Live report

Live report is an alternative name for a live broadcast.

Live Report may refer to:

5 Live Report

5 Live Report was a weekly investigative programme on BBC Radio 5 Live. It was broadcast live at 11 a.m. on Sundays as part of the Julian Worricker programme, and a recorded half-hour documentary was broadcast on Sundays, schedule permitting.

Most reports were produced by the BBC's Radio Current Affairs department, with a sizeable contribution by the independent company All Out Productions, and occasional productions by BBC Northern Ireland.

The reports have been criticised by Elisabeth Mahoney of The Guardian for sometimes feeling "too much like sensation and too little like substance".

Notable reports

In 2001 a report uncovered evidence that there had been miscarriages of justice in many cases where parents, including Sally Clark, had been convicted of murdering babies on the basis of unreliable statistical evidence concerning multiple cot deaths in the same family. Clark was freed on appeal in 2003.

A 2002 report about prisoners on death row in the United States included an interview with Kenny Richey, who had been convicted of murdering a two-year-old in an arson attack, but whose case was widely considered to be a miscarriage of justice. Richie was also later freed after a plea bargain.

Live Report

Live Report, originally called Midnight Blue, composed of Ray Caruana (vocals), John Beeby, Brian Hodgson, Maggie Jay, Mike Bell (keyboards) and Peter May. Brian Hodgson was a musician, producer and composer and former member of the UK pop group Matchbox, writing many of their 8 hits in the UK.

They were finalists in the BBC Television's A Song for Europe contest in 1989 with the song, "Why Do I Always Get It Wrong". The original title of the song had been"No More Sad Songs". It scored 111,996 votes, compared to runner-up Julie C's (aka Julie Coulson) 51,449 votes. Live Report went on to represent the UK in the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest in Lausanne, where they finished second to the Yugoslav entry, "Rock Me" performed by Riva.

"Why Do I Always Get It Wrong" spent one week in the UK Singles Chart at #73 in May 1989. Since drummer Peter May was requested to play with Cliff Richard in a concert tour, he was replaced by Richard Marcangelo.

Ray Caruana was born in Malta but moved to the UK at the age of 5. He is the son of a professional singer. He was the youngest (aged 12) performer ever to appear at the London Palladium for "Night of a 1,000 Stars". Ray participated in the Maltese heat of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, and came second with "Scarlet Song".