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Roger Bolton turns up at Hardeep Singh Kohli's flat to ask some personal questions - including who gave him his first kiss? At the end of this month, millions of fans of the BBC Hindi Service will no longer be able to listen on shortwave. Roger speaks to Rifat Jawaid, editor of language programmes at the BBC Asian Network, about his Indian family's passion for the service. And many of you have tro...

The candid confessional of an alcoholic doctor gripped listeners of Victoria Derbyshire's 5Live phone in last week. Lots of people praised the presenter's "sensitive handling" as listener "Rachel" talked about her long term battle with drink and depression. But what steps are taken to ensure that candid confessional is not just mass entertainment? Roger Bolton talks to Louisa Compton, daytime edit...

Roger Bolton visits in Salford with Feedback listeners Heather Howarth and Delphine Price to explore the Media City UK development. He asks them if moving more programmes to BBC North will make them more representative of northern life and whether they actually care where their programmes come from. And down the road in Manchester, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are preparing to shift their pop...

Radio 4 is being encouraged to reach beyond its largely white, better off, southern audience by the BBC Trust. But you say don't change a thing. Roger Bolton unpicks the BBC Trust's report on Radio's 3, 4 and 7. Listener Sasha Lubetkin visits the British Museum and the BBC's pronunciation unit to find out more about the BBC's role as defender of the English language. Are The Archers getting too co...

Peter Horrocks, the BBC's director of global news, talks through the implications of massive cuts to the World Service. Plus your concerns about changes to music programming nationally and locally as Radio 2 moves Stuart Maconie and Mark Radcliffe across to 6 Music to make way for Jo Whiley. Are there too many American voices on Radio 4? And you suggest alternative futures for Nigel Pargetter in T...

Roger Bolton returns with a new series. Radio 4's new controller gives her first broadcast interview to Feedback and reveals her plans for the network - new programmes, new voices and a "new layer of creativity". And as hundreds of Feedback listeners mourn the passing of Nigel Pargetter - two avid Archers listeners take a tour of the Archers studio and put your questions to the programme's editor...

The BBC is the subject of its own news bulletins yet again. Roger speaks to the BBC's deputy director of news to find out how BBC radio reacts to stories about the Corporation. After a tense week in the Dontenville household, Radio 4 nut Heather and her Radio 1 loving stepdaughter Jenni reveal how they got on after a week of listening to each other's stations. The BBC Trust is looking for new memb...

Aspiring comedian Richard Hanrahan desperate to break into BBC radio pitches his talents directly to the woman who can say yes.... Or ... er no thanks. Praise for 'Atching Tan' - a play about, written by and acted by travellers. All information can be found online. If you hate digital radio you'll be dreading 2015 - Tim Davie, the BBC's head of radio, tries to reassure you. And a Radio 4 fan and h...

Roger Bolton asks Archers actor Ryan Kelly, who plays Jazzer McCreary in The Archers, if his character is a stereotype of a drunken Scottish ne'er do well. Check out the new Archers website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-archers/ A listener takes your gripes about the iPlayer revamp to the top - and demands straight answers. And reporting from Rangoon last weekend - why were some report...

Presented by Roger Bolton. This week, Justin Webb explains why he wants to toughen up his act. But listeners say please don't as they rather enjoyed it when The Today programme was taken off the air by the recent national Union of Journalists' strike. It was replaced by gentler programmes including an audio essay about The Wash. The novelist Joanna Trollope makes a plea for more adventurous drama...

Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations. Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place for listeners to air their views on the things heard on BBC Radio. Email the team: feedback@bbc.co.uk Producer: Karen Pirie A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

Roger Bolton asks whether this was the best week for the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to wash up on Kirsty Young's Desert Island Discs. As Peggy learns to cut and paste on The Archers, Roger examines the BBC's role in Government backed education campaigns. And after Richard Herring's endorsement - listeners are desperate to know how to get hold of this season's must have Radio 4 hoodie. Email...

Roger Bolton challenges the Chairman of the BBC Trust over the new licence fee deal. How well will new editorial guidelines safeguard the impartiality of radio reporting? A History of the World in 100 objects - it's all over but was it worth it? Do Desert Island Discs castaways have to take a religious book with them? And cuts overkill - how a trail for Radio 4 coverage invaded the airways at the...

Roger Bolton investigates why hundreds of you are up-in-arms over changes to the BBC radio message boards. As the Commonwealth Games athletes head home armed with medals some Feedback listeners wonder if the BBC's coverage has been too negative. The World Service is rumoured to be facing a 25% cut in its budget - but should we be funding a global network? As the world is gripped by the Chilean min...

Roger Bolton hears what your ideas for what you would do if you were the new controller of Radio 4. He assesses how wrangles between the BBC and its staff over pensions will affect programme budgets. And comedy writer Jon Holmes treads the fine line between brilliant comedy and bad taste in response to your praise and criticism of his show "Listen Against". Email: feedback@bbc.co.uk . Producer: Ka...