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Behind the scenes at Radio 4 A blog from the people who brought you the Editors' blogs for News, Sport and BBC Online. Follow BBC Radio 4 on Twitter for web site news, programme highlights and interesting retweets.
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Bloomsday and cultural programming on BBC Radio 4

Niamh Cusack (Molly Bloom); Henry Goodman (Leopold Bloom); Andrew Scott (Stephen Dedalus) - some of the cast of Radio 4s upcoming dramatisation of Ulysses "What did you do in the Great War Mr Joy...

1 day ago

Cane toads, golf ball potato crisps and the joys of listening to Clive James

Clive James - presenter of A Point of View As an editor, there are some experiences that are less than happy. Like the moment when one of the BBCs in-house lawyer frowns and says that your rock-solid...

4 days ago

In Our Time: Marco Polo

Editors note: In Thursdays programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed Marco Polo. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - PMcD   Hello Ingrid told...

25 may 12

The Film Programme at Cannes

Editors note: The Film Programme is broadcast at 4pm this Thursday 24th May. The programme this week comes from the Cannes Film Festival. -CM For all its rarified reputation, the Cannes festival is f...

24 may 12

The New Elizabethans

Editors note: Nominations for The New Elizabethans were sent in by Radio 4 listeners and then a panel of historians decided on the final list.  Radio 4 will broadcast profile...

21 may 12

Desert Island Discs now includes programmes from the Roy Plomley years

Margaret Lockwood records for the BBC. Her Desert Island Discs programme was made in 1951 and is the earliest download available from the latest archive launch.   John Calver writes about the pa...

18 may 12

In Our Time: Clausewitz and On War

Editors note: In yesterdays programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed Clausewitz and On War. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - PMcD.   Hell...

18 may 12

My Own Shakespeare - Andrew Marr

Editors note: The My Own Shakespeare series is made up of short two and a half minute programmes which are being broadcast across BBC Radio 3, 4 and 4 Extra. We asked public figures from a wide varie...

18 may 12

The Film Programme: A Tribute to Colonel Blimp

Editors note: The Film Programme is broadcast at 4pm this Thursday 17th May. The programme this week is dedicated to celebrating the film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Presenter Francine Stock...

16 may 12

The Perfumed Mountaineer

Editors note: The Perfumed Mountaineer was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 14 May 2012, 11am-1130am. PMcD.     Picture this: it is cold, the wind is hammering from the north, you are on an...

14 may 12

My Own Shakespeare

Editors Note: My Own Shakespeare invites public figures to talk about the piece of Shakespeare that inspires them most.The short programmes will be broadcast across Radio 3 and Radio 4 in May 2012 an...

11 may 12

In Our Time - Game Theory

Editors note: In Thursdays programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed Voltaires Candide. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep -CM Hello Well, I was ra...

11 may 12

Bookclub: Gods Own Country

Eds note: Radio 4s Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 6 May and is repeated on Thursday 10 May at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast - CM Ross Raisin at the Boo...

06 may 12

In Our Time: Voltaires Candide

Editors note: In Thursdays programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed Voltaires Candide. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep. PMcD.   Hello A fe...

04 may 12

Radio 4 Extra Comedy Club: Machynlleth Comedy Festival

Editors note: BBC Radio 4 Extras Comedy Club is going to the Machynlleth Comedy Festival this weekend, Producer, Luke Doran give a view from behind the scenes. PMcD. There are two things you notice u...

04 may 12

Download Saturday Lives Inheritance Tracks

Editors note: Inheritance Tracks is a feature in Saturday Live where a guest chooses a song that they inherited from their parents and one that they would pass on to the next generation. Over 200 Inh...

04 may 12

In Our Time - The Battle of Bosworth Field

Editors Note: This week Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bosworth Field, the celebrated encounter between Lancastrian and Yorkist forces in August 1485. - CM Hello, A few after the p...

27 apr 12

Howerds Ways: The Radio Times of Frankie Howerd on 4Extra

Editors note: The Producer of Howerds Ways: The Radio Times of Frankie Howerd,  Mik Wilkojc writes about working on the programme for BBC Radio 4Extra. PMcD.   Busy year, 2012. The Oly...

27 apr 12

Radio 4Extra: Vivat Rex

Editors note: Vivat Rex is an epic 26 part drama following the English Crown from Edward IIs accession in 1307 to the birth of Elizabeth I. It is told through the adapted works of Shakespeare, Marlow...

27 apr 12

Shakespeare Live Blog with Neil MacGregor

To celebrate the Radio 4 series Shakespeares Restless World (and what many think would have been his 448th birthday), we hosted a live blog with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum and pre...

23 apr 12

Swallows and Amazons

Editors Note: Crawford Logan has voiced a new 5-part recording of Swallows and Amazons for BBC Radio 4 Extra. You can hear the series during the 4 OClock Show from 23rd-27th April -CM Crawford Logan ...

23 apr 12

In Our Time: Neoplatonism

Editors note: This week Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Neoplatonism, the school of thought founded in the 3rd century AD by the philosopher Plotinus. As always the programmes are available to li...

20 apr 12

Sex, Violence and Shakespeare Remixed on Radio 4 Extra

Editors Note: Nick St George is the producer of Shakespeare: Thereby Hangs A Tale with Simon Russell Beale. You can hear the programme on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 21 April at 9am and 7pm. PMcD. While the...

19 apr 12

Bookclub free tickets: David Baddiel on the novelist Elizabeth Taylor

Radio 4s Bookclub is celebrating the centenary of the novelist Elizabeth Taylor. When an author is no longer with us, the programme invites a writer whos a fan to come and champion the chosen book. P...

18 apr 12

Playing At War

Editor’s note: Philip Palmer is the writer of the new Radio 4 drama series, Red and Blue.   Red and Blue, a journey into the world of the wargame, is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 ov...

17 apr 12

Shakespeares Restless World - starting Monday 16 April

Detail from Henry Vs shield. Copyright: The Dean and Chapter of Westminster 2012   In this year of celebration for all things Shakespeare, Radio 4 and the British Museum bring you Shakespeares R...

13 apr 12

In Our Time: Quakers and Early Geology

Editors note: This week Melvyn Bragg refers to the two latest episodes of In Our Time about George Fox and the Quakers and Early Geology. As always the programmes are available to listen to...

13 apr 12

Feedback: Controller of BBC Radio 4, Gwyneth Williams

  The Controller of Radio 4, Gwyneth Williams, is a disarming figure. She arrives at the studio for our Feedback interview full of earnest enquiries about everyone’s health, ignoring the f...

13 apr 12

Feedback: Comedy on Radio 4

I hope he wont be embarrassed if we meet in Berkhamsted High St, my local town, but I love Ed Reardon, so I was delighted to meet his co-writer this week, Andrew Nickolds. We were squeezed into one o...

06 apr 12

The Peoples Passion: Sasha Johnson Manning

Editors note: Sasha Johnson Manning composed The Peoples Passion Easter Anthem for BBC Radio 4. Here, she talks about the inspiration behind the project. You can hear The Peoples Passion: Afternoon D...

05 apr 12

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