Well - now you can do something about it:
BBC - Radio 4 - The Radio 4 Audience Panel
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We're looking to tap into our audience's experience and knowledge, not just their views and opinions.
We want you to help us cover the news better, by sharing your knowledge and expertise about various subjects.
We'll then take what you tell us, analyse it and distill it, and then pass it on to our reporters and editors who might follow it up with a request for more information, or even an interview, according to what you tell us.
We're starting from the premise that although Radio 4's journalists will always attempt to find the best sources and the best information to tell the stories you hear, there are a lot more of YOU than them.
And because so many of you have good information and insight acquired through your jobs, hobbies, contacts, friendships or life experiences, we can make better radio with your help.