Respecting Aretha: how Detroit public radio paid homage to a soul legend
Despite the shapelessness of much of her career, and her own personal pain, Franklin made everybody else sound like shouters.
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Radio 4 celebrates the NHS at 70
Some of the material dredged up from the archives is glorious.
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Radio 3’s week in the forest saw seven days of stupendous programming
Woodland music, masques, legends, fairytales, outlaws and fables – it had it all.
ByGetting to know Gareth Southgate
As a young player he would super-companionably shake hands with the opposing team, even if they had just crucified his side,…
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How Radio 3 documented a drowned world below the Solent
Exploring a lost civilisation: a Mesolithic site at Bouldnor Cliff, which disappeared under the sea 8,000 years ago.
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Poking the giant: how radio reported the death of Philip Roth
Perhaps the parting of a great contributor to civilisation would not be sidelined by a 1970s argument that claimed he…
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Only Artists: the Radio 4 discussion show that cuts out the middle man
The show is strikingly and joyously like something from an earlier time, when less offence was taken and given.
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Why few comedians can match the precision-engineered satire of Victoria Wood
“Woman says bollocks near Cheadle” is funnier than “Woman says bollocks in Cheadle”.
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