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...

Oh yes Backingvocals Doreen Lawrence's episode had me going.

When Shula's first husband died. I was sitting in the car listening to that and missed my train as I couldn't turn the radio off.

Wonderful thread! I remember sobbing through so many of the items mentioned - Steve Hewlett, Soul Music, DID, Death of John Archer, the 'Thank You's' on Saturday Live.

I will offer a Classic Serial that was on R4 some years ago now and, sadly, no longer available. It was a dramatisation of Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose. I sobbed and sobbed.

Another one. I was living in Australia at the time of the 1983 Ash Wednesday bush fires.

I remember listening to the radio with the smell of burning eucalyptus filling the air. A radio reporter, Murray Nicoll, was on air live watching helplessly as his house burned down

Just listened and can smell the bushfires again.

Indaba shows her age but remember crying when they announced Brian Redhead had died: he was the John Humphries on the Today programme years ago. Had grown up listening to him every morning.

And can we all take a pause and celebrate the sheer brilliance of Radio. A lot of BBC radio references on here. I can recall so many more moving moments on Radio than TV or film. Worth every penny of my licence fee.

Since reading this thread I have been listening to lots of radio and have been sleeping so well!
I'm hooked!

Imagine I had never known of desert island disks until now and I can't stop listening to them. What a brilliant thread, I am so happy I found it. Thank you.

I love radio. So glad people have enjoyed this thread. It's certainly helped boost my podcast list

On the Psychiatrist's Couch is another great programme. Spike Milligan was breathtakingly honest when he was on. I had it on at work and I remember stopping what I was doing and just listening.

(It was on the archive, btw, I'm not that ancient).

Sorry, it's called In The Psychiatrist's Chair.

Hi all,

We're just sending this over to classics now.

Lovely!

Great thread, I agree with so many including the murder of the goth teenager. I pulled over to listen to that. Heartbreaking.

The recent Saturday live "thank you" where the lady's son was on a ship in the falklands and she thought he'd been killed and the wonderful kindness that had obviously been with her every day since then. So sad.

The chuckle in Steve Hewlett's voice as he told Eddie Mair to 'stop it' got me. Then a couple of weeks later it was the catch in Eddie's voice when he announced that Steve had died.

When Radio 1 played Teenage Kicks on the afternoon show I knew Peel had died.

It was one of the thank you things on Saturday Live last year. It was a woman, who was on a hijacked Aer Lingus plane in the early '80s that was forced to land in Amsterdam. A member of the cabin crew helped her and her two children (the cabin crew carried a baby while the woman hid her two year old under her coat) off the plane when the hostage takers said people with babies could get off. The cabin crew left them on the tarmac and then walked back up the stairs onto the plane. The woman hadn't been able to talk about it for years and had never had a chance to thank the cabin crew member, or talk about her bravery of getting back onto the plane.

The following week, Radio 4 had tracked down the cabin crew member, and connected the two of them live on the radio. It was absolutely gorgeous. When the interviewers asked the cabin crew member why she had got back on the plane she said (in a very firm, certain, particularly Irish way), "I trusted the captain."

It all ended peacefully, and the crew were back flying 3 days later. She only retired a few years ago.

I'm welling up at my desk just thinking about it!

Goosebumps at that one doctor it's definitely the best part of the programme.

Radio 4 has been part of my life since I was a child, likewise my children's since they were little. I even have it on often at night to keep from the sound of my own wheels driving me crazy if I wake up at some silly hour.

In order to avoid Tories on my radio, having finally learnt how to use the buttons on a cheap digital I have had 4 Extra on.

A few weeks ago there was a repeat of a play called Theo with the lovely Martin Jarvis. 'What sentimental twaddle,' I thought while drifting back to sleep. Then I caught the ending on another re-run the next day. Sob! The story of a child, its bear and the passing of time.

Also cried when Helen was found not guilty.

Soon after I started listening to the Archers, after Phil's death - I was about 17 - Jill Archer found a card Phil had written before his death. It started "to my darling wife. You are the sunshine of my life,.." and continued on in that way.
I sobbed. I think I heard that episode three times and I was in floods each time. Am tearing up now. What a thread, as well.

A couple of weeks ago, Noel Gallagher on my local radio station talking about the Ariana Grande bombing. He was just so heartfelt and Mancunian and as he finished speaking the opening bars to Wonderwall started. I was in floods.

Steve Hewlett's interviews, and especially when they announced his death.
A broadcast from the Sandy Hook memorial service, where the parents remembered their children. The parents each gave short speeches "For my wonderful son" and "for my wonderful daughter" - and then one father said "for my irrepressible son Andrew, with all the mischief and laughter in his eyes" and I had to pull the car over for sobbing. Still tear up thinking about it.