on last week's programme, viewer paul kirkwood told us his enjoyment in watching the bafta film awards spoiled by receiving a news alert on his phone, informing him of the prize—winners before they were announced on tv. you question whether the baftas were significant enough to merit a news alert. they're more just entertainment, you know, rather than, in my opinion, newsworthy, so to speak, or especially, you know, alert—worthy, i guess. as soon as you look at your phone, you get the alert, you know, there and then without even accessing the phone, you just need to lift your phone up. i mean, even if they put something like "spoiler" or something like that, then that means that, you know, as soon as someone like myself sees it, then we can just instantlyjust not look at it and put the phone down, for instance, whilst you know... and takes that kind of differentiates away from the, like, a political news alert, rather than a bafta news alert. well, that suggestion of being able to distinguish between different types of news alerts you receive is, as it happens, already being acted on.

bbc news for a response to graham's point, and they told us: on last week's programme, viewer paul kirkwoodeady being acted on. here's stuart miller, digital news editor of bbc news, talking about push alerts or notifications on tuesday's pm programme on radio 4. —— here's stuart millar, digital news editor of bbc news, talking about push alerts or notifications on tuesday's pm programme on radio 4. we do understand that a lot of audiences feel sort of, you know, overwhelmed by them, so we are working on much better tooling just now that would allow people to sign up, opt out, follow different types of topics because at the moment when we send pushes, it goes to all eight million of our app users in the in the uk, whether, you know, whether they like or not. he went on to admit that paul and others who'd complained about phone alerts spoiling their enjoyment of the baftas on television had a point. we got an awful lot of feedback on that and we take that on board and on reflection, we probably wouldn't do it that way again. who says the bbc never takes any notice of feedback? finally, a ple