List of BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Definition

Current programmes and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Note that BBC Radio 4 has only existed since 30th September 1967, so earlier programmes are not listed. For 28 years before 1967, BBC Radio 4 was called the BBC Home Service.

Many comedy and drama shows from Radio 4 are rerun on BBC 7.

News and current affairs

• The Africans
• An Audience with Tony Benn and David Davis
• 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
• From This Moment On
• In Business
• Inside Money
• Law in Action
• Letter From America
• Money Box
• More or Less
• Nice Work
• The Pariah Profession
• The Politics of Hunger
• PM
• Seven Days
• Shop Talk
• Straw Poll
• Straw Poll Talk Back
• Taking a Stand
• Taking Issue
• Test Match Special
• Talking Politics
• Today
• Today in Parliament
• United Nations or Not?
• The Week in Westminster
• Westminster Hour
• With Us or Against Us
• The World at One
• The World this Weekend
• The World Tonight
• Yesterday in Parliament

Arts and drama

• 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 Friday Play
• Front Row
• The Heard
• Off the Page
• Open Book
• Poetry Please
• Saturday Play
• Saturday Review
• With Great Pleasure
• Woman's Hour Drama
• Word on the Street

Comedy and quizzes

• 1994
• The 99p Challenge
• Absolute Power
• Acropolis Now
• After Henry
• Alison and Maud
• All Gas and Gaitors
• All the Young Dudes
• And Now in Colour
• Armstrong and Miller
• As Time Goes By
• At Home with the Snails
• The Atkinson People
• 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
• The Consultants
• Creme de la Crime
• Counterpoint
• The Curried Goat Show
• Dad's Army
• Dan and Nick, The Wildebeest Years
• Dead Ringers
• 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
• Doon Your Way
• Double Income No Kids Yet
• Double Trouble
• Drop Me Here, Darling
• Elephants to Catch Eels
• The Embassy Lark
• Fanshawe Gets to the Bottom of
• Five Squeezy Pieces
• Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (BBC Remake)
• The Frankie Howerd (Variety) Show
• 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
• Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
• 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
• The Hole in the Wall Gang
• Home Truths
• 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
• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
• I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again
• 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
• Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
• Just a Minute
• Ken Dodd's Palace of Laughter
• The Ken Dodd Show
• Kenneth William's Playhouse
• King Cutler
• King Street Junior
• King Stupid
• Knowing Me, Knowing You
• Ladies of Letters
• The League Against Tedium
• The League of Gentlemen
• Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun
• Legal, Decent, Honnest and Truthful
• Lenin of the Rovers
• Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue
• Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
• Listen to Les
• The Little Big Woman Show
• Little Britain
• Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World
• The Ll Files
• A Look Back at the Nineties
• Loose Ends
• Losers
• Linda Smith's a Brief History of Timewasting
• Man of Soup
• Many a Slip
• Mark Steel:
  • The Mark Steel Lectures
  • The Mark Steel Revolution
  • The Mark Steel Solution
• Marriott's Monologues
• The Masterson Inheritance
• Masterteam
• 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
• The Million Pound Radio Show
• Millport
• Milton Jones:
  • The House of Milton Jones
  • The Very World of Milton Jones
• Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music
• The Monkhouse Archive
• More Mr Mulliner
• The Motion Show
• The Motorway Men
• My Word!
• Naked Radio
• The Navy Lark
• The News Quiz
• The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately
• The Nick Revell Show
• Night Class
• No Commitments
• The Now Show
• Old Dog and the Partridge
• Old Harry's Game
• The Omar Khayyam Show
• On the Town With the League of Gentlemen
• One Foot in the Grave
• Our Brave Boys
• The Palace of Laughter
• Parsley Sidings
• Parsons and Naylor's Pull Out Sections
• The Problem with Adam Bloom
• People Like Us
• Quote...Unquote
• Radio 9
• Radio Active
• Radio Anarchists
• Radio Fun
• Radio Lives
• Radio Roots
• Rainer Hersch:
  • All Classical Music Explained
  • Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective
• 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
• Ross Noble Goes Global
• Round Britain Quiz
• Round Ireland With a Fridge
• Round the Horne
• Rutland Weekend Television
• Saturday Night Fry
• 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
• Shelly
• 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
• The Sofa of Time
• 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
• The Sunday Format
• 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
• 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
• Weekending
• 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
• Whispers
• Who Goes There
• A Whole 'Nother Story
• Whose Line is it Anyway
• Why Bother
• Wild Things
• Wildbrain
• Winston in Love
• The Wonder Years
• The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere
• The World of Pub
• The Write Stuff
• X Marks the Spot
• Yes, Minister
• You'll Have Had Your Tea
• You Had to Be There

Science

• 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
• 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
• Rainforests of the Deep
• Red Planet
• Reith Lectures
• 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?
• Wild Europe
• Wild Underground
• Wrestling with Words

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 Radio 4 Appeal
• The Real Patron Saints
• Something Understood
• Sounding the Divine
• Sunday
• Sunday Worship
• Thought for the Day
• Words from the Cross

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
• 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?

Factual

• The Archive Hour
• Between Ourselves
• Cartoon Clichés
• Chetham's School of Music
• Community Caring
• A Dance through Time
• Darcus and Dickens
• Deep Blue
• Desert Island Discs
• A Different World
• Excess Baggage
• Feedback
• Four Corners
• The Food Programme
• Gardeners' Question Time
• Go 4 It
• Home Truths
• In Touch
• An Indian in Bloomsbury
• Is It On?
• The Learning Curve
• Let's Pretend
• The Message
• Midweek
• Nothing to Do But Drink
• On the Ropes
• On Your Farm
• Open Country
• Painted Fabrics
• Pick of the Week
• Public Records, Private Lives
• Questions, Questions
• Ramblings
• Reel Histories
• Start the Week
• Subterranean Stories
• Thinking Allowed
• 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