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Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond

He also reported on LWTV, Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and wrote and presented award-winning documentaries over many years.

Andy Hamilton

Since 1995, Hamilton has written and played the lead role of Satan in the Radio 4 sitcom Old Harry's Game.

Antonio James

In the UK the BBC broadcast a 40 minute piece on 18 April 1996 on Radio 4 about this case, with particular reference to the role of the British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith in providing adequate defence for such cases.

BBC Sussex

In common with much of the BBC's early local radio output, Radio Brighton broadcast only for limited daytime hours in its early years, relying on Radio 2 and Radio 4 for a sustaining service, but building to a full daytime service by the mid-1970s.

Conor Woodman

Woodman regularly reports back on his travels for the BBC's flagship current affairs show From Our Own Correspondent and is also a guest presenter on Radio 4's Costing the Earth.

Dr. Freud Will See You Now, Mrs. Hitler

The play was broadcast on 31 March 2007 in cut-down form by the BBC on Radio 4 as part of The Saturday Play.

Dukan Diet

On May 14, 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 10 minute 3 sided interview/discussion, conducted by Jenni Murray, and including Dr Dukan on Woman's Hour, examining and evaluating the diet's strategy.

Jane Sanderson

She was a newspaper journalist before joining the BBC, where she was a producer on The World At One, PM, and Woman's Hour.

Mihir Bose

Mihir Bose told Paddy O'Connell on Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme that he went to school with the Indian cricketer Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar.

Nabila Ramdani

In the UK, Ramdani participates in flagship current affairs programmes, including the BBC's Woman's Hour, Today, You and Yours, PM, Newsnight, Dateline London, BBC Arabic's Sabaat Ayyam (Seven Days), The Sky News Press Preview, Boulton & Co, and Al Jazeera's Inside Story.

Nicholas Tucker

Tucker is a regular broadcaster and participated in Stop the Week on Radio 4.

Palace of Laughter

Palace of Laughter was a radio comedy aired by the BBC on Radio 4 from 2002 to 2003.

Si Begg

He has also worked as a remixer for over 40 different electronic artists including Alloy Mental, Atmosfear, DJ Rush, Faultline, Michael Forshaw, Lamb, Little Nobody, Moguai, Radio 4, Tipper, Sven Väth, Cristian Vogel, Jennifer Delano, Neuflex, Jason Sparks, Bolz Bolz and Stewart Walker.

Tazeen Ahmad

She has been a reporter in news and current affairs in television and radio for over 17 years which includes working for NBC, Channel 4 and the BBC 5 Live and on Radio 4 as well as the World Service.

Ton Hartsuiker

For many years he presented the program Musica Nova on Radio 4, the Dutch classical radio station, for broadcasting organization NOS.

Tunnel transmitter

An example of this is in the Dartford Crossing tunnel near London, where the programme "Virgin 1215" in the medium-wave band and the BBC's Radio 4 on 198 kHz long wave are rebroadcast in the tunnel.

Wesley J. Smith

Smith is a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, having appeared on national programs such as Good Morning America and Nightline, as well as internationally on BBC Radio 4.


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Angie Hobbs

She is a frequent contributor to TV and radio programmes, including contributions to television shows like BBC Two's Timewatch special "Atlantis: The Evidence" and the National Geographic Channel's "Finding Atlantis", and numerous appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg.

Argleton

On 18 September 2010, the BBC Radio 4 programme Punt PI hosted by Steve Punt investigated the case of Argleton.

BBC Home Service

The last Regional Home Service was an FM opt-out of Radio 4 for Devon and Cornwall as the "South West Region", also carried on several low power medium-wave transmitters, which continued until BBC Radio Cornwall and BBC Radio Devon opened on 17 January 1983.

During the 1970s Radio 4 FM in the East of England (Tacolneston, Peterborough and relays) carried a breakfast magazine programme, Roundabout East Anglia, the region lacking any BBC Local Radio.

BBC Sussex

Des Lynam and Kate Adie both began their careers at BBC Radio Brighton, as did BBC TV News Special Reporter Gavin Hewitt and presenter of Radio 4’s ‘Checkup’ Barbara Myers.

