Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream review – no reality show has ever featured this much screaming
Fourteen overexcited hopefuls head to Greece to compete for West End roles in the Abba musical. It’s a wildly rushed, tension-free series that is never less than shrill
July 2023
Gary Lineker still BBC’s top earner on £1.35m, annual report shows
Pay of Match of the Day host unchanged in year he was suspended for criticising ministers’ language
March 2023
Comic Relief raises over £34m as stars parody The Traitors and Eurovision
Hosts of BBC fundraiser include AJ Odudu and Paddy McGuinness but Lenny Henry is absent for first time
January 2023
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
February 2022
How Radio 2 veteran Ken Bruce became a No 1 hit
Listeners turned to the comforting tones of the avuncular Scot during the pandemic
October 2021
Latest figures reveal how pandemic shaped UK radio listening habits
First figures since 2020 show boom in speech radio but public loses appetite for music breakfast shows
July 2021
Zoe Ball’s pay cut means BBC’s highest-paid star is still a man
Radio 2 breakfast show presenter felt it was inappropriate to earn £1.36m during pandemic, says corporation
June 2021
Zoe Ball: ‘I’ve always done it for the love – it’s great fun to try to entertain’
From ‘ladette’ to the highest-paid woman at the BBC, the nation’s cheerer-upper talks about her long and colourful journey to the top of radio
