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Radio 5 Live

March 2024

  • Barney Ronay

    Rise of internet and social media dashes beautiful dream of BBC Radio 5 Live

    Barney Ronay
  • Heidi Dawson inside the control suite for Studio 11, at Quay House, Salford.

    ‘Know your audience’: BBC 5 Live chief on the station’s staying power

January 2024

  • Carol Vorderman sitting at a desk with a microphone on in an LBC studio.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Catching the Kingpins; Carol Vorderman; Stephen Mangan; Ending Homelessness the Finnish Way – review

    A cracking tale of criminals and encrypted phones; the outspoken ex-BBC Radio Wales host jumps ship to commercial; the Finns show us the way on social problems; and farewell to Annie Nightingale

August 2023

  • Helen Skelton

    Helen Skelton quits Radio 5 Live to spend more time with her children

    Presenter, who has three young children, says pressures of juggling home and work life are ‘real’

May 2023

  • Rick Edwards in 1987

    Flashback
    Rick Edwards looks back: ‘I don’t know what my dad said to make me smile like that’

    The TV presenter turned podcaster on causing trouble at school, why he’s geeky about science and how being on TV changed him

March 2023

  • Terri White, right, with Mrs Webley, her primary school teacher, at her home in Duckmanton, Chesterfield, for the 5Live programme Finding Britain's Lost Children

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Terri White: Finding Britain’s Ghost Children; From Gay to Ze; Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?

  • The Radio 5 Live commentary positions for last Saturday’s England v France rugby fixture. Other sporting commentaries have been cancelled, in solidarity with suspended Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: BBC 5 Live; Shock and War; Countered Terrorism; The Trust Race; Movers and Shakers

December 2022

  • ‘Tireless’: the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring

    Observer critics' review of 2022
    Radio and podcasts: Miranda Sawyer’s 10 best listens of 2022

  • Nick Fisher in the kitchen at his home in Dorset in 2011.

    Nick Fisher obituary

October 2022

  • Andrew Marr in LBC studio

    LBC draws level with 5 Live as BBC loses ground to commercial rivals

    As commercial radio stations have invested and poached stars such as Andrew Marr, audiences have grown

September 2022

  • Crowds wait to catch a glimpse of the Queen’s coffin in Edinburgh last week.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: 5 Live Breakfast; LBC; Sounds of Black Britain; Empire; Love and Radio – review

    When radio coverage of the Queen’s death ended up like a long Test match commentary, it was good to turn to some alternative views of Britishness

August 2022

  • BBC Broadcasting House

    BBC stands firm on decision to scrap classified football results on Radio 5 Live

    In spite of widespread criticism the corporation has said decision to scrap classified results, which have been read out on Saturday afternoons since the mid-1950s, will stand
  • A group of football fans listen to a portable radio in October 1980.

    Guardian Sport Network
    The classified results still gave fans joy – even if we all knew the scores

    The classified football results were not just a tradition. They unified the pyramid and gave fans another reason to cheer
  • Prom 21: Gaming Prom – From 8-Bit to Infinity,

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Gaming Prom; The Silent Mind; The Electricity of Every Living Thing and more

    The first ever video game Prom proves a treat for the open-minded

May 2022

  • BBC headquarters in London

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Podcast Show; Betrayal; Sports Star; Naga Munchetty

    Podcasts revel in the spotlight, while a tale of romantic betrayal makes for uncomfortable listening – as do post-Sue Gray report PMQs

April 2022

  • Simon Mayo, left, and Mark Kermode.

    You ask the questions
    Send us your questions for Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo

    Got something to ask the film critics and broadcasters? Send it our way and we’ll put it to them

March 2022

  • Tinkety tonk … (L-R) Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode.

    ‘We’ll be back … stay tuned’: Kermode and Mayo’s BBC Radio 5 Live film show to end after 21 years

    The show will end on the BBC on 1 April – though its hosts hinted at the possibility that the cult show might have a future elsewhere

February 2022

  • Clare McDonnell and Tony Livesey, hosts of 5 Live Drive outside the 5 live office.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in radio: 5 Live Drive; Nazanin; Shaun Keaveny’s Community Garden Radio and more

    Clare McDonnell is a Drivetime natural; Ceri Thomas explores the story behind Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s heartbreaking plight; and Shaun Keaveny has been busy

December 2021

  • Janice Long<br>English radio broadcaster Janice Long pictured in a radio broadcasting studio in London on 15th August 1985. (Photo by United News/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

    Janice Long obituary

    Broadcaster and DJ who was the first woman to have her own weekday show on Radio 1 and be a regular host of Top of the Pops

November 2021

  • Launch Of New Champion x Percival Capsule Collection At Pop-Up Percival Store In Soho, London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 10: Rick Edwards attends the launch of new Champion x Percival collection at pop-up Percival store in Soho on June 10, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Percival)

    Sunday with Rick Edwards: ‘My cat goes ballistic at 6am’

    The radio presenter tells Michael Segalov about early starts, doughnuts for breakfast and a sneaky game of pétanque on Hampstead Heath
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