In Our Time is more cautious without Melvyn Bragg
Misha Glenny keeps himself out of the action
ByReviewing politics
and culture since 1913
Misha Glenny keeps himself out of the action
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The History Bureau, the new BBC Sounds series, seeks to unravel the past 25 years of modern Russian history
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A cast of children’s authors answer this fundamental question on the enduring character’s centenary
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A suitcase found after the death of Anthony Easton’s father leads us down a path worthy of a bestselling Second…
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Step aside “touching grass”: mindfulness has met the industrial revolution
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The BBC documentary might have focused less on barnyard noises and more on the interesting details of George Orwell’s rural…
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This bizarre and brilliant BBC Radio 4 series imagines what our heart, brain, lungs, kidneys and liver might sound like.
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Dan Neidle’s Radio 4 show Untaxing reveals how our system is failing us – through the parable of Jaffa Cakes.
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The BBC podcast At Your Own Peril explores the history of risk and the importance of disaster planning.
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The ninth series of this show is airing on Radio 4 – and it’s the perfect listen for bleak winter…
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Tristram Hunt’s Radio 4 documentary The Grand House: Boom or Blight? charts the English manor’s contested legacy.
The latest instalment of BBC Radio Four’s Crossing Continents series explores the rejection of public education in Arizona.
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What I learned as a judge of the Charles Parker Prize for best student audio feature.
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With the Tories writing their own punchlines, the jokes in Michael Spicer: No Room are all too plausible.
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Radio 4’s To Catch a Scorpion takes us inside the brutal illegal immigration industry.
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A new Radio 4 series reveals the stark and deadly reality of conquering the world’s highest mountain.
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In Marianna Spring’s series Why Do You Hate Me?, the BBC social media correspondent finds fellowship and reconciliation amid the…
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India Rakusen has created a delightful mosaic of trivia about babies and the earliest stages of human life.
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This BBC Radio 4 series is a fun, bite-sized analysis of journalistic practice past and present.
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Stewart Lee’s Radio 4 documentary on the city’s artistic past is jarring, hard to follow and utterly engaging.
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