On Radio
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
Palin was a rare Radio 4 treat
The triumph of Michael Palin’s Book of the Week and the tragedy of Radio 4 comedy
Spotlight on the Black Country
BBC on the Black Country and on the passing of Michael Parkinson
Not having a gay old time
On BBC radio’s preoccupation with Americans and identity politics.
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
