BBC Radio to celebrate life of Bernard Cribbins over Christmas
Broadcaster’s festive schedule also includes Sir Cliff Richard speaking to Sara Cox at Abbey Road studios
October 2018
Michael Freedland obituary
Broadcaster, writer and prolific biographer of Hollywood and showbusiness stars
March 2018
How we made
'Suddenly it was like Beatlemania' – how we made Cabin Pressure
‘By the time we did the third series, Benedict Cumberbatch had starred in Sherlock. Suddenly the audiences were 90% young girls who’d queue round the block’
September 2017
Fifty years after the radio revolution, are the BBC’s stations now irrelevant?
The Home Service, and the Light and Third Programmes became part of British life. But too much of their successors’ content is unfit for the digital age
June 2017
David Hepworth on radio
This week’s best radio: the woman who ran away to Mexico
The remarkable life of the artist Leonora Carrington is the subject of Radio 4’s book of the week. Plus: the faces of the Sgt Pepper artwork discuss the album
January 2017
The week in radio: Johnnie Walker Meets Peter Kay; Desert Island Discs; Blink Once for Yes
Johnnie Walker struggles to get a word in with Peter Kay, while the late Victoria Wood proves that modest reflection is a far better way of winning listeners’ hearts
December 2015
Observer critics' review of 2015
Miranda Sawyer: the best radio of 2015
The year podcasts went mainstream, the Archers went doolally and Radio 5 Live headed downhill fast
October 2015
BBC Radio 4 Extra passes 6 Music to become UK’s biggest digital-only station
Serial podcast to be made into TV series by directors of The Lego Movie
August 2015
Other lives
Mark Jones obituary
Other lives: Former head of the BBC’s Sound Archive
May 2015
The week in radio: Frankly Speaking; International Waters; 99% Invisible
Radio 4 Extra’s reruns can still give a thrill, while billiard balls make history elsewhere
BBC Radio 4 Extra becomes UK's biggest digital radio station
With 2.17 million listeners, the channel, which airs classic comedy, dramas and documentaries, has overtaken 6 Music and classical music station Radio 3
Radio 1 loses nearly 1m listeners as Nick Grimshaw hits 12-year breakfast low
BBC station’s audience at lowest for 10 years as star DJ’s ratings continue to suffer, while Radio 4 Extra passes 6 Music in popularity
March 2015
Caroline Raphael’s influence on BBC radio will be missed
The commissioning editor for Radio 4 comedy and fiction pushed for experimentation, bold new series and more women
December 2014
BBC Radio 4 Extra to broadcast hit US podcast Serial
US podcast to be broadcast daily at 9pm on digital station, beginning with Sarah Koenig re-investigating the 1999 murder of high-school student Hae Min Lee in Baltimore
October 2014
BBC Radio 6 Music hits biggest-ever weekly audience with nearly 2 million
Radio 4 executive behind Little Britain to leave BBC after more than 30 years
June 2014
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
BBC Radio 2 draws record audience as Radio 1 sheds older listeners
Ira Glass: 'The first time I took ecstasy, my anxiety lifted away'
