Feedback

Feedback is a BBC Radio 4 series dealing with listener reaction to the style and content of BBC radio broadcasting. The programme is presented by Andrea Catherwood. Format The presenter introduces listeners' letters, phone calls, emails or tweets. It is a conduit for enraged listeners to enunciate their outrage or for enraptured listeners to express their praise for specific BBC radio programmes, and covers the output of other BBC national stations, such as Radio 1, as well as that of Radio 4. On occasion, the comments have less to do with content than with the media by which programmes may be broadcast; for instance, the iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Producers of radio programmes are often invited for a polite question and answer session with the show's presenter. However, not all of them agree to take part. Transmission The programme, which runs for just under half an hour, is normally broadcast on Fridays at 16.30 and repeated on the following Sunday at 20.02. The 34 programmes a year (the series is off air in the summer) was produced from October 2010 - 2019 by Whistledown Productions in London. Whistledown took over from City Broadcasting, which had made Feedback since November 2006. Before that, Testbed Productions had produced the programme for twelve years. Juniper Connect produced the programme between 2019 - 2022 and then Whistledown won the tender back.