Richard Tanner has taken part in many live and pre-recorded radio and television broadcasts as choral director and organist, including:
- BBC Radio 4 Daily Service (regular music director and organist since 2000)
- BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong (regularly from Blackburn Cathedral, the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Rugby School)
- BBC Radio 3 The Choir
- BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship
- BBC Radio 2 Sunday Half Hour
- BBC Radio 2 Young Choristers of the Year
- BBC 1 Songs of Praise (including programmes on the Jubilee & Olympics in 2012).
He has also worked as a freelance producer for BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong & BBC Radio 4's Daily Service and Sunday Worship
Some specific programmes worked on as Musical Director include:
- Radio 3 Choral Evensong from Rugby School Chapel with Rugby School Choir, 27th June 2018
- Radio 4 Sunday Worship from Rugby School Chapel with Rugby School Choir, 24th June 2018
- Radio 4 Sunday Worship, live from Rugby School Chapel with Rugby School Choir and Bliss Sinfonia Brass, 14th May 2017
- Radio 2 Young Choristers of the Year competition, 12th October 2015 from St Martin-in-the-Fields & 24th October 2016 from Manchester Cathedral
- Radio 4 Sunday Worship for the Rugby World Cup, live from Rugby School Chapel with Rugby School Choir, 13th September 2015
- Radio 4 Sunday Worship for Pentecost "Inspired by Celestial Fire", live from Emmanuel Church Didsbury with Manchester Chamber Choir, 19th May 2013
- Radio 4 Ascension Day Service live from St Martin-in-the-Fields. Movements from B Minor Mass by JS Bach. With the BBC Daily Service Singers, Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields and Canzona (period instruments), 9th May 2013
- Radio 4 Sunday Worship during the Olympics, live from Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, July 29th 2012
- Radio 3 Choral Evensong, live from Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 11th April 2012
- Radio 4 A service of Remembrance and Reconciliation for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, live from the Grosvenor Chapel, September 11th 2011
- Radio 3 Choral Evensong, live from Blackburn Cathedral, 2nd March 2011
- Radio 4 Annelies: Marking Anne Frank’s 80th birthday, June 2009
- Radio 3 Mendelssohn Special, live from Royal Northern College of Music (conducting Manchester Chamber Choir), May 2009
- Radio 4 The Manchester Carols, December 2008 (repeated 2009)
- Radio 4 Pentecost Jazz Mass (Bob Chilcott’s Little Jazz Mass), June 2006
- Radio 4 Ascension Day Service from St Martin-in-the-Fields, with BBC Daily Service Singers, Choir of St Martin’s and Canzona, May 2006
- Radio 4 The Quest for Peace, September 2006