Radio roadshow: the Beeb's big move away from London
The BBC is right to diversify outside the capital – but its radical relocation plan is being badly managed
May 2020
BBC Radio 3 is an oasis of calm in troubling times
Letters: Readers praise Radio 3 for its excellent music programming and for providing comfort during the coronavirus pandemic
February 2015
Media Monkey
Media Monkey’s Diary: Rebekah Brooks, WIA, Sarah Vine and Snowy
Read Media Monkey’s diary from the Monday print pages
October 2014
BBC Radio 3 chief: I won’t be ‘dumbing down’ station
Alan Davey says station will not become more like Classic FM to address shrinking audience and will still offer ‘complex culture’
July 2013
Webchats
Alan Davey answers your arts funding questions – live chat
Arts Council chief: 'what happens next?'
March 2011
Culture cuts blog
Arts council funding questions: the Q&A digested
Following the live Q&A with Arts Council England chief executive Alan Davey, here it is in a more digestible form
Culture cuts blog
Alan Davey answers your Arts Council funding questions
Following funding and cuts announcements, Arts Council England chief executive Alan Davey took part in a live Q&A to answer some of your questions
Arts Council funding: a day of mixed fortunes as cuts are announced
More than 200 organisations lose their funding – but there are some winners as Alan Davey announces 'agonising and painful decisions'
January 2011
Charlotte Higgins on culture
Culture select committee latest: 600 funding rejections to come
Culture cuts blog
Arts Council funding applications: 'a fantastic response'
October 2009
Arts Council chief warns against cuts in arts funding
Alan Davey says government risks losing money as well as creativity if arts funding is cut
April 2009
Budget: conserve our culture
Alan Davey
Alan Davey: In hard times it is essential that arts funding and artistic direction remain strong and able to challenge a deserving audience
November 2008
Theatre blog
Arts Council promises a new era ... can we believe it?
Lyn Gardner: Alan Davey launches the discussion on funding and peer review designed to shape the future of theatre
April 2008
More diversity in arts funding
'We might have to walk away from groups not setting the world alight'
February 2008
The 'assassin' answers his critics
Alan Davey is a Spurs fan, so he has experienced pain, but not necessarily pain like this. At the end of his first week as chief executive of the Arts Council, he is having to explain why almost 200 arts organisations are getting the chop
