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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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Podcasts:
Was a topless Duchess of Cambridge really news? And your wishlist for the new DG.
What's the Olympic legacy for BBC 5Live? Listeners to Radio 1 want to know how different mornings will be with new presenter Nick Grimshaw at the mic. Plus the future of Radio 4's Thought for The Day.
It's gloves off at the Radio 2 playlist meeting and just how should you say 2012? And listeners respond to Radio 4's Chain Reaction.
Do BBC reporters know their Higgs boson from their Bunsen burner? Also in the programme: was a Radio 1 Newsbeat report on false rape allegations misleading? A new drama uses children's voices to shed light on old age existence. And Radio 2 presenter Stuart Maconie takes us inside the People's Songs.
Love at first sight for Woman's Hour and Men's Hour? Plus the Feedback jingle!
Mistakes in the New Elizabethans series? Plus your verdict on the BBC's Olympics.
Are sensational storylines ruining The Archers? The Controller of Radio 5 Live warms up for the Olympics. Finally, what is it with the Today programme presenters and telling the time?
Radio 4's Honest Doubt series - what did you think? Plus the new BBC Radio websites and a follow up on Drop Out Watch.
Radio 4's Bloomsday: triumph, or blooming inconvenience? Plus the launch of Drop Out Watch, and what next for Chris Moyles? Radio 4's forum for audience comment. Presented by Roger Bolton.
The secret life of a continuity announcer, and what went wrong at Choral Evensong? Radio 4's forum for audience comment. Presented by Roger Bolton.
A look back at the BBC Jubilee coverage, plus... is the Archers endangered?
Are some subjects too personal for broadcast? And the future of local radio.
The extension of World at One, changes to Saturday morning programmes and thoughts on the next Director General of the BBC – Gwyneth Williams, the controller of Radio 4 takes listeners' questions and gives her thoughts on what this summer holds for her network. Making the unmissable… er… missable. Why were so many programmes not available on iPlayer last weekend and why had so many podcasts gone awol? Was everyone on holiday? Young news junkies form a Feedback Listening Club to pick apart Radio 1's Newsbeat programme. More tense discussion over use of the historic present on In Our Time, Midweek and The Long View.
Can anything be done to make Radio 4 comedy appeal to a wider audience? The writers of Ed Reardon's Week and North by Northamptonshire, along with Radio 4's comedy commissioning editor, discuss. The BBC's Complaints system is being overhauled. Find out more about how you can have your say on what needs to be done to make it better. It's been five months since BBC local radio listeners first complained about the strange clicks, crackle and pops they hear when listening online. So why is it still not fixed? The man in charge tries to explain what's gone wrong. And the producer of Start the Week explains how she goes about slashing a third of the programme every week for the shortened evening repeat.
Last week critics of Radio 4's Count Arthur Strong aired their views - and outraged his many fans. They contacted the programme in droves, demanding satisfaction. So, in this week's programme the Count's supporters meet his detractors for a fight to the comedy death - well nearly. Which side will win? Is the programme Strong or weak? Roger Bolton officiates and there is a special appearance from Count Arthur himself. Roger meets Today presenter Justin Webb and 5Live's Victoria Derbyshire to discuss the delicate art of interviewing ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. And is In Our Time killing the past tense? By repeatedly discussing past events in the present tense, worried listeners feel that the programme may permanently mangle the language.