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...

I cry during "the listening project" most weeks.

The Welsh rugby referee Desert Island Discs had me in tears a few times. Proper sobs.

The DID with Chris Packham was incredible too. Probably the best I've ever heard.

I loved listening to PM with Steve Hewlett.

The thing that really got to me recently was a thing about Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists. How could they? Utter bastards. I cried for about a week after hearing that.

Does anyone remember the afternoon play lost property from about 5 years ago? It was a trilogy, but I only listened to the first one: where a mother sent her children to the country as evacuees during the blitz. The much doted on youngest got separated from the others and it was assumed that she was an unwanted child and so a kind teacher took her to Australia and adopted her. The rest of the episode was her poor mother and siblings half frantic trying to find her to no avail with no idea if she was alive or dead.

DD1 was only a year old and I sobbed my heart out listening to it as I pushed her home in her buggy. I was so distraught I couldn't bear to listen to the other episodes, but I so want to find out what happened...I could buy them on iTunes but I don't know if tissue supplies could take it.

The theme song was 'you belong to me' by Kate Rusby and I now sing that to the DDs at night, or if they're upset.

Also, the David Nott interview and always the first line of Carols from Kings on Christmas Eve "as the shadows lengthen in King's College Chapel and the candles are lit, a single chorister steps out of the darkness..."

A Today interview at Christmas time with people who haven't seen anyone to speak to for years - maybe 10 year ago, so desperately sad.

And YY to the Steve Hewlett interviews, they were an absolute testament to his character and also to Eddie Mair's impeccable journalism.

I don't think I'll ever forget John Humphrey's tone of voice the morning of the Brexit result-I didn't need to hear the result to know what had happened.

Also-did anyone listen to Chris Morris's Blue Jam in the late 90s? I thought it was extraordinary radio-really transformed my understanding of what the medium could do.

I bloody love radio.

I don't listen to the radio but I've been crying reading this. I don't even know who Steve Hewlett is .

I listen to podcasts and sobbed then had to turn off one about 9/11. It was people describing the scene afterwards and it was harrowing.

Oh, and let's not forget the one I never should have started - a true crime serial about a child who went missing. Less than two minutes in and I had to pull over I was crying so hard.

I'm so weepy since having my kids. I used to be a proper hard nut.

Tazerface - Steve Hewlett was a radio presenter. The main programme I remember him doing was The Media Show on Radio 4 but I'm sure there were others. He was diagnosed with cancer last year and did a series of interviews with Eddie Mair on PM, describing the latest stage of his treatment, what was happening, how he was feeling (both physically and emotionally), the impact this was having on his family etc. Sometimes, the interview would be prefaced with Eddie Mair saying something like "Steve was going to be in the studios but he's actually in hospital so we'll do the interview as best we can from there." It wasn't a hugely long time between the interviews starting and them saying that he'd died - maybe five or six months. Because he'd been so open about his treatment, and all the rest, it was starting to feel as though you knew him. You'd been listening to him talking about himself and his family, it wasn't even as though he was a familiar voice talking about music or something, and then you realise you don't know anything about him. It really felt like you did know him, his kids.... And then he was gone. The programme where they had to deal with it was heartbreaking.

Most of the previous mentioned programmes and many of the deaths on 'The Archers' especially the unexpected ones (JohnArcher) and even some of the happy moments - Nigel & Elizabeth's wedding I seem to remember.

Julian and Sandy and Rambling Syd Rumpo made me weep with laughter and stlll do when they are repeated - does that count?

Phil's death on the Archers was really sensitively done if I recall. I cried at the funeral.

I've just remembered another one...you know when you happen to just be in the right place at the right time?

A R2 Friday night is music night special happened to be on..Diane Louise Jordan was interviewing a Scottish musician about how he found Jesus. Normally, this wld make me switch off immediately as not my bag but was occupied, then I started to listen...

Anyway, as the musician continued talking about his terrible adult life, bells starting ringing. He had been an amazingly gifted musician at uni, got heavily into drugs & eventually prison. The prison chaplain helped him, he found God & started recording music again.

He then sang the most beautiful song. When I heard his name, I Googled him & found his picture - yep, I'd been to uni with him & shared halls. He had been very troubled, often hammered, but was amazingly talented even then. I shed a little tear. Remarkable man...

The one moment that springs to mind was Chris Tarrant in the news the Kenny Everett had died, they were obviously good friends & he was really genuinely upset. I was sitting in traffic in the car on the way to work crying

The Listening Project often gets me. There was one on losing a child. A couple had lost their unborn daughter at 21 weeks. Twenty years on and until that interview the husband had never spoken about how it impacted on him. It had taken all that time to talk about it. So sad.

