The presenter will continue to host University challenge and his Radical podcast for the BBC.

Emma Barnett took over from Martha Kearney on Radio 4’s Today programme in May last year - Jeff Overs/BBC BBC Radio 4 has lost about 650,000 listeners in three months, figures reveal. The station’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cast of The Archers in 1955 at a BBC recording. The programme’s current line-up will recreate the lost first episode on New ...

After 27 years and 1,000 episodes, veteran broadcaster Melvyn Bragg this week announced he’s stepping down as host of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, marking the end of an era for the institution. The ...

‘A Menace to Society’ will look at the history of the comic, and feature interviews with the editor and some of its artists and writers. The Beano’s editor-in-chief, Mike Stirling, commented: “We’re ...

BBC Radio 4’s The Archers is to broadcast special programmes to mark its 75th anniversary on New Year’s Day. Broadcast for the first time on January 1 1951, the milestone will be marked with the ...

BBC World Service English director Gwyneth Williams has been named the new controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7. Williams will start her new role in September, replacing Mark Damazer, who is leaving ...

Broadcast for the first time on January 1 1951, the milestone will be marked with the modern-day cast recreating the first-ever scene from the original episode of the West Midlands-based radio drama.