Simon O'Hagan on radio - news, reviews, interviews, issues.
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When radio turns into television
From next week, when it returns after its summer break, In Our Time won’t just be a radio programme, it will also be available as a video podcast.
The Radio 4 institution, which Misha Glenny took over chairing at the start of the year foll...
Quiz answers!
1 Which Radio 3 series, still on air, dates back to 1943? Composer of the Week
2 Which musician (born 1963) was the host of the Radio 4 programme Wireless Nights? Jarvis Cocker
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It’s the big Bank Holiday Sceptred Dial quiz! 50 questions to test your knowledge of radio
For the Bank Holiday, I’ve put together this quiz about radio — 50 questions covering then and now and lots else. No Googling! I’ll post the answers this time tomorrow — 9.15am Tuesday 1 September
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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.
Speech r...
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Sceptred Dial is a Substack about radio. BBC radio is mostly what I write about, the pieces generally comprising me talking to radio practitioners. I also write about radio for Radio Times magazine.
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