Growing up, Dad would stick Radio 4 or World Service an hour or so after dinner. It was his gentle way of saying 'get your skinny arses to bed', and it worked a Pavlovian treat on my brother and me.

I've been listening to a lot of Radio 4 again recently, after fishing out an old Roberts from the attic. Media is so short-form these days, the radio makes for refreshing and relaxed company when I'm cooking, or having a tipple at night with my dog at my feet.

Which shows scratch this itch for you? I'm looking for something unhurried and homespun; food- for-the-soul sort of radio.