Susan Cooper’s land of shadows
BBC Sounds brings to life the folkloric fantasy The Dark is Rising, with vivid and immersive storytelling.
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.
ByHigh Low with EmRata is both grandiose and trivial, self-absorbed and unrevealing.
ByIn a powerful new podcast, From the Other Side, John Burnside recounts his own brush with death and hears the…
ByIn the first episode of Owen Bennett-Jones’s new Radio 4 show, the journalist investigates Russia’s attempt to meddle in the…
ByIn a tape-filled attic, Roger Bickerton finds 94 instalments of Desert Island Discs.
ByFormer BBC stalwarts Jane Garvey and Fi Glover have moved to Times Radio. Is it more of the same?
ByIn Radio 4’s The Scramble for Rare Earths, Misha Glenny explains how this small group of elements has replaced natural…
ByBees can recognise number patterns, not just of objects found in nature but even of random symbols.
ByThe BBC’s Adam Fleming discusses what he learned when making his new podcast series about the UK’s “all vibe” prime…
ByThe jaunty pep-talk style may irritate Brits, but it will surely appeal to the duchess’s liberal American fans.
ByThis documentary series explores the impact of fashion through the ages – from its role in slavery to driving at…
ByDaisy Buchanan's new podcast Careering examines the personal exposure demanded of women journalists.
ByImagining the escapades of a fictional failed politician provides ample opportunity to comment on some real ones.
ByIn a three-part radio series, the former Conservative minister aims to bring reason and rhetorical flair back to public discourse.
ByBBC Radio 3’s unnarrated day in the life of Honey the Labrador is 30 minutes of head-emptying canine comfort.
ByA new BBC Radio 4 series variously frames forgiveness as difficult, healing, a tool to regain power and an act…
ByAnna Lawlor’s BBC Radio 4 show Typical! reveals how a poor grasp of means and modes skews our idea of…
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