Gwyneth Williams’s Diary: In praise of science, the Trump effect, and the joy of winter walks
One early morning, in the last turning week of the year, my spirits lift at the sight of the dawn ahead; the full moon, low in the…
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Gwyneth Williams’ Diary: My baby grandson’s eyes, intelligent news, and reaching towards the artist’s gaze
To escape the tyranny of the rolling news cycle we urgently need to draw on other fields of knowledge –…
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Gwyneth Williams’s Diary: Quitting the BBC, butterflies in Madagascar and fighting Aids in Zimbabwe
It turned out to be a fine week to leave the BBC. I called my old friend, Helen Jackson,…
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Gwyneth Williams’s Diary: The Reith Lectures, Beirut with Margaret MacMillan and farewell to Eddie Mair
We talked and then Margaret said, “Well, there’s always war.” At once I knew we had a Reith.
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Young people want big ideas – that’s why I refuse to dumb down Radio 4
My week, from finding a way through the fog to getting the quarterly audience figures.
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