Nicolai Gentchev to head new Question Time team

The BBC today announced a new senior team for Question time, with Radio 4 Today's Nicolai Gentchev taking up the post of editor following the resignation of Ed Harvard.

Harvard resigned as a result of the BBC's plans to move production of the programme to Glasgow later this year.

Nicolai, who became a senior producer on Today in 2008, joined the BBC from Bloomberg News where he worked for six years.

In a release today, the BBC also revealed that former head of news for 5 Live Hayley Valentine has been appointed as executive editor. Before her work with 5 Live, Valentine edited a number of news programme on the network, most recently the Victoria Derbyshire programme according to a release from the broadcaster.

"I am confident that Question Time will be in good hands with Nicolai and Hayley," Steve Anderson, executive producer of Question Time for Mentorn Media, added in the release.

"Nicolai succeeds Ed Havard who has taken the programme to new heights, generating news stories, boosting ratings and overseeing spin-off series on BBC THREE."

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