Radio 4
Mistakes
I enjoy Poetry Please, but was shouting mildly at the wireless the other day when a northern woman poet was…
Is a new art form being born on Woman’s Hour?
In a comic-strip cartoon, beads of water apparently radiating outward from the head of one of the characters indicate embarrassment.…
Diary
I’ve worked for the BBC for years and have been listening to the Today programme all my adult life, but…
‘Give people a break’
David Blackburn talks to Gwyneth Williams,who wants to revitalise Radio 4’s coverage of the arts
Women on top
Boy, we’ve had to wait a long time for this. But last Thursday morning something unusual happened on Radio 4;…
Eavesdropping
It must have sounded like such a great idea. To gather a group of thinkers, agitators, experts, intellectuals and media…
Diary
If you haven’t scuffled you haven’t lived, and our local scuffle is the best of the best. A scuffle is…
Speed limit
Of course there’s a future for digital radio, it’s just that we’ll probably be listening to it online, or on…
Four recessions, runaway inflation, sky-high taxes: who says Baby Boomers had it easy?
Here’s a competition for you: ‘The most irritating discussion on Radio 4 in the past month.’ Answers in not more…
