List of BBC Radio 4 programmes
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Current programmes and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Note that BBC Radio 4 has only existed since 30 September 1967, so earlier programmes are not generally listed. For 28 years before 1967, BBC Radio 4 was called the BBC Home Service. The dates in brackets show the year(s) of programme's original broadcast.
Many comedy and drama shows from Radio 4 are rerun on BBC 7.
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[edit] News and current affairs
- The Africans
- A Point of View
- Analysis
- Any Answers?
- Any Questions?
- Asian Diasporas
- Broadcasting House
- The Commission
- The Copysnatchers
- Crossing Continents
- Farming Today
- Farming Today This Week
- File on 4
- From Our Own Correspondent
- In Business
- Inside Money
- Law in Action
- Letter from America — (1946-2004)
- Money Box
- More or Less
- Nice Work
- The Pariah Profession
- The Politics of Hunger
- PM
- Profile
- Seven Days
- Straw Poll
- Straw Poll Talk Back
- Taking a Stand
- Taking Issue
- Talking Politics
- Today
- Today in Parliament
- United Nations or Not?
- The Week in Westminster
- The Westminster Hour
- With Us or Against Us
- The World at One
- The World This Weekend
- The World Tonight
- Yesterday in Parliament
[edit] Arts and drama
- The Afternoon Play
- A Good Read
- The Afternoon Reading
- The Archers
- Back Row
- Beyond the Iron Curtain
- Book at Bedtime
- Book Club
- Book of the Week
- The Classic Serial
- The Dark House
- The Film Programme
- The Friday Play
- Front Row
- Kaleidoscope (Defunct)
- The Heard
- Open Book
- Poetry Please
- Saturday Play
- Saturday Review
- White Nights
- With Great Pleasure
- Woman's Hour Drama
- Word on the Street
[edit] Quizzes
- Brain of Britain
- Masterteam - The team form of Mastermind
- Round Britain Quiz
- X Marks the Spot
- Counterpoint
[edit] Comedy
[edit] Panel games
- I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again — (1964–1973)
- I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue ("The antidote to panel games") — (1972–date)
- Just a Minute — (1967–date)
- Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
- My Music
- My Word!
- The News Quiz — (1977–date)
- The 99p Challenge
- The Personality Test
- Puzzle Panel
- Quote... Unquote — (1976–date)
- Whispers — (2003–2005)
- Whose Line is it Anyway — (1988)
[edit] Sketch shows
- The Consultants
- Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years
- Dead Ringers
- Down The Line
- The Goon Show — (1951-1960)
- Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking
- On the Town With the League of Gentlemen — (1997)
- Little Britain
- The Million Pound Radio Show
- The Museum of Everything
- The Now Show
- On the Hour — (1991-1992)
- Radio Active — (1980-1987)
- Radio9
- Round the Horne
- The Sunday Format
- That Mitchell and Webb Sound
- Week Ending — (1970-1998)
[edit] Sitcoms
- Absolute Power
- Acropolis Now
- After Henry
- Clare in the Community
- Count Arthur Strong
- Dad's Army
- Ed Reardon's Week
- Flying the Flag — (1987-1992)
- Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — (1978, 1980, 2004-2005)
- King Street Junior
- Living with the Enemy
- Millport
- The Navy Lark — (1959-1977)
- Nebulous
- Not Today, Thank You
- Old Harry's Game
- One Foot in the Grave
- Our Brave Boys
- Revolting People
- The Sofa of Time
- Weak At The Top
- Yes Minister
- You'll Have Had Your Tea
[edit] Stand-up
- Ross Noble Goes Global
- Ross Noble On…
[edit] Topical lectures
- Chris Addison
- The Ape That Got Lucky
- Chris Addison's Civilisation
- Fanshawe Gets to the Bottom of
- Rainer Hersch:
- All Classical Music Explained
- Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective
- Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
- Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue
- Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music
- The Problem with Adam Bloom
- People Like Us
- Round Ireland With a Fridge
- Mark Steel:
- Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better – (2007)
[edit] Other
- 15 Minute Musical
- 1994
- Alison and Maud
- All Gas and Gaiters
- All the Young Dudes
- And Now in Colour
- Armstrong and Miller
- As Time Goes By
- At Home with the Snails
- The Atkinson People
- Babblewick Hall
- Ballylenon
- Beachcomber, by the Way
- Bearded Ladies
- The Betty Witherspoon Show
- Big and Little
- The Big Booth
- The Big Business Lark
- The Big Town All Stars
- The Bigger Issues
- The Boosh
- Boothby Graffoe
- The Borscht Belt
- Brain of Britain
- Brothers in Law
- The Burkiss Way
- The Cabaret of Dr Caligari
- The Cabaret Upstairs
- Chambers
- The Cheese Shop
- Chewin' the Fat
- The Children's Hour
- Cliché
- The Clitheroe Kid
- Comedy Album Heroes
- Concrete Cow
- Creme de la Crime
- The Curried Goat Show
- Delve Special
- The Department
- Dial M for Pizza
- The Dictionary Quiz
- Do Nothing 'Till You Hear From Me
- Doctor at Large
- Doctor in the House
- Does the Team Think
- Down Your Way
- Double Income No Kids Yet
- Double Trouble
- Drop Me Here, Darling
- Elephants to Catch Eels
- The Embassy Lark
- Five Squeezy Pieces
- Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel
- The Frankie Howerd (Variety) Show
- Forty Nights in the Wildebeest
- Foul Play
- Four at the Store
- Four in a Field
- Four Joneses and a Jenkins
- Frank Muir Goes Into
- Fred Housego's Unknowns
- Garrison Keillor's Radio Show
- Genius
- Goodness Gracious Me
- The Grumbleweeds Radio Show
- Guy Browning's Small Talk
- The Harpoon
- Harry Hill's Fruit Corner
- Hearing with Hegley
- Henry Normal's Encyclopedia Poetica
- Hinge and Bracket:
- At Home with Hinge and Bracket
- The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket
- The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket
- Hole in the Wall Gang
- Hordes of the Things
- The House of the Spirit Levels
- How Tickled Am I
- The Hudson and Pepperdine Show
- I Think I've Got a Problem
- In Conversation With
- The In Crowd
- In One Ear
- In the...
- In the Red
- In the Balance
- In the Chair
- In the End
- Injury Time
- Inspiration
- It Sticks Out Half a Mile
- The Jason Explanation
- Ken Dodd's Palace of Laughter
- The Ken Dodd Show
- Kenneth William's Playhouse
- King Cutler
- King Stupid
- Knowing Me, Knowing You
- Ladies of Letters
- The League Against Tedium
- Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun
- Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful
- Lenin of the Rovers
- Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
- Listen to Les
- The Little Big Woman Show
- Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World
- The Ll Files
- A Look Back at the Nineties
- Losers
- Linda Smith's a Brief History of Timewasting
- Man of Soup
- Many a Slip
- Marriott's Monologues
- The Masterson Inheritance
- The Mausoleum Club
- McKay the New
- The Mel and Sue Thing
- The Men from the Ministry
- The Michael Bentine Show
- The Miles and Millner Show
- The Milligan Papers
- Milligan, Or Your Favourite Spike
- Milton Jones:
- Another Case of Milton Jones
- The House of Milton Jones
- The Very World of Milton Jones
- The Monkhouse Archive
- More Mr Mulliner
- The Motion Show
- The Motorway Men
- Naked Radio
- The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately
- The Nick Revell Show
- Night Class
- No Commitments — (1992–2006)
- Old Dog and the Partridge
- The Omar Khayyam Show
- Palace of Laughter
- Parsley Sidings
- The Party Line
- Radio Anarchists
- Radio Fun
- Radio Lives
- Radio Roots
- The Rapid Eye Movement
- The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show
- Rigor Mortis
- Ring Around the Bath
- Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends
- Romantic Friction
- Ronan the Amphibian
- Room 101
- Rutland Weekend Television
- Saturday Night Fry — (1988)
- Scenes from Provincial Life
- Sean Lock:
- Sean Lock, 15 Storeys High
- Sean Lock's 15 Minutes Of Misery
- Set and a Song
- Seymour the Fractal Cat
- Share and Share Alike
- Shelley
- Should We Be Laughing?
