Kate Chisholm

Girl power

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Hurrah for Radio 3 and its (long-overdue) efforts to give us music not just performed by women but composed, and…

Linked in

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

What makes the World Service so different from the rest of the BBC? I asked Mary Hockaday, the controller of…

Linked in

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

What makes the World Service so different from the rest of the BBC? I asked Mary Hockaday, the controller of…

Kenneth Williams (Photo: Getty)

Just Williams

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

It’s tempting to believe that somewhere in the bowels of Broadcasting House in London the voice of Kenneth Williams is…

Kenneth Williams (Photo: Getty)

Just Williams

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

It’s tempting to believe that somewhere in the bowels of Broadcasting House in London the voice of Kenneth Williams is…

The write stuff

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

The deadline for Radio 2’s 500 Words competition falls next Thursday. Children between the ages of five and 13 are…

The write stuff

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

The deadline for Radio 2’s 500 Words competition falls next Thursday. Children between the ages of five and 13 are…

The big reveal

11 February 2016 3:00 pm

Much ado about Radio 4’s latest venture into the new smart world of aural selfies. Reaction Time, on Thursday mornings,…

The big reveal

11 February 2016 3:00 pm

Much ado about Radio 4’s latest venture into the new smart world of aural selfies. Reaction Time, on Thursday mornings,…

Terry’s all gold

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

For once, the superlatives that have greeted Terry Wogan’s death from cancer have been entirely in keeping with the man.…

Terry’s all gold

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

For once, the superlatives that have greeted Terry Wogan’s death from cancer have been entirely in keeping with the man.…

Sgt Bowe Bergdahl. Photo: U.S. Army/Getty Images

Lessons in the surreal

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

The new season of the Serial podcast (produced by the same team who make This American Life) was launched last…

Sgt Bowe Bergdahl. Photo: U.S. Army/Getty Images

Lessons in the surreal

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

The new season of the Serial podcast (produced by the same team who make This American Life) was launched last…

All in the mind

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

You don’t expect to be brought close to tears by the Reith Lectures, which are after all at the most…

All in the mind

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

You don’t expect to be brought close to tears by the Reith Lectures, which are after all at the most…

Chance encounters

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

Some might say that Jeremy Corbyn is cloth-eared, tone-deaf, socially inept but on Monday morning, as the death of the…

Chance encounters

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

Some might say that Jeremy Corbyn is cloth-eared, tone-deaf, socially inept but on Monday morning, as the death of the…

Good cop, bad cop

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

One of the most shocking items of recent news has been the bald statistic that the number of people shot…

Good cop, bad cop

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

One of the most shocking items of recent news has been the bald statistic that the number of people shot…

Aural wonderland

31 December 2015 3:00 pm

My resolution this New Year is to get to grips with podcasts, to brace up and embrace this new aural…

Aural wonderland

31 December 2015 3:00 pm

My resolution this New Year is to get to grips with podcasts, to brace up and embrace this new aural…

Radio is flowering because it’s so much more potent than TV

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

Who would have thought in this visually obsessed age of YouTube, selfies and Instagram that radio, pure audio, no images…

Radio is flowering because it’s so much more potent than TV

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

Who would have thought in this visually obsessed age of YouTube, selfies and Instagram that radio, pure audio, no images…

There will be blood

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

It was a stroke of genius to invite Glenda Jackson to make her return to acting as the star of…

There will be blood

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

It was a stroke of genius to invite Glenda Jackson to make her return to acting as the star of…