Radio

Listen to the world: Radio Garden app brings stations to millions in lockdown

Free app allowing access to 30,000 stations proves hit for audiences stuck at home

Sarah Marsh

21, Feb, 2021 @3:25 PM

LBC’s Maajid Nawaz’s fascination with conspiracies raises alarm

The radio host has been criticised for his tweets on the coronavirus and US elections

Vanessa Thorpe

31, Jan, 2021 @8:15 AM

'Hip-hop was a gateway': Johny Pitts on tuning in to books as a minority author

The new host of BBC Radio Four’s Open Book considers how best to reach neglected minorities with literature

Johny Pitts

26, Jan, 2021 @10:00 AM

BBC faces financial 'uncertainty' due to reliance on licence fee – report

National Audit Office also highlights risks of falling audience share and broadcaster being ‘slow to change’

Rajeev Syal

20, Jan, 2021 @12:01 AM

Radio 4 standups zoom through angst from all angles

The BBC’s new comedy series brings together half-hour sets from Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Imran Yusuf and Joz Norris

Brian Logan

19, Jan, 2021 @8:00 PM

BBC needs to regain public trust | Letter

Letter: In the pursuit of ‘balance’, the broadcaster dare not step outside the safe middle ground, writes Nigel Beatty

Letters

10, Jan, 2021 @5:21 PM

How can the BBC be the voice of the nation when no such thing really exists? | Gaby Hinsliff

The Woman’s Hour row shows that the broadcaster is getting the balance wrong, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Gaby Hinsliff

07, Jan, 2021 @5:50 PM

YouTube reverses TalkRadio ban for allegedly breaching content policy

Station was banned from the platform for 12 hours but insists it has ‘robust editorial controls’

Alex Hern Technology editor

05, Jan, 2021 @4:36 PM

Emma Barnett and Naga Munchetty: how were the new Woman's Hour and 5 live hosts?

The two went head-to-head as Barnett moved from Radio 5 to Woman’s Hour with Munchetty replacing her – but it surely won’t be long before they share a studio on a revamped Today

Mark Lawson

04, Jan, 2021 @4:16 PM

Woman's Hour an 'advocate to women everywhere', says Queen

Monarch’s statement is read out by presenter Emma Barnett during her first edition of the BBC Radio 4 show

Archie Bland and agency

04, Jan, 2021 @2:31 PM

Jane Garvey bows out of Woman's Hour with tribute to listeners

BBC Radio 4 presenter says ‘cataclysmic’ 13 years on show taught her much about feminism

Harry Taylor

31, Dec, 2020 @11:56 AM

I'll never get over police raid, says castaway Cliff Richard

Sixty years after he first appeared on Desert Island Discs, the singer returns to talk about suing the BBC and why he never married