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September 25, 2019updated 30 Sep 2022 8:22am

BBC Radio 5 Live appoints new controller in managing editor who commissioned Brexitcast

By Freddy Mayhew

BBC Radio 5 Live managing editor Heidi Dawson has been made the station’s new controller.

Dawson joined Radio 5 Live in 2001 as a breakfast show producer and has since produced and edited most of the station’s news programmes.

She commissioned the successful Brexitcast podcast which first aired on 5 Live in 2017 and made the jump to TV this month with some 1m viewers.

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