Radio 4 Service Licence. Issued February 2011 Radio 4 Part l: Key characteristics of the service 1. Remit The remit of Radio 4 is to be a mixed speech service, offering in-depth news and current affairs and a wide range of other speech output including drama, readings, comedy, factual and magazine programmes. The service should appeal to listeners seeking intelligent programmes in many genres which inform, educate and entertain. If this is Radio 4's remit, I don't understand how it equates with what you have written MM. It doesn't make any sense.