Radio moments that have made you cry.

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Following on from the movie thread, has anyone else heard moments on the radio that have made them cry?

I had to pull over and sob when Terry Wogan retired

I had a wobble listening to Jeremy Vine on Friday, when a guy was talking about keeping his wife's body at home before her funeral, and then a woman came on to talk about her husband's passing, and revealed they should have been in Venice celebrating their wedding anniversary that weekend :(

When Brian Johnston the cricket commentator died they played the clip of him losing the plot and giggling over the 'leg over' gaffe.

And Radio 4 broadcast a play about Laurel and Hardy, where Stan Laurel is visiting Oliver Hardy after his stroke, and reminiscing about the old times. My dear old dad and I sat in floods.

Any other radio memories? Something about the medium gets me right in the heartstrings...

On radio 1 Sarah Cox used to play a request that has some sort of meaning for a listener - one week it was Kiss me by 6 pence none the richer and it was dedicated to a young woman who has recently passed - apparently these were the last words she spoke to her mother as she passed away.

I can't even think about it without welling up and can't listen to the song anymore.

kitkat

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015w6dw

This love letter from a woman to her boyfriend, who had been killed, is utterly beautiful and has me crying every time. You can hear at the end that the interviewer is very emotional too.

Dermot O Leary and Jeremy Vine did a Titanic real time show on the 100th anniversery... v emotional....also yy to those who have said Jeremy Vine's forces show at Christmas.

The Welsh Rugby Ref Nigel Owens on Desert Island Discs - had me sobbing several times. If it's still available, it's well worth a listen. 😭

The R4 afternoon play last Friday was a real life couples experience with post natal psychosis and how she got better told through interviews and memories. I found that quite emotional especially near the end.

There was an episode of ipm a couple of weeks ago with parents of children with autism. They expressed everything so eloquently. DS was diagnosed recently and the voices on the radio were expressing feelings I didnt even know I had.

Gordon Wilson being interviewed on the radio just after the Enniskillen bomb. He was with his beloved daughter, Marie who was killed.
It was 'stop you in your tracks' radio.
It was so moving.
What an amazing man.
How I wish I could do links so you could hear it.

Oh and I remember crying when the sister of the British woman who was executed by some terrorist group in Iraq was on the Today programme.

Shortly after DS1 was born in 2007, R4 serialised "Blue Sky July" by Nia Wyn. It was her account of having a baby with severe cerebral palsy, her amazing love for him and the breakdown of her relationship.

I wept listening to it every day that week.

Ridiculous but lovely.
A few weeks ago on a Friday when Simon Mayo does the requests a little boy called in, he was about 7 or 8 I think. He asked for Fleetwood Mac, 'I Want to be with you Everywhere' "for my best friend Ben coz I want to be with him everywhere"

I just thought it was so pure and beautiful!!

Oh, I've just remembered a phone in & interview on Jeremy Vine with a relative of the two young people (in Wales I think?) who had been attacked for being goths.

It was so emotional. Very raw & painful. And desperately sad.

Hayels, I remember him!!

My DS (7) spoke to Simon Mayo earlier this year - he requested Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds because it is 'full of happy things & nice things that make me happy.'

That was a proud, lump in the throat moment!! (Not telling him what the song's really about until he's much older )

This thread is making me sniffle... I very rarely cry at tv or films, but the radio....

yy to Desert Island Discs with David Nott here and Nigel Owens here.

And, to be honest, nearly every in-depth interview Eddie Mair has ever done with people not usually in the public eye. He is a magnificent interviewer.

That would have made me cry too if I'd heard that!! I love that innocent loveliness!!

Twice.

Listening to Pick of the Pops on radio 2 and the Scots Dragoon Guards were featured playing Amazing Grace. my FIL had died that morning and was a keen piper.
Listening to the news (cannot remember the radio station) coming in about the Hillsborough disaster and knowing that a Liverpool supporter friend was at the match.

Eddie Mair has done many interviews which have brought a lump to my throat. There's one I remember, the mother of a victim of the 7/7 bombings, who was a priest, talking on issues of forgiveness, grief... the whole works.

Soul music had an episode on 'Bring him home' from Les Miserables last year. It's a song with a lot of emotion in a musical I love, but adored as a teenager. At the very moment of listening to it, the funeral was taking place of one of my old schoolmates. I was feeding my 3 day old baby. 'Home' had a lot of meaning that day.

The reunion had an episode on Lockerbie. Horrific, amazing radio.

I am ALWAYS crying to something on the radio (2 or 4), on a weekly basis probably.

Things I remember recently: talking about the holocaust, a Syrian boy, he was about same age as my boy, talking about his life and fears for his future, and as pp said, the Jeremy vine, songs for their sons chosen by their bereaved mothers. That evening, I tried to explain dh what I'd heard but was crying too much.

Eddie Mair is such a great interviewer. I remember him interviewing someone who'd been in the news that week (I wish I could remember why) and he started not with the news story but by saying "How are you?" in a way that made you stop and realise there was a man behind the story, a real person. He's good at doing that - it's not the story, it's the people in the story that matter. That's why the listener gets so invested.

Eddie Mair interviews are often incredibly moving, he seems to know just the right thing to say.

I cried when Jenny Murray announced she had breast cancer. It was Christmas (I think- memory is an old thing).

I cried buckets when John Peel died.

Last year on the anniversary of Aberfan. So many heartbreaking stories on the radio that day but one that stood out was an eyewitness speaking of two little girls who were found dead but still holding hands. Thought of my own little girl and her best friend and then I cried the whole way home.

Oh gosh yes, the reports from aberfan- and a programme about the choir there- were absolutely heart-breaking.

Thanks for the links Freezer, just listened to the David Nott DI Discs, really moving.

The day David Bowie died, Simon Mayo had Rick wakeman in the studio and he played the piano live up to the news at 7pm.

Rick played Starman. It was the most emotional, moving piece of music I'd heard in a long time. No singing, just piano playing. It was so raw, Bowie had died that day and Rick was a close friend of his.
I'm not even a big Bowie fan but it moved me. I had to stay in the car to listen and sob and the music, the situation, the loss of a music icon, and consequently I was late picking DD up from Beavers.

Sandi Toksvig on LBC in 2004. She was talking in a very light hearted way, laughing and joking, when she suddenly faltered. She had been told that Ken Biggley, the British hostage who had been in the news for days, had been beheaded. Her response was immediate and unfiltered, she was quite distraught. It was so natural and human, I just sat and sobbed.