World Have Your Say
World Have Your Say (WHYS) is an international BBC global discussion show, that was broadcast on BBC World Service every weekday at 16:00 UTC and on BBC World News every Friday at 15:00 UTC.
| World Have Your Say | |
|---|---|
| Created by | BBC World News |
| Presented by | Chloe Tilley Ros Atkins (until 2013) Nuala McGovern (relief) Lucy Hockings (relief) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Simon Peeks Richard Pollins Charlie Humphreys |
| Production locations | Studio B, Broadcasting House, London |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC World News |
| Release | February 2011 – June 2017 |
| Related | |
| BBC World News BBC World News America Newsday GMT Impact The Hub Global Focus on Africa World News Today Business Edition World Business Report | |
| Genre | Current events Discussion Debate |
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| Running time | ~50 minutes |
| Country of origin | International ( United Kingdom origin) |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC World Service |
| Syndicates | Public Radio International |
| Hosted by | Ros Atkins Chloe Tilley Nuala McGovern |
| Produced by | Ben Sutherland Ben Allen Simon Peeks Graham Evans |
| Senior editor(s) | Mark Sandell |
| Recording studio | Broadcasting House, London |
| Original release | 2005 – 2017 |
| Audio format | Monophonic |
| Website | World Have Your Say |
| Podcast | BBC Radio Podcast |
World Have Your Say won Gold in the 2008 Sony Radio Awards, in the category Listener Participation.
The show described itself as "the BBC News programme where you set the agenda." Typically each edition addressed a question, or number of questions, raised by the users of its blog and Facebook site, as well as emailers to the BBC.
It encouraged callers to talk to each other and directed questions asked by listeners to the guests on the programme, intervening as little as possible to keep the show more of a conversation than a talk show.
The show also occasionally worked as a forum for the BBC World Service's global audience to put questions to a particular guest. Previous guests included Aung San Suu Kyi, Philip Pullman and Thilo Sarrazin.