"appear on the show's podcast stream. The World Service show repeats items from Radio 4 and has original material when the Radio 4 show is off air. The programme is normally broadcast 4-4:30 p.m. on Friday and repeated 8-8:30 p.m. on Sunday. Since October 2007 the show has been presented by Tim Harford. More or Less (radio programme) More or Less is a BBC Radio 4 programme about numbers and statistics. The programme often presents statistical issues which pertain to topics in the news. The programme was started in 2001 as a one-off series of six programmes presented by Andrew"
"Today (BBC Radio 4) Today, or The Today Programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, broadcast on Monday to Friday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am, and from 7:00 am to 9:00 am on Saturday. It is the most popular programme on Radio 4, and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. Consisting of in-depth political interviews and reports interspersed with regular news bulletins, as well as ""Thought for the Day"", it has been voted the most influential news programme in Britain in setting the political agenda, with an average"
"4's ""Today"" programme. It was previously hosted by the journalist Andrew Rawnsley. The Westminster Hour The Westminster Hour is a British political news review, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 each Sunday evening between 22:00 and 23:00 (starting with a national and international news bulletin). The programme began to be broadcast in 1998. Despite the reference in its title to the Palace of Westminster – meeting-place of the Houses of the United Kingdom Parliament – the programme also deals with topics and events connected with the work of the UK's devolved legislative assemblies in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, and London. The programme"
"Tonight"" was introduced following the changes at Broadcasting House which ushered in Radio 1, to create ""the serious current affairs programme of the day"" on the new Radio 4, as one survivor recalls. Broadcast live at 10pm, initially for only thirty minutes, its tone was set by presenter Douglas Stuart, a former Washington and Bonn correspondent for the BBC. The first edition contained interviews on Northern Ireland and relations between West Germany and the United States. Later that week, ideas for better government in Scotland and peace in the Middle East were featured. Its focus on international news was set"
"to enlighten viewers is to take two people and force them into a sort of intellectual-masturbation death match.""Graham Linehan appeared on the show last year to discuss his adaptation of The Ladykillers and found himself ambushed by questions that weren't just hostile, but sometimes completely bizarre. Expert Women's Days, intended by the BBC as a training exercise intended in part to increase the number of female interviewees on ""Today"", took place in several locations in 2013. Today (BBC Radio 4) Today, or The Today Programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, broadcast on Monday"
"Afternoon Drama The Afternoon Drama (formerly Afternoon Play) is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm. Generally each play is 45 minutes in duration and approximately 190 new plays are broadcast each year. More or less three-quarters are self-contained dramas. The remainder are short series of 2 to 6 episodes. As well as original drama series, the ""Afternoon Play"" has included a number of adaptations of popular works such as ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"". In one form or another, the ""Afternoon Play"" has been a feature of afternoons on Radio 4 since its launch"
"used a roster of broadcasters to host at other times. The World Tonight 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 10pm news. It features news, analysis and comment on domestic and world issues. Ritula Shah is currently the main presenter, usually presenting the first three days of the week. The programme utilises other BBC broadcasters including David Eades, Carolyn Quinn, James Coomarasamy, Roger Hearing, Samira Ahmed and Felicity Evans to regularly present on Thursdays, Fridays and in Shah's absence. Between 1989"
"Farming Today Farming Today is a radio programme about food, farming, and the countryside broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It is broadcast each weekday morning (having been recorded the day before) from 5.45 to 5.58, and a longer programme (""Farming Today This Week"") is broadcast on Saturdays between 6.30 and 6.55. Around one million people listen to the programme. ""Farming Today"" began life on 20 September 1960 as a weekly 15-minute programme subtitled ""A review of current affairs in agriculture at home and abroad"" and broadcast at 19.15 on Tuesdays as part of the BBC's Third"
"Caz Graham, Sybil Ruscoe and David Gregory-Kumar also present occasionally. Farming Today Farming Today is a radio programme about food, farming, and the countryside broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It is broadcast each weekday morning (having been recorded the day before) from 5.45 to 5.58, and a longer programme (""Farming Today This Week"") is broadcast on Saturdays between 6.30 and 6.55. Around one million people listen to the programme. ""Farming Today"" began life on 20 September 1960 as a weekly 15-minute programme subtitled ""A review of current affairs in agriculture at home and abroad"" and broadcast"
"Tomorrow, Today! Tomorrow, Today! was a radio sitcom originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2006 and 2008. It is itself a spoof of radio science fiction dramas of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The writer is Christopher William Hill. The action takes place in a BBC studio in 1961, where a motley crew of ""bright young things"" and aging actors produce a futuristic drama set in the year 2006, which of course is a world of space flight, ray guns, and contact with aliens. The show is called ""Tomorrow, Today!"" and is basically a soap opera. The lead"
