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The Lost Letters from America Found
Zillah Watson
Producer
When Radio 4’s Broadcasting House launched an appeal for lost recordings of Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America, last October, no one could have imagined that it would lead to over 620 missing programmes being restored to the BBC’s archive.
Doctor Who times two at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
The winners of this year’s BBC Audio Drama Awards were announced last night at a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House.
A season of George Orwell on BBC Radio 4
Lucy Collingwood
Assistant Producer
A season of George Orwell on BBC Radio 4 starting on Saturday 26 January 2013
Do you have any of the lost editions of Letter from America?
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
This November the BBC will be launching an online collection of 920 episodes of Letter from America. You’ll able to listen online or download these to play whenever you want.
Shakespeare online: a few highlights
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
Last week the British Museum's Neil MacGregor, presenter of Radio 4's Shakespeare's Restless World, along with curator Barrie Cook took part in a live blog on the Radio 4 website.
BBC Radio and 9/11 Ten Years On
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
On the 5 live blog station controller Adrian Van-Klaveren has written a post detailing 5 live's coverage of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. He recalls where he was at the time (as I'm sure we've all done in the last few days): At the time I was Head of BBC Newsgathering. I remember catching u...
Immerse yourself in The Archers
Tim Davie
Director of Audio & Music
Unless you have kept well clear of the media this week, you will have seen or heard that we have been marking the 60th anniversary of the world's longest running continuous drama. The Archers has been a central part of listener's lives since 1951 and, if nothing else, the past few days have prov...
Changes to the Radio 4 messageboards
Jem Stone
Editor, Social media and Syndication, BBC Radio
Editor's note: Jem Stone is the manager in charge of the messageboards at BBC Radio. Listen to his appearance on Radio 4's Feedback from earlier this afternoon - SB At lunchtime today I was interviewed on the weekly Radio 4 programme Feedback for an item that covered recent changes to the desig...
The hundredth object approaches
Tim Davie
Director of Audio & Music
Without doubt, my highlight of the week will be going to the British Museum on Thursday as we reveal the last object in our series A History of the World in 100 Objects. The Radio 4 series has been a centrepiece of our radio programming over the last year and it is destined to be remembered as o...
Talking to the radio
Kevin Dawson
Get those tweets tweeting, and those emails flying, Feedback, the show which airs listener's views and concerns relating to BBC Radio, begins a new series this Friday. Getting your voice heard, as a listener, has never been more important. If you care about radio, make a noise about it. The BBC...