And Christiane Amanpour's Desert Island discs www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wnb0x/segments choosing Cat Stevens 'Wild World' for her 16 year old son, starting to make his own way in the world. I'd always listened to lyrics in the context of a man singing to his lost lover, but hearing it in the context of a mother to her child, and thinking about my own son, god it really got me. I was leaning on the kitchen counter sobbing!

The ipm programmes about the murder of Elsie Frost.

Fifty years on and the affect it had on her family is just as raw now as it was then.

Daft though it sounds a Christmas edition of Old Jacks Boat on the CBeebies podcast had me in tears. Jack was telling a story from his childhood relating to the girl who would become his wife. Bernard Cribbins is a master storyteller and when he does I will cry.
It's still available here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0391659

One from donkeys years ago when Chris Tarrant did the breakfast show on Capital. There was a competition where the caller had to keep someone they knew on the phone for a whole minute whilst only saying the word 'hello' and making animal noises, in order to win either money or a flight, can't remember which. The girl calling had her confused sister hang up on her so didn't win.
She was audibly upset as she'd explained that her sister had unexpectedly met someone whilst on holiday in Australia and married/settled down there, and she couldn't afford to visit her.
The next morning CT rang her back live on air to tell her that a lovely airline had called the radio station to offer her a free flight. She was sobbing, still chokes me to think about it.

Very personal and will out me ! My dh works away and was meant to be away for xmas a few years ago . While driving my ds to McDonald's on xmas eve a request came on for Chris Rea - driving home for Christmas from him to us . He made it home !

Mine's a silly one but years ago when I was pregnant with DS, the lady that used to present the sports on the Chris Moyles Show in his R1 days was pregnant too, and they had a caller ring in or text or something who was about to have a baby, and the sports lady got all teary. They asked her what was up and she just said something like "it's just...there's going to be a little baby, it's so exciting". I had to pull over and sob, I felt like that's when the enormity of being about to become a mother finally hit me. I don't think I would have had that reaction if it was on TV, radio is so much more intimate.

The chris moyles show where they broke the record for the longest continuous broadcast - they were on the second morning and I was on nights. I'd listed to the first morning on my way home, then they were still on at the start of my next shift and I got into the car at the end of that shift and they were just about to break the record and I'd had an awful shift and they were clearly shattered but that adrenaline rush where you are nearing the end had kicked in (as it does when I've worked an awful night and need to get through handover and the drive home!) and I just parked in Morrisons car park and sobbed for a few minutes

Mary Berry on Desert Island Discs when she spoke of her son's death. Gawd I sobbed.

Brilliant thread.

I was driving to hospital in September 2013. We'd just moved to the area, less than a week ago, and I was miscarrying. I felt so lonely, I was miles from friends, my son's had both just started nursery for the first time, and dh was at work, so I was on my own in the car. About 2 miles from the hospital Kids in America by Kim Wilde came on: my two best friends are obsessed with Kim Wilde and in our younger days the three of us had sang this song at karaoke so many times. It felt like a sign that they were with me, I just about made it to the hospital car park before letting all the pain I was feeling go, before making my way to the EPU, not feeling so lonely anymore.

Robert Peston and Julian Barnes talking about grief and the deaths of their wives...supported by Eddie Mair who very sensibly took back seat on this one.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xd69q

Oh I remember when the Air France disaster was breaking and a widow of someone who was on board was interviewed and her voice was just utter despair

I remember when Kirsty McCall died as well and I was listening to Katrina (from Katrina and the waves) late and she was so sad she just couldn't read the happy stuff she was meant to do it was so sad

Robert Webb on My Teenage Diary talking about his Mum getting cancer and dying. Very funny too whilst being very sad.

This is such a brilliant thread! I was up a good bit of last night listening to the clips posted. Thank you so much.

Practically every Desert Island Discs - Doreen Lawrence I remember particularly. And Mary Portas was a 'stop and listen' as well.

Yy to Soul Music. I always hear the music in a new light afterwards and was just listening to the Feed the Birds one today. Didn't think it would be special but it was.

Robert Elms and Vanessa Feltz are always good when there's a massive London news story. Get the tone right and both have made me cry.

Another one for Steve Hewlett... What was particularly moving was how ill he sounded in the last couple of interviews. You could hear the deterioration and how he spoke, so candidly and calmly, about the 'bad night' he had had not long before he died.

And also as a pp mentioned, the Today programme re-play of the 999 call the little 5 (?) year old girl made when her mum collapsed.