4 Extra Schedule (2024)

FAQs

Why has Radio 4 Extra gone off air? ›

On 26 May 2022, as part of planned cuts and streamlining with a greater focus on digital, the BBC announced plans to discontinue Radio 4 Extra as a broadcast station. It will be supplanted by BBC Sounds.

Listen on Freeview and Freesat channel 708, Sky channel 0131 or Virgin Media channel 910.

Audio Books, dramas and Comedy are all available to enjoy in the Radio 4 section of the iPlayer Radio app. Here, you can download any programme for 30 days from the first broadcast and listen anytime, anywhere.

Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds.

These end ahead of a planned switch-off of long wave transmissions by 2025. BBC Radio 4's medium wave frequencies were switched off on 15 April 2024, which previously served as relays in areas with a weak LW signal to provide reception of BBC Radio 4 LW, such as Northern Ireland and south west England.

From April 2024, Radio 4 Arts programmes will be grouped on BBC Sounds under an Umbrella Arts brand, ensuring that commissioned documentaries are more readily discoverable online.

How to Listen. In the UK you can listen to Radio 4 Extra in many ways: on a digital (DAB); on digital television; online through a computer; on a mobile phone; on an MP3 player. For information on listening on these platforms - BBC Sounds help.

Radios 1,2,3,and 4 each came into existence at 5.30 a.m. 30th September 1967. Until then the BBC broadcast the Light Programme (light music and entertainment and now Radio 2), the Home Service (News and current events, now Radio 4) and the Third Programme (Classical music, now Radio 3).

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What has happened to Scott Mills? ›

In October 2021, Mills announced he had got engaged to Sam Vaughan, his boyfriend of four years. They married in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain in June 2024. In November 2022, Mills' 24-hour Treadmill walking marathon with Radio 2 raised over £1.2M for Children in Need.

The Internet Archive's radio collection provides free access to digitized radio plays and programs. Coverage spans much of the 20th and 21st century. This archive of streaming National Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts from their daily morning news program, Morning Edition, goes back until 1996.

BBC Radio 3 is down from 2m to 1.8m listeners. BBC Radio 4 is down slightly from 9.3m to 9.1m listeners with 5.7m tuning in for The Today programme. BBC Radio 5 Live is also down slightly from 5.5m to a reach of 5.25m listeners. BBC Radio 6 Music is down from 2.75 to 2.5m listeners.

On your television, you can listen to all the BBC network radio stations, such as BBC Radio 2. You will also find all our digital only stations, such as BBC Radio 4 Extra.

A loss of pre-set stations usually happens with battery radios when the batteries have run out and are not changed promptly. Having changed the batteries, re-memorise the stations you need. In future, change the batteries as soon as reception deteriorates or is lost, or use mains power if that is an option.

Mohit Bakaya, Director of Speech and Controller of BBC Radio 4 and 4 Extra says: “We've refreshed the schedule to take into account changing listener habits and priorities, with the aim of giving our audience more of what they want, when they want it.

On 26 May 2022, the BBC announced plans to discontinue BBC Four as a broadcast channel within "the next few years", as part of plans to streamline and modify services to create a "digital-first" BBC.

It is coming to the end of its life as a technology. With the continued migration of listening from Longwave to other platforms offering enhanced quality listening such as FM, DAB and online, it is anticipated that the Longwave service will cease at some point in the future.