Favourite Radio 4/4 extra programmes?

[whyhere]

Apologies if this has been done before, but I'm new to this board and couldn't find anything. I look at Sounds each evening and download the programmes I want to listen to. If they're available, my downloads will always include:

Ed Reardon's Week
Any Questions/Answers?
Cabin Pressure
Questions from a Long Marriage
Electric Ink
V I Warshawski
Just One Thing
Moral Maze
Money Box
The Life Scientific
More or Less
The Archers
Inside Health
The Briefing Room
King Street Junior
Beyond Belief
Gloomsbury

What other gems am I missing please?

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Drop in - it’s life changing!

I really enjoyed two psychiatry-related series recently, both via Sounds. One was called something like A History of Delusions, presented by Professor Daniel Freeman. The other was presented by the writer Horatio Clare. Can't remember the title but it was something along the lines of Whither Psychiatry?

The Kitchen Cabinet when it's on. It's my comfort blanket of a programme

Yes, the psychiatry series has been good. (And very TA relevant!)

@whyhere You missed out ‘In Our Time’. It’s on right now - but also the back catalogue is pure gold, a whole education in itself.

I’ve forgotten their titles but programmes where one creative person interviews another are usually enthralling.

For decades R4 had the most brilliant hour long dramas after lunch. Now they’ve cut the time down and the quality is so variable I can’t honestly recommend that slot.

For drama you need R3 now - particularly on Sunday night.

And despite having turned into a pseudo-Classic FM with lots of easy listening bits and pieces, R3 does still have one or two discussion programmes and new music programmes worth seeking out.

Never available as a download - presumably because they make more money selling box sets of it, but I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. It's touring currently, we went last night, and it's the most I've laughed in AGES. It's on rotation in the 6.30 comedy slot.

Thank you :-)

Soul Music can be good and like Desert Island Discs there is a huge back catalogue available so you can dip in and out.

Just about any drama by Katie Hims. Black Dog is a fabulous play. As were the connected Listening to the Dead series.

Mike Walker is also often a source of the good drama stuff.

The Unbelievable Truth
Conversations From A Long Marriage

The Archers.
Also like:
BH
The Shipping Forecast
Farming Today
Today - background noise for hours
You & Yours
World at 1
PM
The World Tonight
Last Word
GQT
TKC
Add To Playlist
Wireless Nights
The Skewer
Any Questions
Any Answers
The Bottom Line
Today in Parliament
In Our Time
The Life Scientific
More or Less
Money Box

Used to like JAM, ISIHAC, but no longer bother with the 6.30 slot. The Joanna Lumley Roger Allam is ok

Like some of the plays/dramas

Can't listen to Soul Music, it's guaranteed to make me never want to hear the song again

Tweet of the day is when I go downstairs to make a coffee so I don't have to listen to it

The Skewer is brilliant

Counterpoint
Thinking Allowed
Crossing Continents (not Cross Incontinents 😂)
Mark Steele’s In Town & The Mark Steele’s Solution
The Write Stuff
Elvenquest
Old Harry’s Game
Hut 33
Saturday Live

It's a Fair Cop makes me laugh outloud . Thought series 7 was better than series 6
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060fj66/episodes/player

LifeLines ,set in an ambulance control room is also v good
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ccmj69

In and out of the kitchen
Just fantastic

@beagoldfish ooh, I'd forgotten about that!

Lovely, gentle humour.

I forgot Gloomsbury and The News Quiz.
I also like The Moral Maze.

I tend to like things that are just on in the background, or that are strangely annoying (MM,AA)

I’ll add:

Ramblings
Meet David Sedaris
The News Quiz
Broadcasting House (love Paddy O’Connell)
Flight of the Ospreys
The Patch
Life Changing
I’m Not a Monster - Shamima Gegum

Forgot Today in Parliament and The Week in Westminster.
Funny how we like different things.

Sliced Bread is interesting if you care about the thing they’re investigating.

No one has said 'Tom wrigglesworth's hang ups' ?

Nice crossover with The Archers there too.

Gosh yes! Should have been on my list.

Also thanks for the reminders re Hut 33, Lifelines and Life Changing.

I don’t know if these have been mentioned so far

Prepper
The Coming Storm
The Puppet Master
The Road to Power

Fags, Mags & Bags
Mark Steel's In Town
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups
Clare in the Community
After Henry (a very old one!)

How does that make you feel
its a sitcom about therapy, one of the recurring characters is played by roger allam. They replay it on extra sometimes or it’s all on audible in one “book”