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'In my work, you learn the value of silence. But that’s not going to work on the radio'
Interviewing people is something Gwen Adshead does for a living, but when it came to meeting the key protagonists in a story she tells in a really excellent Radio 4 documentary airing later today (Tuesday 18 August), things were very differ...
The Proms so far: it's not just about the music
We’re three weeks into the Proms, and there have been some tremendous concerts, but listening on Radio 3 there’s a possibly unconsidered aspect of the season that I’ve particularly enjoyed, and that’s what happens in the interval.
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Laurie Taylor: 'Longevity is no great achievement'
A quick chat with Laurie Taylor on his 91st birthday. What a broadcaster he is — still at the helm of Thinking Allowed (although the programme is not for much longer, he reveals) and still as genial and as astute as he was when we first hea...
Why the Smiths go hand in glove with the launch of Indie Forever
Back in the 1980s I remember a friend of mine who was a distinguished music writer observing to me that he thought the Smiths were the best argument he’d yet heard for the reintroduction of National Service. For all that I really liked the...
Mariella Frostrup returns to Radio 4
For nearly 20 years Mariella Frostrup was the presenter of the topical books programme Open Book on Radio 4. Then in 2020 she took up an offer to present an afternoon magazine show on Times Radio, and to her disappointment — “After all, I w...
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