Who listens to radio 4?

I have Radio 4 on from the minute I get up until around 7 o'clock when the telly goes on. I am not listening consciously to every word but I find I absorb a lot through osmosis and often pick up on something really interesting to listen to properly. Can't see the point of Woman's Hour in this day and age and find it patronising that we have to have a special programme just for women. Doesn't sit well with the continuing quest for equality. My bugbear at the moment is the constant use of glottal stops by presenters and others - it seems to have become a fashion not to pronounce the letter 't' and is mightily irritating. And another thing is the use of the word 'underestimate' when what is meant is 'overestimate'. E.g., 'you cannot underestimate how tough it was for her in those days' - heard the other day. No! It's 'overestimate '. This blunder happens all the time. For heaven's sake, what has happened to education?

I started listening to R4 when I was 15! Strange teenager! Hitchhikers guide to galaxy got me hooked. Then the archers. These days, I’m in and out of of it. Some great bits. Others not so good. Archers has got weird. Not keen, but I persevere. Sounds app great for picking the best bits.

There used to be a huge Archers thread on here.
Whatever happened to it?
I can remember my mum listening to it.

Theres a massive archers thread on MN so I use that for my Archers needs. The one on here isnt used much. I criticise the archers endlessly to other archers fans however if people dont listen to it and criticise it I want to kill them, slowly.

I've just read that there's a story line coming up with Ruth and Stella starting to kindle "a relationship" because they met up for a pint in The Bull! And Stella is, allegedly, gay because she named her cat after Sigourney Weaver! What about Dayveeeed? And the Spring heifers? And didn't Ruth already have a fling, a few years back, with a young farm hand? Oh my giddy aunt!

Oh no - not Ruth please, let Stella seduce Alice who realises her drinking is linked to repressing her true self. Alice can now live happily ever after - so can ruth

Poor stella. There was so much angst during Ruth's last affair that I just wanted to shout just do it for pitys sake

Galaxy I listened to it until the 60th aniversary episode which was grossly overhyped as having something truly cataclysmal happening - and then ended up in killing another character, even before they had fully played out the plot from the previous premature death, and asking us to believe that 2 feminist characters, mother and daughter, had never heard or been warned of pre-eclampsia.

My children's generation were having children around that period and when I ran that plot line passed DDiL, she was incredulous.

Somehow, it switched a switch in my mind and I have never listened to The Archers since. Mind you, I do not criticise it either since I have no idea what happens on it. For all I know the whole area could be covered in brick by now and turned into an inner city estate.

Ambridge never sounds very rural to me M0nica
I suppose being stuck in by snow, sick cattle and avian flu are not very sexy.

I think the best things on radio 4 are the documentary and discussion programmes and podcasts.

I am looking forward to "More or Less" starting again tomorrow and I also enjoy series like "All in the Mind", "The Life Scientific" , "Great Lives" , "The Moral Maze"and "File on Four"

I have just finished listening to "The Coming Storm" which traces the origins of the storming of the US Capitol a year ago and the intertwined conspiracy theories which are shaping US politics. Quite scary!

I was listening to that on the radio today, Varian frightening.

Radio 4 is my go to radio station every day. Its my haven of sanity in this crazy world. I can't be doing with wall to wall pop music on some other channels, or the adverts on commercial stations. I like the Today, World at one, and PM news programs, though they can make you feel down with all the bad news. Womens Hour has changed from the cosiness of Jenni Murray, and yes some of the comedy leaves me cold, but I enjoy Mark Steel and that one with the police sergeant-its hilarious. Don't like the Archers, so can't comment on it.
Posters on this thread seem to be complaining that it's not as good as it used to be. Well we change as people, and the media changes as well, so no surprise that we sometimes feel dis-engaged.