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This is a list of current and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4.. When it came into existence – on 30 September 1967 – Radio 4 inherited a great many continuing programme series which had been initiated prior to that date by its predecessor, the BBC Home Service (1939–1967), and in some cases even by stations which had preceded the Home Service.
The Today programme on BBC Radio 4 in the UK hands over the editorship of the flagship programme to notable outsiders for the week between Christmas and New Year. This is the full list of the individuals involved since the practice was started in 2003 by Peter Hanington.
BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2.It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards.
Neil Nunes (born 12 December 1980) (pronounced / n uː n ɛ z /) is a British-Jamaican continuity announcer and newsreader on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom, and on the BBC World Service. Early life
The Secret World is a comedy radio series using impressionists broadcast on BBC Radio 4.Using many of the creative team from the long-running series Dead Ringers, and originating as part of Radio 4's Happy Mondays pilot strand in 2008, the Secret World takes a subtler, more naturalistic approach, using famous figures in various bizarre yet humdrum situations, the comedy arising from the ...
Down Your Way was a BBC radio series which ran from 29 December 1946 to 1992, originally on the Home Service, later on BBC Radio 4, usually being broadcast on Sunday afternoons. It visited towns and villages around the United Kingdom , spoke to residents and played their choice of music .
Archive on 4, previously The Archive Hour, [1] is a BBC Radio 4 programme which uses audio clips mainly sourced from the BBC Sound Archive to illustrate a different theme in each edition. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A variety of guest speakers, often with a connection to the week's subject, present the show.
The Sunday Format, "BBC Radio 4's first high-quality weekend broadsheet newspaper", is a British satirical radio comedy.The programme is a parody of British middle class newspapers, in particular the lifestyle supplements and glossy celebrity magazines that fill Sunday papers.