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TV and Radio
What’s the point of BBC4?
15 May 2013

When the channel started in 2002, it was branded as “a place to think”. Later is became a pantomime horse, part Jonathan Miller, part Top Gear. What happened?

Books
Reviewed: Small Wars, Far Away Places by Michael Burleigh
10 May 2013

Curiosity deficit.

TV and Radio
Horlicks for Chummy: Britain’s romance with cosy TV nostalgia
27 February 2013

Why is our home-grown drama so fixated on the past?

Books
Pity the polymath
13 December 2012

In Two Minds: a Biography of Jonathan Miller - review.

Broadcast
Give us someone to care about
15 November 2012

We need a BBC Director General who is popular, like David Dimbleby or Melvyn Bragg.

Broadcast
The BBC no longer knows what it wants to be
25 October 2012

A culture of unreason prevails at the corporation.

Art and Design
Why the BBC is less sure of itself than ever
23 August 2012
TV and Radio
George who?
06 July 2012

Did the BBC really need another safe pair of hands as director general?

Books
Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust by Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzinska Gross - review
13 June 2012
Books
Film: a Very Short Introduction
05 March 2012

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