The Latest Breaking News from Radio 4

BBC News presenter Anna Foster to join Radio 4 Today team

Insiders say her skill in reporting on Middle East convinced bosses she was right person to join flagship programme

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2025

Bill Dare obituary

Comedy producer behind many popular satire shows, notably Spitting Image, The Mary Whitehouse Experience and Dead Ringers

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2025

Dead Ringers creator Bill Dare dies after accident overseas, says agent as tributes paid to comedy writer

Bill Dare’s agent confirmed the comedy writer died at the weekend following an accident overseas

Evening Standard · Mar 4, 2025

Stephen Mangan to star in new desert island comedy alongside ‘castaway’ celebrities

The star of TV drama The Split joins Sandi Toksvig, Richard Madeley and more in Radio 4 sitcom based on the fictional tropical isle

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2025

Sorry, Dame Judi, BBC Radio’s job is to find listeners, not train playwrights

Drama on 3 may have lost its place but there’s no need for theatrics, it’s just the reality of change in an era of new formats

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2025

Nick Cave: I’ll retire when I can’t do knee drops anymore

Cave was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

Evening Standard · Jan 26, 2025

Writers and actors urge BBC to scrap ‘catastrophic’ plan to axe Radio 3 drama

BBC’s decision to scrap drama Radio 3 called ‘short sighted’ by writers

The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2025

‘We have Radio 4 voices, but we swear’: pioneering podcasters Answer Me This! on the show’s return

Hosts Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann tell us why their comeback coincides with Trump’s second act – and how they now feel like the punks of the speech-audio world

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2025

The week in audio: Virtually Parkinson; The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby; The Pitcairn Trials; Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban – review

A stilted AI Parky proves that interviews are a two-way process. Plus, the strange story of a woman who kept faking pregnancy and a gripping true crime tale

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2025

The week in audio: Human Intelligence; Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring; UnReality; The Hole Truth – review

Naomi Alderman’s 50-part history of great thinkers gets off to a flying start. Plus, an exposé of Russian interference in UK politics; and in the week the BBC axed Short Cuts, where now for young audio talent?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 11, 2025