Quotes About Radio 4

I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

I mean, it's not as though Radio 4 can put a person in a good mood; all it does is make me feel depressed about the economy and calcify my belief that everything I'm feeding my family is poisoning them. Still, I stick with it because it helps me have something to talk about at dinner parties. Katherine

Maybe if you listen to Radio 4 enough from an early age, you just get educated subliminally

I was once asked to be a guest presenter on 'The Big Breakfast' for a week while Chris Evans was away, but I said no as I knew I'd be hopeless. If they asked me to guest present the 'Today' programme on Radio 4, however, I'd jump at the chance.

I often find myself listening to the 'Shipping Forecast' on Radio 4. At first, I am usually wondering what time it is, but then, because often I'm on the other side of the bed and I can't be bothered to turn it off, I just listen and it becomes very relaxing.

The British are like that, especially the middle class Radio 4 audience: a young snappy, angry person annoys them, and they shout at the radio for him to show some respect and get the spiritual and intellectual equivalent of a haircut. But let the same sentiments exactly, word for word, be uttered in high academic tones, as if by a compound of G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and Anthony Quinton, and they will roll onto their tummies and purr.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I love doing 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' on Radio 4. It's my favourite thing to do because it's just daft: it's not about the news. It's not about anything.

Every time humanists try to get a slot on 'Thought For the Day' on Radio 4, they are told it's reserved for 'the faith community,' whatever that is. Yet 'TfT' is almost always pabulum about how God wants us all to love each other and care for the unfortunate. I'm sure humanists would say much the same, without God.

I can't live without Radio 4. It's worth the entire licence fee. I'm an obsessive listener; I get up, and Radio 4 goes on, but it goes off when 'Thought for the Day' starts, as that's a step too far.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

I am not much of a TV addict, and if I have a day off, and I'm pottering around at home, I will always listen to Radio 4.