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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.
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]
Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after BBC Radio 2. [5] BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as Today, The World at One and PM heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, and LW; there is a delay on ...
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.
25 March – The Financial World Tonight is broadcast on Radio 4 for the final time, ahead of its move to the new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live. 3 April – The closure of BBC Radio 5 sees children’s programmes return to Radio 4. However, instead of daily programmes, just one weekly 30-minute programme is broadcast, aired on Sunday ...
PM launched on 6 April 1970, with its first presenters, William Hardcastle and Derek Cooper, promising a programme that "sums up the day, and your evening starts here". [1] Radio 4's 10pm news programme The World Tonight was launched on the same day. PM made history for being the first radio news programme to feature its own theme tune.
Bookclub (radio programme) Booked! Boothby Graffoe In No Particular Order; Brain of Britain; Breakaway (radio programme) Brian Gulliver's Travels; Bristow (cartoon) Broadcasting House (radio programme) The Brothers (radio show) Bunk Bed (radio programme) Bunn and Co. Buried: The Last Witness; The Burkiss Way; Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize
Radio Times carried the programme schedule listings for BBC radio and television channels, including the new Radio 5 launched on 27 August 1990. The ITV-published magazine TV Times, launched on 22 September 1955, carried programme listings for ITV, and Channel 4 from 2 November 1982.