Who listens to radio 4?

I listen to podcasts of things I'm interested in, the various books they have and plays on BBC Sounds and also World service

I mainly listen to LBC radio, usually in bed at night.
Yes, Nick Abbot is very entertaining.
Grannyrebel.

The only programme I’m interested in on 4 is desert island discs.

A lot of programmes on 4 during the day seem to be broadcast from some foreign county or another, interviewing the natives.

In other words. ‘Boring’.

A lot of the time. Though I often get irritated by Today Progranne presenters. Just switch off when that happens. Lots of great programmes.

I've listened to Radio 4 all my life but have to admit that some of the output is dire especially the so called comedies. I do still enjoy woman's hour, desert island discs and gqt. I still go to sleep to the shipping forecast ?. Like everything else it is becoming dummed down.

I listen to the programmes on at lunchtime but not much else now. Gone over to the world service. Radio 4 seems irresponsible (promoting alarmist news) and very partisan politically. I think it is the BBC's role to encourage social cohesion and emphasise Britain's virtues. It's a silly mistake to have made it a 'business' - we could do with a national interest based broadcaster and BBC did it very well for years.

I listen to Radio 2 and have done for years. You cant beat Ken Bruce in the morning, he's like one of the family now, and best of all no adverts!!

No - World Service. Their news coverage is always a stark reminder of how much easier we have life than so much of the world.

Me too foxie48, I’m 65 now and first listened to R4 when I was 7 years old.

I’ve always been a R4 addict and had it on constantly for 40 years or more from farming today onwards ; like many others above have switched off more and more. I now listen to Audible and subscribe to the Archers , Desert Island discs and other content like Dead Ringers on BBC Sounds and put it through my new Sonos speakers which I bought myself for Christmas. Highly recommended. My new default easy listening station is Radio 6 music. Afternoon R4 was always a bit tiresome but there are some hidden gems if you search through Sounds using the categories index.

I listen to radio 4 every week day morning and on Sunday morning. During the week it is the Daily Service followed by Women's Hour and in Sunday it is a church service

Yes I have stopped listening to it now too. I listen to Times Radio and thoroughly enjoy it. Found Radio 4 was getting a bit too woke and definitely think the news programmes were slightly biased.

The series Uncanny is worth a listen if you are interested in real life accounts of ghosts and the supernatural. I always appreciate You and Yours. Picking something from the schedule lists is nice for bedtime listening. ?

I listen to it. I like it on in the background and often find very interesting stuff, but there are also several programmes where I listen actively. I am an Archers fan I also enjoy other drama and the books read aloud. More or Less is excellent and explains statistics in an unbiased and understandable way. I have also enjoyed Jon Ronson's Things Fell apart. Which has been very interesting. I also like to listen to Woman's Hour, Money Box, Saturday Live, Just s Minute, The News Quiz, unbelievable truth,.

I don’t listen to Radio 4 as much as I used to. Just certain programmes. Desert Island discs, Just a Minute, From our own Correspondent, Sorry I haven’t Clue, The Money programme and the News.
Things and tastes have certainly changed since I first listened to the crystal set through headphones. The thirties were the best with Big Band music. Henry Hall, Ambrose etc.

Been listening to R4 for donkeys years. I have learnt so much over the years and been entertained by plays and comedy. (Saw Count Arthur Strong tour live a couple of times - pulled a muscle from laughing.) some podcasts I catch like Fortunately with Fi and Jane. Used to listen to the Today programme while walking the dog but they lost me during the Brexit referendum and negotiations. BBC news generally is a drag with unnecessary speculation, analysis and hysteria. No better than the paparazzi. I get my news from the i newspaper. The plays on Radio4 are too “worthy” and serious so I’m quite picky. I love some of the comedies, Woman’s Hour, 4 Extra, Any Questions, Any answers, Rutherford and Fry, In Our Time, GQT, Roger Allum and Joanna Lumley, Bill Nighy. I did once complain about one new presenter of an early morning programme who gabbled and didn’t listen to the people he was talking to - had to turn him off. He has improved over the months but he’s everywhere now. Luckily for the stuff I can’t get on with there’s an off button. Anyone know of a free to air Blues/Rhythm and Blues station (no commercials)?

