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The Guardian - UK
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Mark Lawson

The News Agents review – how Maitlis and Sopel will use their post-BBC freedom remains to be seen

Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis
Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis left the BBC to front the new podcast for Global Player. Photograph: Global/PA

The biggest difference between the old and new broadcasting, it turns out, is not knowing when to tune in. When Emily Maitlis was on BBC Two’s Newsnight and Jon Sopel reporting from Washington for BBC News, you found her at 10.30pm and him at 6pm or 10pm, regular as Radio Times.

For the first edition of their new daily commercial podcast, The News Agents, subscribers had been advised to set their devices for 5pm. But it was 5.48pm when the launch show dropped on my Global Player app.

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