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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]
BBC Radio 4: Spoken-word programming, news, current affairs, drama, comedy and philosophy. Yes BBC Radio 4 Extra: Archive programming. No No Yes BBC Radio 5 Live: News, current affairs, discussion and sport. Yes BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra: Additional sports coverage. No Yes BBC Radio 6 Music: Alternative music, rock, reggae and other minor genres ...
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 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.
While BBC Radio London, albeit with some further minor interruptions, continues to take the show, the rest of the network switches to BBC Radio 5 Live. [4] 4 January Ian Shepherd joins Central Radio to present weekend breakfast. [5] Former Key 103 presenter Jonathan Miles joins Happy Radio UK to present a weekly show on Saturday evenings. [6]
The upcoming Christmas special of BBC comedy Outnumbered will also be celebrated by comedian Romesh Ranganathan interviewing the actors of the Brockman family on his BBC Radio 2 show on December 21.
From October 1925, it has been broadcast by the BBC. [4] Today, although most ships have onboard technology to provide the Forecast's information, they still use it to check their data. [5] On Friday 30 May 2014, for the first time in more than 90 years, BBC Radio 4 failed to broadcast the Shipping Forecast at 0520.
BBC Radio 4 Extra 2 April 2011 BBC Radio 7 15 December 2002–2 April 2011: Archive programming — — 12B 708 0126 910 — BBC Radio 5 Live 28 March 1994 BBC Radio 5 27 August 1990–27 March 1994: News, current affairs, discussion and sport: MW 693 909 990 (Wales) — 12B 705 0105 905 —