[sjhoward]

It will be interesting to see whether the extended breakfast gets more news bulletins. They used to be half-hourly throughout the programme, but the 0830 bulleti didn't return after the pandemic. Yet, they stil pause and hit the half-hour with weather but no news, which makes it feel conspicuously absent.

It would be good to resolve that. Would be a bit weird if they have half-hourly bulletins for the first half of the programme, then no news at all in the second half.

I guess Free Thinking moving across to Radio 4 will also mean a drastic cut in episode numbers - I can't see them making room for three new episodes a week - and probably puts paid to any hope of the annual Free Thinking festival returning.