The treasure trove of Samuel Beckett recordings hidden online
On a website “filled with the detritus and ephemera of great artists”, there’s a wonderful hunk of little-heard pieces for…
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Soul Music is Radio 4’s greatest labour of love – each episode takes up to five years to make
Now in its 26th series, the show takes a song or a piece of music and looks at its impact.
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An illogical conclusion: why Radio 4’s resurrection of Hitchhiker’s Guide falls flat
As the sixth full-cast series of Hitchhiker’s Guide ended, it was hard not to mop one’s bleeding ears and think…
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Why Radio 4’s Martha Kearney is the best presenter on the BBC
In Kearney, the BBC has (for once) identified the right star.
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The Gili Islands’ radio paints an increasingly dishonest picture of the post-Goa rave destination
Chilli Island Radio plays songs like The Doors’ “LA Woman”, with its shaggy-headed bass line, written around the time the…
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BBC Radio 4’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is endlessly three-dimensional
The series’s star, Irish actor Andrew Scott, might just be the 21st century’s Peter Lorre.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg is no less conceptual art than Gilbert & George walking around Whitechapel
Rees-Mogg, in his pinstriped shirt, is a profoundly unserious man pretending to be serious.
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Will Self’s Great British Bus Journey is powerfully endearing
This radio show has none of the tendentiousness, mysticism and arrogance of the “wandering about talking” form.
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