The cheap trend of sensationalist docudramas
Colleen Rooney? Boris Johnson? Prince Andrew? All have gone through the pop culture scandal to prestige TV pipeline.
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BBC One’s The Gold is outstandingly enjoyable TV
This madly entertaining drama about the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery doubles as an account of the Thatcherite Eighties.
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Mutiny at the BBC: “Almost everyone has left. No one does any journalism”
After BBC chairman Richard Sharp’s appearance before a select committee, the mood has turned from despondency to rage.
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Our Shamima Begum obsession
Her story has been told and retold in countless newspaper articles, three podcasts and three documentaries. Why can’t we look…
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Why don’t the Irish qualify for reparations?
The BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan is confused about social justice.
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Richard Sharp reveals how dinner parties rule British politics
The BBC chairman has inadvertently given us a glimpse of a culture of unofficial introductions and handshakes.
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How Happy Valley reveals the reality of austerity
Since 2014, Sally Wainwright’s complex police drama has laid bare the hope and terror of living in the north of…
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Why have the BBC and Labour Party learned Tuftonspeak?
How the “tax burden” went mainstream.
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Radio 4 offers BBC staff a chance to “get your head around the economy”
Are W1Aers sure they understand how debt works?
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Richard Sharp’s letter to BBC staff leaves the essential questions unanswered
The broadcaster’s chairman offers an inconclusive defence of his role in an £800,000 loan guarantee to Boris Johnson.
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Can Newsnight recapture its lost glory?
With declining viewing numbers and high-profile resignations at the flagship news programme, Victoria Derbyshire speaks on the troubles at the…
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How Scott Ross broke the rules of classical music
The harpsichord “cowboy”, who died from Aids in 1989, left behind a heroic body of work.
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Exposing the internet’s false prophets
Helen Lewis’s Radio 4 investigation charts the rise of today’s tech-led snake-oil merchants.
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Andrew Tate is answering a question we won’t attempt to
What is it to be a “good man” today?
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Susan Cooper’s land of shadows
BBC Sounds brings to life the folkloric fantasy The Dark is Rising, with vivid and immersive storytelling.
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Happy Valley is back – and still richer and deeper than any other police procedural
Sarah Lancashire’s performance is marvellous in Sally Wainwright’s small town saga.
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The New Statesman’s best TV shows of 2022
The highlights of the year, from The English to The White Lotus.
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Why brass music has such a special relationship with Christmas
There is something particularly cheering about horns playing festive favourites as the temperature drops.
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Is Robbie Gibb out of control at the BBC?
The former Tory aide’s lecture to Newsnight staff over impartiality has intensified concerns over his role at the broadcaster.
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The highs and lows of Christmas TV 2022
From the Motherland special to the return of Happy Valley.
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