I would happily pay my licence fee just for R 3 and R 4. Would you?

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Just curious to know!

Yep. R4 is worth the license fee in and of itself

As is CBeebies and the BBC website.

I've been listening to 'Tales from the Stave' this morning on iPlayer, Frances Fyfield talks about the original manuscript of various famous pieces with conductors, musical scholars and instrumentalists. I listened to Dvorak's New World Symphony, Mozart's Requiem, Copland's Apalachian Spring and some Butterworth. Fantastic stuff.

And Kermode and Mayo, which is 5 Live. And TMS.

Has everybody got the Iplayer radio app? It's AMAZING!

Agree with R4. Would pay for that.
Yesterday was in the car with my 17 y/o DS, and the News Quiz (now soooo... much better with Miles Jupp than with the tiresome & omni-present Sandi Toksvig) united us in a way we don't usually connect...
Tho' on the comedy progs- is the irritating Susan Calman really the only rep of 'wimmin' they can dredge up???)
R5 is a bonus with Simon Mayo on Fri, although preferred Richard Bacon in the afternoons - the current people are a bit meh. Nicky Campbell is great.

I agree MrsUltra I've been enjoying, rather than enduring the News Quiz since Miles Jupp has taken over. Even with the same sort of jokes, it is nice hearing somebody else deliver the lines. Apparently Sandi Toksvig is taking over from Stephen Fry on QI.

R5 & R4 alone, yes.

R4 & 4Extra, absolutely yes!

When I lived abroad in pre-internet days, I used to record the Shipping Forecast onto cassette tape when I was home to keep me going while away.

Would pay it just for R4.

Certainly. What I particularly love about R4 is those quirky programmes I come across by accident when I switch on the radio randomly during the day. They're programmes that no other broadcaster would even think of producing, but I've learnt some really fascinating stuff from them. And then there's The Archers and the News Quiz, of course. Cheap at twice the price.

Agree! I have been digging the garden recently and just plug into R4 as the phone only gets FM. I have heard odd programmes that I never would have specifically arranged to listen to - about Chernobyl, the Birmingham 6 etc - really amazingly well -researched niche progs. I liste to a lot of French, German , Spanish and Italian radio - there is nothing to compare on those.

I resent every penny of the licence fee, so no to that! The mention of BBC World Service also annoys me, how does that work? We pay for it here, and people all around the world listen for free?

I agree although I just wish I could pay the licence fee and watch the BBC in Italy too!

Yes - listen to R4 andR5 a lot, dip into R3 sometimes. Grew up in a house with radio on all the time. I listen to US National Public Radio on the computer being an insomniac, good but not a patch on the BBC.

Would be interested to see how this thread would do in another bit of MN after all mostly we've chosen to come to Radio Addicts. (actually maybe not, it would probably get bogged down with whether there should be a licence fee or BBC at all, rather than stick the the issue of radio.)

R4, occasionally R3, R4Extra and the World Service.

But am happy for it also to cover BBC4, and to a lesser extent BBC1 & 2. Haven't watched BBC3 since it went online, though.

Also, I went to a great women in technology day at the BBC, and I assume a tiny fraction of my licence fee was covering the buffet lunch and so on.

We only listen to R4 and DH watches BBC4 sometimes. Happy to fund CBeebies and CBBC even though we're way past that now. They were a lifesaver back in the day!