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THE annual rite of the Proms is perhaps the most singularly impressive BBC production. The Beeb merely piggybacks on a Glastonbury run by its own commercially driven management; the Proms, in contrast, exists only because of…

THE latest of Rory Stewart’s entertaining The Long History of. . . series explores heroism. The second episode (Radio 4, Monday) starts with his telling us about acting heroically, as deputy governor of two provinces in Iraq,…

THIS week’s Sunday (Radio 4) was something of an AI special. Paul Powers, a “Safe AI” researcher at the University of York, has developed what he calls “GPT Jesus”. He was trying to re-engage with the Roman Catholicism that…

DESPITE the acute collapse of even nominal identification with Christianity in Wales, Bishop Cherry Vann’s election as Archbishop led BBC Radio Wales’s hourly news bulletins from 2 p.m. on Wednesday (News, 1 August). A…