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July 2024

  • Forensic psychologists Sally Tilt and Kerensa Hocken, who were interviewed for Behind the Crime.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Behind the Crime: Liam; The Skies Are Watching; Time of the Week – review

    On Radio 4, the moving story behind one teenager’s prison sentence; a satisfying mystery show; and a pitch-perfect satire inspired by Woman’s Hour

March 2024

  • 'Follyfoot' TV -<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (1003474ew) 'Follyfoot' TV - 1972 - Christian Rodska as Ron Stryker. 'Follyfoot' TV -

    Christian Rodska obituary

    Actor whose career included sitcoms, radio and soaps, and the children’s TV series Follyfoot, as a lovable rogue

January 2024

  • Contains Strong Language Festival<br>Actors performing a radio drama of A Clockwork Orange while music is played by the BBC Philharmonic at the University of Hull during day three of the Contains Strong Language spoken word festival on September 30th 2017 in Hull (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    Listen to this: radio drama matters now more than ever

  • Oliver Emanuel

    Oliver Emanuel obituary

November 2023

  • Richard Wortley was gentle but firm with authors and encouraging of his actors, who included Judi Dench, Harriet Walter and John Hurt

    Other lives
    Richard Wortley obituary

    Other lives: Prolific radio drama producer who directed plays and readings for the BBC

October 2023

  • UK - Edinburgh - Writers Attend Edinburgh International Book Festival<br>Award-winning British novelist Maurice Leitch, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his new book entitled 'Seeking Mr Hare'. The three-week event is the world's biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2013 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world and was the 30th edition of the festival. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Maurice Leitch obituary

    Radio drama producer and writer whose novel Poor Lazarus won the Guardian fiction prize in 1969

August 2023

  • Alan Shearer, Gary Lineker and Micah Richards laughing

    The week in audio: The Rest is Football; Terribly Famous; File on 4: Jon Holmes, Generation Shame; This Cultural Life

    Gary Lineker tackles some offside topics in his new podcast, while a celebrity series discusses all things Adele. Plus, Jon Holmes on the painful search for his birth parents, and the return of a Radio 4 favourite

July 2023

  • A Banksy in Borodianka, Ukraine, November 2022.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Banksy Story; I’m Not Here to Hurt You; Prom 13; Academy – review

    A Radio 4 series dives too deep with the street artist, while the Irish Independent goes big on ripping true crime yarn. Plus, an otherworldly gem at the Proms

April 2023

  • Hannah Maguire (left) and Suruthi Bala

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Filthy Ritual; Supersenses; The Beauty Queen Riots; Mother Neighbor Russian Spy

  • a row of to let signs outside houses

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Rental Health; Saturday Night at the Movies; Tim’s Listening Party; Tagged – review

February 2023

  • Bruce Bedford

    Other lives
    Bruce Bedford obituary

  • Guy Meredith

    Other lives
    Guy Meredith obituary

January 2023

  • Angela Piper and Charles Collingwood, who play Jennifer and Brian Aldridge in The Archers.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Archers; Buried; The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome and more

    While Ambridge is left reeling, new podcasts delve deep into a waste scandal in Derry and a sinister Cuban mystery, and Zoe Ball gets reading

December 2022

  • Master Class, written by David Pownall, with, from left, David Bamber as Shostakovich, Peter Kelly as Prokofiev, Jonathan Adams as Zhdanov and Timothy West as Stalin at the Old Vic in 1984.

    David Pownall obituary

    British playwright best known for Master Class, as well as for comic novels inspired by his time in Zambia
  • Off in a huff … the Archers are at war again.

    A month in Ambridge
    Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: the empress of Borsetshire has left the building!

    It’s not even Christmas and the troubled Archer family are imploding. Jill has hurled her flapjacks and departed in protest at Ben’s condomless foolishness
  • ‘A 50-year long power of enchantment’: Susan Cooper near her home in Marshfield, Massachusetts, 2018.

    Midwinter magic: Robert Macfarlane on the enduring power of The Dark Is Rising

    Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel, newly adapted for a BBC audio series, has enthralled generations of children and writers with its folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark

November 2022

  • Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, who James Naughtie describes as ‘Trump, but smart’.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Unlicensed; The Name Is DeSantis; Today; Room 5; Away From Home

  • Woman holds her feet up while in a hot tub with steam

    A month in Ambridge
    Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: the hot tub scenes are radio at its most icky

March 2022

  • Fleur East

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Who Is Aldrich Kemp?; I Must Have Loved You; Some Kind of Black

    Sting can’t lift his own limp drama, but a ludicrous crime caper is a hoot and there’s fun to be had for breakfast

August 2021

  • Jackie Weaver.

    A month in Ambridge
    Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: Jackie Weaver is the new queen of Ambridge

    Making a celebrity appearance at the village fete, the viral star of the Handforth parish council meeting proves she really has the authority as she out-Archers the Archers
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