Radio National to lose eight staff as ABC cuts several programs from 2017 schedule

Exclusive: All but one of RN’s music programs expected to be cancelled, along with Afternoons and the religious affairs program Sunday Nights

Sources told Guardian Australia all but one of RN’s music programs will be cancelled as the network becomes a talk-only station.

RN Afternoons, The Body Sphere, Soundproof, Daily Planet and The Live Set are expected to be cancelled along with the religious affairs program Sunday Nights with John Cleary.

Conservative commentator Tom Switzer, an adjunct fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs, has been given another show in addition to Between the Lines.

Switzer will replace Jonathan Green as the host on Sunday Extra, which is RN’s live Sunday morning broadcast of Ockham’s Razor, Background Briefing and First Dog on the Moon.

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