Dateline London

Dateline London
Created by	BBC News
Presented by	Shaun Ley Geeta Guru-Murthy Martine Croxall
Country of origin	Vereinigtes Königreich
Original language	Englisch
Production
Production locations	Studio E, Broadcasting House
Herausgeber	Nick Guthrie
Running time	30 Minuten
Production company	TV Talk
Original release
Network	BBC News BBC World News
Release	1996 (1996) – present

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 recorded live every Friday at 7:30 p.m. on The BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Then repeated over the weekends on both channels, however can be recorded earlier or later on a Friday if there is a significant news story.

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 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.

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.

Production of the programme is set to end by autumn 2022.

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
• Mina Al-Oraibi is editor-in-chief at The National
• Abdel Bari Atwan of Rai-al-Youm
• Stephanie Baker of Bloomberg
• Stefanie Bolzen 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
• Eunice Goes 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
• Gregory Katz 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
• Vincent Magombe 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
• Alexander Nekrassov is a Russian journalist
• Brian O'Connell 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
• Shahed Sadullah 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 and foreign correspondent