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The BBC has announced two new appointments for Newsnight.

Channel 4 news reporter Katie Razzall and filmmaker Olly Lambert will both join the BBC Two news and current affairs programme.

Razzall joins the team as a special correspondent and will cover a wide range of topics including religion, legal affairs and disability issues.

Newsnight editor Ian Katz said: "Katie is one of the most versatile and compelling broadcast journalists in the business. I've long admired her distinctive voice and original reporting and am thrilled that she is joining the Newsnight team."

Meanwhile, Razzall said of her new role: "I have lived and breathed Channel 4 News for 14 years, a period of time and a programme of which I am immensely proud.

"However, the opportunity to join Newsnight at such an exciting time in the show's evolution was just too good to ignore. I'm greatly looking forward to a wide-ranging brief...

Laura Kuenssberg is joining the BBC Newsnight team.

Kuenssberg, who is currently business editor at ITV News, will start work on the programme in mid-February 2014 as chief correspondent. She will also join the regular Newsnight presenting team alongside Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Gavin Esler and Emily Maitlis.

"Working with the team at ITV News to cover the intense challenges faced by business, families and the wider economy has been a real privilege and I've really enjoyed the last couple of years," said Kuenssberg.

"But I'm truly delighted to be joining a reinvigorated Newsnight both to present and report at such an exciting time. It's been a long-held ambition of mine to work full-time on the programme and I can't wait to get started."

Kuenssberg returns to the BBC having originally joined the organisation in the year 2000.

She departed for ITV in 2011, after a stint as the BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent.

Doctor Who has often flirted with politics in its past; during the Barry Letts/Terrance Dicks era of the show a number of stories dealt with political matters in a fantasy environment (for example, the recent DVD release The Curse of Peladon/The Monster of Peladon features stories that explored early 1970s issues), Robert Holmes took umbrage with taxes in The Sunmakers, and even stories from the 'modern' era (World War Three) touched upon hot political topics of the time. However, the latter years of the 1980s produced political satire in the form of stories like Paradise Towers and The Happiness Patrol - something the Sunday Times explored this weekend in an article, "Doctor Who in war with Planet Maggie". Doctor of the time, Sylvester McCoy, commented:

The idea of bringing politics into Doctor Who was deliberate, but we had to do it very quietly and certainly didn’t shout about it.

LONDON -- BBC1 controller Peter Fincham has said he will resign over the growing royal documentary row if he is criticized by BBC director general Mark Thompson in an internal investigation of the matter.

Speaking on the BBC news program "Newsnight", he told presenter Gavin Esler that he thought resignation would be a "disproportionate" response for showing reporters footage from a forthcoming documentary, incorrectly edited to show the queen storming out of a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz.

But he conceded that if he lost Thompson's confidence in the matter he would have no choice but to quit.

"If somebody above me, if the director general of the BBC comes to me and says, 'I think you must resign, ' then I will of course resign," he told the news and current affairs show.

"I'll explain again -- a mistake has been made which of course as the controller of the channel I take responsibility (for) ... but I think (resignation is) disproportionate and this is something we can move on from," he said.

The issue is part of a growing sense of concern regarding the BBC's editorial accuracy and escalated yesterday when the BBC's governing board, the BBC Trust, said that the director general would have to appear before them Wednesday to explain the matter.

Last week, the pubcaster was fined for the first time in its history for faking a winner on kids program "Blue Peter".

Asked directly if he should quit before being asked, Fincham told "Newsnight": "I don't think I should resign, to be honest, and nobody's suggested to me that I should resign."

The controversy began Wednesday at the BBC1 fall-season launch hosted by Fincham.