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Illuminated, Charter Renewal, News Avoidance

Andrea Catherwood discusses Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Charter Renewal with an expert, and hears your views on a powerful episode of the Illuminated documentary strand.

Illuminated is Radio 4's home for powerful, original audio storytelling - and recently we've heard from listeners who were moved by a documentary called Functioning, about the effect of alcohol addiction on two women's lives. Andrea Catherwood talks to the programme's producer Jodie Taylor, and Radio 4 documentary commissioner Hugh Levinson, and hears a remarkable insight into how the programme came to be.

Feedback's listeners are pretty clued up when it comes to giving their thoughts to the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ, but we came across one last week who seemed to know more than most - as it turned out, he did a PhD on charter renewal. Andrea talks to Dr Tom Chivers, academic at Goldsmiths, University of London, about what the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ can do to reach its audience during a consultation that could result in radical change.

And following our discussion of news avoidance on last week's programme, we hear from a listener who has discovered his own method for avoiding news that feels excessive, or irrelevant.

Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Pauline Moore
Assistant Producer: Rebecca Guthrie
Executive Producer: David Prest

A Whistledown Scotland production for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4

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