The season will explore whether an increasingly fractured society is shaping modern Britain, or whether we have more in ...

News programme broadcast every weekday evening is one of first victims of corporation’s drive to cut £500m in costs ...

Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting Radio 4 on their 198 ...

BBC Radio 4 broadcasts on Long Wave will end on 27 June 2026, ahead of the Long Wave platform closing on 30 June 2026. The Long Wave infrastructure is owned and operated by a thir ...

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'Devastated' staff question if licence fee is worth paying after brutal cuts – with star presenters facing exit and more pain ...

BBC to axe Radio 4’s The World Tonight in first round of sweeping job cuts - The World Tonight, which is a 45-minute weekday news programme, will be axed after almost 70 years.

When the debut of the BBC Radio Four World War I drama Home Front aired in August 2014, it was described as “the most ambitious radio drama project embarked on by the BBC for half a century”. Over ...

The BBC has announced that a Radio 4 service will close before the end of 2026 – and fans have been left with mixed feelings. The corporation will close Radio 4’s Long Wave later this year, as the ...

Radio 4 is to broadcast pilot episodes of a new books-themed quiz later this month, hosted by Clare Balding and made by the team behind QI. The new quiz show, called Bookmarks, will initially feature ...