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March 2021

  • 6Music’s Lauren Laverne is one of the breakfast show hosts spared from having to relocate, but other programme hosts will be expected to move

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    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

July 2020

  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson is interviewed on Times Radio

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Times Radio; Newsbeat: 100 Days of Lockdown – review

    The Times takes to the airwaves, but a lack of listeners prevents it from reaching Newsbeat levels of richness

March 2020

  • Familiar voice … Radio 1’s Greg James.

    Lockdown culture
    Here's my mum with the news! Radio DJs on the switch to home-broadcasting

    What can we expect as the coronavirus forces presenters to broadcast from their living rooms? Sirens, pancakes, family interruptions – and big happy bangers

January 2019

  • Arif Ansari arrives at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court

    BBC Asian Network head cleared over naming sexual abuse victim

    Arif Ansari was editor of a radio programme when a reporter read out the full name of a victim in a live broadcast

September 2017

  • Dancers perform on stage at the London Mela

    ZEE London Mela 2017 – in pictures

    The 15th year of the London Mela, which celebrates South Asian culture, returned to its original home in Gunnersbury Park, west London. It brought together some of the world’s biggest South Asian artists, as well as upcoming talent from the worlds of music, comedy and dance

February 2017

  • Horsepowar.

    Listen up
    The best of BBC Asian Network: Swet Shop Boys, Horsepowar and more

    Ahead of the station’s live event, DJ Bobby Friction picks political pioneers, radical rap stars, EDM overlords and artists a step away from becoming international superstars

April 2016

  • Bobby Friction of BBC Asian Network

    The playlist
    Bobby Friction's playlist: Kanika Kapoor, Raxstar, Jaz Dhami, Divine and Badshah

    Ahead of the first BBC Asian Network Live event, the DJ selects his favourite current tracks, including Bollywood bangers and the best of British Asian rap

August 2015

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    BBC Asian Network staff to strike

    National Union of Journalists members to hold one-day industrial action over proposed cuts to staff numbers and will follow silent protests this week

June 2015

  • Jo Wiley's Radio 2 show could be one of those opened up to competition.

    BBC plans to triple the number of radio shows made by indies

    Proposal means 27,000 hours of programming on stations such as Radio 1, Radio 4 and5 Live will be opened up to competition in the next six years

April 2015

  • Mark Radcliffe

    BBC plans 73-mile musical relay with ‘Hadrian’s Wall of Sound’

    Radio 2, 6 Music and Radio 3 among stations which will broadcast 14-hour musical marathon along Roman fortification featuring hundreds of musicians

March 2015

  • BBC radio DJ Nihal

    BBC DJ criticises ‘all white’ Radio 1 and ‘all black’ 1Xtra ‘silos’

    Nihal, a member of Tony Hall’s group working to improve diversity’, says ‘nothing has changed’ since a former DG called corporation ‘hideously white’ in 2001

June 2014

  • Helen Boaden

    BBC Radio to cut 65 more posts

    Cost-savings drive aims to cut 15% of total staff, with stations moved into two ‘hubs’: pop music and classical and speech. By Jason Deans

May 2014

  • Bob Shennan

    Media interview
    BBC's Bob Shennan: 'Prince is 55 – do we not cater for his age group?'

    John Plunkett: Newly appointed director of music on Top of the Pops, Radio 2's male-dominated line-up and his latest pay rise

February 2014

  • Fatima Khan

    Rewind radio: Nihal; radiotopia – review

    An interview on the BBC Asian Network with the mother of the British doctor who died in Syria was devastating, writes Miranda Sawyer

October 2013

  • Nick Grimshaw breakfast show

    Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 breakfast show loses 300,000 listeners

  • Playlister

    BBC plays down fears of exposure to explicit material through Playlister

April 2013

  • Amir Khan

    BBC's Asian Network nominated for radio station of the year

  • Sony Radio Academy Awards 2013

    Sony Radio Academy Awards 2013: full list of nominations

February 2013

  • Nihal Arthanayake

    Radio review
    Nihal, Nick Clegg and Armistead Maupin – radio review

    Nosheen Iqbal: Sometimes, as on the Asian Network's Saturday morning show this week, neutrality has to take a running jump

January 2013

  • Rahat Fateh Ali Khan … big in Bollywood.

    Radio review
    Woman's Hour; The Official Asian Download Chart: a week in radio

    Nosheen Iqbal: Hearing people on both sides of awkward mother-in-law relationships was like listening to therapy sessions
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