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What is it like being the BBC’s Defence Correspondent during the Russian Ukrainian conflict?

How does he work out what is fact and what is propaganda? Jonathan Beale answers listeners’ questions.

Listeners also give their views on where inevitable cuts are to be made at the Corporation.

And do young farmers find the Archers storylines credible?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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Should music that accompanies video games be played at the BBC Proms?

On Feedback this week the man in charge of the Proms, Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey, will explain why that sort of music forms part of this year’s programme. Also, whether any Russian music or musicians will be taking part.

And listeners respond to the censoring of Bob Dylan’s anti-racist classic, Hurricane. Should the N-word ever be heard on the airwaves?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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Are there some words which should never be broadcast, even if they are used by Bob Dylan in one of his songs?

BBC Radio 6 Music has edited the use of the n-word from his 1976 anti-racist song Hurricane, about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.

In Feedback this week, Sir Trevor Phillips and Marverine Cole give contrasting views about the use of this most offensive of words, particularly in music.

And can two non-radio listening music fans be won over by Radio 4's Add to Playlist, hosted by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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What is going on in the mind of Vladimir Putin? A new Radio 4 series has been trying to answer that question. Roger Bolton asks the Presenter of ‘Putin’, Jonny Dymond, if he thinks he knows, and puts listener reaction to him

Neil MacGregor discusses his latest Radio 4 series The Museums that Make us. What does he think museums are for?

And two non-radio listeners are exposed to a French and Saunders radio comedy. Did they enjoy the experience?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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After almost 40,000 questions over 75 years, is Gardeners’ Question Time in danger of running out of new questions? The programme's presenter Kathy Clugston gives an answer to that, and a range of other listener comments.

And what do Radio 4 listeners make of the station’s science programmes?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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What can the BBC’s latest news podcast Ukrainecast offer listeners which its news programmes cannot? Roger Bolton puts that question to the podcast’s Producer Jonathan Aspinwall, and also asks him if his podcast is one-sided.

The Producer of Radio 4’s Lent Talks Dan Tierney explains why we need to talk about dying and, 40 years after the Falkland’s War, what do the Out of Your Comfort Zone listeners already know about a war they can’t remember?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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Radio 4’s Tom Sutcliffe responds to listener criticism of Front Row's discussion on the views of JK Rowling.

The presenter of Money Box, Paul Lewis, talks about the appalling financial frauds his programme has been investigating.

And is the musician Gary Barlow a good interviewer? Two listeners give their verdict.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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As the airwaves and social media are flooded with disinformation, how can listeners find out what is really happening in Ukraine, and see through the conspiracy of lies pouring out of Russia? Roger Bolton talks to the BBC World Service’s Disinformation Editor Rebecca Skippage, about the darkening fog of war.

Also, John Wilson talks about Radio 4’s This Cultural Life, and how he tries to get to the heart of the creative process.

And has the new Radio 4 adaptation of the award-winning TV serial Our Friends In The North made friends with our listeners?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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Are there some subjects radio comedy programmes should steer clear of? For example, the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The BBC executive in charge of both The News Quiz and The Now Show Julia McKenzie explains why those topical comedies sought to use humour as the prism for this dreadful tragedy.

Roger Bolton also examines the commercial logic behind the BBC’s decision to restrict access to its podcasts.

And the Out Of Your Comfort Zone listeners discuss the merits of a Radio 4 docudrama.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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Adam Fleming is the main presenter of the BBC’s most popular podcast Newscast. He explains to Roger Bolton what he thinks makes it work.

The Archers is the most popular programme on BBC Sounds, and Annabelle Dowler who plays one of its most loved characters, Kirsty, talks about the challenges her character has faced in the last few years.

And, have any of the Out of Your Comfort Zone contributors actually changed their listening habits since last appearing on Feedback?

Presenter: Roger Bolton

A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4