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If you’re not tired of London, you’re tired of life
London, city of the damned. City of incendiary tower blocks, jihadi mentals trying to slit your throat, yokels from Somerset…
I wish radio was more like I remember it as a child
This week’s column is dedicated to my mother who loved her radio and encouraged us to be listeners. Without her,…
‘The Western establishment is betraying its values’: Evgeny Kissin interview
The great, enigmatic pianist has always divided critics. He talks to Damian Thompson about his heretical opinions on Horowitz, Israel and Brexit
Hilary Mantel explains the difference between facts and truths
‘History is not the past,’ says the writer Hilary Mantel in the first of her Reith Lectures on Radio 4…
A pile of old tosh – but undeniably fun: Poldark reviewed
At one uncharacteristically low-key point in Sunday’s Poldark — back for a third series on BBC1 — Ross (Aidan Turner)…
Where are the right-wing masses demanding a second election?
The Conservative party lost the general election, even if they are still in power (at time of writing). It was…
In the digital age, you might expect the paper diary to be dying – not so
By chance on Saturday morning, I tuned into Radio 4 and heard Professor Clare Brant talking on Saturday Live about…
Why on earth has the BBC created a radio drama with visuals?
Two extremes of the listening experience were available on Monday on Radio 4. The day began conventionally enough with Start…
The country full of teenagers
Imagine living in a country where the average age is under 16 (in the UK it’s currently 40 and increasing)…
Those of us who rely on radio to keep us sane need to rally round the BBC
Bashing the BBC often becomes a popular blood sport in times of political instability, and especially if the left is…
Letters: The Benedictines did not withdraw from the world
Benedictine engagement Sir: Matthew Parris has missed the point (‘Give me the Anglican option’, 15 April). He compares Rod Dreher’s…
Bias and the BBC
Is it fair over Brexit and can it survive in the 21st century?
With ‘Meat-Free Mondays,’ the BBC has created a replica of its London bubble in Manchester
An American woman started a website called ‘People I Want to Punch in the Throat’, in which she listed the…
Here’s what Sarah Sands should do with the Today programme, by Rod Liddle
I wonder what Sarah Sands will do to Radio 4’s Today programme? She is the first editor in more than…
The Trip is unmissable TV – shame so many of us will miss it now it’s on Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic — available only to Sky customers — has the cunning/infuriating policy of broadcasting the kind of programmes most…
Meet the founder of the Boring Music Society (and possible neglected genius)
It’s always promising when the orchestra won’t fit on the stage. For the UK première, some 97 years after it…
What shocks me about the BBC: occasionally it isn’t biased
There’s one thing that bothers me a lot about the letter sent by ‘more than 70’ MPs to the director-general…
BBC radio is at its best when it’s at its plainest
It was the crime story that showed us just how much China has changed since its years of social, political…
What would we do without nutcases like Steve Backshall
Down the Mighty River with Steve Backshall (BBC2) was perfect Sunday-night TV — one of the most enjoyable adventure travelogues…
The latest paedophilia debacle from Operation Hydrant
Chief Constable Simon Bailey, who heads Operation Hydrant, the police investigation of ‘non-recent’ child abuse cases, now says that paedophiles…
How refreshing to find the BBC doing its job instead of handwringing about Islamophobia
Here’s the bad news. One day you or someone like you will be shopping in a mall or enjoying a…
Knowledge, experience, taste, are not enough to make a great radio DJ
This weekend Brian Matthew will present his last-ever Sounds of the 60s show on Radio 2. Now 88, he’s been…
Protest and petition all you like. I won't bother listening
I think on balance I would prefer people to demonstrate their opposition to political developments — Brexit, the forthcoming state…
‘Real Housewives of Isis’ is dark and courageous – but the rest of Revolting is lamentable
Revolting (Tuesdays) is the BBC2 comedy series that spawned the now-infamous sketch ‘Real Housewives of Isis’. It has been watched…
Does Radio 3 really need to tiptoe around every controversy?
This week the Southbank Centre began its ‘Belief and Beyond Belief’ festival — a series of concerts and talks claiming…
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