Analysis: Jackanory Politics
February 27th, 2008 by Steve BowbrickAnalysis comes from the brainy end of the network, where orthodoxies are put to the test by clever academics and writers. This is the kind of journalism you find in places like The Economist or at the high end of the Sunday Papers. Self-confident, iconoclastic, open-minded: like the faculty common room at a good university (I can’t confirm this since I didn’t go to a good university).
Analysis has found room for many of the UK’s more interesting commentators over the years and they’re not always from the Beeb’s liberal heartland: free traders and market evengelists are much in evidence, for instance - I think there must be a secret tunnel between the Analysis offices and The Economist’s in St James’s.
We’ve covered Analysis here before (and I’ve often linked to it from my own blog). Hugh Levinson, an editor at Analysis, has written to tell us the new series is on and that they’ve made some changes. There’s a podcast now (hurrah!) and the programme’s pages have been expanded to include more useful background. The show’s tone appears to have changed too. The first show in the new series (MP3) is about storytelling in politics and presenter Frances Stonor Saunders is light-hearted, practically chirpy. Very good stuff.
