Radio
Parky’s great river of song
Michael Henderson on the old-fashioned music that the BBC doesn’t want us to hear any longer
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
The faltering heart of the BBC
Amongst the dearth of decent BBC Radio content, “Start the Week” is outstanding
A series of sharp transactions
Anne McElvoy on how LBC branch out into podcasting and American podcasters bid for their share of British ears
Elusive quest for impartiality
I would cavil at the curse of the presenter monologue, tending to sway the audience one way or the other, reveals Anne McElvoy
Radio cashes in on theatre’s loss
Radio drama is prone to over-signalling regional differences, says Anne McElvoy
Play for Today celebrates its 50th birthday
Play for Today was a milestone in the history of TV drama
Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
The curious incuriosity of multiculturalists
We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
