World: Have Your Say (WHYS) is an international BBCglobal discussion show, which broadcasts on BBC World Service every weekday at 1800 hours UTC and on BBC World News every Friday at 1500 hours UTC.
| World Have Your Say | |
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| File:Worldhaveyoursay.jpg World Have Your Say with Ros Atkins | |
| Created by | BBC World News |
| Presented by | Ros Atkins |
| Country of origin | Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Original language | Englisch |
| Production | |
| Producer | Simon Peeks Richard Pollins Charlie Humphreys |
| Production location | London |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC World News |
| Release | 2011 – Present |
| Related | |
| World News Today Business Edition GMT The Hub[disambiguation needed] Impact Asia World Business Report | |
| Genre | Current events Discussion Debate |
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| Running time | ~50 minutes |
| Country of origin |  International(  Vereinigtes Königreich origin) |
| Language(s) | Englisch |
| Home station | BBC World Service BBC World News |
| 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 | Bush House, London BBC Television Centre, London |
| Original release | 2005 – Present |
| 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[1].
History
The BBC World Service launched the program in October 2005, featuring Anu Anand and Steve Richards as presenters and Mark Sandell as editor. Ros Atkins replaced Richards in early 2006 and is now the main presenter.
Since February 2011 the programme has a weekly television edition on BBC World News on Fridays produced by the same production team.
Topics for discussions are set by listeners,[2] who can email the show prior to its going on air every day, or even call into the studio office. Some of the comments left on the WHYS blog, emails, and SMS text messages are read on the air, and callers from all over the world are the key part of the program by calling in and debating the daily topic. On occasion, the show leaves the studio and goes on the road for a week at a time. Several broadcasts have occurred in the United States, India, Turkey, and across Africa. While on the road, the program fields a live audience either in a studio or on the street. Topics for those broadcasts usually cover local issues, but not always.
Most of the time, the topics for the days show are offered by e-mail. Some stories are suggested by a single person, others by the number of people wanting to talk about it. Increasingly, use is made of the programme's Facebook site as a source of comment on news stories. Sometimes, these are stories from the listeners' point of view. In fact, some of the reporting of current events for the show is done by real world people, most with no journalism experience. The show touts itself as "the global conversation" as it encourages callers to talk to each other and directs questions asked by listeners to the guests on the program, intervening as little as possible to keep the show more of a conversation than a talk show.
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