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  1. Rajar figures (April - June 2013) and Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra

    Chris Hutchings

    Chris Hutchings (Research Manager for Radio 4, 4 Extra and Radio & Music Interactive) discusses the latest Rajar results, which cover April - June 2013.

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  2. Latest RAJARs for Radio 4 & 4 Extra

    Gwyneth Williams

    Flagship programmes such as Desert Island Discs, In Our Time and Woman’s Hour are getting record audiences and enticing more and more listeners each week.

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  3. Rajar figures (Oct-Dec 2012) and Radio 4 / Radio 4 Extra

    Chris Hutchings

    Chris Hutchings (Research Manager for Radio 4, 4 Extra and Audio & Music Interactive) discusses the latest Rajar results, which cover October - December 2012.

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  4. RAJAR listening figures for Q3 2011: "In an average week 10.83m adults listen to Radio 4..."

    Gwyneth Williams

    I have been waiting for my usual Rajar Day telephone call - this time it is long distance as I am on holiday. It is rather good news so congratulations to everyone who has contributed to our programmes. Chris Hutchings is our new audience guru here on Radio 4 so I thought I would pass you on...

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  5. RAJAR listening figures for Q3 2011

    Gwyneth Williams

    Yesterday on my way out of Broadcasting House to have lunch with Libby Purves, I met George Soros in the lift - he had just been a guest on Stephanie Flanders' new series Stephanomics. Before I left the office I listened back to Umberto Eco (what a voice; what books) interviewed for Front Row wi...

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  6. Record listening figures for Radio 4: RAJARs Q2 2011

    Gwyneth Williams

    I am on holiday in Wales (glorious river noise, mountains and sun) and keep having to go up the drive to use the Blackberry so I had given our audience guru, Alison Winter, the land line to find me instantly with her quarterly much-awaited phone call bearing RAJAR data - RAJAR is the body that c...

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  7. Explaining 'the Rajars'

    Roger Bolton

    I always thought that the average Feedback listener was younger than I am, better dressed and more intelligent, and now I know it's true. I also now know that 1.4 million of you tune in to the programme every week. Well I'm guessing about the intelligence and the quality of clothes, but the aud...

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  8. Feedback - Radio 4 Extra: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

    Roger Bolton

    The BBC digital station Radio 7 has changed its name to Radio 4 Extra, but some Feedback listeners don't like the smell. Amaechi Ihetu told us that she was 'disappointed that listeners have lost a true gem'. Tina Taylor wrote 'I don't want to hear repeats of Desert Island Discs'. Fred Whal...

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  9. Rather fabulous - the Q1 Rajars are in

    Gwyneth Williams

    "Rather fabulous" - she really did say that a moment ago on the phone. I am referring to our Radio 4 audience guru, Alison Winter. It was a momentary lapse as she is, as you might expect when it comes to figures, well... measured... Thus you will gather that the first quarter RAJAR listening fig...

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  10. A RAJAR primer

    Paul Kennedy

    Editor's note: Radio 4's listening figures for the final quarter of 2010 are published tomorrow. Paul Kennedy, Research Director at RAJAR, explains how they're gathered - SB. RAJAR, or 'Radio Joint Audience Research', is the official body in charge of radio audience measurement for the UK. RAJA...

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