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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]
Garry Richardson (born 1956/1957) is a British radio presenter. He presented the Sunday morning sports programme Sportsweek on BBC Radio 5 Live until 15 September 2019. He remained a sports presenter on the weekday morning Today show on BBC Radio 4 until 9 September 2024, after 43 years in the role. [2] This coincided with his 50th anniversary ...
Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On the Hour (which later transferred to TV as The Day Today). Originally airing at 18:30, Radio Times described the show as: "Classic chat from On the Hour's supreme sports reporter and his guests from the world of theatre, politics and emotional tragedy." [1]
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.
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 Unbelievable Truth is a BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. [4] The game is chaired by David Mitchell and is described in the programme's introduction as "the panel game built on truth and lies." The object of the game is for each panellist to deliver a short lecture about a given subject, which should ...
No. of episodes Robin Day: 1979–1989 303 Robert McKenzie: 1980–1981 3 Ludovic Kennedy: 1982–1983 4 Bernard Levin: 1984–1985 2 Sue Lawley: 1984–1987 5 Donald MacCormick: 1985 9 Peter Sissons: 1989–1993 149 David Dimbleby: 1994–2018 914 John Humphrys: 2009 1 Nick Robinson: 2017 1 Fiona Bruce: 2019– Victoria Derbyshire: 2022 1
The News Quiz was created by John Lloyd, [2] based on an idea by Nicholas Parsons. [3]The series was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman in the chair. Subsequently it was chaired by Barry Took from 1979 to 1981, Simon Hoggart from 1981 to 1986, Took again from 1986 to 1995, and then again by Hoggart from 1996 until March 2006. [4]