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Talk radio

May 2024

  • Keir Starmer laughing on TV talkshow sofa with Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer

    Starmer tries to curry favour with electorate through Sunday Brunch tandoori

    Labour leader’s appearance on chatshow reflects politicians’ more general move away from hard news outlets to cosier, more niche settings

March 2024

  • a man in "make america great again" hat smiles

    These talkshow hosts once called Trump a bully and an idiot. Now, they’re his biggest defenders

    Conservative talk radio hosts in Wisconsin tried to stop Trump in 2016 – now they’re embracing the former president

July 2023

  • Flo Dill and Novelist holding spades on Dill's allotment

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Digging With Flo; Intrigue: Burning Sun; Blum; The Ashes – review

    NTS Radio fosters deep chats at the allotment, Radio 4 investigates K-pop sex scandals, a Swiss drama takes its time, or there’s always the cricket…

January 2023

  • Joanna Lumley and her husband, the conductor Stephen Barlow.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Joanna & the Maestro; Conversations from a Long Marriage; Real Money; Ken Bruce

    Joanna Lumley delights in musical exchanges with her real husband, and turns up the comedy with a fictional spouse; the excellent Aleks Krotoski tells the story of cryptocurrency Tether; and Ken Bruce pulls a shocker

September 2022

  • Polly Toynbee

    Dissenting voices on royal mourning have been silenced. This is ‘cancel culture’

    Polly Toynbee
    Fear of being attacked by a rightwing mob is stifling freedom of expression following the Queen’s death, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

July 2022

  • Angela Rayner sits in for LBC’s James O’Brien.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Angela Rayner, Chris Bryant, Annie Mac and more radio sit-ins

    Angela Rayner and Chris Bryant excelled as talk radio understudies on LBC, while Annie Mac and Deb Grant were impressive guest hosts on 6 Music

April 2022

  • A microphone on a stand silhouetted against a field, with a line of trees on the horizon.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Fallen Women; Iain Dale; Kevin O’Sullivan; A House in History and more

    A chilling podcast explores 17 cases of women who fell to their deaths in suspicious circumstances

October 2021

  • Danny Robins

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Uncanny; Just One Thing; Built to Thrive and more

    It’s time for more spooky goings-on from the host of The Battersea Poltergeist. And two podcasts that promise to make you feel better

February 2021

  • Rush Limbaugh, controversial conservative radio personality, dead at 70 – video report

    At the height of his influence in the mid-1990s, Limbaugh commanded a daily radio audience of millions

January 2021

  • Maajid Nawaz

    LBC’s Maajid Nawaz’s fascination with conspiracies raises alarm

  • James Whale on TalkRadio.

    YouTube reverses TalkRadio ban for allegedly breaching content policy

December 2020

  • Owen Jones

    Labour should be wary of a rightwing media that only wants 'culture war'

    Owen Jones
    Keir Starmer’s stumbling response to a LBC caller highlights the risks of playing on hostile terrain, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

October 2020

  • James O’Brien in his studio, squatting on his chair

    James O’Brien: ‘I saw everything as a fight’

  • Andrew Neil.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Andrew Neil with Times Radio Drive; What Next? with Lionel Barber – reviews

June 2020

  • talkRadio presenter Mike Graham

    Talking the talk: how speech radio brings culture wars to the airwaves

    Times Radio launches on Monday into a crowded field, reflecting an appetite for engagement that many listeners crave

February 2020

  • George Galloway

    Rupert Murdoch's talkRadio argued it had very few listeners to avoid fine

    Station fined £75,000 after it let George Galloway breach impartiality rules on what it described as a ‘niche’ show

January 2020

  • Rupert Murdoch

    Times to launch talk radio station to challenge BBC Radio 4

    Times Radio aims to lure BBC listeners and will feature ‘great names of broadcasting’

December 2019

  • George the Poet photographed at Cutz Barbershop in Harlesden, West London.

    Observer critics' review of 2019
    Miranda Sawyer’s best radio and podcasts of 2019

  • Julia Hartley-Brewer

    News UK said to be mulling talkRadio rebrand as Times Radio

April 2019

  • James O’Brien, 2019

    The G2 interview
    James O’Brien: ‘I can live with ‘centrist dad’. Liberal? Yeah. Do-gooder? I try’

    When LBC hired the talk radio host, he was not the liberal yet caustic voice of reason he is today. But then came the austerity of the coalition years – and now the chaos and denial of Brexit outrages him daily
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