BBC Radio Podcast Guide - R
Rare Earth
New science documentary series for BBC Radio 4
Ramblings
Clare Balding and guests share inspiring conversations while walking in the great outdoors. Fresh air and nature, wonderful views and uplifting chat, each week Clare hikes in a different part of our glorious countryside. Walking side by side is the perfect way to cover a huge range of subjects: literature, art, wildlife, nature, taking on personal or physical challenges, dealing with grief, confronting preconceptions about the kind of people who love to ramble. The conversations are as varied as the landscapes we find ourselves in. If there's a recurring theme, it's the accepted truth that 'solvitur ambulando' - 'it is solved through walking': The sense of wellness, the benefits to mental health, easy companionship, or sometimes just the sense of solitude that being alone in nature brings. Few things are better than going for a good walk. That's what we aim to share each week on Ramblings with Clare Balding.
Rory Stewart: The Long History of...
Rory Stewart with a radical take on the concepts that shape our lives.
Rory Stewart: The Long History of...
Rory Stewart examines the radical idea that understanding ignorance is as important as acquiring knowledge.
Rory Stewart: The Long History of...
Rory Stewart makes a radical case for embracing ignorance.
Room 5
What happens when a diagnosis changes everything? One afternoon, Helena Merriman walked into a doctor's surgery and was given a shock diagnosis. In this series, she interviews people who – like her-were changed by a diagnosis. Told through an immersive sound design, this intimate series shines a light on misunderstood conditions, asking how we cope when our bodies and our minds no longer behave as we want them to.
Recycled Radio
Welcome to the chopped-up, looped-up, sped-up world of Recycled Radio, where old programmes are reused to explore a series of weighty subjects.
Radio 4 on Music
From Armstrong to Zappa - music documentaries from the Radio 4 archive.
Rugby Union Weekly
Ugo Monye, Chris Jones, Danny Care and Chris Ashton bring you special guests and cover the biggest stories in rugby union. We'd love to hear from you on the pod; email rugbyunionweekly@bbc.co.uk or search for 5 Live Sport on social media to send us a message.
Replay
Colin Murray looks back at 90 years of sport on the BBC by unearthing classic commentaries and interviews from the BBC archives.
Radio Wales Arts Show
Gary Raymond previews the best of the Welsh contemporary arts scene.
Rams Daily: A Derby County Podcast
Daily updates from Derby County with Dominic Dietrich and Ed Dawes. If it's happening at the Rams you'll hear about it here.
Ricky Ross Meets
Ricky Ross in conversation with some of our most admired songwriters and musicians.
Red Lines
The back-stop’s here? Bad puns with top political coverage from Northern Ireland. Red Lines brings you essential analysis and commentary by BBC NI’s politics team.
Real Talk
Real Talk is a podcast for women, by women and non-binary people. We’re constantly being told how to be, look and think, and it all can all get overwhelming. We have taken six key issues; racism, body image, sustainable fashion, mental health, relationships, and consent; that keep popping up on our news feeds every day. Along with a panel of journalists, influencers and policy changers, we’re going to try and break those down together. Presented by Gemma Bradley.
Remembering Gerry
Downloads of Anderson Extra plus some of Gerry Anderson's classic podcasts. From BBC Radio Ulster's Remembering Gerry week
Remembering Seamus Heaney
Remembering Seamus Heaney
Record Review Podcast
Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Each week an expert and enthusiast brings along a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece. They explore the music and the different ways of performing it, ending with a recommendation for your library
Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition
The final shortlist of winning carols in the Breakfast Christmas Carol Competition. Composed by listeners, a setting of a poem by Susan Hill specially written for Radio 3
Radio 3’s Composers’ Rooms
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews today’s composers exploring the relationship between their immediate environment and the music they write. From BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, published on Sunday mornings.
Radio 3 Opera Guides
BBC Radio 3 Opera guides
Ravel Revealed
Maurice Ravel revealed through guides to his work and life. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Ravel Day, 7 March 2014.
Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics
Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000. As featured in the BBC Radio 3 programme, Hear & Now.
Radio 3's Piano A to Z
BBC Radio 3's Piano A to Z
Radio 1’s All Day Breakfast with Greg James
This is the place to catch daily chat, extra fun and highlights from Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James - hit subscribe to stay up to date!
