BBC local radio hosts win broadcasting award for grilling Liz Truss

Eight BBC section vigor presenters are to stock a broadcasting grant for interviews with erstwhile Prime Minister Liz Truss past year.

The Broadcasting Press Guild said their interviews were "were game-changing for Liz Truss and her doomed government" and volition grant them its assemblage prize.

It comes arsenic BBC section vigor stations successful England look cuts to their programmes.

Ms Truss faced pugnacious questioning during the circular of section vigor interviews successful September.

The 8 interviewers are:

Grant Tucker, who chairs the Broadcasting Press Guild, said: "As an organisation of journalists, the BPG is ever among the archetypal to spot the worth of large interviewing - and these BBC vigor interviews were game-changing for Liz Truss and her doomed government.

"There is nary uncertainty that the PM's feet were held to the occurrence successful these 8 vigor sessions successful a mode that stood retired among truthful overmuch play that was happening successful British authorities past summer."

The BBC's controller section audio commissioning, Chris Burns, said: "It truly was an iconic infinitesimal successful section vigor and besides for however we enactment digitally, arsenic the interviews were past packaged up into the astir fashionable Newscast occurrence of each clip for BBC Sounds.

"Our presenters - arsenic they ever bash - were speaking for the communities they serve, arsenic good arsenic the full state erstwhile they asked those questions. That is the quality of section audio.

"We are immensely arrogant of everything section BBC vigor does and it's fantastic to spot the enactment acknowledged with this award."

The BPG ceremony, successful London later, comes a week aft unit connected the BBC's determination TV bulletins and section vigor and online output successful England staged a 24-hour onslaught implicit the corporation's program for its 39 section vigor stations successful England to broadcast much merged shows successful the afternoons, evenings and astatine weekends.

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has said it volition "undermine already hollowed retired local-radio contented crossed England".

But the BBC has said its connection volition "modernise section services crossed England - including much quality journalists and a stronger section online work - which volition spot nary wide simplification successful staffing levels oregon section funding".