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Discuss your favourite podcast, radio show or The Archers episode.

Let's curate our own list!

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NewGrandmummy · 06/11/2026 07:52

As the feeble performance on the latest episode of Feedback hinted that radio overall is on its way out, shall we curate a list here so that we know what to search for when the BBC finally drops out of speech radio altogether?

So far I have:
Rumpole of the Bailey
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups
Just William
Adrian Mole
Ed Reardon's Week
The Archers
Conversations from a Long Marriage
After Henry
Life Changing
The Bottom Line
What's Up Docs
The Life Scientific
Cabin Pressure

What am I missing, oh wise women of MN?

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NewGrandmummy · 06/11/2026 07:54

I also really enjoy Sliced Bread, but I guess that won't age well as there are new products coming on stream all the time that they won't get to access :-(

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girlygirly · 06/11/2026 07:58

On the Rocks was a good one, shame it’s only a few episodes.

socialbatteryisdead · 06/11/2026 08:26

The Book Club with Tabitha Syrett and Dominic Sandbrook
A Good Read
Dish

FizzingAda · 06/11/2026 09:23

Out of .doors on radio scotland
Charles Paris
the Archers
News Quiz
Plays, but there are not so many, or as good, as there used to be
Feedback
Heart and Soul
all of the OP's choices!
I can't believe they would do away with radio! Listen to r4 all the time

NewGrandmummy · 07/11/2026 08:01

@FizzingAda Thanks for Charles Paris - can't believe I forgot that!

But, in a way, that emphasises the need to curate our own list. So often I'll scan 4xtra (as I do every night, and the regular radio 4 listings) and find something that I love but had forgotten about. It's all very well for the spokespeople for the Beeb to say that 'It'll all be there on Sounds' - you have to know what to search for if that's to be of any use.

Do listen to the most recent Feedback everyone - it really sounded to me like things are going to get way worse over the next couple of years. I'd honestly like to know if you hear it the same way or if this lifelong radio 4 listener is catastrophising....

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FizzingAda · 07/11/2026 09:29

Sounds is great for the recent stuff, but if you have to search for something it's hopeless.

DelphiniumBlue · 07/11/2026 10:00

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For…
In our Time

NewGrandmummy · 07/11/2026 12:01

And how did I forget Any Questions and Any Answers?

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Flicitytricity · 07/11/2026 12:07

I loved Eleanor Rising, hope i can find it again!
The Archers
Charles Paris
It's a fair cop
Homefront
Claire in the Community

Im struggling to find much on there that I havent heard several times atm🤨

sonnybeaudelaire · 07/11/2026 12:09

It would have to be a re-run, but the very marvellous Cabin Pressure should be on the list!

Nofeckingway · 07/11/2026 12:10

Spare a thought for us poor non UK residents who lost BBC Sounds last summer for good . Obviously not licence payers but didn't even have the option to subscribe.

fatsatsuma · 07/11/2026 12:13

I loved Pilgrim but hardly any of that is on Sounds.

Davros · 07/11/2026 12:33

Sherlock & co

Hummusfiend · 07/11/2026 12:33

Everything under the Whodunnit Collection
Shedunnit was brilliant, but the last 6 months have not been so great.

Plus Cautionary Tales

I have run out of drama (that I can bear - loads of sci-fi but too apocalyptic for me) on Sounds, so I've been listening to some of the History ones:

Not just the Tudors (proper experts!)
A Short History of (though some of the "experts" aren't all that)
After Dark
History's Heroes
Witness History
Great Lives

RuairiDonovan · 07/11/2026 19:20

The Archers
The Week in Westminster
Shipping Forecast
Sailing By
Farming Today
Today in Parliament
All News and Weather
The Kitchen Cabinet
In Touch
Any Questions and Any Answers
Broadcasting House
And more, but all to be available on radio so we can listen on wind-up radios.

PinkPerpetue · 07/11/2026 19:46

Dead ringers
the news quiz
the archers
inside health
gardeners question time
life scientific
The moral maze
the kitchen cabinet
in the psychiatrists chair

NewGrandmummy · 08/11/2026 07:21

Thanks everyone: definitely some more to add to my list.

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IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 08/11/2026 17:34

Sliced Bread
Word of Mouth
A Good Read
Book Club
Costing the Earth
Add to Playlist

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 08/11/2026 17:35

Curious Cases
More or Less

RomanMum · 08/11/2026 18:23

What a great idea @NewGrandmummy. I love R4Extra and was bereft to hear the news. I’d agree with many on the list already, also:

Mark Steel’s in Town
Old Harry’s Game
Yes Minister
It’s not what you know
You’re dead to me

NewGrandmummy · 09/11/2026 07:44

Some great additions

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