Radio
My perfect castaway
Robin Ashenden whiled away a forced sojourn in Georgia by feasting on the back catalogue of Desert Island Discs and compiling a list of his favourite guests
Lost in the Moral Maze
What is kindness, and is it the highest of virtues?
Bragg shows what is possible
A show worth the licence fee by itself
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
Sack the lot at rotten Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is drowning in a puddle of self-willed mediocrity
An American’s excellent essays
A set of fine programmes on the American bohemians who brought to life a great city on the cusp of significant change
When Great Lives grates
Tales of lives lived well, or disgracefully, are always interesting, but what makes a good obit?
Clearly raising the tone
What makes the perfect radio voice?
Small town radio
Letters from the Falklands front: when broadcasting was a matter of life or death
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
