All news on the topic: Radio 4

Labour pledged tougher sentences for rapists as part of a ramped up focus on crime

Happy Valley star performs distressing scenes in A Little Life while lying naked on the stage – and ends up covered in blood after graphic depictions of self-harm

BBC's Kirsty Lang said she is 'sad' at how the company handled her decision to leave the Radio 4 show Front Row after 19 years

The BBC is losing another star name on its radio platforms as the Reverend Richard Coles has been forced to leave his show after 12 years

Paris Hilton made a surprise appearance as she joined a picket line in London alongside striking journalists at the BBC, who were staging a 24 hour walkout

The Match of the Day host's comments led to criticism from Tory MPs and Cabinet ministers, including the Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.

Veteran broadcaster Ken Bruce presents his last ever show on Radio 2 today after the BBC cut his contract short and announced he would be replaced by Vernon Kay

Katie Price and Peter Andre divorced in a blaze of acrimony after a furious row about Katie and her riding instructor

Iconic actor Sheila Hancock has revealed that she is more determined than ever to be heard as she celebrates her 90th birthday, and still calls out injustice where she sees it

BBC chairman Richard Sharp apologised for introducing Canadian businessman Sam Blyth to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case in 2020 when Mr Blyth was offering to guarantee a loan for the ex-PM

Nicola Bulley's friends remain desperate for answers two weeks after she vanished and lined a road in the village of St Michaels on Wyre, Lancashire with her image in hope of jogging memories to get a breakthrough in the case

Iconic BBC series Fawlty Towers is set to be revived, with original star John Cleese and his daughter Camilla Cleese appearing in the reboot which will see Basil Fawlty attempt to navigate life in the modern world

Complaints to the Energy Ombudsman have reached record levels, passing 100,000 last year, as anger grows at the pre-payment scandal that has seen people's homes broke into by British Gas subcontractors

Sir Jake Berry says the Deputy Prime Minister should be treated like any employee in the private sector, where people facing bullying claims would be stood aside while they're being investigated

Ellie Bamber is set to star as Kate Moss in new biopic Moss & Freud, which focuses on the model's relationship with the portrait painter

Zoe Ball's Radio 2 breakfast show has been the hardest hit, losing the most weekly listeners among the main BBC stations

Jeremy Clarkson wrote in his now deleted newspaper column that he wanted Meghan Markle to be "paraded naked through the streets" where he "dreams of people throwing lumps of excrement at her"

Broadcaster Nicky Campbell has previously opened up about the predatory former teacher, known as 'Edgar' in the UK for legal reasons, who has previously admitted to abusing boys at schools in Edinburgh during the 1960s and 70s

The execution of British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari on trumped up charges of corruption and espionage came after Foreign Secretary James Cleverly appealed to the Iranian regime not to proceed

One pub boss warned that if brewers passed on the costs of their energy to consumers, British pub-goers could see the average price of a pint rise to above £10

The broadcaster opened up about a predatory former teacher, known in the UK as 'Edgar', at the private school he attended, and believes ongoing investigation could bring him to justice