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Radio review: Book of the Week, Sunday Sequence, and Heart and Soul

KATJA HOYER has built a niche as the explainer of all things East German to British audiences. Her latest book, Weimar: Life on the edge of catastrophe, has received rave reviews....

Radio review: Any Questions?, Times Radio, and The Media Show

AUDIENCES on Any Questions? (Radio 4, Friday) sound increasingly like football crowds — a tendency that reached fever pitch in this edition, from Spalding. Solar farms were the fir...

Radio review: Desert Island Discs, A Celebration for Ascension Day, and Sunday

DESERT ISLAND DISCS (Radio 4, Sunday) showcased the BBC’s chief North America correspondent, Gary O’Donoghue. One of broadcasting’s most recognisable figures, partly on account of...

Radio review: All Things Considered and The Media Show

THE Law Commission for England and Wales is currently consulting on whether to legalise new funerary methods (News, 5 July). All Things Considered (BBC Wales, Sunday) caught up wit...

Radio review: Start the Week, and Moral Maze

ON Start the Week (Radio 4, 15 June), Dr Adam Rutherford caught up with three writers whose work explores their council-estate backgrounds. Nicola Wilding, a writer and TV producer...

Radio review: Heart and Soul and Sunday Sequence

HEART AND SOUL (BBC World Service, Friday) was centred on Emily Buchanan’s interview with “Appiah”, a pseudonymous former Anglican cleric in Lagos State, Nigeria, who had been dism...

Radio review: Sunday and All Things Considered

THE crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has made us more aware of our dependence on the sea and seafarers; this was specifically referred to by the Precentor of Portsmouth Cathedral, Ca...

Radio review: Sunday, Times Radio, and Heart and Soul

THE Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, fresh from speaking alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury in a House of Lords debate on AI, outlined a Church of England position...

Radio review: Sunday Sequence, and Sunday

AFTER the racist riots in Belfast, Sunday Sequence (BBC Radio Ulster) promised to be essential listening — but the resulting programme was a curate’s egg. The Revd Brian Anderson,...

Podcasts review

A KEY focus of the episode “The Pope’s AI Warning and Alastair Reacts to Blair’s Attack”, in The Rest Is Politics, is the papal encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (News, 29 May, Analys...

Radio gaga: surfing the long wavelengths of the universe

Benjamin Giblin reviews Radio Universe: How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth by Emma Chapman The post Radio gaga: surfing the long wavelengths of the universe appeared first...

Podcasts review: Explore Words, Discover Worlds, AntiSocial, The Good Whale, Pints with Aquinas, and The Devil You Know:...

THE presenter of “Paul Rogers: The world in 2030”, on Explore Words, Discover Worlds, is a professor of peace studies based at Bradford University. This type of podcast is recorded...

Podcasts review

WITH the recent announcement in the UK of a proposed social-media ban for under-16s (News, 19 June), the episode “Online Grooming: A mother’s story”, from The Observer’s The Slow N...

At Rockquest, ‘bad jazz’ and ‘experimental hip hop’ reign

Book Review: How Radio Astronomy Made the Invisible Visible

Emma Chapman’s “The Echoing Universe” is a vivid survey of the hidden parts of the cosmos and those who seek them out. The post Book Review: How Radio Astronomy Made the Invisible...

QSO: Verdi’s Requiem

The Italian composer dedicated this colossal Requiem to Alessandro Manzoni, an author whose work he absolutely adored.

Books on Music: Expressing the Inexpressible

My second book, The Instrument Must Not Matter, is a coming-of-age novel centres on Lila Rys, a promising Canadian pianist who arrives in New York as the book opens to work with a...

The perfect books for readers fascinated by museums, art, and the creative process

Anne Bogel and guest Kristine Parsons explore stories featuring art and the creative process. The post The perfect books for readers fascinated by museums, art, and the creative p...

Keeping Music Venues Alive

Keeping Music Venues Alive

I Need a Critic: June, 2026, Edition

The hosts recommend art works about entering a new phase of life, what to read while serving in the military, and the best songs for lulling a baby to sleep.

Radio 3000’s Sammo7 takes Zim voices to the world

Anesu Mirisawu SENIOR ENTERTAINMENT WRITER MUSIC drifts softly through the studio as an energetic voice greets listeners tun­ing in from different corners... To access t...

Four star-frenzy: These new albums are so close to perfect

This week’s must-hear albums include a jazz master’s opus, a Danish delight and a Western Australian gem.

The Artistry of Tarot

Also: the modern reggae of Original Koffee, Tina Fey’s modern take on “The Four Seasons,” Hugh Jackman’s gory Robin Hood, and more.

Podcast: The Book Arrest and Organ Joke Edition

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