On Radio

Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score

If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead

Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover

Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty

Beyond the binge

Let’s try subtlety

A rare interview proved a delight

Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things

The misfits of Middagh Street

What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with

Borne back into the past … of Bolton

Oh no, not another cliche!

The hounding of a poet and teacher

Communism is the only guarantee of human happiness

Keeping in tune with the Times

Radio Times has become the mouthpiece of the BBC’s re-education unit

A farewell to a brilliant broadcaster

Melvyn Bragg has declared his innings closed after 27 years

Please, no more “counter-culture”

The voice honed by experience is more necessary now than ever