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Summary: Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations. Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy.

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 Feedback: Who sets the news agenda? 7 Feb 14 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:44

Too tabloid. Obsessed with sex. Not enough real news. Some of the criticisms of BBC Radio News. We put concerns to the Editor of the BBC Radio Newsroom. And is Ambridge Extra taking off its wellies for good? Some of your reactions to the news that The Archers spin-off will be taking a rest.

 Feedback: Coverage of Nelson Mandela's death: 13 Dec 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:40

Did the BBC overdo the coverage of Nelson Mandela's death? And should music be kept off Radio 4? Plus a visit to Ambridge.

 Feedback: Too much Nigella on Radio 4? 6 Dec 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:39

Was Radio 4's coverage of Nigella Lawson's appearance in court "too tabloid"? And wellies on for a trip to Ambridge to meet the Archers archivist. Also, why has Radio 4 been asking sailors how they get their weather information? Does this signal the beginning of the end for The Shipping Forecast? Network manager Denis Nowlan eases listeners' fears.

 Feedback: R2 changes: 29 Nov 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:40

Is easy listening dead on Radio 2? The station's Controller, Bob Shennan, answers your questions. And were the French accents on Book of the Week a bit OTT - or even un peu trop?

 Feedback: Robbie Williams on Radio 4: 22 Nov 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:38

Radio 1 won't play Robbie Williams but Radio 4 welcomed him with open arms to a new series of Mastertapes. But does his music belong on a speech network? When Any Questions visited the historic Chartwell House for last Friday's broadcast, presenter Jonathan Dimbleby was cut off just as the programme began, only to return seemingly on the telephone. And later in the week, James Naughtie was oblivious that he had dropped off the air for twelve seconds during the Today programme. Is Radio 4 the victim of sabotage or is there a ghost in the machine?

 Feedback: BBC impartiality: 15 Nov 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:30

Can the BBC be truly impartial for the Scottish Referendum? And too much kitchen, not enough courtroom? Listeners views on the Profile of the new Director of Public Prosecutions. Also this week, meet the new generation of Just A Minute panellists who are giving Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, and Graham Norton a run for their money on Radio 4 Extra's Junior Just a Minute.

 Feedback: Reith Lectures: 8 Nov 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:35

Grayson Perry is the most talked-about Reith Lecturer in years and is undoubtedly entertaining. But have his lectures been intellectual enough? We ask the Commissioning Editor. Changes to BBC iPlayer are afoot which will mean that many programmes remain available for thirty days. We speak to the Controller of Multi-Platforms for BBC Radio Mark Friend to find out more. And it's one of the most coveted slots on Radio 4, so how do authors and publishers get picked for Book of The Week? Roger Bolton speaks to the Commissioning Editor for the series, Jane Ellison.

 Feedback: GF Newman's The Corrupted, 1 Nov 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:31

Why did Radio 4 decide to run ten consecutive episodes of G F Newman's The Corrupted in the Afternoon Drama slot? And Jane Garvey on the past and future of women broadcasters.

 Feedback: CBeebies Radio: 25 Oct 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:45

We revisit our listener panel of four mothers in Cambridge to find out how they got along when they tried to find and use CBeebies Radio. Morwenna Banks, the writer of star-studded drama Goodbye explains why she chose radio to tell a powerful story of loss. And we consider due impartiality in climate change coverage.

 Feedback: climate change sceptics: 18 Oct 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:37

Should climate science be balanced with sceptical opinion? And what's it like to be a castaway? Naturalist Chris Packham on his Desert Island Discs experience. Plus where has CBeebies radio been hiding?

 Feedback: Is watching radio the future? 11 Oct 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:41

When is a radio station not a radio station? When it's audio-visual BBC Radio 1. And why have some Radio 3 listeners been throwing popcorn at their radios?

 Feedback: Comedy: 23 Aug 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:36

Why commission Marmite comedy? And is it ok to be offensive? These questions and more in a special edition of Feedback recorded at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

 Feedback: Too saucy for the school holidays? 16 Aug 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:39

Sexed-up Archers, steamy seventeenth-century drama, and innuendo at teatime – is this appropriate for the school holidays? And why were cricket fans robbed of crucial overs?

 Feedback: Opera fans take umbrage: 9 Aug 13 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:39

Meet the opera fan at the centre of a BBC complaints storm. Your hopes for a new era for the Archers under a new editor. And how does the World at One cope with silly season? Plus we speak to one of the winners of the first BBC Writers’ Prize for Radio, Sarah Hehir. Her play ‘Bang Up’ aired this week in the Afternoon Drama slot on BBC Radio 4.

 Feedback: BBC Proms: 2 Aug 2013 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:39

Too much Wagner, not enough Verdi? Roger Wright, the Director of the BBC Proms, answers listeners questions. And, should Radio 3 and Radio 4 swap presenters?

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