Researchers discover a technique that can kill melanoma cells with few toxic side effects, but warn there is still no cure
August 2023
Radio presenter Chris Evans diagnosed with skin cancer
Disease is in early stages, broadcaster reveals on Virgin Radio show, and says he has been told it is treatable
August 2022
Farewell Scott Mills: the Cristiano Ronaldo of pop radio
After 24 years of endless creativity, the BBC Radio 1 DJ’s final show on the flagship station airs today. He changed the face of the station as we know it – and will be sorely missed
July 2022
The politics sketch
The Convict’s resignation honours list – a sneak peek
John Crace
Boris Johnson is preparing to decorate those without whom none of the last three years would have been possible
June 2022
Names in the news
Chris Evans may need to rein in TFI Friday reboot
Rebecca Nicholson
He suggests that the chat and music show could be livestreamed, but will celebrities today be as much fun?
May 2021
Billie Piper: From vulnerable teen pop star to director of an ‘anti-romcom’
The characters she plays do not match her own life, the actress insists, but it’s hard not to see parallels with her own journey
January 2021
Billie Piper: ‘I know about dysfunctional relationships – what it costs to be a woman’
After 25 years in the limelight, the actor says she is finally finding her voice as an actor, writer and now director. Does life imitate art?
May 2020
Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 show loses a million listeners
Audience falls after Chris Evans’ departure, while figures also show decline at Radio 4’s Today
January 2020
Ask Hadley
‘Myself is not my I today’: What can we learn from Chris Evans’ extraordinary life advice?
The radio DJ is now very much enlightened. So can we all become millionaires like him if we devote ourselves to Eckhart Tolle and learn the power of ‘I’?
October 2019
Jump the shark
How the Big Breakfast went from eggxcellent to oeuf-ful
Radio 2 breakfast show audience falls to lowest level in a decade
May 2019
Chris Evans' Virgin Radio breakfast show hits 1m listeners a week
Presenter’s audience is huge drop on 9m who tuned in to his BBC Radio 2 programme
February 2019
BBC Radio 4 sheds 750,000 listeners in year
Flagship news and current affairs station’s Rajar figures hit hard by commercial rivals
January 2019
The Chris Evans Breakfast Show review – an overfamiliar routine
Evans’s move to Virgin has changed little – and maybe that’s not such a good thing
December 2018
Chris Evans confirms he will appear on Strictly Come Dancing in 2019
The presenter and radio host announced he has signed up for the dance competition while on BBC’s The One Show
October 2018
Chris Evans's Radio 2 audience slumps in run-up to his move to Virgin
Ratings for breakfast show of under 9 million a week will ease pressure on new host Zoë Ball
Zoe Ball profile: 'I feel a crazy mix of elation and wanting to run away'
BBC Radio 2’s new breakfast show host on being a ladette, her pal Greg James, and wondering if her daughter will tune in
Lost in showbiz
Will the last overpaid man at the BBC please turn out the lights?
Kirsty Wark may be the next David Dimbleby. Zoë Ball is definitely the new Chris Evans. But with the BBC finally giving women a shot at the top jobs, why are its recruiters so terrified of leaks?
September 2018
From cricket to Chris Evans: Rupert Murdoch invests in UK radio boom
Lost in showbiz
Richard Gere’s baby is well and truly blessed – and it’s all thanks to the Dalai Lama
