Radio and podcasts
In praise of Obama’s podcast
Barack Obama has launched a books podcast. Three years ago, this would have been an automatic cause for celebration in…
The genius of Sherlock & Co.
The podcast audio-drama Sherlock & Co. is an updated version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories in which the great…
Should we take Beryl Cook more seriously?
The late Victoria Wood described Beryl Cook as ‘Rubens with jokes’. This was flattering for an artist whose fat, eye-shadowed…
In defence of Thames Water
Perhaps the greatest honour ever paid to Queen Victoria was to have a sewage-pumping engine named after her. Both she…
Alexis de Tocqueville’s America has vanished
When Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New York in 1831, he found a city a quarter of the size of…
