The RAJARs are in

I have found myself listening more to Radio 4 of late. I know a lot of people get annoyed by the frequent broadcasting of trailers, but many of them have enticed me to listen to programmes that I would otherwise have missed. For example, I used always to switch over after the 7 pm news to Radio 3, but now I always wait to hear Mark Lawson tell what will be featured on Front Row at 7.15 pm. Sometimes I listen, sometimes I don't.



I still listen to Radio 3, but the way Jazz Record Requests (JRR) gets kicked around the schedule and sometimes cancelled altogether is shocking. The RAJAR figures for Radio 3 increased from 1.98 to 1.99 million, but I have friends who have who have reduced their listening to the station because they do not know where they are with JRR.

Can we bring the South Bank Show to Radio 4 ?



With a PM style blog, it would be just as good as the telly programme, and the pictures would be much better.



Just a thought..

In reply to a comment made @ #2



"Can we bring the South Bank Show to Radio 4 ?"



Isn't there already at least one arts programme on R4, the problem with the "South Bank Show" is that it really relies on the visual, perhaps the BBC could (indeed should) offer to take over the SBS - such things have happened in the past, "What the Papers Say" springs to mind, if I remember correctly it's been transmitted on three networks (BBC, ITV and Ch4).

I'd love to see The South Bank Show on the BBC. I did think it might conflict with the BBC's Imagine. But isn't that finished now?

I'm a recent Radio 7 convert going back to the recent interview with the R7 controller on Feedback. What have I been missing all this time?

I used to listen to R4 incessantly, via the website, generally on ListenAgain. Since the redesign, I have scarcely listened at all.

I really miss my radio4 home page, I constantly listened in before, listened to podcasts, listened again, but I can't abide the newlook website, so my homepage is now BBC news, which has the familiar friendly look radio4 site used to have...and the News headlines!

I've tuned in on the off chance, to see if you might have taken on board so many of the adverse comments and made some changes to the horrible new design...sadly no, so I probably won't bother to return again.

I totally agree with #6 and #7 and have stopped even trying to navigate the new site. Very depressed to read that the 'big pictures' are here to stay in spite of their unpopularity. Radio 4 was my sanity away from the drivel of television and radio here in the U.S. Please make it easier to find SOMETHING worth listening to.

Just agreeing with a couple of people below - great that the RAJAR figures are up but personally since the redesign of the radio 4 website I now listen for about 1 hour a week compared to 4 plus hours per week before.

I have been airing my views on the other blogs. However, I now just want to agree wholeheartedly with the above and thank goodness there are so many others who feel like me. We have been ignored, as I knew we would be right from the start. Totally unhappy and depressed with the arrogance of the BBC over those dreadful, dreadful 'big pictures'. Maybe we can just hope that one day those responsible for this terrible website will see the error of their ways.

It's a good job the figures don't include website visits, or they might tell a very different story. Remind me, why was it changed..?

#11



"Remind me, why was it changed.."



Because they can! :~(

I have just tried to listen to 4StandsUp and the News Quiz, but as usual,the message 'this doesn't seem to be working. Please try again later'. Well, this is probably the 10th time, and just as many days that I have tried. What am I doing wrong? Is it because I live in France,don't pay my radio license, and the BBC have cunningly worked out a way that doesn't allow people living abroad to access Listen Again? Could you please tell me if this is so, and I will stop trying. Thanks.

I totally agree with #6, #7, #8, #9 and #10

When will the madness end.. this is reminding me

of the Poll tax debacle.. or better still how the

old London Transport would put up the fares to

keep the numbers riding the Tube down.



If only Radio4 didn't have such a great product!



1700+ have voted.. and 90%+ agree the new design

is driving them nuts.



https://www.vizu.com/vot/Entertainment/BBC/RADIO4/RADIO/poll-vote.html?n=157092



Let those in control keep patting each other on the back reassuring

each other what a wonderful job they are doing...

I disagree with all the comments that poo-poo the new site design. I think the design team have done a tremendous job. They've lifted the site out of the late 1990's, and made everything a lot easier to find and use.



The moaners will always make more noise than those that quietly appreciate. This is especially true when it comes to radically new web designs. Some users will always need to overcome the bad design that they had became accustomed to and 'relearn' where to find things.



Back on topic: I find it hard to believe that you don't have stats for your web listeners. I read somewhere that online radio is growing fast. Given my consumption that doesn't surprise me.



Seb

Web Designer

That is fine for those who are Web Designers and understand their way around websites and all the jargon. For those of us who do not really understand what a widget is I can assure you it is pretty hard and frustrating. So much so that those of us who are not technowizards give up.

When I was at school, Mark, my maths teacher made us listen to Radio 4. Perhaps you could get more younger people to listen to 4 by broadcasting something which might be useful, or even entertaining, for classes. Then you might break through the ten million, nay, the hundred million barrier. What is radio 4, after all, Mark, if not to listen? All the best, c (and the gang).



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