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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Carla Feric

BBC to axe Radio 4’s The World Tonight in first round of sweeping job cuts

Matt Brittin, the new BBC director-general, announced that the job cuts will impact BBC News and TV and radio-related roles (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

The BBC will axe Radio 4’s The World Tonight after more than half a century as part of a first round of sweeping job cuts which hope to save the corporation £500 million over two years.

Director-general Matt Brittin announced on Wednesday that 550 of the planned 1,800 to 2,000 job cuts at the corporation will be taken from BBC News and TV and radio-related roles.

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