Radio 4’s flaghip current affairs programme Today reached a record 7,655,000  listeners a week in the second quarter of this year according to RAJAR.

This compares to 7,340,000 this time last year, when figures would have been boosted by the referendum on leaving the European Union.

The data, which is based on a survey of radio listeners, suggests that heightened interest in current affairs around the general election and its aftermath may have benefited the programme.