The Weigh Up explores life after anorexia
This BBC Sounds podcast is a first-person account of how recovery from the eating disorder is possible.
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A queer kind of poetry
This bittersweet, beautiful programme highlights odes to relationships between two men or two women.
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The UK’s rubbish-dump mafia
Radio 4’s Buried tells the story of “the astonishing crime you likely haven’t heard of”.
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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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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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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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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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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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