mirandasawyer
The week in audio: Witch; Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried; History’s Secret Heroes – review
From the host of 28ish Days Later, a wonderfully written defence of witchcraft; the ‘schaden-fraud’ story of a crypto bro; and fascinating tales of wartime derring-do with Helena Bonham Carter
Miranda Sawyer
03, Jun, 2023 @4:00 PM
The week in audio: People Who Knew Me; Happy Hour; Whose Truth Is It Anyway?; This Cultural Life: Nick Cave – review
Rosamund Pike is the star of a brilliantly produced new drama; a two-hander set in a London pub is snappy and fun; and Nick Cave is a dream interviewee
Miranda Sawyer
27, May, 2023 @4:00 PM
Actor Michael Socha: ‘Did I fall in with the wrong people? No, I was the wrong people’
First cast by Shane Meadows, in This is England, Socha now stars in his latest, The Gallows Pole. He describes how acting saved him from a life of violence – and why he loves a madcap scheme
Miranda Sawyer
21, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
The week in audio: Vernon Kay; Rylan: How to Be a Man; Children Locked Away – review
The new Ken Bruce eases in nervously; Rylan is a Radio 4 natural; and the treatment of the UK’s most vulnerable children makes for a shocking listen
Miranda Sawyer
20, May, 2023 @4:00 PM
The week in audio: Iran’s Hit Squads; Pod Save the UK; Frontlines of Journalism and more
Paul Caruana Galizia studies the dangers of being Iranian in the UK; a British version of the hit US show tries too hard, Jeremy Bowen probes BBC impartiality and more
Miranda Sawyer
13, May, 2023 @4:00 PM
Albert Hammond Jr: ‘The universe moved when the Strokes were all together’
The Strokes guitarist has swapped hellraising New York for clean-living LA, become a father and collaborated with a poet on his new solo album. Life, he says, is a new kind of complicated
Miranda Sawyer
13, May, 2023 @11:00 AM
The week in audio: Revolutionary Letters; A Living Leg-End; Today in History With the Retrospectors and more – review
Shoutouts for single documentaries and their makers, a daily dose of history, desert island children’s books – plus the big winners at this year’s audio Oscars
Miranda Sawyer
06, May, 2023 @4:00 PM
The week in audio: Adrian Chiles; Badger and the Blitz; Blood on the Dance Floor; Poison; Wosson Cornwall – review
The 5 Live presenter got results when probing the crisis in Sudan. Plus, a winning wartime drama for children and two new crime series
Miranda Sawyer
29, Apr, 2023 @4:00 PM
The week in audio: Filthy Ritual; Supersenses; The Beauty Queen Riots; Mother Neighbor Russian Spy
A gripping six-parter tells of a shamanic dealer who scammed north London’s elite, while Russian spies pull off a different kind of trick, passing as an ‘ordinary American couple’ for several years
Miranda Sawyer
22, Apr, 2023 @4:00 PM
The Selecter’s Pauline Black: ‘When we get on stage, something alchemical happens’
As the ska band release a new album, their formidable frontwoman talks candidly about the heyday of 2 Tone, doing battle with men and microaggressions, and finding her birth mother at 42
Miranda Sawyer
09, Apr, 2023 @10:00 AM
The week in audio: Rental Health; Saturday Night at the Movies; Tim’s Listening Party; Tagged – review
Radio 4 took an in-depth look at local incarnations of the housing crisis from Leeds to Ullapool, while Jonathan Ross and Tim Burgess find new radio homes
Miranda Sawyer
01, Apr, 2023 @4:00 PM
Novelist Naomi Alderman: ‘When I’m feeling distressed I go very intellectual. Which is a defence’
As her hit feminist novel, The Power, becomes a TV series, the writer talks about dark episodes in her past that underpin her work, and how she is inspired by a new generation of women
Miranda Sawyer
26, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM
1 / 99 pages