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Dr Alban Webb, a historian and lecturer in cultural and media studies at the University of Sussex, joins Andrea Catherwood to discuss emergency broadcasting and the BBC’s role in disaster preparedness.
Andrea shares listener concerns about changes to the frequency and content of weather announcements across BBC Radio, as changes announced by the BBC earlier in the summer take effect.
We hear more listener reactions to the proposed BBC Radio cuts.
A BBC Radio 4 Ramblings interview is nominated for our Interview of the Year award, with one listener selecting Clare Balding’s chat with “Defib Dave” Sullivan, a man who advocates for public access to defibrillators.
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Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Pauline Moore
Assistant Producer: Jac Phillimore
Executive Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

Jonathan Wall the Director of BBC Sounds - who has responsibility for BBC national speech radio - joins Andrea Catherwood in Salford to respond to listeners concerns about the cuts announced for Radio 4 over the last 6 months.
Feedback has been flooded with messages about the end of You and Yours, and the closure of Radio 4 Extra from the Spring. The cuts are part of the £500 million savings the BBC has to make over the next three years.
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Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Pauline Moore
Assistant Producer: Rebecca Guthrie
Executive Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

As BBC Radio's listening audience continues to react to the cuts to programming and channels like Radio 4 Extra, Andrea Catherwood sits down with two experts to hear their view on how the corporation is changing in an increasingly challenging media landscape.
The first is Shem Law, the Editor of the Radio Times, who recently wrote a piece opposing the cuts. He talks to Andrea about what the loss of the station means for radio listeners.
We also hear from Simon Lewis, PR expert and former presenter of Radio 4’s When It Hits the Fan, on whether or not the corporation has got its messaging right when announcing the changes.
And there's another nomination for our Interview of the Year Award. This time we hear from Dr Jan Lewis, who was fascinated by Dermot O'Leary's live interview with Hollywood tough guy Sylvester Stallone in a recent Radio 2 broadcast, which, she tells us, was unexpectedly informative.
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Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
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Assistant Producer: Rebecca Guthrie
Executive Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

The audience response programme presented by Andrea Catherwood.
More cuts have been announced for BBC Radio - this time, it's the archive repeats station Radio 4 Extra that is set to close. Listeners have contacted Feedback with their opinions on the plan.
Matthew Parris - journalist, ex-politician, and longtime presenter of Great Lives on Radio 4 - has recently taken his last bow presenting the biographical programme. For two decades he's welcomed celebrities into the studio to discuss the lives of prominent figures they admire, and now he joins Andrea for a discussion about his standout moments, and what the series' future might look like.
And finally we hear from two listeners - Audrey and Jason - on the topic of a recent documentary series for the Understand strand on BBC Radio 4, called All Kinds of Minds. The series took a look at language of neurodiversity, and then went on to explore the experiences of neurodiverse people through childhood and adulthood. Presenter Nathan Filer joins Andrea to respond to the points raise by Audrey and Jason.
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Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Pauline Moore
Assistant Producer: Rebecca Guthrie
Executive Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

It's been a week since the BBC announced the latest round of cuts to Radio 4, and you've been in touch to express your surprise and dismay at the axing of You and Yours, Open Country, Free Thinking, The Artificial Human and Thinking Allowed. Andrea Catherwood hears your opinions, and talks to Lisa Webb, a consumer lawyer from Which?, who weighs in on what the end of You and Yours could mean for consumer advice and rights in the public sphere.
We also hear a nomination for our Interview of the Year award - this time it's from listener Robert Lenko, who wanted to put forward a conversation he heard between Lyse Doucet and a young Afghan girl on PM, which marked five years since the Taliban took Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul.
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Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Pauline Moore
Assistant Producer: Rebecca Guthrie
Executive Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4