Beat the Kids

The show is hosted by comedian Graeme Garden, as "Dr G" the parentologist (Garden is actually a qualified MD), and features a different cast of comedians, usually familiar from other Radio 4 comedies, each week.

Brian B. Thompson

He also created the continuing detective series Trueman and Riley, broadcast on BBC7 and BBC Radio 4 from 2002 to present (Producer, Toby Swift).

Brian Pettifer

He also played Dr Alfred Meyer in the BBC/HBO film Conspiracy and the part of Dr. Cameron in the Radio 4 series entitled Adventures of a Black Bag.

Caradog Prichard

Following the success of his English translation, Philip Mitchell was commissioned by the BBC to adapt the book for broadcast in English as a radio play and this was transmitted as 'One Moonlit Night' in Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' series on 28 March 1996.

Cliff Morgan

After his retirement from his executive post in BBC Television in 1987 he returned to radio, where his warm, mellifluous voice, together with his natural conversational style and his wide range of contacts in sport and entertainment, greatly benefited BBC Radio 4 series such as Sport on Four (1987–1998), My Heroes (1987–90) and Down The River.

Flowers on the Wall

The song was used in the soundtrack to the 1994 film Pulp Fiction and as the title theme of the 2001-2002 BBC Radio 4 sitcom Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting.

Fritz Spiegl

His BBC Radio 4 UK Theme, in which national songs from each of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom are combined, was heard on Radio 4 at the beginning of each morning's broadcasting until April 2006

Gill Pyrah

She has worked for the Daily Telegraph, been a guest presenter on the Radio 4 programme Midweek and chaired the literary quiz Slightly Foxed on BBC Radio 4.

Glyn Maxwell

His radio adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Gambler was on BBC Radio 3 in June 2009, and repeated on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010, starring Patricia Routledge, Sam Crane, Siobhan Hewlett and Nicholas Le Prevost, and directed by Guy Retallack.

Gordon Salkilld

He also gained fame in Red Dwarf: Season 2, Episode 2 as Gordon - the incredibly intelligent computer aboard the S.S. F Scott Fitzgerald, who is involved in a chess game with Holly - a part specially written for him by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, with whom he had previously worked on the Radio 4 series Wrinkles, and as Petty Officer Parker in BBC Children's Series The Doombolt Chase.

Hallsands

On 15 November 2010, Damon Albarn revealed on the Radio 4 'TODAY' Show that Hallsands is the beach which inspired him and Jamie Hewlett to produce the Gorillaz Plastic Beach LP.

Jo Bunting

She is a regular guest interviewer on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends and has been a panellist on a number of other radio shows, including Clive Anderson’s Chat Room.

John Hegley

In September 1999 together with Simon Munnery he wrote and performed in a comedy series for BBC Radio 4 called The Adventures of John and Tony.

John Pardoe

In 1978, John Pardoe MP played the fairy-tale Liberal prime minister in BBC Radio 4's Christmas Pantomime, Black Cinderella Two Goes East, on the basis that you only get Liberal prime ministers in fairy-tales.

Kenneth Binmore

Simon Singh interviews Binmore for BBC Radio 4 on bluffing in poker and the British 3G telecoms auction, 31 October 2003.

Like an Angel Passing Through My Room

In 2011 BBC Radio 4 in the UK broadcast a drama documentary made by Christopher Green, entitled Like An Angel Passing Through My Room.

Lutz Heck

The work of Lutz Heck features in a BBC Radio 4 documentary "The Quest for the Aryan Cow" presented by the broadcaster and journalist Jon Ronson and produced by Beth O'Dea.

Manning control

29 Apr 2002 Michael Smith, defence correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, and Tom Newton Dunn, defence editor of the Daily Mirror and Andrew Gilligan from the Radio 4 Today Programme, publicized the case of Cpl Paul Biddiss.

Marc Elliott

The Tenth Man - Leonotre/Hauftman - (BBC World Service/Radio 4) 2004

Mark Dolan

Alongside the aforementioned C4 radio show, Dolan is a regular presenter on LBC radio and BBC London, as well as being a panellist on a wide variety of Radio 4 comedy shows including The Personality Test and the Jon Ronson Show.

