A new dramatisation of Roald Dahl’s Boy reminds us of the author’s staggering talent
Roald Dahl was an industry of one for an extraordinary length of time. For decades, there was no Stones to…
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After more than a decade, BBC Radio 3’s The Essay still delivers captivating monologues
A week-long series, “Looking Good” (from 29 January), about “viewing a phenomenon closely” might sound late-January vague but is particularly good.
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The modest but phenomenal Reservoir Tapes offer four months’ of haunting stories
Over 15-weeks, Jon McGregor’s series of interconnected short stories built something powerful.
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A case of evil consonants: the World Book Club is uniting readers around the globe
It's heartening, on a dreary January day, to know that someone in Somaliland is also tuning in to the BBC World…
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Radio 4’s adaptation of novel Offshore is marvellously layered
A tragi-comical story set among the houseboat community beyond Battersea in the 1960s.
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Ocean Stories: what it’s really like to work on the world’s seas
Water is second only to outer-space for attracting rapt sub-poetry.
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Long live the mildly eccentric competence of BBC local radio
Let us have more Abbie McCarthy playing SlimeLord’s “Existence is Shit” to the good people of Tunbridge Wells.
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The priests forced to choose between family and God
Heart and Soul: My Father the Priest tells their stories on BBC World Service.
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