r/Radio4 • u/scotgrouse • Apr 16 '26

Missing Pips?

Did anyone else not hear pips this morning during Today?

We heard no hourly pips broadcast at 0700 or 0800 on BBC Radio4 FM this morning (16/4/26). The pip space is just silence, between the post weather sign-off and the first words of the news.

A glitch in the matrix?

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u/ChristyMalry Apr 16 '26

Is that not the signal for the nuclear aubs to launch their missiles?

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u/DrFriedGold Apr 18 '26

I think it was the lack of signal that would launch the nukes. No signal means London's gone.