Radio moments that have made you cry.

[MumBod]

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...

Oh god the Soul Music show has me weeping on the tube practically every episode!

The episode with Fiona Philips talking about caring for her father who had dementia (after her mother, who also had dementia, had died) broke me!

And the Bring Him Home episode with the mother whose daughter had died...

And the Wichita Lineman one. AND Feed the Bloody Birds!

It's heart-wrenching stuff.

Oh and I think you all would enjoy this podcast. It. Is. Breathtaking.

www.radiolab.org/story/living-room/

Moonrise The pursuits of Darlene Fyles!

User06 I agree. The 'Thank You' section makes me well up every single time. There was one where someone needed to get to a hospital for a transplant and they got lost. Flagged down a guy who was (I think) washing his car and asked for directions and the guy jumped in his own car and said 'follow me' and lead them to the hospital.

Don't know why (I don't know anyone who needs a transplant!) but that one had me in floods.

Two moments have really moved me, both during the Jeremy Vine show.
The first one was some years ago when a woman (I think she was in her sixties) spoke of how she had given birth to a stillbirth baby. She hadn't gone on to have any more children. She referred to her baby as 'my lad.' She was a mother who had been robbed of the chance of ever knowing her son, but she spoke of him with absolute love.

The other was more recently when a Welsh man spoke about his dyslexia. He believed that his father thought he was thick. The man mentioned that he had a brother who was 'clever' and good at rugby and it was absolutely clear that he had spent his whole life believing himself to be not as good as his brother, certainly in the eyes of his father.

I listened to the Waterloo Sunset Soul Music today. It's a heart-breaker. Get your tissues ready.

Listening to BBC London on the day of the 7/7 London bombings when Vanessa Feltz read a poem about London. I've heard her read it on the anniversary and again after the recent attack at Westminster and her voice always wobbles. It's making me cry just thinking about it.

I'd love to know what the poem is if anyone knows what I'm talking about.

Less 'serious' but I cried at an episode of The Archers when John begged Hayley to have him back and she just said "I can't". I was doing the washing up, sobbing!

More recently, Bowie's death. I was heartbroken, little knowing what was to follow - 2016, the great cull...

Thank you MrsFairbrother - that was the name I couldn't remember.

I remember crying in the car listening to the death of Betty Tucker in The Archers. It was very well acted.

When Kenton and Jolene got together in The Archers. That really touched me.

There was a segment on Woman's Hour a few months ago with a woman who was caring for her mother who had dementia. You could hear the mother in the background constantly calling for her in an agitated, quite harsh voice. She (the mother) grumbled, criticised and was cantankerous and demanding (probably due to the dementia), calling out day and night. The daughter got very little sleep and was at the point of exhaustion but described it as an 'honour' to look after her mother and would not consider putting her in a home. The love she had for her mother was so moving I just cried, and then I sobbed thinking about my own mum who has to care for her mother sometimes (she shares care with her sister who my grandma lives with- she doesn't have extreme dementia but is in her 90s and very frail now) and what the future might hold for me and my own mum in years to come. So sad.

Thank you so much for this thread. Im currently listening to Nigel Owens and its magical on a day Im counting the sleeps till I go and visit my Welsh step dad. He's the only father Ive ever wanted or needed.

Thank you everyone.

PeanutButterIsEverything That one has been mentioned a few times now on here, it must have been a very well made programme. I will never forget it either. :(

I think they do a lot on dementia and caring for elderly parents on radio 4, presumably because of the audience demographic. I'm only 36 but I do think about it sometimes, the fact that my retirement might well be spent looking after my own parents until I'm too old to, and then my own children will have to look after me

This thread is lovely, thank you all! I've actually nominated it for classics because I think it would be a real shame for it to disappear into the ether.

There are so many: as someone said up thread radio is such an intimate medium. So many episodes of Desert Island Discs, The Reunion and Soul Music on R4 have incredibly moving moments.

However, the most moved I have been by radio in recent months was at the end of Warhorses of Letters the R4 comedy about a love affair between Copenhagen and Marengo, the horses of Wellington and Napolean. I was listening to the whole thing as an audiobook from Audible over the course of a few days, and had never heard the end. When I did hear it, I was out walking my baby in her pram for her nap. I'm just glad it was a quiet time of day and an empty street, because I sobbed! It was such a silly and funny programme I didn't see the sad end coming at all.

"If we believed in the horsey God I would say "au revoir", but this, it is goodbye".

Eddie Mair is such a wonderful interviewer. Just something about his style - especially with Steve Hewlett.

Steve Hewlett again.

And frequently, The Reunion.
Especially the Dunblane one, listening to the Friday repeat having dropped my own five year old off at school.
And the Hillsborough one, where the mother of the two teenage girls who died described standing outside the shop where they'd agreed to wait, and as the street gradually emptied, realising they weren't coming and must have been caught up in it. Heart rending.

Oh yes definitely cried to the Reunion a few times. The Challenger one a few weeks ago was a hard listen.

When they broadcast the Terry Wogan memorial and then played a few hours of his interviews. He was so warm, brilliant and completely hilarious.

The Reunion is such a good programme babybythesea. The Hillsborough episode made me cry also. The episode about the Yorkshire Ripper investigation was fascinating (and of course very sad).

I was living in France in 1986 and didn't have a TV. I was listening to the launch of Challenger on Radio 4. Everything went quiet after a minute or so and then it became clear it had exploded on takeoff. I was in shocked tears for the crew.

Great thread. This has already been mentioned a couple of times but the David Nott episode of Desert Island Discs is by far the most moving radio programme I have ever heard. Steve Hewlett/Eddie Mair also very good.

God sorry I'm so embarrassed! That is so weird. My son was born summer 2013 and I clearly recall Andy Murray not-quite making it to win Wimbledon. Sleep deprivation must have given me false memory!