Editing What the Papers Say (section)

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'''''What The Papers Say''''' was a British radio and television series. It consisted of quotations from headlines and comment pages in the previous week's [[newspaper]]s, read in a variety of voices and accents by actors. The quotes were linked by a script read by a studio presenter, usually a prominent journalist. The show did not have a regular host, and was intended as a wry look at how British broadsheets and tabloids covered the week's news stories. The programme was most recently broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]].

''What The Papers Say'' originally ran for many years on television – its first incarnation (1956–2008) was the second longest-running programme on British television after ''[[Panorama (TV programme)|Panorama]]''.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Holmwood |first=Leigh |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/may/29/bbc.television |title=What the Papers Say axed by BBC |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=29 May 2008 |access-date=<!---29 May 2008--->}}</ref> Having begun in 1956 on [[Granada Television]] and [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], the television series moved to newly launched [[Channel 4]] in 1982 and being shown to the network before briefly returning to ITV as part of the new night service in 1988 and then to [[BBC2]] in 1990 before being discontinued in 2008. The programme was revived on Radio 4 in the run-up to the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]],<ref name="2010 revival">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8520496.stm |title=What The Papers say set for radio revival |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=17 February 2010 |access-date=22 February 2010}}</ref> and continued until 27 March 2016, when it was announced that that was its last Radio 4 episode.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/26/what-the-papers-say-to-fold-after-60-years-on-air|title = BBC's What the Papers Say to fold after 60 years|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]|date = 26 February 2016}}</ref>

The programme's format was the same for both television and radio. On TV, while quotes were being read, they would appear on-screen as newspaper cuttings under the relevant newspaper's masthead, and the presenter would read a script from the auto-prompt operator.