A blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Other speech radio from around the world will no doubt find its way here too.

Of course, one day this might turn into something else, maybe a new way of curating speech radio, or maybe it won’t.

Here’s a gentle fifteen minutes for you. Spend a little time hearing about how the Brecon Beacons is used to fill in for countless landscapes in movies, especially alien landscapes. There’s a whole bunch of these but I only managed to grab the MP3 of this one. The rest have slipped into the great audiostream in the sky. Sorry. MP3 here