In a programme broadcast during COP 26, Radio 4’s The Food Programme looked at “how meat and dairy can play a positive role for the future of people and the planet”.

Did it analyse the argument or promote it, and did presenter Dan Saladino need to record from inside an abattoir in such graphic detail? He answers these questions and others from listeners.

One of the BBC’s key podcast commissioners talks about whether she thinks there is a future for broadcast radio.

And two listeners have a sparky reaction to an interview with the film maker Mike Leigh?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

Is the climate crisis so serious that the BBC should start campaigning about it?

As COP26 comes to a conclusion, that’s one of the questions from listeners put to the BBC’s outgoing Science Editor David Shukman.

And Feedback tries to seduce two listeners with some unusual classical music on a Radio 3 programme, did it work?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

Is the BBC’s journalism impartial? The Government doesn’t think so, which is tricky for the Corporation as it negotiates the next licence fee settlement.

The BBC has now produced a ten-point plan to improve matters, Roger Bolton examines it with a member of the BBC Executive Committee, Rhodri Talfan Davies, who is also the BBC’s Director of Nations.

Roger also hears from the BBC broadcaster Stephen Nolan on why he is investigating his own employer, and why he is frustrated with the Corporation’s non-co-operation.

And was a Radio 4 programme called White Mischief, truly mischievous? Listeners give their views.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

Is the country over the worst of the latest surge in Covid cases, and is there an end in sight to the pandemic? If anyone at the BBC knows the answer to these questions it is surely Health Editor Hugh Pym. Roger Bolton asks him for reassurance - will he get it?

Radio 6 Music’s ratings are going up, so why is the station changing its presenter line-up?

And can a cricket and crime podcast attract two radio listeners, one of whom doesn’t listen to any BBC radio?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

After ten years of programmes is there still life in The Life Scientific? Presenter Jim Al-Khalili joins Roger Bolton to discuss the programme and science coverage in general on BBC radio.

Feedback has been copied-in to an email from the BBC’s Director General responding to a listener critical of Today’s Nick Robinson. Discover what Tim Davie had to say about the interview in which presenter Nick Robinson told the Prime Minister to ‘stop talking’.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

'Stop talking!'; that is what Nick Robinson, as presenter of Radio 4’s Today programme, told the prime minister on air last week. Was this a necessary tactic or a piece of typically pompous presenter rudeness?

In the first Feedback of the new series, listeners give their reactions, and Matthew Parris discusses whether the political interview is now dead in the water.

And the commissioner of comedy for Radio 4 defends Richard Osman’s the Birthday Cake Game, after complaints from listeners. Roger Bolton asks Sioned Wiliam will it get recommissioned, and how did she decide on who was to be the new presenter of Just a Minute?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

Do people exist as more than through their memory? If you lose it, do you cease to exist? That is the question Sir Jonathan Miller wanted to explore shortly before his death.

This week, his son William talks to Roger Bolton about the Archive on 4 programme he made about his polymath father - Jonathan Miller: Lost Memories - and why he wanted to carry on investigating memory after his father’s death.

Rory Cellan-Jones is soon to leave his job as the BBC’s Technology Correspondent. He explains how he translates complicated stories for a mainstream radio audience.

And two listeners review 5 Live’s Your Call with Nicky Campbell. Will they be ringing back?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

It would appear that leaders of western governments have been caught napping by the speed of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, but was the BBC also taken by surprise? Jamie Angus, Senior Controller, BBC News Output and Commissioning, answers listeners’ questions on the coverage of events.

Also, Matthew Syed talks about his Radio 4 series Sideways, which eschews conventional thinking.

And two listeners try out the dazzling - or is it daunting - world of podcasts.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

The BBC’s departing New York correspondent, Nick Bryant, thinks America has stopped being great. Is this perhaps why he is going? Nick discusses audience comments on the BBC's reporting of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and America in general.

Should Radio 4’s Front Row have devoted most of a programme to an interview with Sarah, Duchess of York? Some listeners thought the interview about her first adult novel, a Mills and Boon romance, should not have featured on the arts programme at all.

And did Radio 4’s Open Country get lost in Windsor Great Park? Two listeners give their verdict.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

Are a third of us, from both sides of the political spectrum, attracted by authoritarianism? That's a claim made in Radio 4’s The Spark. Roger Bolton asks its presenter Helen Lewis about that claim, and about the sort of sparks she is seeking to create.

The series producer of Radio 4's Sunday Worship, Philip Billson, discusses the decision to make an edition of the programme commemorating the anniversary of last year's catastrophic explosion in Beirut.

And the Out of Your Comfort Zone listeners get lost in tech speak.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4