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Brian Leonard Redhead (28 December 1929 – 23 January 1994) was a British author, journalist and broadcaster. [2] He was a co-presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 from 1975 until 1993, shortly before his death.
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.
Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.; Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980.
Brian Matthew (17 September 1928 – 8 April 2017) [1] [2] was an English broadcaster who worked for the BBC for 63 years from 1954 until 2017. He was the host of Saturday Club, among other programmes, and began presenting Sounds of the 60s in March 1990, often employing the same vocabulary and the same measured delivery he had used in previous decades.
Saturday Live is a BBC Radio 4 magazine programme, first broadcast on 16 September 2006. It combines contributions from studio guests with real-life stories and short features, as well as the musical segment known as "Inheritance Tracks", [1] in which famous people share memories about two music tracks, one that they consider they inherited from a previous generation and one they would ...
He is a former BBC North America Editor and the main co-presenter of BBC One's Breakfast News programme. Since August 2009, he has co-presented the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, [3] and also regularly writes for the Radio Times. Since 2022 he has been a co-presenter of the "Americast" podcast.
Emma Barnett (born 5 February 1985) is a British broadcaster and journalist who presented Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 from 2021 until 2024. Barnett worked for BBC Radio 5 Live for six years, beginning in 2014, after three years working for LBC. Between 2016 and 2020, she presented 5 Live's mid-morning weekday programme.
On BBC Radio 4, from 1986, Sherrin presented a light entertainment show on Saturday mornings (latterly evenings) called Loose Ends, [11] [12] and Counterpoint, a quiz show about all types of music, until forced off the air when his voice succumbed to throat cancer. Sherrin also toured the UK with his one-man show An Evening of Theatrical Anecdotes.