To find their heart sinking when the Women's Hour play comes on each day.

[WorriedBetty]

I don't know it just makes me feel sad. I like the discussion and the play seems like a waste... hmmph.

I don't listen to most of the plays. And turn it over as soon as the Archers starts.

Turn it to BBC 6 Music which I have to turn back from if people start talking too much on that.

BBC 6 Music is my station of choice, especially Lammo.

I too have noticed that many WH topics crop up on MN a short time beforehand. Lazy research I think.

Love the News Quiz with Sandi Toksvig, not so keen on The Now Show - just less funny somehow.

And Clare in the Community... groan.

But love News Quiz and The Food Programme is sometimes interesting.

I LOVED the recent one about the tea woman working in post-Nazi-invasion London who turned herself into a suicide bomber to stop them from interrogating a captured British nuclear scientist.

I thought it was really gripping and actually listened to all the episodes again.

Current WH serial is good.

I just wonder how many women ever hear all 5 episodes?

Many women work part time, have DCs to collect from preschool, toddlers group etc etc.

I always turn it off because I know i'm not going to hear it all.

The same with the afternoon play something always happens to ensure I miss the last 5 minutes.

Yeah what's the point of having it split into 5 15 minute slots? How many people religiously tune in every day at the same time? Would make more sense to have it in just one or two longer episodes.

Sometimes the plays are okay, but R4 Book of the Week is usually better.

I never manage to listen to all five (of any weekly series).

I prefer Jane Garvey to Jenni Murray. (Sorry, I know this isn't part of the debate, but I do).

I love R4 and Woman's Hour but I hate the dramas/plays. BUT the other day while i was immersed in party-bag hell (cutting out 30 superhero masks for children to decorate) I listened to a really good play about obsessive love and stalkers. Which I then missed the end of because I had to do the school run. Did anyone happen to hear it? And know what happened in the end?!

Yes, the Woman's Hour serial is hopeless for me because I only ever listen to radio in dribs and drabs, so I hear about 15 mins of the Today programme, 30 mins of PM, maybe the whole of Saturday Live on a good day, ditto The News Quiz or other comedy slot, 10 mins of the obituary programme on Fridays - you get the idea. So on the rare occasions I catch a bit of Woman's Hour, it always seems to have something really interesting that I'm just getting into and then I hear the dread words "And now, part 3 of our serial..."

Also can't abide Archers.