The Queen has recorded a special radio broadcast with the BBC racing commentator John Hunt, whose wife and two daughters were ...

Broadcaster and author Misha Glenny will replace Melvyn Bragg as the presenter of In Our Time when the popular BBC Radio 4 ...

The new home of BBC Radio 4’s original documentaries about culture and the arts The BBC has launched a new podcast feed, Artworks, the home for imaginative documentaries about culture and the arts ...

What can you say on the radio these days? For some listeners, instances of swear words and racialised language do not belong on Radio 4. Andrea Catherwood sits down with "king of the bleep" Roger ...

BBC Radio 4 has announced a host of exciting new commissions coming soon to Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. This includes The Fever, a 90-minute radio adaptation of the critically acclaimed play by Wallace ...

BAFTA award-winning Michael McIntyre returns to our TV screens on Christmas Day for a tinsel-covered edition of his ...

The 14th Audio Drama Awards celebrated the BBC’s commitment to audio drama and comedy, with Bill Dare posthumously awarded Outstanding Contribution Bill Dare's contribution to comedy is unparalleled.

New programmes explore the life, legacy, and literary brilliance of one of Britain’s most beloved authors "Jane Austen’s work continues to delight audiences 250 years after she was born. We’re ...

In tribute to the late poet Tony Harrison, BBC Radio 4 is rebroadcasting his landmark poem v. alongside Blake Morrison’s 2013 documentary Tony Harrison was one of our most vital poetic voices, and v.

The 2025 lectures will be recorded in front of live audiences in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and the United States We are delighted to announce Rutger Bregman as the 2025 Reith Lecturer. Bregman has ...

In his Reith Lecture, A Time Of Monsters, the author described Donald Trump as ‘the most openly corrupt president in American history’. This was removed from the Radio 4 broadcast, which aired at 9am ...

The BBC has said its radio stations will continue to be available for people outside the UK to listen to live after BBC Sounds access is restricted for international listeners. BBC Sounds will close ...