Are there any Radio 4 lovers left on MN these days?

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If so, can I just share my joy at having 're-discovered' it again!

Since moving house, and having kids I seemed to have 'lost the Radio 4 habit'. The kids meant I never seemed to have time to myself, and also the radio reception was crap, as we are in a hilly area, and the signal was poor...

BUT..

DH bought me a DAB radio for Christmas, and my life has changed again forever.

I LOVE all the current affairs programmes, and the plays, and Woman's Hour, and the news quizzes etc etc.

I feel like I have rediscovered myself.

When I was at school I used to listen to Radio 4 loads (for General Studies A level and at Uni we used to listen to The Archers....
And then when I did a politics degree I used to listen to it for all the current affairs...

Ah, bliss. Please sign in if you are similarly appreciative....

I miss John Peel

I LOATHE that Fi Glover shite. Also Woman's Hour, You and Yours, Quote Unquote. I was not impressed by Down the Line.

I love ISIHAC, Front Row, BH, Today prog (sometimes), the News Quiz, most of the comedy (Old Harry's Game, Genius, anything with Chris Addison, and that thing where each comedian has one minute. Oh and Giles Wemmbley Hogg - "2 ms, 2 gs"

i love radio 4.

i love melvyn bragg's pontificational show and the andy marr one too.

i love this weird programme about business and technology on thursday nights i think (or could be monday's, i used to listen to a bit of it on way home from work then).

i love ISIHAC and i love friday news quiz. love sandy toskvig, she hoots sometimes and it always makes me lol.

Oh, and also from Our Own Correspondent and In Our Time, although the latter makes me feel thick. And of COURSE the Archers!

i farking hate the archers though i will listen to i if in car and radio one playing something awful.

our own correspondent is fabulous.

Best thing about having a computer in the kithen is that I can listen to Radio 4 live or as listen again when I'm clearing up. Which is good since I can never catch Woman's Hour during the day. If only they had Desert Island Discs on listen again though - am always busy when it is on.

Hurrah for Radio 4!

i heard the ed reardon thing the other day & it's hilarious. melvyn annoys me, & you & yours. have a strange soft spot for the money programme though.

Vulgar, the programme about cruise ship hosts was brilliant. There was a man who was interveiwed about his 'work' entertaining the single ladies of the ship who turned out to have left his wife behind! Apparantly she didn't mind him going off for weeks on end in the lap of luxury.

ooo-yes- the Melvyn Bragg programme is just brilliant espiecally as most of it goes totally over my head but I love it.

Somehow I feel like it is going to plant brains and culture into my head. It is so gratifing to hear people pontificating about stuff rather than crap like "Trisha" on TV.

Yes, i'm sounding very poncey I know.

(although I used to watch Trisha sometimes when I was breatfeeding - it was fun!)

yes, vulgar..I love the Melvyn prog. and time myself to see how long I last before finally admitting knowledge/brain power defeat. Got to 9 mins once!

and Middle Class Women's Hour is fine too, if you're in the catchement.

and of course my darling Mariella Frostrup doing the Book programme on a Thursday afternoon, as was.

She could be reading the Darlington Yellow Pages, but I'd still be breathless at every utterance. >

thank you Wendy!
early 21st century morning routine: come downstairs, log into computer, get on Internet, go to Radio4 page, make coffee.

I awake every morning to R4 on the alarm radio. They could be telling me of an iminent nuclear attack but it's so soothing...one feels all is well with the world.
I also love listening to plays on the very odd occasions I decide to do ironing
And lots of other random programmes. And Women's Hour when I'm not working.

I feel so sad reading this. Radio four was my whole life for years, then my babies arrived and I haven't had a chance since.

Even when I do get a minute, it would be interrupted - I could never relax and sink into it.

Someone give me a cuddle please!

{{{cuddle))). You'll get it back, I promise.... For a brief few years until the DC start demanding to turn off the boring people and put Radio 1 on

R4?

One of life's essentials.

Thankyou

Have it on from 6.00 in the morning, till forced back to reality by the kids coming home from school. Totally love it. Especially if I can everything done by 2.00 then listen to the archers and the play uninterrupted for an hour, but also love listening while I'm doing the chores in the morning, makes housework a treat (sort of)

Love it, love it, LOVE it. Recently passed a significant birthday and was presented with a DAB radio by friends to feed my habit: it fits on my bedside table so I can switch in off last thing at night and on first thing in the morning to shout at the Today programme (previously we had a tape-player-cum-radio from the 80s which only got reception on the far side of the room).

Oh, and allow me to share my best R4 moment ever, and definitely one for MN. Back in about 2000, I had Women's Hour on the background, and they began a feature on, of all things, mooncups (and this in the days before lentils were generally woven and yoghurt widely knitted). The presenter was persuaded by the woman who set up the company to try one. Cue moment of radio genius, with the presenter in the loo, shouting "I can still feel it", the mooncup lady shouting "Are you sure you've got it in far enough?" some shuffling around and then the presenter saying "Oh yes, that's better, I think it's in right now, it's very comfortable, isn't it? ... "

Sublime. Who needs TV?

as an aside could i commend mark kermode's radio five live film reviews on a friday at 3pm i think...or 3.30pm.

has me laughing out loud more often than anything else in my world, including ds who is very funny indeed. also available as podcast which is very useful indeed.

Of course you were dear

Oooooooooooooh, get you!

What were you doing? Why didn't you tell us in advance? (Or did you, and I missed it?) Did you speak to the blessed Charlotte?

Is it on Listen Again?