29/04/2022
What is going on in the mind of Vladimir Putin? A new Radio 4 series has been trying to answer that question. Roger Bolton asks the Presenter of ‘Putin’, Jonny Dymond, if he thinks he knows, and puts ...
29 Apr 202227min
22/04/2022
After almost 40,000 questions over 75 years, is Gardeners’ Question Time in danger of running out of new questions? The programme's presenter Kathy Clugston gives an answer to that, and a range of ot...
22 Apr 202227min
15/04/2022
What can the BBC’s latest news podcast Ukrainecast offer listeners which its news programmes cannot? Roger Bolton puts that question to the podcast’s Producer Jonathan Aspinwall, and also asks him if ...
15 Apr 202227min
01/04/2022
Radio 4’s Tom Sutcliffe responds to listener criticism of Front Row's discussion on the views of JK Rowling.The presenter of Money Box, Paul Lewis, talks about the appalling financial frauds his progr...
1 Apr 202227min
25/03/2022
As the airwaves and social media are flooded with disinformation, how can listeners find out what is really happening in Ukraine, and see through the conspiracy of lies pouring out of Russia? Roger Bo...
25 Mars 202227min
18/03/2022
Are there some subjects radio comedy programmes should steer clear of? For example, the Russian invasion of Ukraine.The BBC executive in charge of both The News Quiz and The Now Show Julia McKenzie ex...
18 Mars 202227min
26/12/2021
Adam Fleming is the main presenter of the BBC’s most popular podcast Newscast. He explains to Roger Bolton what he thinks makes it work.The Archers is the most popular programme on BBC Sounds, and Ann...
26 Dec 202127min
17/12/2021
One of Radio 4’s Factual Commissioning Editors Dan Clarke explains his decision to axe the Film Programme and discusses its replacement Screenshot.He also talks about the new music series Add to Playl...
17 Dec 202127min
