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  1. Gwyneth Williams: Controller of Radio 4

    Friday 26 April 2013, 15:05

    Controller of Radio 4, Gwyneth Williams, discusses her role within the BBC and answers audience complaints regarding the coverage of Baroness Thatcher's death.

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  2. Feedback: BBC’s medical correspondent Fergus Walsh on the MMR vaccine reporting

    Friday 19 April 2013, 16:20

    The BBC’s medical correspondent Fergus Walsh discusses how medical stories are reported, including the MMR vaccine reportage.

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  3. The BBC's coverage of the death of Margaret Thatcher

    Friday 12 April 2013, 16:37

     The Head of the BBC Newsroom, Mary Hockaday, talks about the BBC's coverage of Margaret Thatcher's death.

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  4. Feedback: Radio 3 Concerts

    Friday 5 April 2013, 17:53

    Roger discusses how Radio 3 keep their concert interval interesting.

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  5. Feedback: Evan Davis explains his interruptions

    Thursday 28 March 2013, 15:13

    Evan Davis gives Roger an overview of how he sees the development of the BBC’s business coverage, and explains why he interrupts interviewees on the Today programme.

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  6. Feedback: Science on the BBC

    Friday 22 March 2013, 17:36

    Roger Bolton discusses the role of science reporting by the BBC.

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  7. Feedback: Censoring music

    Friday 15 March 2013, 15:42

    Roger Bolton on this week's Feedback, which includes a look into the complex issue of 'banning' music, with the help of DJs and Radio 1's Head of Music Policy.

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  8. Feedback: Does comedy tend to be left wing or is it just anti authority?

    Friday 8 March 2013, 11:33

    Roger Bolton on this week's Feedback.

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  9. Feedback: Strong Language

    Friday 1 March 2013, 15:49

    Roger Bolton on this week's Feedback, including an interview with Richard Clarke, Editor of the BBC Radio Newsroom.

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  10. Feedback: BBC Editorial Policy and Standards

    Friday 22 February 2013, 14:36

    Roger Bolton on this week's Feedback, including an interview with David Jordan, the BBC's Director of Editorial Policy and Standards.

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  11. Feedback: Closure of The Archers' Messageboard

    Friday 15 February 2013, 15:54

    Roger Bolton on this week's Feedback featuring discussions on the closure of The Archers' message board.

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  12. Feedback: Confessions and Advertising

    Friday 8 February 2013, 15:04

    Roger Bolton on confessions, the McCartneys, and how Radio 4 deals with compliance issues.

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  13. Feedback: Bob Shennan

    Friday 1 February 2013, 14:54

    Roger Bolton on Bob Shennan and this week's Feedback.

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  14. Feedback: Programme Gender Balance

    Friday 25 January 2013, 13:19

    Roger Bolton's blog on Feedback and programme gender balance.

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  15. Feedback: Belfast

    Friday 18 January 2013, 12:16

    Feedback's Roger Bolton discusses his experiences of working with Alasdair Mile, and his visit to the BBC newsroom in Belfast.

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  16. Feedback: The BBC Director General role

    Friday 11 January 2013, 14:51

    Roger Bolton talks about Feedback on BBC Radio 4.

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  17. Feedback: Crisis at the BBC

    Friday 16 November 2012, 09:38

    Am I the only BBC presenter who hasn't expressed his view about the present crisis at the BBC?

    Perhaps I should join some of my colleagues on Twitter so that you can enjoy my immediate, uninformed, and prejudiced response to events about which I know little. Actually I do have some understanding...

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  18. Feedback: The future of digital radio

    Friday 9 November 2012, 09:15

    I live in Hertfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, less than 30 miles from London . This is hardly the back of beyond, and you would not think that hills barely 500ft high would prove an impenetrable barrier to a digital signal, but that seems to be the reality in parts of my village, though not where...

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  19. Feedback: Food and Farming Awards and tickets for comedy shows

    Friday 2 November 2012, 15:33

    Portobello Road in west London contains some of the most expensive shops and houses in London, but that is only at what one might call the Notting Hill or Hugh Grant end of the road.

    Follow it north under the tube line towards the Regent's Canal and a different London appears, a relatively poor...

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  20. Feedback: Programmes featuring Prisons

    Friday 26 October 2012, 13:38

    It is becoming pretty clear that the late Jimmy Savile was very lucky not to spend his last years in prison.

    If he had, how should he have been treated by a radio reporter?

    With understanding or with condemnation or neutrally?

    In Feedback this week we talked to the producers of two different radio...

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