Radio
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
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
