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Up All Night

Genre	News
Running time	Monday - Sunday 1.00 am - 5.00 am
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	English
Home station	BBC Radio 5 Live
Recording studio	BBC Television Centre
Air dates	since 1994
Audio format	FM, AM and Digital radio
Website	Official Website

Up All Night is a programme broadcast on the national radio station BBC Radio 5 Live in the United Kingdom, and is on air between the hours of 1 am and 5 am every night. It is also broadcast on most of the BBC's local radio frequencies across England as well as on Radio Scotland, Radio Cymru and Radio Ulster.

[edit] History

Up All Night has been broadcast continuously since Radio 5 Live's launch on Monday 28 March 1994. One of the show's two main presenters, Rhod Sharp, had proposed the idea of an all-night radio show for the new station that made use of the BBC's correspondents from all over the world. He has continued to present several shows each week ever since. Rhod currently presents the show from Monday night to Wednesday night. Dotun Adebayo is the show's second main presenter, hosting the show from Thursday night to Sunday night. Previous presenters included Richard Dallyn, Dalya Raphael and Russell Fuller.

[edit] Features

The show has a heavy interest in the USA and often features news, interviews and even live baseball commentaries from there. The Super Bowl has also been broadcast in an extended programme (normally 2200 the previous night until 0500 the next morning); this however is streamed from another provider and thus is not allowed to be broadcast live on the Internet due to copyright regulations.

The programme has gained a cult audience because of its off-beat approach to the news combined with various regular features, such as the latest Bollywood news with Anil Sinanin and "The World Football Phone-In", with journalists Tim Vickery (South America), Sean Wheelock (North & Central America), Andy Brassel (Europe) and Durosemi Thomas (Africa) covering some of the world's football hot beds. Another major feature (with its own podcast) is the Dr Karl science phone-in where members of the public put science questions to Dr Karl who joins the show from the Austrialian ABC network. From 2007 "Up All Night" has also been pioneering in featuring a monthly live mental health phone-in with regular guest, Martin Seager, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and adult psychotherapist who heads an NHS psychological services department in the London area.

The programme has now launched a couple of twitter pages and has a group on facebook.

[edit] External links

• Official webpage

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