Radio

Far from Naples

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

It’s a brave dramatist who would seek to adapt for radio the hit novels of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante.…

Fever pitch

30 July 2016 9:00 am

It cost just £4/10s for 19-year-old Alan Dryland to buy a season ticket that would take him inside the stadium…

Fever pitch

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

It cost just £4/10s for 19-year-old Alan Dryland to buy a season ticket that would take him inside the stadium…

Fever pitch

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

It cost just £4/10s for 19-year-old Alan Dryland to buy a season ticket that would take him inside the stadium…

Dramatic effect

23 July 2016 9:00 am

It was hard to believe that Monday morning’s introduction to the Italian writer Primo Levi on Radio 4 lasted for…

Dramatic effect

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

It was hard to believe that Monday morning’s introduction to the Italian writer Primo Levi on Radio 4 lasted for…

Dramatic effect

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

It was hard to believe that Monday morning’s introduction to the Italian writer Primo Levi on Radio 4 lasted for…

Sounds of the suburbs

16 July 2016 9:00 am

In After the Vote, her talk for this week’s special edition of A Point of View (Radio 4) on the…

Sounds of the suburbs

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

In After the Vote, her talk for this week’s special edition of A Point of View (Radio 4) on the…

Sounds of the suburbs

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

In After the Vote, her talk for this week’s special edition of A Point of View (Radio 4) on the…

Accentuate the positive

9 July 2016 9:00 am

Fifty years ago on Monday the World Service programme Outlook was launched as an innovative news and current affairs programme…

Accentuate the positive

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

Fifty years ago on Monday the World Service programme Outlook was launched as an innovative news and current affairs programme…

Accentuate the positive

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

Fifty years ago on Monday the World Service programme Outlook was launched as an innovative news and current affairs programme…

Refuge from the referendum

2 July 2016 9:00 am

A brief encounter with Radio 4’s Any Questions to gauge the measure of opinion in the shires after the referendum…

Refuge from the referendum

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

A brief encounter with Radio 4’s Any Questions to gauge the measure of opinion in the shires after the referendum…

Refuge from the referendum

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

A brief encounter with Radio 4’s Any Questions to gauge the measure of opinion in the shires after the referendum…

Madeleine moments

25 June 2016 3:00 am

I’d just heard (on catch-up) Jenny Abramsky (a former director of BBC radio) telling Gillian Reynolds (the esteemed radio critic…

Madeleine moments

23 June 2016 2:00 am

I’d just heard (on catch-up) Jenny Abramsky (a former director of BBC radio) telling Gillian Reynolds (the esteemed radio critic…

Madeleine moments

23 June 2016 2:00 am

I’d just heard (on catch-up) Jenny Abramsky (a former director of BBC radio) telling Gillian Reynolds (the esteemed radio critic…

Women of substance

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

Three women, three writers, three very different life experiences. On Monday afternoon the artist Fiona Graham-Mackay introduced us to Imtiaz…

Women of substance

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

Three women, three writers, three very different life experiences. On Monday afternoon the artist Fiona Graham-Mackay introduced us to Imtiaz…

Polluted by podcasts

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Just to prove my esteemed colleague wrong I’ve been out there in podcast space looking for a wireless moment that…

Polluted by podcasts

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Just to prove my esteemed colleague wrong I’ve been out there in podcast space looking for a wireless moment that…

Radio reviewing is based on a lie – that Radio 4 is brimming with fascinating programmes

4 June 2016 9:00 am

There are few jobs more dishonest than being a radio critic in Britain. I know this because it was how…

Sound and fury

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

There are few jobs more dishonest than being a radio critic in Britain. I know this because it was how…