Critics fear end of an era because of plans to make audio journalists work across media platforms
BBC radio voices have described and defined modern
British history. Live reports from inside a British bomber over
Germany during the second world war, or with the British troops invading
Iraq in 2003, or more recently from the frontline of the parent boycott of a Birmingham school over LGBT lessons have also shaped the news agenda.
But now the
BBC plans to axe all its national radio reporters and ask them to reapply for a smaller number of jobs as television, radio and digital reporters, rather than as dedicated audio journalists. Many fear it is not just the end of their careers but the premature end of an era for the BBC.