"1.1 Million and 800,000, making it one of the most popular outlets for new dramatic writing in the world. Monday's ""Afternoon Play"" is usually the most popular play of the week, and Thursday's is usually the least popular. Afternoon Drama The Afternoon Drama (formerly Afternoon Play) is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm. Generally each play is 45 minutes in duration and approximately 190 new plays are broadcast each year. More or less three-quarters are self-contained dramas. The remainder are short series of 2 to 6 episodes. As well as original drama series, the ""Afternoon"
"The World Tonight 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 10pm news. It features news, analysis and comment on domestic and world issues. Ritula Shah is currently the main presenter, usually presenting the first three days of the week. The programme utilises other BBC broadcasters including David Eades, Carolyn Quinn, James Coomarasamy, Roger Hearing, Samira Ahmed and Felicity Evans to regularly present on Thursdays, Fridays and in Shah's absence. Between 1989 and 2012, the main presenter was Robin Lustig. ""The World"
"Today in Parliament Today in Parliament is a British radio programme that covers the daily proceedings of the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), on BBC Radio 4. When re-broadcast at around 8.30am the next day on longwave (198 LW), it is known as Yesterday in Parliament, similar to ""The Daily Service"". This longwave (LW) signal comes from the Droitwich Transmitting Station. It began on 9 October 1945 at 22.45. It is the only programme that the BBC is required to make under its charter. In 1978 the public were allowed to hear MPs in parliament. The broadcast begins with"
"programmes but increasing Radio 4's coverage of science. Gwyneth Williams Gwyneth Williams (born 14 July 1953) is the controller of BBC Radio 4. She grew up in South Africa and attended St Hugh's College, Oxford. Williams joined the BBC World Service in 1976 as a trainee, having briefly worked as researcher at the Overseas Development Institute. In the 1980s she became producer and duty editor of BBC Radio 4's ""The World Tonight"", and then Deputy Editor, Special Current Affairs Programmes, responsible for broadcasting general elections and other major events. In 1994 as Editor, Policy and Social Programmes she launched current"
"Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra. Before television, radio was one of the main ways to enjoy comedy, The Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour being among the most popular early shows. On television there are comedy talk shows where comedians make fun of current news or popular topics. Such comedians include Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Graham Norton, Daniel Tosh, Chris Hardwick, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, and Chelsea Handler. There are sketch comedies, such as [[Kids In The Hall and [[Monty Python]] who created their sketch comedy show ""[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]"" (a [[BBC]] show that influenced ""[[Saturday Night"
"the Speaker announcing ""Order, order"". It is available daily as a podcast. It claims to have a regular audience of around 500,000 listeners. Today in Parliament Today in Parliament is a British radio programme that covers the daily proceedings of the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), on BBC Radio 4. When re-broadcast at around 8.30am the next day on longwave (198 LW), it is known as Yesterday in Parliament, similar to ""The Daily Service"". This longwave (LW) signal comes from the Droitwich Transmitting Station. It began on 9 October 1945 at 22.45. It is the only programme that the"
"Peter Hobday (presenter) Peter James Hobday (born 16 February 1937) was a presenter on the early-morning BBC Radio 4 programme ""Today"" throughout the 1980s until 1996. He was a close colleague of Brian Redhead and the two were a popular duo on the programme. He was the anchorman for the award-winning ""The Money Programme"" on BBC television. He helped launch the late night current affairs programme ""Newsnight"" on BBC2, where he was both an anchorman and economic specialist. He also helped launch ""In Business"" on Radio 4. His removal from the ""Today programme"" in 1996 was greeted with dismay from"
"4's ""Today"" programme, but from a Scottish perspective. It also features the daily religious slot ""Thought for the Day"", again similar to that broadcast on Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. The other daily news and current affairs strands are the ""Morning Call"" phone-in with Kaye Adams and Louise White (0900-1200), ""John Beattie"" (1200–1330) and ""Newsdrive"" (1600–1830). BBC Radio Scotland also air live First Minister's Questions from the Scottish Parliament (Thu, 1200-1230 (MW)) and ""Brian Taylor's Big Debate"" hosted by BBC Scotland's political editor and is in a similar format to ""Question Time"" (Fri, 1215–1300). Weekend current affairs programming includes weekend editions"
"included: Tonight (TV programme) Tonight (often referred to as ""The Tonight Programme"") is a British current affairs programme, produced by ITV Studios (formerly Granada Television) and ITN for the ITV network, replacing the long-running investigative series ""World in Action"" in 1999. Previously airing twice-weekly, on Monday and Friday evenings at 8.00pm (ITV Wales, STV and UTV would often air the programme at different times or different days, to make way for regional programming), the show runs the gamut from human interest-led current affairs to investigative journalism. ""Tonight"" has conducted interviews with a plethora of political and public figures, including U.S."
