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'''''What The Papers Say''''' is a British radio and television series. It consists 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 are 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>

The programme's format was the same for both television and radio. On TV, while quotes were being read, they would appear on-screen as newspaper cuttings under the relevant newspaper's masthead, and the presenter would read a script from the auto-prompt operator.

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In 1969, the programme was briefly relaunched as ''The Papers'', with sociologist [[Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)|Stuart Hall]] as the first presenter. This version of the programme lasted for only 10 weeks, after which it reverted to its original title, and took on the format it retained, with a different presenter (almost always a [[journalist]]) each week.

The show moved from ITV to [[Channel 4]] when the latter was launched in 1982, but dropped the series on 2 September 1988. It returned to ITV, although during the night-time slot, inless earlythan a week later until December 1989. In MayMarch 1990 [[BBC2]] commissioned the series from Granada in May 1990, broadcasting it on Friday evening before switching to Saturday afternoons. The programme's running time was cut to 15 minutes, and later to 10. (''What the Papers Say'' was the first ever Granada TV commission for the BBC, and had been the only surviving programme from the Manchester-based broadcaster's inception in 1956).

The BBC decided in 2008 not to recommission the series, also dropping coverage of the annual ''What the Papers Say'' Awards.<ref name="Guardian"/> ITV Productions stated it hoped to find a "new home" for the show.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7425548.stm|title=BBC cancels What the Papers Say |date=29 May 2008 |work=BBC News Online |access-date=<!---29 May 2008--->}}</ref> In October 2008, the same format made a partial return to screens during Granada's own regional political programme ''Party People'', where it was usually introduced as "a look at what the papers say". The programme was revived by BBC Radio 4 in April 2010.