Speechification

Radio 4 broadcasts 13,000 programmes per year so maybe it's inevitable that some programmes and formats seem hidden or un... more

"I was born in this City. I was going to school in this city, I went to University in Kabul, I consider myself a Kabuli g... more

Good, old-school, paranoid stuff. Bears. Interceptors. Sovereign Airspace. Spies! [MP3] more

This dark stuff from Nick van der Kolk's Love + Radio podcast sent a shiver down my spine (and oddly reminded me of other... more

An unusual pleasure. Curating a curator. And no ordinary curator either. Here's a programme by Sara Paul - a student piec... more

At the end of June, Radio 4 broadcast an amazing episode of Peter White's No Triumph No Tragedy. White interviewed histor... more

Jem, Beatles nut, recommended this one. Clever John Harris on John Lennon. Nice (MP3 - length: 27:37). Picture by gw1. Us... more

Dennis Marks on the surprising survival of Ottoman Europe. Another Sunday Feature, this one from Sony Gold winning Brook ... more

Very much enjoying this short series on the British government and its ever-changing approach to "the Drink question". Thi... more