Radio 1's Screen Time
Join Radio 1’s resident film buff Ali Plumb for movie news, reviews and extra behind-the-screens fun.
Radio 1's Life Hacks - Adapt the World
Katie Thistleton and disability rights activist India Sasha are joined by some of your favourite content creators as they ask 'if the world was re-built tomorrow, what would you change to make life fairer and easier for disabled people?'
Radio 1 and 1Xtra Stories
Ground-breaking and honest real-life stories that speak to you about your life, your world, and your issues. Reece Parkinson gets in-depth each week with documentaries made to challenge your thinking.
Radio 1’s Drag Queens' Den
Drag Queens' Den is your weekly dose of fabulous queens from all over the scene, from RuPaul to Blackpool, via Liverpool, Pontypool and everywhere else in the country that doesn't rhyme with 'Paul'. Each week Glyn Fussell plays host to a studio of drag queens to guide our listeners on a journey around every aspect of UK Drag Culture from the glitz to the gutter, via the heights and the depths of drag debauchery. Guests in the studio include Michelle Visage, Jamie Campbell, Jodie Harsh, Raven Mandella and Tete Bang whilst the show also features famous 'Drag Addicts' including Olly Alexander, Jade Thirlwall, Sam Smith, Scarlett Moffatt, Beth Ditto and Melanie C. Glyn and his guests also play 'Dragony Aunt' to Radio 1 DJs including Greg James, Nick Grimshaw and Clara Amfo as they invite you to enter the murky fabulousness of the Drag Queens' Den.
Radio 1 Vintage
Celebrating Radio 1's 50th Birthday, with radio shows made from archive material, and interviews with former Radio 1 DJs. Radio 1 Vintage was a 3-day radio station that aired on 30th September 2017.
Radio 2's Confessions
In an extended podcast, Jo and Simon hear listeners' shameful secrets, including ones that were too shocking for radio! Plus more of listener’ letters from the Parish Notice Board and another archive story in ‘Confession From The Crypt’.
Rethink
Professor Ben Ansell asks some of the world's sharpest minds about the latest thinking, and what it might mean for policy and society.
Rylan: How to Be...
How to Be in the Spotlight – Rylan explores the good, the bad and the ugly of what it's like to be thrust into the public eye – with those who've lived to tell the tale. Over 12 episodes, Rylan will be joined by guests who will share how they have learned to navigate the spotlight, reflecting on what they did right – and what they did very wrong… A Mindhouse production for BBC Sounds.
Reliable Sauce with Kirsty and Jonelle
Ok - what just happened? And why does it actually matter? Kirsty Grant and Jonelle Awomoyi are here to give the news more flavour, serving up the need-to-know details with just the right amount of sauce. We break down the week’s hottest stories, cut through the noise of social media to get to the truth, and throw in a big dollop of pop-culture, laughs and behind-the-scenes intrigue.
RAW
Rare and newly discovered interviews with cultural icons featuring Amy Winehouse, Beyoncé, Oasis, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Adele, Courtney Love and many more.
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: The Podcast
Unapologetic in its queerness, crass with a whole lot of sass and dripping in bio-degradable glitter. Scarlett Moffatt and Baby Lame spill the tea, the whole tea and nothing but the tea on the world of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
Rob Burrow Seven, Meets...
In this award winning podcast rugby league legend Rob Burrow has Motor Neurone Disease (MND), he asks seven questions to guests using his eye-gaze machine. Inspired by the number seven, which Burrow wore on his back when playing, episodes explore how sporting greats deal with adversity and how to celebrate the good at every opportunity. Burrow, who was 41, had lived with motor neurone disease (MND) since being diagnosed in late 2019. He died in June 2024. Producer: Tracy Gee. Digital Producer: Lewis Deighton, Hana Kelly and Jacob Tomlinson. Station Sound Producer: Dan Purvis. Operations Engineer: Richard Biddulph and Ross Collier. Online producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Kathryn Morrison. Commissioning Editor: Alistair Miskin. With thanks to Motor Neurone Disease Association, Speak Unique and Think Smart Box. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Leeds.
Raj and Pablo: The Podcast
Join Raj and Pablo for your fix of Bollywood movie chat and big star interviews.
Restart
They claim to cure video game addiction - but what's really going on? Mind-bending thriller from the makers of The Cipher, starring Armin Karima (Sex Education).