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Simon O’Hagan
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Latest Issues

Down the Radio 4 Extra rabbit hole

Radio 4 Extra is soon to be no more, and I’ve been thinking of what it is I will miss about it beyond the programmes themselves.

The answer can be summed up, I think, in an excellent play that 4 Extra broadcast a few weeks ago — one of the...

37 hours ago
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John Wilson on five years of This Cultural Life, and on the charity closest to his heart

This Cultural Life, the Radio 4 programme in which John Wilson interviews notable creatives, is between series at the moment, but we can hear John this weekend in another guise when he presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of a charity extr...

16 days ago
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How John Yorke has made Opening Lines an In Our Time for book-lovers

I’m going to peer through the pall of gloom hanging over Radio 4 following the announcement of the latest round of cuts and remind myself of the lights that still shine. And for a while now I don’t think any light has shone more brightly th...

22 days ago
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As pillars of Radio 4 crumble, what kind of network are we going to be left with?

When Radio 4 announced a tranche of cuts a few months ago, it was always known that before too long the axe would swing again.

And now it has — to the extent that it feels like 2026 will go down as the year Radio 4 lost not just a whole bu...

24 days ago
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Pauline Black: on her radio, and on ours

Songs inspired by the radio is a subject that’s probably worthy of a dissertation. Off the top of my head, I can think of Radio Gaga by Queen, You Turn Me On I’m a Radio by Joni Mitchell, Radio Radio by Elvis Costello & The Attractions, and...

a month ago
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