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One of Radio 4’s Factual Commissioning Editors Dan Clarke explains his decision to axe the Film Programme and discusses its replacement Screenshot.

He also talks about the new music series Add to Playlist, and why it is broadcast on Radio 4 when so many other BBC networks are devoted to music.

And two listeners give their views on another of his commissions Jon Ronson’s Things Fell Apart.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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The audience for the BBC World Service is booming but misinformation and conspiracy theories are flourishing as well.

Roger Bolton talks to the outgoing Controller of BBC World Service English, Mary Hockaday, about those concerns and the increasing threats to the lives of journalists.

And Jane Garvey explains how she extracts such frank and intimate revelations in her Life Changing series, which includes a former nun describing how she learned about sex at 60.

The Out of Your Comfort Zone listeners assess a 5 Live podcast and series presented by husband-and-wife team, Greg James and Bella Mackie, about love and marriage.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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Is BBC Radio 2 so concerned about recruiting younger listeners that it is neglecting its loyal, older audience?

In Feedback this week, Roger Bolton puts this and other concerns from listeners to the Head of Station, Helen Thomas, and asks whether Radio 2’s remit has changed.

And Martha Kearney, Presenter of Radio 4’s Today programme, gives the behind-the-scenes story on being interrupted live on air by a fire alarm and obliged to flee the studio.

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Why did World at One decide to carry a long interview with one of the brothers of Ghislaine Maxwell? WATO’s Editor Natasha Shallice responds to listeners’ criticisms in an interview with Roger Bolton.

Also did Radio 4’s You and Yours do enough to fact check the claims made when it put antivaxxers on the air?

And two listeners give their verdict on a podcast about the rise, fall and trial of the Fake Heiress Anna Delvey.

Presenter: Roger Bolton

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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'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

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