Radio 4 comprises to be the second most popular British domestic radio station. It comes next to Radio 2 and has also been awarded as the ‘UK Radio Station of the Year’ at the 2004 Sony Radio Academy Awards for the second year running.

It had a total costing of £71.4 million for the year 2005/6 and formed to be the BBC's most expensive national radio network. It comes to be the corporation's flagship channel. The radio is a very famous and familiar unit and there comes to be no comparable UK commercial network.

Mark Damazer is the controller of Radio 4 at present juncture. The earlier controller was Helen Boaden who at this piece of time is the current head of BBC News. James Boyle comes out to be the most famous — and controversial — controller in these recent years.

Music and sport are the only two fields that are falling outside the station's periphery. Further, there are a few occasional concerts and also the ball-by-ball commentaries of most test matches played by England cricket that are broadcast on longwave. As the longwave service could be easily received at sea in the vicinity of the British Isles, Radio 4 is also carrying regular weather forecasts for shipping and gale warnings.

The station is also available on different bands like FM, LW, DAB, Digital TV that also includes Freeview and also on the Internet. In general, Radio 4 has the broadcast area in UK-National. Its first air date is September 30, 1967 and has a frequency of FM: 92 MHz-95 MHz, LW: 198 kHz, MW: various, DAB: 12B, Freeview: 704, Virgin Media: 904, Sky Digital: 0104, UPC Ireland: 910, Internet: Streaming and audio with Real/WM. The format of the radio consists of News and Speech. And its owner is has been described is BBC. The BBC Home Service has been a predecessor to Radio 4 and is broadcast between 1939 and 1967. The service has lot many regional variations. It was broadcast on medium wave along with a network of VHF FM transmitters that are being added from 1955. Radio 4 easily replaced the Home Service on 30 September 1967. It was at this time when the BBC renamed several of its domestic radio stations. Radio 4 was temporarily replaced on FM between 17 January 1991 and 2 March 1991 along with the continuous Gulf War news service. Continuity announcers and newsreaders Announcers link programmes, read trails for programmes and read the Shipping Forecast. Newsreaders read hourly summaries and longer bulletins.[14][15] Senior Announcers • Chris Aldridge • Harriet Cass Newsreaders / Continuity Announcers • Alice Arnold • Carolyn Brown • Corrie Corfield • Charlotte Green • Annie McKie • Rory Morrison • Susan Rae • Neil Sleat Newsreaders (non-Today programme) / Continuity Announcers • Charles Carroll • David Miles • Vaughan Savidge • Kathy Clugston Newsreaders (non-Today programme) • Peter Donaldson • Brian Perkins Continuity Announcers • Peter Jefferson • Jim Lee • Caroline Nicholls • Neil Nunes • Howard Philpot • Alan Smith • Zebedee 'Zeb' Soanes • Diana Speed Frequencies and other means of reception Radio 4 is broadcast on 92-95 MHz FM o 95.8 MHz in central Scotland o 96 MHz in Greater Belfast[17] o 103-104.5 MHz in parts of Wales and on 103.6 MHz in the Inverness area[17] • 198 kHz longwave • Medium wave in some areas: o 720 kHz in London and Northern Ireland • DAB o standard FM content o subsidiary LW content, where applicable • Freeview channel 704 (FM only)[18] • the Internet[19] • satellite o Radio 4 FM: Sky channel 0104[20] o Radio 4 LW: Sky channel 0143[20] • selected Cable television providers • cable television o NTL Digital Cable channel 910 in Ireland