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August 2024

Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in audio: Radio 2 Remembers Steve Wright; The Grand House: Boom Or Blight? – review
A tribute to the much-loved DJ is by turns heartwarming and heart-sinking. And Tristram Hunt explores the survival of Britain’s country houses

May 2024

Ten-gallon hits! Why country is the biggest pop music craze of 2024

Beyoncé and Dua Lipa have swapped mirrorballs for rhinestones, while new stars such as Shaboozey and Dasha are making hay with uptempo hoedowns. Even the UK is enjoying its first rodeo – but can it last?

April 2024

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

March 2024

Mark and Lard: ‘We were told no one wants to hear two Mancunians shouting at each other’

Mark Radcliffe and Marc ‘Lard’ Riley were the unlikely lads of 90s radio. Twenty years after their final show, they’re back, touring the UK with tales from the wireless’s wildest ride

February 2024

It’s personal: the reaction to Steve Wright’s death is proof of the power of radio

Gillian Reynolds
Kenny Everett, Alistair Cooke, now Wright: some voices are so familiar that they become part of the fabric of our own lives, says the radio critic Gillian Reynolds

Steve Wright obituary

One of the most popular disc jockeys on British radio in the 1980s who used a ‘zoo’ format to pull in audiences of eight million

Annie Nightingale obituary

Radio 1’s longest-serving broadcaster, dedicated to groundbreaking music for more than 50 years

Annie Nightingale didn’t only kick down doors in radio – she held them open

Fiona Sturges
The late Radio 1 DJ was inspiring for so many reasons: her unbounded tastes, her all-star connections, and her refusal to be a gatekeeper

Annie Nightingale: Radio 1’s first female DJ and champion of new music dies aged 83

The broadcaster’s family said she died at home on 11 January following a short illness and described her as a ‘pioneer, trailblazer and inspiration to many’

November 2023

Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in audio: Where It’s At: A Short History of Girl Bands; 28 Dates Later; Law in Action: Deepfakes and the Law – review
The Spice Girls, All Saints, TLC and co are fondly remembered; Grace Campbell dates 28 people she’d normally reject; and Joshua Rozenberg tests out the law against AI

October 2023

Met investigating sexual misconduct accusations against Tim Westwood

Former Radio 1 DJ has been interviewed under police caution over accusations four times this year, but has not been arrested

September 2023

Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac: ‘If you think something is terrible you have to be able to say it’

The former Radio 1 DJ pals are releasing a podcast where they can chat openly about the big stories in music, free of the constraints of radio. They talk about their media beginnings and rediscovering their rebellious spirit

July 2023

How we made
‘Suddenly misfits became pop stars, and we were part of it’: How Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq made Radio 1’s Evening Session
We were going to all these gigs and it was like all these bands – Suede, Blur, Oasis, the Verve – were our mates down the pub. There was no fakery or pretence

June 2023

It’s a Padam-ic! Kylie’s sex-positive hit is brilliantly upending the mainstream

Laura Snapes
Not only is she queering the female pop ideal as a rare middle-aged woman in the Radio 1 playlist, Kylie Minogue is also resonating at a time when frivolity is returning to culture

May 2023

Kylie Minogue ‘bursting with joy’ as new single Padam Padam soars up charts

Track shunned by BBC Radio 1 and Capital when released finds singer a new audience via social media

April 2023

Adele Roberts becomes fastest woman to run London Marathon with stoma bag

DJ Tim Westwood interviewed under caution over sexual offence allegations

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