New production of Lucy Kirkwood's The Children and season of landmark Royal Court plays from the BBC archive will be ...

“Effective 15th April, Radio 4 will no longer be available on medium-wave. Medium-wave listeners will need to retune their radio to alternative platforms.” With these two terse sentences at the bottom ...

BBC Radio 4 is the UK's most popular talk station, home to marquee shows and podcasts like Desert Island Discs and The Unbelievable Truth, Infinite Monkey Cage and In Our Time. Its lofty standing is ...

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When the debut of the BBC Radio Four World War I drama Home Front aired in August 2014, it was described as “the most ambitious radio drama project embarked on by the BBC for half a century”. Over ...

The season will explore whether an increasingly fractured society is shaping modern Britain, or whether we have more in common than it seems Amid growing evidence of seemingly deeper divisions across ...

The BBC has announced that a Radio 4 service will close before the end of 2026 – and fans have been left with mixed feelings. The corporation will close Radio 4’s Long Wave later this year, as the ...

Broadcaster and journalist Edward Stourton, whose career spanned more than 40 years including a decade on Radio 4's Today, has died aged 68. Stourton, who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in ...