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Genre | News, current events, and factual |
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Running time | 54 minutes |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | BBC World Service |
Hosted by | Dan Damon |
Edited by | Ian Brimacombe |
Recording studio | Broadcasting House |
Original release | 2020 |
World Update is a radio programme that was BBC World Service's morning news strand. Broadcast at 10:06 GMT, it was also carried by public radio stations across the United States.[1] Between 2003 and 2020, the programme was presented by Dan Damon.[2] On 25 June 2012, World Update became the first English-language World Service programme to come from Broadcasting House.
In January 2020, the BBC announced that it would be discontinuing World Update.[3]