Kate Chisholm

What stopped Stoppard?

29 July 2017 9:00 am

Two programmes this week presented two radically different world views, or rather ways of life. Aditya Chakrabortty’s series for Radio…

The joy of the Proms

22 July 2017 9:00 am

Summer nights, hot and humid, mean just one thing — it’s Proms season again. Sore feet, sweaty armpits, queuing outside…

Stitches in time

15 July 2017 9:00 am

When Martha Ann Ricks was 76 she travelled from her home in Liberia to London to meet Queen Victoria. The…

Listen with mother

22 June 2017 1:00 pm

This week’s column is dedicated to my mother who loved her radio and encouraged us to be listeners. Without her,…

Making history

17 June 2017 9:00 am

‘History is not the past,’ says the writer Hilary Mantel in the first of her Reith Lectures on Radio 4…

Diary stories

10 June 2017 9:00 am

By chance on Saturday morning, I tuned into Radio 4 and heard Professor Clare Brant talking on Saturday Live about…

Comic relief

3 June 2017 9:00 am

In such times as these, enough to try a man’s soul, a dose of John Finnemore is advisable. His brand…

Master of dramatic interplay: Jack Rosenthal in 1962

Crime and punishment

27 May 2017 9:00 am

‘Hell is better than what I personally witnessed,’ says Ben Ferencz, who was one of the American troops sent in…

Moment of truth

20 May 2017 9:00 am

Two extremes of the listening experience were available on Monday on Radio 4. The day began conventionally enough with Start…

Teenage kicks

13 May 2017 9:00 am

Imagine living in a country where the average age is under 16 (in the UK it’s currently 40 and increasing)…

Master of dramatic interplay: Jack Rosenthal in 1962

Discovery channels

6 May 2017 9:00 am

Bashing the BBC often becomes a popular blood sport in times of political instability, and especially if the left is…

A square dance in Heaven

29 April 2017 9:00 am

It’s 500 years since Martin Luther pinned his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, sparking…

The real deal

22 April 2017 9:00 am

How about this for an inspiring response to what could have been a personal tragedy. Chi-chi Nwanoku was in the…

Tales of the unexpected

14 April 2017 11:00 pm

It’s the oddest place to find a profound meditation on the death of Christ, but there it is on Radio…

Ed’s diner

1 April 2017 9:00 am

In a world where politicians can turn into newspaper editors and former newspaper editors can seize the most coveted job…

Jarvis Cocker: contrived or beguiling?

Going underground

25 March 2017 9:00 am

When Wireless Nights hit the Radio 4 airwaves in the spring of 2012, I was not at all sure about…

A matter of life and death

18 March 2017 9:00 am

It was the crime story that showed us just how much China has changed since its years of social, political…

Keeping the faith

11 March 2017 9:00 am

Perhaps surprisingly, in these secular times, Radio 4 keeps up its annual (and very Reithian) tradition of holding a series…

Keeping the faith

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

Perhaps surprisingly, in these secular times, Radio 4 keeps up its annual (and very Reithian) tradition of holding a series…

Keeping the faith

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

Perhaps surprisingly, in these secular times, Radio 4 keeps up its annual (and very Reithian) tradition of holding a series…

All in the mind

4 March 2017 9:00 am

At the third UK International Radio Drama Festival held last week in Herne Bay, entitled ‘And Let Us Listen to…

All in the mind

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

At the third UK International Radio Drama Festival held last week in Herne Bay, entitled ‘And Let Us Listen to…

All in the mind

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

At the third UK International Radio Drama Festival held last week in Herne Bay, entitled ‘And Let Us Listen to…

Olden but golden

25 February 2017 9:00 am

This weekend Brian Matthew will present his last-ever Sounds of the 60s show on Radio 2. Now 88, he’s been…

Olden but golden

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

This weekend Brian Matthew will present his last-ever Sounds of the 60s show on Radio 2. Now 88, he’s been…