Talk:BBC Radio 4

message: I suggest that the stub article BBC Home Service be merged into the History section of BBC Radio 4 as that article provides plenty of information already and will be the name that first comes to mind for the majority of people today.  BBC_Radio_Four#History Davidkinnen 18:07, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to note that this merge has been undone, and a new, fully researched history of the Home Service can now be found at BBC Home Service. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 15:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[BBC Home Service]] 

message: If anyone is wondering what happened to Patrick Muirhead he is apparantly now working as a painter and decorator! -  Jooler 19:14, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He was - but according to the Mail on Sunday interview with him this weekend, he now runs his own gentlemen's outfitters in West Sussex  Stephenb (Talk) 13:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Patrick Muirhead

message: The article says that RealPlayer is "required", but that's not the case. I use Real Alternative instead, and I would imagine that any other players which can play RealPlayer files would work too.
I'm not sure how to reword it though, especially since I don't know what other players would work and I don't want to just advertise Real Alternative. Any ideas? 
MyNameIsClare talk  15:35, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Just don't mention it. Or do it. Mentioning Real Player but not Real Alternative would just be weird. Ran4 (talk) 21:25, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listen Again 

message: . Joe D (t) 07:01, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Userbox fans

message: I find the time-signal is seldom played over programmes.
:With Sky digital can someone confirm my findings of the GTS accurate to within one second of FM being broadcast?
The FM and LW time signals are very accurate - the BBC take into account the speed of light and broadcast it very slightly early so that in Central London it's "right". Alas, with digital broadcasting they can't be so accurate - the encoding and decoding takes time - and the BBC can't know how long it will take your receiver to decode the signal. For DAB radio, the delay is 384ms (for encoding) plus however long your receiver takes to decode (typically tens of milliseconds). For SKY or Freesat there's also the satellite delay, the total delay is estimated as being between 900 and 2000mS. Apepper (talk) 12:49, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: GTS

message: the midweek link is linked to the midweek magazing, can someone change this? i need to be off so i cant do it myself.
:Done. The magazine was the only article regarding Midweek, so I have created a link where anyone can create an article on the Midweek radio show. Well spotted by the way. Sonic 20:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  midweek 

message: Wikipedia has loads of lists of radio stations, but it doesn't appear that individual stations are being particularly well interlinked. this article has "see also" links, but none to individual radio stations. does anyone know of any similar stations? user: amoammo
: Found one, added it. user: amoammo
:: ABC Radio National and Radio New Zealand National come to mind. matturn 07:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Similar stations in northern Europe include: DR P1, Denmark, Sveriges Radio P1, Sweden, and WDR 5, Germany. -- Picapica (talk) 09:08, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Foreign Equivalents?

message: I've moved the programmes to List of BBC Radio 4 programmes as the list was just getting ridiculously long! Stephenb (Talk) 15:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Programmes

message: It appears that there has always been programming differences between these two sub-networks. Originally, the FM network's variations were material of lesser importance than the then primary LW network, but then after more FM transmitters were installed and the original Radio 5 launched, the inverse became the case. I don't know the details, but I think this is important enough to be mentioned prominently. The so called "Scud FM" was less of a separate station as some current Wikipedia references suggest, and more just Radio 4 FM during the Gulf War - the period of greatest difference between the two versions of the station. matturn 07:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Difference between Radio 4 FM and LW

message: A suggestion from me would be to put the current controller of each BBC department into the summary BBC departmental pages(the little box in the overview).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.106.2 (talk) 22:26, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps you could make fleeting reference to  "...the Rupert Murdoch-owned papers..." and allow readers to form their own conclusions without sounding biased yourself. I agree with your sentiments, but the statements as they were worded were blatantly not neutral! Radiopathy •talk•   01:04, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: The category Desert Island Discs castaways has been nominated for deletion. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 09:42, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Desert Island Discs castaways - nominated for deletion 

message: I am so glad that the list of newsreaders makes it easy to find "Former staff" and then gives us the name of Charlotte Green and Harriet Cass. These two newsreaders were two of the most famous newsreaders on Radio Four, and I am sure that (after leaving in 2013) many Radio Four listeners have missed these two. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:04, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Something I wish to praise the article for

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on BBC Radio 4. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20141006185743/http://www.radioawards.org/winners04/win04.htm to http://www.radioawards.org/winners04/win04.htm
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20140327094112/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1942948.ece to http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1942948.ece
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Cheers. —cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 23:26, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: When this says "It (Radio Four) is the second most popular domestic radio station in the U.K." should there not be  a tag saying "citation needed"? And would it not be more informative to say "after Radio Two"?Vorbee (talk) 18:37, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Second most popular station in the United Kingdom

message: Today at about 19:00 CET the "BBC R4" interfered with the reception of an FM station on my radio at 92.6MHz... the problem is that the location of my car and car radio was about 1260km east of London.
I thought FM stations could not reach this far; I believe the BBC R4 was at 92.5MHz, where is it located?
Why did this happen? Solar wind? Sun position?
This is way beyond line of sight, plus the terrain...
it took 5-10 minutes to establish a very strong interference, to the point when I could tune the frequency right and get stereo reception. There was a time signal, so I guess that was at 19:00 local time. (18:00 in the UK, I guess). At 19:50 the interference was gone...
I wouldn't loike to this to happen again...
I would report this curiosity to the BBC R4 directly, but they don't have open contacts :/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.64.43.195 (talk) 20:34, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station reach // unexpected interference at 1200km distance? 

message: I have heard on the news tonight (Tuesday July 9 2019) that the new controller of Radio Four has now been announced. I can't remember the name, but if any one can, s/he could put the name of Gwyneth Williams' successor-to-be in the article to up-date the article. Vorbee (talk) 17:43, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Rillington (talk) 14:42, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

text: I updated the station controller in the article introduction. Lammbda (talk) 06:57, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Gwyneth Williams' successor has been announced