Why brass music has a special relationship with Christmas
There is something particularly cheering about horns playing festive favourites as the temperature drops.
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What Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gets wrong about free speech
The author says she prefers to read non-fiction because she senses so many novelists holding back due to “social censure”.…
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The last bell foundry in Britain
This peek inside the John Taylor bell foundry is a ringing endorsement for BBC radio storytelling.
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How The Shipping Forecast became the nation’s favourite lullaby
In the BBC podcast The Sleeping Forecast, the distinctive maritime weather report is read over classical music – with soporific…
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The unbearable complacency of the Today programme
Arch presenters, clichéd reporting, soft interviews: no wonder BBC Radio 4’s stale morning show is rapidly losing listeners.
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Emily Ratajkowski’s new podcast is a painful listen
High Low with EmRata is both grandiose and trivial, self-absorbed and unrevealing.
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Why do humans kiss? Procrastinate? Take risks?
In a new radio series, the palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals how science can help us rethink our behaviour.
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How near-death experiences change people
In a powerful new podcast, From the Other Side, John Burnside recounts his own brush with death and hears the…
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