Radio & Podcasts The true meaning of James Bond The ultimate GQ snob, 007 more than anything represents consumer goods becoming available to people outside of aristocracy. By Antonia Quirke
Culture How an Olympic swimming coach accused of child abuse hid in plain sight for 30 years By Antonia Quirke
Culture The Michelle Obama Podcast shows the former First Lady’s adroitness as a broadcaster By Antonia Quirke
Why BBC Radio 4’s The Punch made me cry all day In 2011 an 18-year-old called Jacob Dunne drunkenly killed another young man during a scuffle and went to prison.… By Antonia Quirke
Bloodsport, a podcast exposing the drug scandals of the 2012 Olympics Spies in labs, bootless medical commissions, meaningless victories. By Antonia Quirke
Radio 4’s “Rethink” season began with an inauspicious start The festival of “essays, programmes and provocations” on the world post-Covid-19 launched two weeks ago with a Zoom discussion… By Antonia Quirke
Slate’s new podcast series about David Duke is perfectly calibrated This is a monologue interspersed with flashes of archive recordings – most fascinating of which are clips of Duke… By Antonia Quirke
More Or Less: BBC Radio 4’s never-ending number-crunching show The myth-busting show with more episodes than Star Wars. By Antonia Quirke
Why BBC Radio 4’s Aids documentary hits home today With countless sharp and memorable remarks on both activism and a public health crisis, ten-part series A Big Disease… By Antonia Quirke
When the lockdown came to Ambridge The Archers is "corona-proof" because it can't get any more boring than it is already. Fans simply cannot lose. … By Antonia Quirke