"Go4It Go4It was a British children's magazine programme broadcast on Sunday evenings at 7.15pm on BBC Radio 4, and one of the few speech-based shows on British national radio aimed at younger listeners. It was broadcast between 2001 and 2009. Children's radio had been provided by ""Listen with Mother"" from 1950 to 1982 and subsequently by a weekday lunchtime programme called ""Listening Corner"". From 1990, there were Children's BBC radio serials on BBC Radio 5. When that station closed in 1994 CBBC serials moved to Radio 4 on Sundays from 7 to 7.30pm until Easter 1998 when it was replaced"
"Tonight (TV programme) Tonight (often referred to as ""The Tonight Programme"") is a British current affairs programme, produced by ITV Studios (formerly Granada Television) and ITN for the ITV network, replacing the long-running investigative series ""World in Action"" in 1999. Previously airing twice-weekly, on Monday and Friday evenings at 8.00pm (ITV Wales, STV and UTV would often air the programme at different times or different days, to make way for regional programming), the show runs the gamut from human interest-led current affairs to investigative journalism. ""Tonight"" has conducted interviews with a plethora of political and public figures, including U.S. President"
"the show's usual earlier weekday slot"". Hollyoaks Later Hollyoaks Later (originally Late Night Hollyoaks) is a British television spin-off of the Channel 4 television series ""Hollyoaks"". The series began in 2008 and since then has become an annual event for the soap. The series returns every September and takes place over five consecutive nights on E4. As the title suggests, the late night series allows for more sexual content, 'edgier' storylines and stronger language. Hollyoaks Later was cancelled in 2014, after 6 years, as the producers wanted to focus more on the main show. ""Hollyoaks Later"" was devised after ""Hollyoaks"""
"BBC Radio 4: ""The Colour of Magic"", ""Equal Rites"" (on ""Woman's Hour""), ""Only You Can Save Mankind"", ""Guards! Guards!"", ""Wyrd Sisters"", ""Mort"", and ""Small Gods"" have all been dramatised as serials, as was ""Night Watch"" in early 2008, and ""The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents"" as a 90-minute play. The 4-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of ""Eric"" by Robin Brooks again started on 6 March 2013. ""Guards! Guards!"" was adapted as a one-hour audio drama by the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and performed live at Dragon*Con in 2001. In 2014, a six-part adaption of ""Good Omens"" aired on BBC"
"Front Row (radio) Front Row is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 that has been broadcast since 1998. The BBC describes the programme as a ""live magazine programme on the world of arts, literature, film, media and music."" It is broadcast each week day between 7.15 pm and 7.45 pm and has a podcast available for download. Shows usually include a mix of interviews, reviews, previews, discussions, reports and columns. Some episodes however, particularly on bank holidays, include a single interview with prominent figures in the arts or a half-hour-long feature on a single subject. ""Front Row"" has"
"Broadcasting House (radio programme) Broadcasting House is a current affairs programme on BBC Radio 4, presented by Paddy O'Connell. It is broadcast every Sunday between 9am and 10am. ""Broadcasting House"" or ""BH"" was launched in 1998. There used to be a weekly quiz, with a cryptic sound clue pointing to a news event in the last week. The prize was a spoon, originally a Jam Spoon but then replaced by a Honey Spoon. The programme made frequent visits to the BH beehive based in southwest London. The competition was nominated for a Sony Award in 2007. More serious features include"
"Sunday late night slot. Weekdays on the major British channels generally consist of breakfast programming followed by game shows, soap operas and lifestyle programmes during the day. Channel 4 has also had consistent success with late-afternoon game shows; ""Countdown"", airing daily since the network's launch, has been one of the network's most popular programs. In the UK, Saturday night prime time is usually devoted to entertainment programming such as reality talent shows such as ""The X Factor"" on ITV and ""Strictly Come Dancing"" on the BBC in the United Kingdom or drama programmes such as ""Doctor Who"" on the BBC"
