BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4
Radio station ( public law )
reception	analog terrestrial , cable , satellite , DAB
Reception area	United Kingdom (FM, DAB, MW, LW)
Start of transmission	September 30, 1967
Broadcaster	BBC
Intendant	Gwyneth Williams
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BBC Radio 4 is the BBC's national radio program .

history

BBC Radio 4 has been on the air since September 30, 1967, as the successor to the BBC Home Service . His program includes high-quality word-of-mouth programs that include radio plays , politics , news ( Today , The World at One , PM , The World Tonight ), advice programs ( You and Yours , Gardeners' Question Time ), quiz programs ( Just a minute , Brain of Britain ) as well as comedy .

After BBC Radio 2 , Radio 4 is the most popular national radio program in Great Britain and was named “UK Radio Station of the Year” at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2004. In 2002, 6.9 million listeners tuned in to the morning show Today .

On May 30, 2014 was shipping forecast ( shipping forecast ), with the day's program begins in the morning at 5:20, for the first time since 1924 not be broadcast. Instead, the BBC World Service program was broadcast. The weather report could only be made up at 6.40 a.m., which caused quite a stir in Great Britain.

reception

Radio 4 is via FM (92 - 95 MHz), MW (603 kHz, 720 kHz, 774 kHz, 756 kHz, 1449 kHz & 1485 kHz) and long wave (198 kHz), DAB (12B), satellite ( Freeview , Freesat , SkyTV & Virgin) and via the Internet .

Podcasts of some programs have been offered by the BBC since 2004. Radio 4's radio play productions are also marketed as audio books with the note “full-cast dramatisation” (to distinguish it from reading) .

Well-known programs

• A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
• Desert Island Discs
• Listen with mother
• Old Harry's Game
• Test Match Special
• The Archers

Web links

• BBC Radio 4 Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ " Honor for BBC radio 4 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )." Belfast Telegraph. Independent News & Media PLC. 2004. Via HighBeam Research (registration required). Retrieved April 15, 2012.
2. ↑ " BBC Radio 4 back on top. (News) ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )." In: Daily Post (Liverpool, England). MGN Ltd. 2002. Via HighBeam Research (registration required). Retrieved April 15, 2012
3. ^ John Reynolds, Mark Sweney: BBC fails to air Shipping Forecast for first time in more than 90 years . Radio 4 suffers technical fault meaning World Service broadcast instead of weather forecast that first went on air in 1924 . In: The Guardian. May 30, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2014.