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Michael Mosley revealed obsession with the good life and struggle to follow own advice in final BBC interview

BBC Radio 4 has aired Dr Michael Mosley’s final interview, recorded in Hay Festival last month

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2024

The week in audio: Thief at the Museum; Memories from the Dance Floor; The John Dredge Nothing to Do With Anything Show; More or Less – review

A case of cultural sleuthing makes for a classy whodunnit; LGBTQ+ nightlife in 70s and 80s Wales hits the sweet spot; a comic whose every line is a winner; and politics unpicked

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2024

The week in audio: You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker; The Artificial Human; The Case of the Tiny Suit/Case; The Beauty of Everyday Things – review

The Man City captain turns to podcasting; Radio 4 gets deep on AI; into the woods with the team behind Who Shat on the Floor at My Wedding; and poet Ian McMillan hymns the mundane

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2024

The week in audio: Fragments – The London Nail Bombings; Chasing Mountains; Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!; How Was It for You? – review

Powerful first-person accounts of a London terror attack; a race to climb the world’s highest peaks; and two comedies, one magnificently silly, the other soothingly everyday

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2024

Parliamentary punch-ups, painting mishaps and red carpet insults – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2024

No heart attack: BBC weather presenter who gasped for breath reassures listeners

Simon King says he had just two minutes to run between studios, including up flight of stairs

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2024

The week in audio: Radio 3’s new schedule; Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat; Strike; Wiser Than Me – review

Jools Holland’s new classical show typifies Radio 3’s dull relaunch; pleasures elsewhere included Jonny Owen’s mum on Welsh miners in the 80s and the wonderful Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2024

Mike Chaney obituary

Other lives: Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Radio 4 Today programme and set up BBC Radio Norfolk

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2024

Lorna Rose Treen: ‘Someone shouted along to one of my jokes, like I was a band’

The character comic on gigging with chickens, harnessing the power of embarrassment and her spoof Radio 4 current affairs show

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024

Emma Barnett to join BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Woman’s Hour presenter will replace Martha Kearney as member of morning show’s team from May

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024