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David Hepworth on radio

David Hepworth's weekly preview of the best shows on the radio
  • Gemma Cairney

    This week’s best radio: Cathy FitzGerald’s Moving Pictures

    Linking radio and the web FitzGerald discusses an art work on Radio 4 that can be viewed online, while Breeders’ guitarist Kelley Deal talks leisure on 6 Music
  • David Cameron in 2011

    The best radio this week: The Cameron Years

    David Cameron’s legacy of failure is discussed on Radio 4, while Amy Lamé steps into Jarvis Cocker’s shoes over on 6 Music
  • Ed Balls

    This week’s best radio: Ed Balls on musical theatre

    Betty Boothroyd talks musicals with Ed Balls on Radio 2, while Paul Merton celebrates 50 Years of Just A Minute with Nicholas Parsons on Radio 4
  • King’s College choirboys

    This week's best radio: Christmas carols and Count Arthur Strong

    Festive songs come from King’s College Cambridge, while Steve Delaney’s befuddled hero auditions for a festive Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  • Andri Snær Magnason

    This week’s best radio: Iceland’s Dark Lullabies

    Andri Snær Magnason tells the story of the pre-Christian midwinter festival of Yule and its terrifying folklore
  • Little House on the Prairie

    The best radio this week: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie

    Samira Ahmed celebrates the 150th anniversary of the pioneer-girl author’s birth, while Matthew Parris looks back at his favourite shows
  • Dr Christian Barnard.

    This week’s best radio: This Old Heart of Mine

    Radio 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the world’s first heart transplant with Giles Fraser, who discusses his recent heart attack
  • Lou Reed

    This week’s best radio: poetry, Parkinson’s, diabetes and me

    Northern Irish poet Frank Ormsby reflects on his conditions on Radio 4, while Demetri Goritsas reads Lou Reed’s new biography on the same station
  • Tina Brown

    The best radio this week: The Vanity Fair Diaries

    Tina Brown lifts the lid on life at 1980s Vanity Fair on Radio 4, while Keith Flett talks about a subject close to his heart – real ale – on Resonance FM
  • Alan Dein

    This week’s best radio: Alan Dein’s Don’t Log Off

    Following on from the excellent Radio 4 show Don’t Hang Up, Dein uses Facebook and Skype to discover the lives behind online profiles
  • Leonard Cohen in 2012

    This week’s best radio: Jeremy Paxman and Songs of Leonard Cohen

    Rufus Wainwright, Suzanne Vega and Alistair Darling pay tribute on Radio 2, while the nightmare of a second Trump term is examined on the World Service
  • BAFTA Britannia Awards, Portraits, October 30, 2014<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CA - OCTOBER 30: Armando Iannucci is photoraphed for Portrait Session on October 30, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

    This week’s best radio: Armando Iannucci’s Essential Classics

    The comedy writer discusses a lifelong love of classical music. Plus: Mark Gatiss applies his spooky sensibilities to an unmade Hammer Horror Dracula tale
  • Neil MacGregor

    This week’s best radio: Neil MacGregor's Living with the Gods

    The British historian returns to explore the role of beliefs around the world, while Ed Reardon’s Week finds our hero working at Your Motorhome, both on Radio 4
  • Lucian Freud in 1988

    This week’s best radio: why do creative people love gambling?

    A three-part Radio 4 series exploring the connection between risk and artistry opens with prolific punter Lucian Freud
  • David Bowie and Bing Crosby

    This week’s best radio: Bing Crosby and the road to rock’n’roll

    Elizabeth McGovern celebrates the 40th anniversary of Crosby’s last visit to the UK where he recorded his unlikely duet with David Bowie
  • Tony Blackburn broadcasting the first show on Radio 1 on 30 September 1967

    This week’s best radio: Tony Blackburn’s Sounds of the 60s

    Radio 1’s launch programme is reproduced faithfully on Radio 2, while Chris Morris’s Blue Jam gets a welcome repeat on Radio 4 Extra
  • Gian Sammarco in ITV’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

    This week’s best radio: David Essex and Adrian Mole

    Simon Mayo hosts the 70s singer-songwriter on Radio 2, while The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is over on Radio 4
  • Paul O'Grady

    The best radio this week: Paul O'Grady remembers the Light Programme

    The broadcaster and comedian celebrates Radio 2’s predecessor, while Johnnie Walker meets Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues
  • Professor Richard Hoggart

    This week’s best radio: the enduring influence of Richard Hoggart

    DJ Taylor discusses The Uses of Literacy with Alan Bennett on Radio 4, while Ray Davies headlines Proms in the Park over on Radio 2
  • Standup and playwright Marcus Brigstocke

    This week’s best radio: Every Third Thought

    Robert McCrum talks about mortality on Radio 4, while Marcus Brigstocke’s play The Red is over on Radio 2
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