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Radio 4 offers BBC staff a chance to “get your head around the economy”
Are W1Aers sure they understand how debt works?
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Richard Sharp’s letter to BBC staff leaves the essential questions unanswered
The broadcaster’s chairman offers an inconclusive defence of his role in an £800,000 loan guarantee to Boris Johnson.
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Can Newsnight recapture its lost glory?
With declining viewing numbers and high-profile resignations at the flagship news programme, Victoria Derbyshire speaks on the troubles at the…
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How Scott Ross broke the rules of classical music
The harpsichord “cowboy”, who died from Aids in 1989, left behind a heroic body of work.
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Exposing the internet’s false prophets
Helen Lewis’s Radio 4 investigation charts the rise of today’s tech-led snake-oil merchants.
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Andrew Tate is answering a question we won’t attempt to
What is it to be a “good man” today?
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Susan Cooper’s land of shadows
BBC Sounds brings to life the folkloric fantasy The Dark is Rising, with vivid and immersive storytelling.
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Happy Valley is back – and still richer and deeper than any other police procedural
Sarah Lancashire’s performance is marvellous in Sally Wainwright’s small town saga.
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The New Statesman’s best TV shows of 2022
The highlights of the year, from The English to The White Lotus.
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Why brass music has such a special relationship with Christmas
There is something particularly cheering about horns playing festive favourites as the temperature drops.
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Is Robbie Gibb out of control at the BBC?
The former Tory aide’s lecture to Newsnight staff over impartiality has intensified concerns over his role at the broadcaster.
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The highs and lows of Christmas TV 2022
From the Motherland special to the return of Happy Valley.
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Nick Robinson’s Media Notebook: On Berlin’s dark past, and in defence of the Today programme
Gazing down from the Reichstag’s glass dome, I was reminded that Britain is not alone in facing unstable politics.
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The last bell foundry in Britain
This peek inside the John Taylor bell foundry is a ringing endorsement for BBC radio storytelling.
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Even Claudia Winkleman can’t make The Traitors watchable
The BBC’s latest stab at a reality show, with a murder mystery-style twist, is a convoluted extravaganza of tedium.
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The hypocrisy of Zara McDermott’s disordered eating documentary
The BBC can’t pretend a show hosted by a fitness influencer who posted restrictive meal plans on Instagram is a…
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Ofcom chair Michael Grade: “My opinions are valueless here – it’s liberating”
The Tory peer is 79, doesn’t use social media and abhors “woke apparatchiks”. Is he the man to regulate Big…
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How The Shipping Forecast became the nation’s favourite lullaby
In the BBC podcast The Sleeping Forecast, the distinctive maritime weather report is read over classical music – with soporific…
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The unbearable complacency of the Today programme
Arch presenters, clichéd reporting, soft interviews: no wonder BBC Radio 4’s stale morning show is rapidly losing listeners.
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