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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 Archers is a British radio soap opera currently broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel.Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting".
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.
BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers has marked the death of the Queen with a specially-recorded scene that was broadcast at the start of Sunday’s episode.
Actor appeared on BBC Radio 4 show for more than 400 episodes over 22 years. ... 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in. Subscriptions;
The six pre-digital terrestrial television channels in the UK (BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4, S4C and Channel 5) make use of continuity announcers, and for most of the time, continuity announcements are presented live. Continuity announcers can also be found on digital and satellite channels and are live at all times.
In 2011 he was part of the team which established The Archers’ sister programme Ambridge Extra for BBC Radio 4 Extra. He wrote scripts for the first three series. Keri Davies is the author of The Archers Year of Food and Farming, to be published by Seven Dials (an imprint of Orion) on 26 September 2019.
26 December – Radio 4 clears its Boxing Day schedule in order to broadcast an eight-hour reading of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, read by Stephen Fry. [43] 2001. Radio 4, along with other BBC Radio stations, stop broadcasting via Sky's analogue satellite service. 2002. 15 December – Radio 4 gets a digital spin-off station, BBC7 ...