If you're not planning to listen to Radio 4 in the coming year, you could make up for it by listening to the first few minutes of Jake Yapp Saves Humanity in 28 Minutes. Here, you get a clear idea of the workings of programmes such as Poetry Please with Roger McGough ("one side of A4 read out over half an hour") and Woman's Hour ("we present a singer who's got a great backstory but sings pretty dismal tunes"). Oh, and how do you recognise a Radio 4 listener? "They're people who cut things out of the Guardian and give them to relatives."