Tell the BBC Trust what you think about Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 7

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The BBC Trust has launched an online consultation regarding Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 7. Click here to launch the survey and give your opinions about the programming on the three networks (if you don't listen/don't have an opinion, you can just leave the boxes blank). Far be it from us to tell you what to write, but we used ours to draw attention to the lack of women presenters...

Thanks for that! I've just completed it

Have filled this in, gosh I hope radio 7 isn't as dull as the questionnaire!

have done it, thanks for linking

wmmc I only ever listen to R7 stuff on iplayer as presenters are indescribably irritating and some of the archive stuff is not my cup of tea

I used to listen to Radio 7 but the last 12 months every time I've put it on it's been something from the 50s

Just completed, IABU to suggest that as Radio 7 is the home for pre schoolers, that Chris Evans should go and live there.

Ok, I know I am probably, but I've had to become very grown up and listen to Radio 4 since Terry Wogan went

Yes Radio 2 has become shockingly bad recently.

If Radio 7 is the home for preschoolers how come the stories are so scary I dare not play them to my 3 year old?

Quite a few woman presenters on R3...

It doesn't really register with me whether someone on the radio is male or female - only whether they are any good.

Radio is good in that respect as it's not prejudiced in the way that tv is. It doesn't rely on whether someone looks 18 and hot stuff; only that they are good at what they do.

I love R7 but their programming seems to be on a loop. The same shows are trotted out every year. Do they think we dont notice?

I listen every night to the comedy. I also like the classic serials and book adaptations.

I do like some old stuff but not a fan of Hancock or the Goons.

I dont know anywhere else where they would get away with playing so much stuff from the 80s

Not liking the idea of radio 4 extra

Yes I was a bit unsure about 'Radio4 - Extra' too. I wonder if they'll just repeat everything they've just put out on R4.

I quite like some of those old Round the Horns they play on R7. And yes I think it is on a bit of a loop - noticed that too now you mention it!

I like Round the Horn because I love Kenneth Williams. I hate the bloody Clithero kid and stuff like it.

Come 10 oclock, tv off, radio on and I drift off to the comedy club. Really annoys me when the play progs i dont like. WTF were all those Russian farce/folk tale things about? And "heated rollers" please God no - my ears.

Love Rumpole, Agatha Christie etc Great for doing the housework to (my life - the glamour)

Rofl! Yes me too. Housework/radio

I do love radio though. Comedy esp good on R4 & 7. Sometimes I am doubled up with laughter cooking the dinner when it comes on at 6.30.

I wonder if this means they are looking for their next victim. Radio 3 may need to watch out

I discovered R7 when DD was Dx with luekemia.

It helped to keep me going over the next two years. I used to listen to it in the hospitals for hours on end. It really helped keep me together. I listened to R4 as well but much as I love it some of the programmes are so boring they are actually painful. Each to their own of course but I remember this one about Japanese cultural attitudes to gardens.... bloody nora it was dull

I love r4, feel r3 is too highbrow for me and am not sure I'd actually heard of r7! Agree some r4 plays can be a bit inclined to make my ears bleed.

I had to make special reference to sheila dillon (always eats 'delicious' food, every single prog, I don't think listening to someone eat is actually good radio) and quote unquote (how is it possible for normal people to be quite so smug?)

Radio 4 - top loves:
Today programme
News progs generally
Saturday Live
Quirky stuff like gardener's world and the country/farming prog that's on at 5.30am
Most of the comedy stuff, esp satire
Start the Week
Desert Island Discs

Radio 4 - top hates:
Midweek (merits a special aaaaaaaargh)
In Our Time

Radio 7 - top loves:
Newsjack
Comedy stuff, I even like the 25 year old sitcom rehashes
Book narrations

Radio 7 - hate:
Sci Fi (have to turn off that horrible midnight - 1am slot)
Anything shouty scary that they put on in the middle of the night. I tend to go to sleep with it on, and hate being woken out by the sound of people screaming and crying (have quite enough of that with the DC, thanks)

Good point about lack of female presenters. And when they do exist, they are stuck with the fluffy stuff. The most serious jobs, such as the 8.10 political interview on Today, are given to men nine times out of ten.

Also, Ceri whatshisface the editor of Today didn't have to apologise for making sexist remarks about how women journalists just weren't good enough to work on Today. If he'd made the same comment about Black people, he'd have been sacked.

Enjoy Radio 4, but these issues are important.

cider the amount of times I have nodded off to a pleasant little comedy programme and gone on to have horrible,disturbing dreams because of that bloody sifi hour!

I said I love radio 3 because it is not often we get to hear intelligent people talking coherently and knowledgeably. So much TV (and radio) is vacuous zombies in frocks or smug self satisfied men talking crap.

And I got to tick the "disabled" box, who says our voices aren't heard?!

My favourites are Radio 3: Building a library
RAdio 4: The NOw Show
And any Goons will do me!

I love the Radio 7 sci-fi slot. I only listen on listen again. I also like the crime serialisations and some of the comedy. I'm not fond of the old stuff (Round the Horn does little for me, I'm afraid to say).

The station is a bit 'samey' at the moment. I think the loop's been done and it needs freshening up a bit, so maybe the Radio 4 Extra would do that?? Something needs to be sorted with it.

Having said that, I think the quality of programmes produced for Radio 4/Radio 7 in terms of dramas is great in the whole. One of my favourite serials was the one with David Tennant and his girlfriend and their journey toward parenthood - t'was lovely, but I can't remember the title.

I wish R4 would cut You and Yours though. It's got a bit long and rambly.

I'd quite like a magaziney type programme at that time of day, but Y&Y is dull.

The topics are so specific, in depth and usually just a big consumer moan. There probably is a place for thet type of thing but maybe once a week would do it not every day..yawn.

oh I secretly enjoy Y&Y in a sort of masochistic way (spend the whole programme thinking 'shit should I have been worrying about this?')

hate the sci-fi but accept that's just a personal thing rather than because it's badly done

i hope R7 doesn't just become R4 broadcast two weeks later, though - that would be annoying

I dislike the fact that if you listen to R4 on a Friday evening when you're driving off for a weekend somewhere, when you turn the radio on on Sunday afternoon/evening (on the way home) they mainly seem to be repeats of the Friday evening

Lol at Y&Y masochism

They've just spent several millennia waffling on about the 'Lewis Pound' whatever that may be. All very interesting if you live in Lewis I s'pose, but for the rest of us...zzzzz.