BBC Radio 4 Extra, formerly BBC 7 and BBC Radio 7, is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programmes nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcaster of the BBC's spoken-word archive. The station relaunched as BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 April 2011 to bring it closer to BBC Radio 4.
The station launched as BBC7 in December 2002 to broadcast the BBC Sound Archive. Since rebranding it also features extended versions of programmes from Radio 4. The station was the second most listened to BBC digital radio station in the second quarter of 2010, with an audience of 949,000 and a 13.8% year-on-year rise in audience.
The station can be heard worldwide on the Internet, across northern Europe via the Astra 2A satellite (including via Freesat and Sky), and in the UK on DAB digital radio, cable television (including Virgin Media), IPTV and Freeview digital terrestrial television.
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“To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.”
—Anonymous. quoted in “Quote Unquote,” Feb. 22, 1982, BBC Radio 4.
“To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.”
—Anonymous. quoted in “Quote Unquote,” Feb. 22, 1982, BBC Radio 4.
“The word “conservative” is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.”
—Norman Tebbit (b. 1931)
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—Anne Frank (1929–1945)
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—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)