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U2’s Bono reveals discovery he has a half-brother

The Irish singer said on Desert Island Discs he was unaware of relative’s existence for decades

Evening Standard

The week in audio: Visible Women; The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast; Today In Focus; Different; First Person

Caroline Criado Perez highlights ways that the world is built around men, while Grenfell is remembered through voices and the BBC’s doggedness

The Guardian - UK

Bleak Expectations review – Radio 4’s Dickens parody bursts on to the stage

This fast-paced comedy mashup of the great Victorian novelist sends up Britishness with oodles of silliness

The Guardian - UK

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‘A link across time’: how shipping forecast will outlast Radio 4 long wave

Boats have not needed the broadcast for decades but radio bosses know nostalgia for it runs deep

The Guardian - UK

Broadcaster Alan Dein: ‘To be a conduit for telling stories is really exciting’

The award-winning oral historian and broadcaster on talking to random people on the radio in his hit BBC show Don’t Log Off and why he always switches the camera off on Zoom

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Podcast Show; Betrayal; Sports Star; Naga Munchetty

Podcasts revel in the spotlight, while a tale of romantic betrayal makes for uncomfortable listening – as do post-Sue Gray report PMQs

The Guardian - UK

BBC announces raft of closures with CBBC and BBC Four to be online only

Plans include merging BBC News and World as well as cuts to local TV and radio services in England

The Guardian - UK

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The week in audio: Unreal; It’s… Wagatha Christie; Piers Morgan Uncensored; One Dish

Twenty years of reality TV are relived, the Wag wars are pored over, Piers Morgan rants, and Andi Oliver serves up much-needed warmth

The Guardian - UK

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to speak to Emma Barnett for Woman’s Hour special

She was detained in Iran for six years.

The Independent UK

The week in audio: Lives Less Ordinary; Don’t Log Off; Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley

Ordinary people tell extraordinary stories, while Lucy Worsley examines a Victorian poisoning mystery

The Guardian - UK

Radio 4 Today presenter Justin Webb tries Bristol e-scooters and 'doesn't feel completely safe'

The rules on e-scooters could be about to change

Bristol Post

Back to the 1990s: From Bridget Jones to OK Computer, '90s season' is coming to Radio 4

It’s the decade that gave us Britpop and Cool Britannia, but what can the 1990s tell us about who we are now?

Wales Online

I’m Sorry, I [Still] Haven’t a Clue … how radio’s smuttiest show has beaten the censors for 50 years

Innuendo, tone-deaf singing and dreadful wages: as the cherished BBC panel game celebrates its half century, we look back at its finest moments – and its future

The Guardian - UK

David Tennant to play Macbeth in new radio drama

He will be joined by Daniela Nardini as Lady Macbeth, Stuart McQuarrie as Banquo, and Alec Newman as Macduff.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Today; The P Word; Chameleon: Wild Boys – review

Brave reporting on the Today programme from Lyse Doucet; Rajan Datar’s investigation into contemporary racism; and a fascinating real-life mystery

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh comic says Fringe is now 'too expensive for working class performers'

There are concerns the Festival Fringe has become too expensive for working class performers which will have a knock on effect on representation in the arts industry.

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Who Is Aldrich Kemp?; I Must Have Loved You; Some Kind of Black

Sting can’t lift his own limp drama, but a ludicrous crime caper is a hoot and there’s fun to be had for breakfast

The Guardian - UK

Our Friends in the North still depressingly relevant, says writer

Themes of corruption and attitudes to poverty still resonate today, says Peter Flannery ahead of new Radio 4 adaptation

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Chronicle Live

Sting to star in play he created with North East author Michael Chaplin

Sting - and his music - will take a lead role in BBC Radio 4 drama I Must Have Loved You about a singer seeking worldwide success

The Guardian - UK

Ahead of her time? Programme re-evaluates Mary Whitehouse’s legacy

Radio 4 programme presented by Samira Ahmed argues case for nuance in judging campaigner mocked as ‘puritanical harridan’

The Guardian - UK

What’s next for BBC news? Promise of freedom lures away more ‘big beasts’

The departures of Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel for Global, which operates LBC, are part of a wider talent drain as other broadcasters offer more independence

The Guardian - UK

Our Friends in the North adds 25 years with a new chapter for radio

Radio 4’s new adaptation of Peter Flannery’s landmark saga follows the characters through to 2020 in a new 10th episode

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Siege; Archive on 4: Wonderlands; Backlisted; Headwaters; Absolute Radio Natalie

A new Radio 4 thriller electrified; Frank Cottrell-Boyce made a compelling case for children’s books; and a charming listener got to run her own station for the day

The Guardian - UK

Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: is this a Radio 4 show – or an M Night Shyamalan movie?

The village’s bright young things are struggling against the ‘powerful hold’ of Ambridge, while Hazel Woolley escapes the invisible forcefield of this ‘self-satisfied, two-bit place’

The Guardian - UK

Barry Cryer obituary

Quick-witted, inventive comedian and writer who was a longstanding panellist on BBC Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

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