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August 2024

  • American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist James Baldwin poses at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, on November 6, 1979. AFP PHOTO RALPH GATTI (Photo credit should read RALPH GATTI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Lost Archive of James Baldwin; Extreme: Muscle Men; Paris Olympics – review

    The American writer’s personal effects, languishing in a French lock-up, are only part of a touching story. Plus, an entertaining tale of 80s bodybuilding, and gymnastics on the radio

July 2024

  • Suella Braverman wearing a headset in an LBC studio with a microphone in front of her.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Suella Braverman on LBC; Dangerous Memories; World of Secrets: The Apartheid Killer – review

  • The razor-topped walls and watchtowers of the former Maze prison.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    This week in audio: Escape from the Maze; State of Play: Summer Games; Today With Tonies – review

  • Jon Holmes

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Hysterical; The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman; Jon Holmes Says the C-Word

  • Forensic psychologists Sally Tilt and Kerensa Hocken, who were interviewed for Behind the Crime.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Behind the Crime: Liam; The Skies Are Watching; Time of the Week – review

March 2024

  • Jess Phillips, Beth Rigby and Ruth Davidson.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Electoral Dysfunction; Black Box; The Price of Music; An Taobh Tuathail – review

  • Kavita Puri

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Three Million; Who Trolled Amber?; Who We Are Now; A Muslim & a Jew Go There – review

February 2024

  • Frank Skinner

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: One Person Found This Helpful; Straight to the Comments!; The Rise and Rise of the Microchip; Capital Breakfast – review

    Frank Skinner’s new Radio 4 panel show is a winner; the Daily Mail goes below the line; Misha Glenny gives us microchips with everything; and Capital gains Radio 1 star Jordan North
  • Queer the Music presenter Jake Shears.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Queer the Music; Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative; Elis James and John Robins – review

    Jake Shears’s deep dive into LGBTQ+ anthems hits all the right notes; a documentary-maker turns the spotlight on her own craft; and a lovable radio double act find their internet feet
  • Marianna Spring, the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Why Do You Hate Me?; Patient 11; Theory of Everything: Not All Propaganda Is Art – review

    Marianna Spring dives into her inbox to investigate cases of online hate; a young autistic woman sectioned for three years tells her shocking story. Plus, Kenneth Tynan and the CIA

December 2023

  • The Wombles

    The week in audio: The Wombles; A Single Act; ’Twas the Nighy Before Christmas; Hanif Kureishi Guest Edits Today; Dom Joly – review

  • Toby Jones

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Chimes; Uncanny Christmas Special; The Today Podcast – review

September 2023

  • Strike Force Five podcast

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Strike Force Five; British Scandal; Intrigue: The Immortals – reviews

    US talkshow hosts raise funds for striking staff via a rambly Zoom call; the podcast that takes on the murky British elite has a field day with Liz Truss; and Radio 4 asks if tech bros really can live for ever

July 2023

  • Flo Dill and Novelist holding spades on Dill's allotment

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Digging With Flo; Intrigue: Burning Sun; Blum; The Ashes – review

    NTS Radio fosters deep chats at the allotment, Radio 4 investigates K-pop sex scandals, a Swiss drama takes its time, or there’s always the cricket…

May 2023

  • Rosamund Pike in People Who Knew Me

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: People Who Knew Me; Happy Hour; Whose Truth Is It Anyway?; This Cultural Life: Nick Cave – review

  • Vernon Kay looking excited in the Radio 2 studio

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Vernon Kay; Rylan: How to Be a Man; Children Locked Away – review

April 2023

  • Hannah Maguire (left) and Suruthi Bala

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Filthy Ritual; Supersenses; The Beauty Queen Riots; Mother Neighbor Russian Spy

    A gripping six-parter tells of a shamanic dealer who scammed north London’s elite, while Russian spies pull off a different kind of trick, passing as an ‘ordinary American couple’ for several years
  • Ken Bruce smiling in the studio at the Bauer studios, central London, ahead of his new show with Greatest Hits Radio

    This week in audio: Ten to the Top; Ken Bruce; The Debutante; Firecrotch and Normcore – review

    As Radio 2’s replacement pop quiz gets off to a dubious start, Ken Bruce spreads joy from a new perch. Plus, Jon Ronson’s gripping tale of a debutante-turned-spy, and a killer Succession podcast
  • a row of to let signs outside houses

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Rental Health; Saturday Night at the Movies; Tim’s Listening Party; Tagged – review

    Radio 4 took an in-depth look at local incarnations of the housing crisis from Leeds to Ullapool, while Jonathan Ross and Tim Burgess find new radio homes

February 2023

  • A picture of Janessa Brazil

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Love, Janessa; The Comb; Arctic Monkeys: Believe the Hype and more

    A global catfish scam and a Somalian woman’s adolescence make for two gripping World Service shows, while Sheffield’s finest still sound good on the dancefloor
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