R4 lovers, what programme[s] do you hate?

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In an effort to avoid writing an essay ...

Those of us who are almost constant R4 listeners (I get tense when it switches to the World Service for the night), what programme/programmes can't you stand?

I love quite a lot of it, will put up with a lot more rather than switch over, but there are some programmes I genuinely destest. The Moral Maze is probably top of my list.

Any others?

The archers & Sunday worship

Melvyn Bragg.

The Sunday service sermon.

The gardener's question time repeat at the weekend. Quite like it on Fridays. DD is interested too.

Never got into Cabin Pressure.

Love to hate dear old John Humphreys. (Not at all surprised he's Lucy from Peanuts!)

He sounds like someone from the Fast Show being a poetry fan

Oooh, are you Mrs Trellis ??????

RBQ
Counterpoint
Midweek
A lot of the comedy
GQT

You & Yours, The Moral Maze and Any Answers are utterly unlistenable to - possibly the only time I actually turn the radio off.

I think of the 6.30 "comedy" slot as a compulsory purgatory that I have to go through to reach 7.02.

Post 7.45 on weekdays and 9am on Saturdays I'm firmly R3. But on the whole I feel genuinely fortunate and privileged to have had this constant Good Thing in my life and the general consciousness.

Cookingongas

You are not alone, I've never liked it and still turn it off. My parents always had R4 on so I have been exposed to a lot of it.

Agree some of the plays are dire, and why so they have that strange American accent you only hear on the bbc when a British actor is playing an American?

So I hate the Archers, the WWI drama and some of the very random afternoon dramas, just a minute, lots of the 11pm comedy and really didn't like Cabin Pressure.
I love clue and more or less,and quite like round Britain quiz. Monkey cage is funny apart from when they get all sneery about religion.

Clare in the community - does anyone find that funny?

I always look forward to the opening line of in our time as it's so breathtakingly smug and pretentious.

Love r4 generally though.

I cannot stand Quote Unquote, Puzzle Panel or Round Britain Quiz - they all need a smug alert before they start. I would rather have my ears chopped off than listen to Count Arthur Strong.

I love Something Understood and In Our Time though, and quite a lot of the other stuff people hate. My main loves are The Archers and the Shipping Forecast - i have an obsession with Admiral Fitzroy, and get a bit emotional at dear old Dogger! Sailing By would also be on my Desert Island Discs.

Count Arthur strong...rubbish
That thing with the pilots that's supposed to be funny, and I love John finemore.
Money box and you and yours.

Love from your own correspondent and devastated that the world service at night now seems to be half school programming.

Sneakily like sudsy service if no one is around, I'm an atheist.

Ofh and that awful mc thing on a Saturday where they are all London and bray at each other.

The archers. I will do a lot to reach the radio in time to turn it off. But never mind, the inlaws keep me up to date by describing the plot in detail [homicidal emoticon]

I used to love nearly all the comedy. There was a sitcom starring a couple of weeks ago that was beyond dire though, would have sounded unadventurous in 1977.

I, too, will now dash to the off button for the Archers, I used to be a fan but stopped listening when Nigel fell from the roof. Also can't stand Any Answers and that WW1 'drama'.

However I was sad when the powers that be abolished the R4 theme - so much so that I bought it (and the other track on the CD was Sailing By) so I can now listen to them to my heart's content!

I love anything with that bloke who gets in touch with people via Facebook. He's got such a lovely way about him and the stories are really interesting. I loved Outlook on the World Service when Matthew Banister did it.

Don't like you and yours (Winifred Robinson is always so flipping cross)

That new comedy with Susan Calman (sp?) was shite.

We played Sailing By at our wedding

I really don't like Woman's Hour. The format doesn't work. 10 or so minutes covering something very serious (cancer, misogyny, the gender pay gap) followed by 'now let's go to some woman's kitchen and talk about preserving fruit!' Or hats. Or knitting . And then back to the misery. The lightweight stuff trivialises the heavyweight stuff. It would benefit from a much more diverse presentation team - different ages, race , political views to shake it up a bit.

Find the Ernie Ray programme about religion fascinating - looks like I'm the only one here who does. Love the Digital Human as well.

You and Yours

And Jill Archer

Something Understood drives me to distraction on Sundays, but I love iPM on Saturday mornings. I haven't quite got round to setting the alarm for it, but it comes close. Money Box Live, Round Britain Quiz & Quote Unquote are also top of my list of things to avoid.

Woman's Hour featuring an artisan damson liqueur maker a couple of weeks ago probably wasn't the best one to use to convince DH of its great programming.

Radio 4 phone ins are irritating, too hurried, too rushed.
Started listening in my late 20's and now mid 50's I miss the book, short story readings from years ago. There's more dramatisations than one narrator now.

The bloody Archers, it's terrible. And the unfunny comedies and the national anthem at the end (I'm an atheist Republican). And all the bloody tories all day. And is Melanie Phillips still on the Moral Maze? She should be shot. Apart from all that I love it.

Almost all of the 11pm programmes are so annoying, bad comedy being tested but it is always so effing noisy! Just had book at bedtime, at half past is today in parliament which is perfectly boring for falling asleep to. I just wish they would re think the 11pm slot...

Most of the drama and a lot of the comedies are just absolutely dire. I'm another loather of In Our Time and Any Answers. And Something Understood. I also hate Poetry Please (actually the weekend is when I usually turn off R4 as those afternoon dramas seem to go on for about 4 hours, especially if you're in a car)

Things I'm amazed I like (because they're not really within my usual sphere of interest) - the Digital Human and More or Less.

Moral Maze is hatefilled and dreadful

Breadandginger I like Beyond Belief too, and Sunday, but I am religious so it's probably less surprising.

And I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who loves John Finnemore but just didn't get the appeal of Cabin Pressure, apparently the best loved, most award winning, most amazing comedy ever.

I turn off for You and Yours, The Moral Maze, Any Answers and Just a Minute.
I turn over briefly whenever an interviewee is struggling (I get embarrassed on their behalf) or an interviewer is making a knob of themselves.