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Prue Leith and Margaret Atwood to be among BBC Radio 4's Today programme guest editors

Others including Evan Spiegel will suggest stories and conduct interviews between Boxing Day and new year

The Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith will join the novelist Margaret Atwood and the Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel as this year’s guest editors of Radio 4’s current affairs programme Today.

The group – which also includes Britain’s first black female bishop, Rose Hudson-Wilkin, and the director of the Wellcome Trust, Sir Jeremy Farrar – will suggest stories that they feel should be covered and conduct interviews.

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