In praise of local radio
With the news that Global is closing more than 40 local breakfast shows, Antonia Quirke mourns the loss of small-town…
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Sporting Witness: a sports history programme that moves blithely between archive, interview and conversation
Episodes cover everything from the beginnings of downhill skiing to the invention of the sports bra.
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That shrinking feeling: therapy on the radio
From The Archers to The Angry Therapist podcast.
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Who will be the next controller of BBC Radio 4?
Whoever it they must know what “quality programming” really means.
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The mysterious sanity of Evan Davis
News presenters all go mad in the end. So why is Evan Davis brisk, frank – and still sane?
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The BBC World Service drama Fall of the Shah drips with menace
Murk is written into every moment of this radio drama marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
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“It’s perfect, just as it is”: Lauren Laverne takes the reins of Desert Island Discs
Lauren Laverne talks to the NS about subbing in for Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs, the songs she’d choose if…
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Great Lives: BBC Radio 4’s marvellous, witty tribute to Freddie Mercury
It is a joy to hear Matt Lucas and Matthew Parris delivering facts about Mercury fast and openly, without side…
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