Roger Mosey will discuss what constitutes news, what factors go into what makes the day's news and what doesn’t. What the editorial line will be on major events, what constitute a major event. Essentially a discussion on how the BBC views the world.

Roger Mosey is Head of BBC Television News, responsible for output including the One, Six and Ten O'Clock News, Newsnight, Breakfast, News 24 and news bulletins on BBC World.

Before his appointment in December 1999, he was Acting Director of Continuous News and Controller of BBC Radio Five Live.

He was previously editor of Radio 4's Today programme from March 1993 until his appointment as Controller of Radio Five Live at the beginning of 1997.

Under Roger's editorship, Today won Sony Gold Awards in 1994 and 1995, a British Environment & Media Award and was named Radio Programme of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild in 1995.

Radio Five Live was named the Sony national radio station of the year 1998 and BBC Television News has recently won a number of Royal Television Society awards for journalism - including programme of the year awards for Newsnight (2002) and the Ten O'Clock News (2004).

Roger recruited James Naughtie to join the Today presenting team and introduced Nicky Campbell, Richard Littlejohn and Charlie Whelan to Radio Five Live. He brought Dermot Murnaghan and Natasha Kaplinsky to the BBC to present Breakfast.

Roger was born in Bradford in 1958 and educated at Bradford Grammar School followed by Wadham College, Oxford, where he received a BA Honours degree in Modern History and Modern Languages.

After university in 1979, he joined Pennine Radio, Bradford as a Community Affairs Producer. Roger's BBC career began in 1980 when he joined Radio Lincolnshire as a reporter. He moved two years later to Radio Northampton as a producer. In 1983, Roger joined Radio 4 as a producer on Week In Westminster and Inside Parliament, followed by two years on the Today programme. In 1986, he moved to BBC New York and in 1987 he returned to Today as a duty editor, before becoming editor of PM in the same year.