There have been great sketch shows on Radio 4 like Mitchell & Webb, Goodness Gracious Me, Dead Ringers - whenever I see them transferred to TV unless they are doing visual gags I think, What a waste of money on costumes and prosthetics when you got the same laughs from three unseen actors in front of a microphone.

There’s a particularly gruesome one on that repeated at nights called Revolting People all about the American Revolution.

Radio 4 on a Sunday is the sound of slow creeping death. Sarah montague is also vile on Today.

And on Radio 4 drama - I’e just heard a sharp drama about the Labour victory of 1945 - where else would you hear something like that?

However I’m a huge Radio 4 fan excluding:-
Any Answers (no thanks)
Being lectured by comedians on what are supposed to be sketch shows
Humphrey Lyttleton’s risque jokes on Sorry I wanted a screw (ha! ha!). I don’t think blokes who are 110 should tell long-winded double entendre jokes.

Go4It is bloody awful, though, it would be terrible to be a kid in an household where that formed part of the kultcha

http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2005/01/archers-knife-culture-and-self-harm.html

http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2004/04/this-will-mean-nothing-to-those-who.html

The obligatory lefty-liberal R4 comedy show by eight public school chaps (and one girl called Sally) who met at oxbridge (with 29 people credited with the script)

Go4It - talking down as she is spoke. Only if Patricia Hewitt presented it could it be more patronising.

The Afternoon Play (Saturday’s pretty poor too) with a lot of shouting and groaning in poor regional accents (remember the cast is four public school types who met at Oxbridge)

The Learning Curve - about state education, presented by a public school girl (I bet Libby was wizard at lacrosse) and produced by a grammar school girl.

Woman Sour.

You could give dishonourable mentions to Front Row (‘a new play about Iraq opens at the Tricycle, Kilburn tonight’) and the series of odds and sods (‘The Message’, ‘A Good Read’) seemingly designed as an additional pension plan for retired female Today and Woman Sour presenters.

There is a desperate need for another decent spoken language station, so you can avoid the worst of both.

Why they need to dedicate and hour to consumer issues every weekday I’ll never understand. Surely there are only so many overpriced gas bills or mis-sold endowments.

When I was a postman I used to listen to Radio 4 from the Today Programme to World at One every day, however even the inane playground banter of Radio 1 was preferable to You and Yours