麻豆约拍

Saint Alistair Cooke

More listeners suggest that Alistair Cooke be canonised

• 8 mins

Tabloidization

Praise for past programmes, and complaints about celebrity gossip making it into the news

• 8 mins

Dear Jane Austen

Listeners point out Jane Austen did not write Middlemarch as stated in Britain Today

• 8 mins

24 Hours News Service

Listeners requests less news and more comedy, drama, music, and science

• 8 mins

Gripes of Wrath

Listeners in Singapore are annoyed by Ian Simpson's description of Singapore

• 8 mins

Folk Roots

Listeners mourn the axing of Folk Roots

• 8 mins

Blunderitus

Listeners complain about new schedules and the axing of favourite shows

• 8 mins

The Strand

Letters from listeners about geography, evolution, and physics

• 8 mins

The Green History of the Planet

Praise for The Green History of the Planet, and criticism of presenters' accents

• 8 mins

Transmission Problems

A listener from Iran praises 麻豆约拍 content, but complains about weak FM frequency

• 8 mins

Magical Words

Listeners in India request written schedules so they don't miss their favourite programs

• 8 mins

World Service Modernised

A listener from New Zealand raises issues around transmission quality

• 8 mins

Animal Grandmas

Letters about animal grandparents, electric fruit-dehydrators and presenters' accents

• 8 mins

Discovery - the Musical

Does the 麻豆约拍 think listeners find science "difficult"?

• 8 mins

Discovery - the Comic Strip

Listeners accuse the science programme Discovery of "dumbing down"

• 8 mins

Digital Radio on Shortwave

Listeners' questions about digital radio, smoking in soap operas, and gold in vegetables

• 8 mins

Music Special

Listeners' comments on the inclusion of pop music and the cancellation of Folk Roots

• 8 mins

World Service in New Zealand

Listeners' comments on broadcasts to New Zealand

• 8 mins

Meridian Maths

A listener catches Meridian making a maths mistake

• 8 mins

Anything Goes

Listeners are dismayed the music request programme, Anything Goes, is ending

• 8 mins

A Jolly Good Show

Listeners' reactions to the demise of Anything Goes and A Jolly Good Show

• 8 mins

Christmas Carols

A listener appreciates the uninterrupted broadcast of Christmas carols

• 8 mins

The Bailey Bridge

The success of the Bailey bridge and fission track dating in geology

• 23 mins

Digital Radio

Listeners letters about the World Service in the digital age

• 8 mins

World Service in New Zealand

Letters celebrate the continuance of broadcasts to New Zealand

• 13 mins

Sierra Leone Crisis

The importance of the World Service to listeners in Sierra Leone during the recent crisis

• 13 mins

World Service Changes

World Service changes and initial reaction to the new World Today For Asia

• 13 mins

Dumbing Down?

Listeners' allegations that the World Service is "dumbing down"

• 13 mins

Dumbing Down Again

Listeners continue to accuse the World Service of "dumbing down"

• 13 mins

Clouded Hills

High praise for Clouded Hills, Richard Holmes' walking poetry series

• 13 mins