"BBC Radio 4 Extra BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcaster of the BBC's spoken-word archive, and as a result the majority of its programming originates from that archive. It also broadcasts extended and companion programmes to those broadcast on sister station BBC Radio 4, and provides a ""catch-up"" service for certain Radio 4 programmes. The station launched in December 2002 as BBC 7, broadcasting a similar mix of archive comedy, drama and current children's radio. The station"
"Saturday Live (radio series) Saturday Live is a BBC Radio 4 magazine programme which combines real-life stories with short features and contributions from studio guests as well as the musical feature known as ""Inheritance Tracks"". Currently presented by Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir, it is broadcast between 9.00 and 10.30 on Saturday mornings. In May 2008 the programme, then presented by Fi Glover, was named Best UK Speech Programme at the annual Sony Radio Academy Awards. In February 2011, however, it was highlighted by the journalist and newscaster Alastair Stewart as ""unfunny, self-indulgent, contrived and, worst of all, twee"" and"
"One's daytime programmes. Channel 4 predominately broadcasts comedy and music programmes such as ""Everybody Loves Raymond"" and ""Freshly Squeezed"" in its morning slot. The weekday breakfast news programme ends at 9:15 am on BBC One and 8:30 am on ITV. Following this on BBC One, lifestyle programming is generally shown, including property, auction and home/garden makeover. BBC One continues this genre until after the lunchtime news, whereby afternoon has a soap called ""Doctors"" followed by dramas currently occupy the schedule. BBC Two broadcasts repeats of recent BBC One programmes with on-screen signing before airing news and politics programming between 11"
"in eastern and south eastern counties of Ireland, the north of France and Northern Europe. It is also available through Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and on the Internet. Its sister station, BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly ""BBC Radio 7""), complements the main channel by broadcasting repeats from the Radio 4 archive, extended versions of Radio 4 programmes and supplements to series such as ""The Archers"" and ""Desert Island Discs"". It is notable for its news bulletins and programmes such as ""Today"" and ""The World at One"", heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal ""pips"" or the chimes of Big"
"Early Day Motion entitled ""Television Obscenity"" was proposed on 27 October 1987 by a group of Conservative MPs, who condemned Channel 4 and the Independent Broadcasting Authority. The motion was opposed only by MP Norman Buchan, who suggested that fellow members had either failed to read or failed to understand the poem. The broadcast went ahead and, after widespread press coverage, the uproar subsided. Gerald Howarth MP said that Harrison was ""Probably another bolshie poet wishing to impose his frustrations on the rest of us"". When told of this, Harrison retorted that Howarth was ""Probably another idiot MP wishing to"
"Hollyoaks Later Hollyoaks Later (originally Late Night Hollyoaks) is a British television spin-off of the Channel 4 television series ""Hollyoaks"". The series began in 2008 and since then has become an annual event for the soap. The series returns every September and takes place over five consecutive nights on E4. As the title suggests, the late night series allows for more sexual content, 'edgier' storylines and stronger language. Hollyoaks Later was cancelled in 2014, after 6 years, as the producers wanted to focus more on the main show. ""Hollyoaks Later"" was devised after ""Hollyoaks"" had improved ratings. Tony Wood, creative"
"if they had backed every tip with a level stake (£1). The popular Channel 4 television programme ""The Morning Line"" previews weekend horse racing on a Saturday morning culminating in the panel of experts and guests providing their selections for the day. Sky Sports News runs a similar preview segment including expert analysis of the teams and betting odds relating to Premier League football fixtures on a Saturday. The United Kingdom, morning national Radio 4 Today Programme usually includes a couple of racing tips in its short sports section (Garry Richardson is the usual presenter, although others fill in when"