Stefan Golaszewski’s Marriage is a stone-cold masterpiece
Nicola Walker and Sean Bean are both marvellous in this realistic, empathetic BBC drama portraying an ordinary, loving couple
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What does it mean for the UK to host the Eurovision Song Contest?
It is a bittersweet decision that next year’s competition will not be held in Ukraine, but if you have the…
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What the dog hears
BBC Radio 3’s unnarrated day in the life of Honey the Labrador is 30 minutes of head-emptying canine comfort.
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Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams is the most moving thing I’ve seen on TV in years
This show, in which Andrew Flintoff introduces working-class boys from Preston to cricket, shows how sport can bring people together…
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What does it really mean to forgive?
A new BBC Radio 4 series variously frames forgiveness as difficult, healing, a tool to regain power and an act…
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The BBC’s Glastonbury TV coverage is a hellish nostalgia generator
This year’s festival will be shown on TV for longer, and in higher definition. Ageing festival veterans should steel themselves.
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How statistics mislead us
Anna Lawlor’s BBC Radio 4 show Typical! reveals how a poor grasp of means and modes skews our idea of…
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Back in Time for Birmingham tells the story of immigration in postwar Britain
For all its banalities, the BBC’s warm-hearted recreation of the lives of previous generations of British Asians is welcome, even…
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Newspapers in glass houses throw stones at the BBC
Trust has fallen in the state broadcaster, but it’s down more somewhere else.
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James Graham’s Sherwood: a rich and gripping crime drama
A stunning cast and precise sense of place elevate this BBC series set in a Nottinghamshire village haunted by the…
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My Name is Leon: a horribly preachy drama
This BBC film about a child dealing with racism in 1980s Birmingham promises real-world lessons but delivers saccharine platitudes.
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Why CBBC and BBC Four moving online might not be such a bad idea
Who watches TV these days anyway?
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Why a “digital-first” BBC should worry us all
As it closes the CBBC and BBC Four channels, the broadcaster appears to be accepting a smaller role in public…
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How the BBC became a “football” in the climate culture war
Climate contrarians are losing their ideological battle as net zero makes increasing economic and environmental sense.
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The startling composure of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
In her BBC interview, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was calm, compassionate and thoughtful as she reflected on her six years of wrongful imprisonment.
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Is it classist to make fun of Nadine Dorries?
When you’re culture secretary, you need to know about culture.
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We can congratulate Laura Kuenssberg for her seven years in a near-impossible job
The next political editor of the BBC, whoever it is, would be well advised to turn off the Twitter machine.
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Fifty years on, Newsround is still helping children understand the world
The BBC children’s bulletin plays the vital role of handling frightening subjects sensitively for a young audience.
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Isn’t it obvious why people are leaving the BBC?
Nadine Dorries’s unhinged culture war on the broadcaster is more to blame than any internal failings.
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Rest in peace, Peaky Blinders. We will miss this magnificent show so much
The complex, labyrinthine BBC drama now begins its final series. Someone should say a prayer.
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