Mark Mardell

Mardell left his post as Europe Editor to replace Justin Webb as now BBC North American Editor when Webb became a presenter on Radio 4's Today programme.

Myerscough

Julian Myerscough, Record producer, broadcaster and BBC Radio 4 contributor.

Nick Doody

He has appeared on BBC Radio 2, The Comic Side of 7 Days on BBC Three, and has written for 8 out of 10 Cats, The Late Edition (BBC Four), The Now Show (BBC Radio 4), Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (BBC Radio 4) and took his second solo show Hypocrite to the Edinburgh Festival in 2007.

Nick Revell

He co-wrote and co-starred in a 2006 Radio 4 sitcom Living with the Enemy with former Conservative MP Gyles Brandreth.

Nigel Farrell

However he will primarily be remembered for a 50-programme Radio 4 series called The Village, three series of 'Country House' set at Woburn Abbey, 'An Island Parish', which evolved from 'A Country Parish', launched in 2001 on BBC Two and a series on Channel 4 called 'A Place In France'.

Nigel Pivaro

In 2010, Pivaro presented a lecture at the University of Wolverhampton on his experiences while reporting on regeneration and participated in a special Radio 4 Today programme with Evan Davis where he criticised the Media City development at Salford Quays, calling it a 'Cathedral of Corporatism' with few opportunities for locals and small business.

One Corpse Too Many

The book was also adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 1990, starring Glyn Houston as Brother Cadfael and Geoffrey Whitehead as Adam Courcelles.

Pam Ayres

In mid-2007, Ayres started work acting in a new radio sitcom, Potting On for BBC Radio 4, in which she co-stars with actor Geoffrey Whitehead.

Philip Jeays

He also contributes to two Radio 4 programmes 'Singing In The Wilderness' (presented by Tom Robinson and 'Chanson' presented by Kit Hesketh-Harvey.

Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey

In 1985, the story was adapted as the third episode of the BBC Radio 4 series Blandings, starring Richard Vernon as Lord Emsworth and Margot Boyd as Lady Constance.

Rémi Ochlik

The radio host Paddy O'Connell was so moved by her poem that he could not continue to broadcast, and Radio 4 had around 12 seconds of dead air.

Rob Grant

In the mid-1980s, Grant collaborated with co-writer Doug Naylor on radio programmes such as Cliché and its sequel Son Of Cliché, Wrinkles for Radio 4 and television programmes such as Spitting Image, The 10 Percenters, and various projects for Jasper Carrott.

Robert Popper

The third "Robin Cooper" book, The Timewaster Diaries, was published in 2007, was serialised on Radio 4's Book of the Week programme 16–20 July 2007, read by Paul Whitehouse.

Roberta Tovey

More recently, she appeared on "The Film Programme" BBC Radio 4, 30th May 2013, with Bernard Cribbins in which they look back at their roles in Dr. Who films of the 1960s.

Start the Week

The programme's prominence in Radio 4's schedule meant that Bragg's elevation to the House of Lords as a life peer necessitated Bragg's relinquishing of an involvement in the programme.

The Crime Wave at Blandings

In 1985, the story was adapted into the final two episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series Blandings, starring Richard Vernon as Lord Emsworth and Margot Boyd and Lady Constance.

The Daily Service

The Daily Service is a short Christian church service, often from Emmanuel Church in Didsbury, Manchester, England, broadcast every weekday morning between 9.45 and 10.00 by BBC Radio 4 (long wave only) and on the Radio 4 DAB breakout.

TraXX FM

TraXX FM (formerly known as Blue Network, Radio 4 and Radio Malaysia Saluran 4 (English: Radio Malaysia Channel 4)) is an English radio station operated by Radio Televisyen Malaysia.

Trevor Harrison

In addition to his role in The Archers, he has acted in several radio plays on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.

Westerglen transmitting station

A number of items in the BBC Radio 4 schedule are carried on the longwave frequency only: these include Yesterday In Parliament at 0835–0900 on Tuesdays to Fridays, The Daily Service at 0945–1000 on Mondays to Fridays, the Shipping Forecast at 1201–1204 daily and 1754–1757 on Mondays to Fridays, and Test Match Special during international cricket games.