Prize winning journalist
is editor-in-chief at The National
Abdel Bari Atwan of Rai-al-Youm
of Bloomberg
of Die Welt
Henry Chu of Variety
Janet Daley of The Daily Telegraph
Alex Deane is a political commentator
John Fisher Burns is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
is a Portuguese writer and lecturer
Michael Goldfarb is a journalist and author
Johan Hari is a journalist
Owen Jones is a journalist, author, and commentator
Mustapha Karkouti is a freelance journalist
of Associated Press
Thomas Kielinger is a Theodor Wolff Prize winning journalist and the London correspondent for Die Welt
Jeffrey Kofman is an Emmy Award winning journalist and lecturer
Laura Lynch is a Canadian writer and broadcaster
Suzanne Lynch of The Irish Times
is a journalist and analyst
Nesrine Malik is a Sudanese writer
Maria Margaronis of The Nation
Iain Martin is a journalist and author
Jef McAllister is a journalist and lawyer
Stryker McGuire of Bloomberg
is a Russian journalist
is a journalist and communications advisor
Annalisa Piras is an Italian writer and film maker
Agnès Poirier is a journalist, writer, and broadcaster
Nabila Ramdani is a journalist, writer, and broadcaster
Steve Richards is a political writer and broadcaster
Marc Roche of Le Monde
Jonathan Sacerdoti is a journalist, political commentator and foreign correspondent
is the former editor of the Pakistani daily The News in London
Rachel Shabi is a journalist and author
Ned Temko is a political commentator
Polly Toynbee is an Orwell Prize winning journalist at The Guardian
Isabel Hilton, editor of Chinadialogue
Nazenin Ansari, Iranian exile journalist
Clive Myrie, BBC News Presenter

References[]

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