Don't tend to do R4 at all! Always sounds dry as dust whenever I venture a go! Although R2 with the screeching babbling Zoe Ball and winklepicker? Drive me bonkers? Suvvern twang at 100mph , and talking about what? Exactly? Some in-joke or how they've just bought/sold/eaten something hellishly expensive that only they think is worth gushing on about. Lost for decent radio now, miss wogan so much , gentle clever humour. And why does BBC think youngsters(under50) listen to radio at all? They're so out of touch and I feel desperate to justify keep robbing us of compulsory fee!

I listen to it less and less. I still listen to The Archers and a few other things. I now have 4extra, 5live, Boom Radio, Virgin Radio or World Service. I used to love the afternoon plays but now I find them rubbish!

Times radio for me although even with a DAB radio reception isn’t always great.
Phil Williams Monday to Thursday evenings always interesting and good human input.

Another sad Radio 4 listener here.

What are they trying to do? From announcers linking the programmes (all from Hoxton speaking 'mockney' and seemingly unable to pronounce the last letter of any word) to dire programming, they are shrinking their older listeners' numbers in droves but perhaps that it what they are trying to do?

Where are the comedy programmes that make one laugh? The interesting, well-acted plays. Instead we have woke this and that which have now become intensely annoying.

The BBC Radio 4 timetabling/commissioners are all, I would bet, under 35 and know nothing of their wider world. Everything is so politically correct that it hurts: especially as they are not my politics!

I still enjoy some: the Now show, Last Word, Money Box, Dead Ringers, Gardeners' Question Time and some of Women's Hour where I actually think that Emma Barnett actually does give her interviewees a chance to answer her questions whereas Jenni Murry used to cut them off mid sentence most of the time (and seemed to practice misandry to boot).

It has actually come to the stage where I do not trust the BBC with their news output and I never ever thought that it would be possible to write such a sentence.

However, who to trust....?

I’m in my mid 60’s and remember well listening to the Home Service with my mother as a child. I too loved the Children’s program on just after lunch and could follow at a certain level the morning news program. Anyone remember Jack de Manio and later on, Brian Redhead? I listened to the Today program for about 30 years but once new presenters came on I felt the program was more about them than the interviewees. Now I only listen to The Archers omnibus, the News Quiz and Dead Ringers on R4.

Switched to Times Radio a few months after they first aired. Really like Matt Chorley’s morning show.

I still think Radio 4 has good varied content when compared to speech radio alternatives and has the advantage of be able to so other things while listening. I live on my own and like to hear the human voice especially during lockdown.
I enjoy some of the comedies such as I'm sorry I haven't a clue, dead ringers and the news quiz, the unbelievable truth. If Mark Steel in aTown has visited a town near you, he dies a very entertaining take on its history and culture. I also like desert Island discs, Last Words, and Women's Hour, the Money Programme, And sometimes the book at bedtime. I really enjoyed the smooth dulcet tones of both Joanna Lumley and Roger Allum in Conversations in a Long Marriage but I really, really can't stand Any Answers.

I have been a radio 4 listener for many years but now I'm a selective listener. I pick and choose via podcasts these days and listen to radio 4 extra too. I've just been bought a year's Audible subscription for my birthday which I'm over the moon with as I'm an insomniac and listening relaxes and distracts me wonderfully. There are lots of fantastic free podcasts out there too, so much better than TV.

I listen less than I used to , I find woman’s hour irritating at times now and the plays not my taste . However I always listen to the podcasts Fortunately which I love and often catch up on BBC sounds with the excellent science and medical, money and advice programmes .Radio 4 extra is often better.

Prefer daytime tv. Slightly more entertaining in the background and good knowledge for entering game shows if Covid allows.

Only listen to the Archers these days but have heard the popular Conversations from a long marriage with Joanna Lumley & Roger Alum on Sounds. It's very funny & does ring really true. I've also caught up with Bill Nighy's louche out of work actor/would be sleuth - most entertaining. Otherwise I listen to my own music playlists on Spotify.