in spiked, September 17, 2012

Latest Archers scandal: death of the author
The Archers poll was shocking not because it concerned abortion but because it asked listeners about narrative.

in spiked, September 7, 2012

Delusions of a
desert-island castaway
Desert Island Discs is the perfect opportunity for posturing, preening and pretending to have read Proust.

in Telegraph blogs, March 25, 2010

Forget The Archers, it’s BBC Radio’s gang of Lefty comedians that betrays its political bias

in spiked November 26, 2009

Revisiting the Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

Ignoring the BBC’s implicit anti-Americanism, its radio play on the 1925 creationists-v-evolutionists trial was excellent.

in spiked October 30, 2009

Steve McQueen, without the car chase
BBC Radio 4’s brave choice to rework the ultra-visual Bullittshowed that old-school noir can still be entertaining

in spiked 23/4/2009

Comedy’s man of steel

Mark Steel's sharp and self-deprecatory humour shines through in his new laugh-out-loud radio show