En række kendte briter er i 2013 bedt om at være gæsteredaktører på BBC Radio 4s The Today Show. En af dem var PJ Harvey, og alene foromtalen antydede at hendes udgave, der blev sendt den 2. januar i år, ville være et særdeles interessant bekendtskab. Her er foromtalen fra PJ Harveys eget websted:

Contributors to PJ Harvey’s Today programme on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 2nd January, 6am to 9am will be: Mark Curtis (Journalist and Historian), Denis Halliday (former United Nations Humanitarian Co-ordinator), Clive Stafford Smith (Human Rights Attorney and Director of Reprieve), John Pilger (Journalist and Film Maker), Dr. Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury), Ralph Fiennes (Actor and Director), Giles Duley (Documentary Photographer and Photojournalist), Phil Shiner (Public Interest Lawyer), Ian Cobain (Author and Reporter), Julian Assange (WikiLeaks Founder and Publisher), John Rees (Political Activist and Broadcaster), and Dave Zirin (Political Sports Writer).

Sound recordings: Flight of the Conchords ‘Ladies of the World’, Tom Waits ‘Strange Weather’, and Joan Baez ‘Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya’.

Poems read by Ralph Fiennes: ‘Austerities’ by Charles Simic, ‘They Fight For Peace’ by Shaker Aamer, ‘London’ by William Blake, and Woody Guthrie’s song lyric ‘Ticky Tock’.

Et program med indslag af bl.a. de to kontroversielle australiere John Pilger og Julian Assange kan ikke undgå at have en klar samfundskritisk vinkel, og det var da også tilfældet. Det kan heller ikke overraske, at meningerne blandt lytterne var delte. The Guardian bringer en anmeldelse og et link til hele udsendelsen.