What’s the point of a poet laureate?
A Poet for Elizabeth on Radio 4 looks back at the seven poets who have taken the role during the…
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“We’re losing the war against disinformation”: This American Life’s Ira Glass
The host of the influential radio programme and podcast on the success of his show – and competing with Joe…
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The Future Will Be Synthesised: a glimpse into a deepfake dystopia
The rise of “deepfake porn” – turning harmless images into hardcore footage – begins a BBC Radio 4 series on…
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Radio 4’s Red Lines is a heavy-handed attempt to pin today’s crisis in Ukraine on squeamish MPs in 2013
The message is unsubtle and simplistic, and the only moment of wit is when David Davis is called a wanker.
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The eccentric world of cuckoo clocks and their custodians
Radio documentary Time Flies explores extreme nostalgia, with clock-collecting brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski.
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The unnerving horror of BBC Radio 4’s Lusus
This is a slick drama which explores relatable inner demons: loneliness, ageing, eco-angst – but I’m not sure I can…
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The wild, quiet menace of David Tennant’s Macbeth
On BBC Radio 4, Tennant brings bitterness, resignation and almost-buried fury to Shakespeare’s most famous lines.
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The Rest is History is breathtaking in its scope
This podcast with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook teaches you about Pompeii, Vladimir Putin and “killer fashion”, including flammable tutus.
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