Articles about BBC Radio 4

A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022

The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?

A BBC that does popular and minority programmes, or, as commercial competitors want, a BBC that only does minority interest shows?

In the Public Interest 1/6: Charles Curran on the BBC’s costs

Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK

It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation

The final closedown, 29 September 1967

A documentary from 13 October 1982 discusses how S4C came to be

Alvar Lidell narrates the story of the establishment of the BBC Monitoring Service during World War II

The Radio Times in 1969 speaks to ‘It’s Saturday’ presenter Bill Grundy

BBC Radio newsreader Howard Philpott has died

A look at what was on the BBC on Saturday 28 October 1967

The Guardian in 1992 reports on a new BBC 24-hour news radio station

BLOG: The BBC’s Delivering Quality First initiative has certainly caused a few headlines for its treatment of local radio, however much less discussed has been its impact on the BBC’s regional TV output. However its changes there have been no less controversial.

Here’s a story and a half. Back in 2006 Mark Damazer, then controller of BBC Radio 4, axed the piece of music that had heralded the start of the broadcasting…

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the treatment of the weather bulletins on Today is getting increasingly shabby. This morning just before eight was breathtaking, even by…

BBC Radio 4 is to ditch it’s children’s programme, Go4It, after seven years. Apparently the average age of the shows listeners was nowhere near it’s target audience, being, as it was, over 50.

Nigel Stapley remembers

40% of adults pray, says survey “Britain is the most atheistic country on earth, thank God.” Thus Nick Cohen – capital “G” and all, quoted in “Pretty Straight Guys” some…

The birth of Radios 1-4

The coming of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4

Robin Carmody looks back on his Moment

Mike Brown’s memories

Radio 4: a personal history

Nigel Stapley hits the SW Bands

Anatomy of a popular radio series

Glenn Aylett looks at sports coverage since 1945

Anyone who, having just arrived back from a visit abroad, switched on Radio 4’s The World Tonight last Friday (19 January 2007) would have been forgiven for thinking that a…

Now on BBC Radio Four, we present The Antidote to Flannel Pains.

A selection of bull Every morning the ?Today? programme provides a platform to people who wish to make wild unfounded claims, exhibit a smug sense of superiority, tell us how…

Sharp rise for on-demand Before I got married, I was an avid Radio 4 listener. I picked up the Radio 4 bug at university during the Gulf War, and I…