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Feedback: Roger Bolton interviews Radio 4's controller Gwyneth Williams
Roger Bolton
BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House, London There is an expression floating around the internet at the moment, plucked from a number of American magazines. It's "pulling a Gwyneth" and refers to that somewhat eccentric actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Well on Feedback this week we pulled ou...
The Telegraph's Gillian Reynolds in conversation with Radio 4's Gwyneth Williams
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
Gillian Reynolds and Gwyn Williams at the Media Society organised event I mentioned in Monday's round up of what the critics were saying about Radio 4's schedule change that the Telegraph's radio reviewer Gillian Reynolds would be meeting Radio 4's controller at an event to talk about her ...
Feedback and the Radio 4 schedule changes
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
In the Observer radio critic Miranda Sawyer has written about the recent schedule changes at Radio 4. While she isn't happy about some of the afternoon switches: Oh, and I don't like The Media Show being on at 4.30pm. Just so you know. she is more complimentary about the reason the reshuff...
The World at One: Extra time
Nick Sutton
The World at One radio news studio gallery, 2002 A small bit of radio history was made on Friday lunchtime when Edward Stourton became the last presenter of The World at One to say, "that's the World at One Thirty". From Monday, the programme will be extended to 45 minutes - and as a re...
Rescheduling Radio 4
Tony Pilgrim
The Film Programme moves to Thursdays starting next week when one of the guests is the writer and director of film classic Withnail and I, Bruce Robinson, director of new release The Rum Diary. As Paul Murphy posted earlier this week, next Monday sees the start of The World At One's exten...
Feedback: Local Radio and Radio 4's schedule changes
Roger Bolton
Bill Oddie, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jo Kendall, Graeme Garden and David Hatch (Producer) from "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", 1968 Controllers of Radio 4 do not change their schedules lightly. Their listeners tend to want to keep what they have and are doubtful whether any ch...
The Radio 4 schedule changes on Monday 7 November
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
Martha Kearney, presenter of The World at One Next Monday 7 November the much talked about schedule changes take place. The big change is that The World at One will have an extra 15 minutes. As a result the weekday afternoon schedule has been changed and some programmes have also mov...
Moving the furniture at Radio 4
Roger Bolton
You change Radio 4 at your peril, for the slightest alteration to the schedule is likely to produce a rebellion, and not just in the Home Counties. David Hatch, Controller from 1983 to 1986, learned that the hard way when he introduced Rollercoaster, which almost ran him over. His successor Mic...
More on the Radio 4 schedule changes: Short stories
Gwyneth Williams
From 1949, archive caption reads: "Miss Stevie Smith, poet, one of the finalists in the BBC Third Programme Short Story Competition, reading her story Sunday at Home" Some concern has been expressed about the reduction in the number of short stories on Radio 4 from next April; we will br...
