BBC Four’s Yorkshire Ripper Files are extraordinarily resonant
Liza Williams’s three-part documentary series The Yorkshire Ripper Files (26 March, 9pm) sets out to examine whether the notoriously bungled…
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BBC Radio 4’s Dark Matter: a perfectly frightening ghost story
“I’m 28 years old and I hate my life,” isn’t perhaps a line you’d expect in a prize seasonal broadcast. But…
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BBC Radio 4’s adaptation of Derek Jarman’s journals remind us of the director’s unique mind
Twenty five years since Derek Jarman’s death, I often find myself looking hopefully for traces of him in new British…
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As pressure mounts to attract younger listeners, Radio 4’s future hangs in the balance
BBC bosses can be damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Ofcom regulators chastise them for failing their…
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An excellent BBC radio documentary takes the listener behind the scenes of The Dark Crystal
Radio programmes about the “creative process” are so often fatally underpowered, skirting round the edge of banality as any moment…
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The life of a female roadie
With very obvious delight, BBC World Service presenter Kim Chakanetsa interviewed two distinguished female roadies: the Australian Tana Douglas, and…
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The Witch Wave is a podcast that insists witches are real
“Are you a bewitching person? Welcome to the show where magic is real!” To a gripping American podcast, presented by…
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Could Radio 3 recreate the soundscape of a dark, dank cave on the Inner Hebrides?
Can a digital reconstruction of a real soundscape inspire a glorious musical response? Radio 3 promised it could, with its…
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