August 29, 2023updated 30 Aug 2023 9:12am

BBC’s Newscast becomes seven-day operation with Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell at weekends

For the first time the BBC's "premier news podcast" will run seven days a week.

BBC Newscast brings on Laura Kuenssberg (right) and Paddy O'Connell (left) as weekend presenters. This picture is the Newscast branding with the two new permanent presenters depicted. — New Newscast permanent weekend presenters Paddy O'Connell (left) and Laura Kuenssberg (right). Picture: BBC

BBC Sunday morning hosts Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell will present weekend episodes of the broadcaster’s flagship Newscast podcast beginning on Saturday (2 September).

The additions mean Newscast, which currently goes out on weekdays hosted by presenter Adam Fleming and the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason, will be a seven-day operation for the first time.

The Saturday and Sunday editions of Newscast hope to digest what goes on both on- and off-air at Kuenssberg’s Sunday morning TV interview programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, and O’Connell’s Sunday morning Radio 4 magazine programme, Broadcasting House.

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Bron Maher is Press Gazette's senior reporter, covering US and UK media. He joined Press Gazette in November 2021 from Newsguard, a US start-up that reviews how far news sites adhere to journalistic standards.