Sceptred Dial
Simon O’HaganSimon O'Hagan on radio - news, reviews, interviews, issues.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 90 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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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...
Edward Stourton: one of the greats of Radio 4
Courtesy and rigour are both highly desirable qualities in an interviewer, but it’s surprising how rarely you find them both on display in the same broadcaster. But undoubtedly one such was Edward Stourton, whose death at the age of 68 was...
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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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