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'''''What The Papers Say''''' iswas a British radio and television series. It consistsconsisted of quotations from headlines and comment pages in the previous week's [[newspaper]]s, read in a variety of voices and accents by actors. The quotes arewere linked by a script read by a studio presenter, usually a prominent journalist. The show did not have a regular host, and was intended as a wry look at how British broadsheets and tabloids covered the week's news stories. The programme was most recently broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]].

''What The Papers Say'' originally ran for many years on television – its first incarnation (1956–2008) was the second longest-running programme on British television after ''[[Panorama (TV programme)|Panorama]]''.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Holmwood |first=Leigh |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/may/29/bbc.television |title=What the Papers Say axed by BBC |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |___location=London |date=29 May 2008 |access-date=<!---29 May 2008--->}}</ref> Having begun in 1956 on [[Granada Television]] and [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], the television series moved to newly launched [[Channel 4]] in 1982 and being shown to the network before briefly returning to ITV as part of the new night service in 1988 and then to [[BBC2]] in 1990 before being discontinued in 2008. The programme was revived on Radio 4 in the run-up to the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]],<ref name="2010 revival">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8520496.stm |title=What The Papers say set for radio revival |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=17 February 2010 |access-date=22 February 2010}}</ref> and continued until 27 March 2016, when it was announced that that was its last Radio 4 episode.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/26/what-the-papers-say-to-fold-after-60-years-on-air|title = BBC's What the Papers Say to fold after 60 years|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]|date = 26 February 2016}}</ref>

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In its most recent incarnation, the programme received a warm reception from critics, including ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Gillian Reynolds]], who wrote, "Three cheers for whoever thought of rescuing ''What the Papers Say''. The old essay format, where the presenter writes a script linking illustrative extracts from the week's press, still bursts with life. All the presenters so far have kept it sharp and spiky, the extract readers are full of gusto, production and editing are first-rate. It's an espresso in a Horlicks world".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/gillianreynolds/7608201/Sorry-Nick-Clegg-you-dont-seem-so-charming-on-radio-review.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423065001/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/gillianreynolds/7608201/Sorry-Nick-Clegg-you-dont-seem-so-charming-on-radio-review.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 April 2010 |title=Sorry Nick Clegg, you don't seem so charming on radio, review |work=The Telegraph|date=20 April 2010 |___location=London |first=Gillian |last=Reynolds}}</ref>

David Brockman wrote: "What is universally accepted is that Granada's What The Papers Say Awards, decided annually and first established in 1957, are among the most prestigious in the entire world of journalism".<ref>David Brockman, [http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/behindthescreens/what_the_papers.php What The Papers Say: 50 years] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608124944/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/behindthescreens/what_the_papers.php |date=8 June 2011 }}</ref>

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