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No more birdsong! Moving The Archers! What is Radio 4 playing at?
Listeners have been left furious by scheduling decisions at Radio 4, but at least its controller wasn’t hiding – unlike some colleagues
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Baddiel and Warsi’s A Muslim & a Jew Go There provides refreshing balance on Israel and Gaza
On their new podcast, David Baddiel and Sayeeda Warsi replace their buddy-jokes with an insightful debate about anti-Semitism
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Atsuko Okatsuka: first James Corden, now world domination – a star is born
Okatsuka mixes wide-eyed goofiness and meticulous precision to tell joyful, silly, observations about marriage and friendship
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The murky past of the world’s favourite funeral poem
Many of us know the lines ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep,’ but that doesn’t make the story of Mary Elizabeth Frye any less fascinating
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Young Again is a gift for those pining for Kirsty's Desert Island Discs days
Young Again's second series kicked off with Peter Capaldi – but this week's radio highlight was the harrowing story of pastor TB Joshua
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Poetry or prose? Anne Carson proves the question doesn’t matter
Fiercely intelligent but effortlessly readable, Anne Carson dances over the usual genre-divisions in her new book, Wrong Norma
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Radio 3's listening figures are down – and that's no bad thing
Sam Jackson's appointment was controversial – but commissions such as Caroline Shaw's The Colours in Sound could hint at a brighter future
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After last week's Tory bias row, The News Quiz has never sounded funnier
In his first column as The Telegraph's new radio critic, Tristram Fane Saunders found the beleaguered topical comedy show in fighting form
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TS Eliot Prize winner Jason Allen-Paisant: ‘My Jamaican grandmother would sing me Rule, Britannia’
Having won both the UK's top poetry prizes for his Self-Portrait as Othello, Allen-Paisant says Shakespeare's Moor is still relevant today
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Miles Jupp: a charming and witty account of a real-life brush with death
The old-fogeyish comedian's compelling new stand-up show, On I Bang, unspools his health ordeal with an understated delivery that hits hard
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A human lamp and a turtle-headed lover – is this what female dreams look like?
How German photographer Grete Stern exposed the fantasies of modern women to produce a landmark of surrealist art
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Loved Barbie? Try this mad novel about a millionaire’s drug-addicted dolls
Karen McCarthy Woolf imagines what went on in the plastic heads of a 104-year-old heiress’s toys in Top Doll, a weird and wild verse novel
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Radio 4’s odd tradition proved an unexpected treat
At least its final guest editor of the festive season had something to say, as big Pharma CEO Emma Walmsley discussed the future of the NHS
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British radio drama is the envy of the world – the BBC must commission more
Radio 4's A Single Act, starring the infallible Bill Nighy, was a top-notch drama for the ages – but BBC audio drama is a dying breed
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The 10 best comedy shows and stand-up tours to book tickets for in 2024
Our pick of the biggest, funniest stand-up shows of the new season, from Rhod Gilbert to Bill Bailey
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10 essential new books to read in 2024
From a new spy thriller to Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s final novel, be sure to find space for these titles on your shelves in the new year
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