- Shuttle Diplomacy
- The Shuttleworths
- Six Characters in Search of an Answer
- Six Geese a Laying
- The Six Mothers in Law of Henry VIII
- The Skivers
- Slices of Life
- The Small World of Dominic Holland
- Smelling of Roses
- Snap
- Something or Other
- Son of Cliché
- Sounding Off with McGough
- Stand Up 2
- Stand Up America
- Stand Up Great Britain
- Stand Ups and Strumpets
- Stanley Baxter and Friends
- Stockport, so Good they Named it Once
- Struck Off and Die
- A Swift Laugh
- Talk to Sleep
- That Mitchell and Webb Sound
- That Reminds Me
- There'll Never be Another
- Think the Unthinkable
- This Is Craig Brown
- Three Men Went to Mow
- Tim Merryman's Days of Clover
- Time For Mrs Milliner
- To the Manor Born
- Toad Squad
- Too Many Songs
- A Touch of Mistlet
- Trapped
- Travels with my Anti-Semitism
- Truly, Madly, Bletchley
- Turns of the Century
- Two Doors Down
- Two Priests and a Nun Go into the Pub
- Two Thousand Years of Radio
- Unnatural Acts
- Up the Garden Path
- Vongole
- We've Been Here Before
- WhackO
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
- Wheeler's:
- Wheeler's Fortune
- Wheeler's Wonder
- Where Did it all Go Wrong
- Who Goes There
- A Whole 'Nother Story
- Why Bother
- Wild Things
- Wildbrain
- Winston in Love
- The Wonder Years
- The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere
- The World of Pub
- The Write Stuff
- You Had to Be There
[edit] Science, technology and medicine
- All in the Mind
- Another Five Numbers
- Brief History of the End of Everything
- Britain's X-Files
- Case Notes
- A Cell for All Seasons
- Changing Places
- Check Up
- Climate Wars
- The Columbia Astronauts
- Connect
- Costing the Earth
- Dial a Scientist (Defunct)
- Emotional Rollercoaster
- Five Numbers
- Frontiers
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Home Planet
- Land Lines
- Leading Edge
- Life as a Teenager
- Life as an Adult
- Life in Middle Age
- Lifeblood
- Living with Pain
- Living World
- The Material World
- Mind Changers
- The Mozart Effect
- Nature
- Nature's Magic
- The New X-Files
- One Man's Medicine
- Patient Progress: Strokes
- Rainforests of the Deep
- Red Planet
- Reith Lectures
- Science Now (Defunct)
- Scientists in a Shoebox
- Seeds of Trouble
- Small Dog on Mars
- Stars in Their Eyes
- Swan Migration
- Tales of Cats and Comets
- Think About It
- A Twist to Life
- Unearthing Mysteries
- Walk Out to Winter
- What Remains to Be Discovered?
- Whatever you think
- Where are you taking us?
- Wild Europe
- Wild Underground
- Wrestling with Words
[edit] Religion and ethics
- Bells on Sunday
- Beyond Belief
- Bigots and Believers
- The Choice
- Church Going
- The Daily Service
- Devout Sceptics
- The Four Noble Truths
- A Higher Place
- In the footsteps of Moses
- Lent Talks
- The Long Search
- Missionaries
- The Moral Maze
- Prayer for the Day
- The Real Patron Saints
- Something Understood
- Sounding the Divine
- Sunday
- Sunday Worship
- Thought for the Day
- Words from the Cross
[edit] History
- Apprentice
- Back to Beeching
- The Child Migrants
- City of the Sharp Nosed Fish
- The Dark Origins of Britain
- The Decade of Self-doubt
- Document
- Falkland Families
- For What It's Worth
- Great Lives
- Heroes and Villains
- A History of Human Folly
- In Our Time
- Lend Me Your Ears
- The Long View
- Mapping the Town
- Making History
- Memory Like Shells Bursting
- Reconciling Histories
- The Reunion
- The Roman Way
- The Routes of English
- The Secret Museum
- Soldier, Sailor
- Spies R US: the history of the CIA
- The Telemark Heroes
- This Sceptred Isle
- The Three Voyages of Captain Cook
- Tiger Tales
- Voices of the Powerless
- What If..?
- Why Did We Do That?
[edit] Factual
- The Archive Hour
- Between Ourselves
- The Brains Trust (Defunct)
- Cartoon Clichés
- Chetham's School of Music
- Chain Reaction
- Community Caring
- Cutting a Dash
- A Dance through Time
- Darcus and Dickens
- Deep Blue
- Desert Island Discs
- A Different World
- Excess Baggage
- Feedback
- File on 4
- Four Corners
- Herbs: Pure and Simple
- The Food Programme
- Gardeners' Question Time
- Go 4 It
- Great Lives
- Home Truths (Defunct)
- In Living Memory
- In Our Time
- In Touch
- An Indian in Bloomsbury
- Is It On?
- It's My Story: Physician, Heal Thyself
- The Learning Curve
- Let's Pretend
- The Message
- Nothing to Do But Drink
- On the Ropes
- On Your Farm
- Open Country
- Painted Fabrics
- Poisoned Angel: the Story of Alma Rosé
- Public Records, Private Lives
- Questions, Questions
- Ramblings
- Reel Histories
- Subterranean Stories
- Thinking Allowed
- This Sceptred Isle
- Veg Talk
- Weekend Woman's Hour
- Winnie the Pooh Lost and Found
- Woman's Hour
- Word of Mouth
- A World in Your Ear
- You and Yours
[edit] Conversations
- In Town Tonight (Defunct)
- Loose Ends
- Midweek
- Off the Page
- Start the Week
- Stop the Week (Defunct)
- Where Are You Taking Us? (Defunct)
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Pick of the Week
- Shipping Forecast
- Test Match Special