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Listeners React to BBC Radio Cuts, You and Yours, and an Interview of the Year

It's been a week since the BBC announced the latest round of cuts to Radio 4, and you've been in touch to express your surprise and dismay a...

28:49Oct 15, 2026

BBC Radio Cuts, Charter Renewal, and Welcome to Defiance.

Feedback returns for a new series and a new raft of cuts to BBC Radio 4 has just been announced - including consumer affairs programme You a...

28:11Oct 8, 2026

Dead Rabbit, Colin Sell, and Farming Today.

Andrea Catherwood puts listener comments to environmental journalists Lucy Taylor and Dan Ashby, whose latest series Dead Rabbit uncovers th...

93:07Aug 13, 2026

BBC Proms, Quiz Pilots and Interview of the Year

The 2026 BBC Proms season is underway, and so presenter Andrea Catherwood heads to the Royal Albert Hall to talk to Radio 3 controller Sam J...

28:04Aug 6, 2026

Radio 4's Pilot Quizzes, and Radio 1 Schedule Changes

If you're a longtime Radio 4 listener, you'll know the important place that quizzes occupy in the schedule. That's why listeners have been i...

28:04Jul 30, 2026

Common Ground, Dead Ringers, and You're Dead To Me

Evan Davis, usually found behind the microphone for Radio 4's PM, has been travelling around England and Wales recording people's opinions o...

28:22Jul 23, 2026

Life and Time, 6Music Extension, and World Tonight Interview

The radio drama Life and Time finished its third series recently. The six inter-linked plays explore the experiences of prisoners and prison...

28:27Jul 16, 2026

BBC Investigative Journalism, and Cuts to Programming

The BBC recently reported that they'd tracked down Twana Jamal, one of the most prolific people smugglers in recent history - who had previo...

28:24Jul 9, 2026

News coverage of Andy Burnham. BBC Cuts. The Archers

Andrea Catherwood hears your comments on the cuts to BBC Radio 4 news programmes and talks to a former Radio commissioner about her experien...

28:10Jul 2, 2026

Misha Glenny, Today Programme, and Social Media Ban

It's a new series of Feedback. Andrea Catherwood sits down with Misha Glenny, former foreign correspondent and investigative journalist to t...

28:24Jul 1, 2026

BBC Cuts, and David Baddiel's 60 Years of Hurt

Recent headlines have announced that the BBC is set to implement a massive wave of cuts across all of its programming, in order to make a sa...

28:17Jul 1, 2026

Fergal Keane, Doing Death Differently, and Visualisation

It's the end of this series of Feedback, and Andrea Catherwood is talking to someone who has just brought his own long run at the BBC to a d...

28:11May 8, 2026

Visualisation, Long Wave, Elis and John Podcast

The BBC has just released a new raft of visualised podcasts - podcasts productions that you can watch as well as listen to. Some are being r...

28:17Apr 23, 2026

Radical with Amol Rajan. Faith, Hope and Glory. Interview of the Year

Listeners have been telling us their thoughts about a recent episode of Radical with Amol Rajan, in which he interviewed Dr Suzanne O'Sulliv...

28:27Apr 16, 2026

Broadcasting House, and When It Hits the Fan

Andrea Catherwood meets with Paddy O'Connell, longtime presenter of Broadcasting House. But this time we're going behind the scenes as Paddy...

28:24Apr 9, 2026

News coverage of Iran, Woman's Hour Follow Up, and Miss Marple

Since the conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran began at the end of February. Feedback has received a steady stream of comments from lis...

28:32Apr 2, 2026

Woman's Hour, Liza Tarbuck and Desert Island Discs

In light of the death of Jenni Murray who presented Radio 4's Woman's Hour for 33 years, listeners reflect on the impact she made on their l...

28:17Mar 26, 2026

Inside Health, Radio 4 Extra, and Jeremy Bowen on Today.

A recent episode of Radio 4's Inside Health, presented by James Gallagher, reported a groundbreaking advance in the biomedical study of ME -...

28:14Mar 19, 2026

Illuminated, Charter Renewal, News Avoidance

Illuminated is Radio 4's home for powerful, original audio storytelling - and recently we've heard from listeners who were moved by a docume...

28:17Mar 12, 2026

News Avoidance, Counterpoint, and Ukrainecast Follow-Up

The main news this week has been about the US-Israel attacks on Iran - but how is BBC Radio handling its coverage? We'll hear from you on th...

28:43Mar 5, 2026