Judy Garland: The Final Rainbow: a tender portrait of an icon
The programme delves deep with frank interviews with old colleagues and archive recordings of Garland’s sublime voice and sparkling onstage…
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A new podcast shows many people knew about the Weinstein allegations – and didn’t speak up
Gloria Allred was one of those who knew. Technically speaking, so am I.
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After John Humphry’s departure, what next for the Today programme?
With a straitened budget and indifferent political leaders, the BBC's flagship news show faces a challenge to remain relevant.
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Listening to him on Test Match Special, you’d hardly know Geoffrey Boycott was mired in scandal
Far from discreetly sidelining Boycott while debate festered over his knighthood, on Test Match Special it was almost business as…
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Beyond Today’s solemn and considered tone makes it required listening in my house
The BBC Sounds’ programme is often just two people talking – a welcome change to the usual mad thrill of…
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Hugo Rifkind’s Search for Power is devastatingly mild radio comedy
The Times columnist Hugo Rifkind’s new three-part satirical series, about who in modern Britain has power (3 May, 11:30am –…
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Why the BBC is producing audiobooks
Reports of a 43 per cent surge in audiobook sales last year come as no surprise to anybody listening to…
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Digging Deep with Robert Plant is relaxed, revealing and short
Perhaps the single most effective thing a podcast can do that conventional radio series cannot is to give the convincing impression…
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