
A baffling but brilliant ride through Birmingham’s surrealist scene
Stewart Lee’s Radio 4 documentary on the city’s artistic past is jarring, hard to follow and utterly engaging.
ByStewart Lee’s Radio 4 documentary on the city’s artistic past is jarring, hard to follow and utterly engaging.
ByI thought I had to see tennis to believe it – but BBC Radio 5 Live’s commentary has transported me…
ByMeic Parry’s investigation into the 2019 murder of Gerald Corrigan is well-researched but unnecessarily gory in detail.
ByRadio 4’s In the Loop explores the secrets of things that are round – from particle accelerators to the 5,000-year-old…
ByIn BBC Radio 4’s Archbishop Interviews, the unlikely pair talk about faith, forgiveness, cancel culture – and whether Jesus is…
ByA new BBC Sounds series explores the tangled roots and modern revival of witchcraft.
The Power Test, co-hosted by Ayesha Hazarika and Sam Freedman, will delight Westminster obsessives.
ByA new series by Jamie Bartlett investigates a charity and its founders, and becomes a cautionary tale of social media…
Did you know the 24-hour day is likely the result of humans counting with their fingerbones?
ByThis deep dive into a supposed life-coaching organisation is an explosive listen. I won’t spoil the ending.
ByThe ultimate GQ snob, 007 more than anything represents consumer goods becoming available to people outside of aristocracy.
ByTerri White’s new BBC series examines the impact of lockdowns on the children told to “stay at home”, when home…
ByThis BBC Sounds podcast is a first-person account of how recovery from the eating disorder is possible.
ByThis bittersweet, beautiful programme highlights odes to relationships between two men or two women.
ByRadio 4’s Buried tells the story of “the astonishing crime you likely haven’t heard of”.
ByHelen Lewis’s Radio 4 investigation charts the rise of today’s tech-led snake-oil merchants.
ByBBC Sounds brings to life the folkloric fantasy The Dark is Rising, with vivid and immersive storytelling.
ByThere is something particularly cheering about horns playing festive favourites as the temperature drops.
ByThis peek inside the John Taylor bell foundry is a ringing endorsement for BBC radio storytelling.
ByArch presenters, clichéd reporting, soft interviews: no wonder BBC Radio 4’s stale morning show is rapidly losing listeners.
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