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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.
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. [1] ... Consequently, the full Radio 4 schedule became available on FM for the first time.
Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme.Broadcast on Monday to Saturday from 06:00 to 09:00 (starting on Saturday at 07:00), it is produced by BBC News and is the highest-rated programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. [1]
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 ...
The World Tonight is a British current affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4, every weekday evening, which started out as an extension of the 10 pm news.It is produced by BBC News and features news, analysis and comment on domestic and world issues.
BBC Radio 4 Extra schedules a selection of programmes originally broadcast in December 1964 on the BBC Home Service. BBC Radio 4 Extra also plays a long lost interview Kenny Everett did with John Lennon. [387] 29 December – Adil Ray joins Smooth Radio to present the first of three shows over the festive period. [388] 30 December –
Book of the Week is a BBC Radio 4 series that is broadcast daily on week days. Each week, extracts from the selected book, usually a non-fiction work, are read over five episodes; each fifteen-minute episode is broadcast in the morning (9:45am) and repeated overnight (12:30am).
Woman's Hour has been broadcast at 10 am Monday to Friday since James Boyle's revision of the Radio 4 schedules in April 1998. Between September 1991 and April 1998 it was broadcast at 10:30 am, having previously gone out for many years in an early afternoon slot (2 pm). The programme's move to a morning slot was unpopular among some listeners ...