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What is Quantum?, Sunday Worship, and Sunday
IN THE programme What Is Quantum? (Radio 4, 30 December), Marnie Chesterton travelled to the remote German island of Heligoland — worth a documentary in its own right — to get the world’s sharpest quantum physicists to…
Times Radio Drive with John Pienaar, News Hour, File on 4, and Woman’s Hour
IT WAS a rough week for radio coverage of the Church; so let’s start with a positive. The Bishop of Kirkstall, the Rt Revd Arun Arora, handled himself well on Times Radio Drive with John Pienaar (8 December), talking about…
Radio review: Reith Lectures, Sunday, and Shadow World: Anatomy of a cancellation
REITHIANISM’s improving mission has its most obvious legacy in the BBC’s annual Reith Lectures. We are now halfway through this year’s quartet of talks (Radio 4, Tuesdays), delivered by the Dutch popular historian Rutger…
A seasonal journey, and On Your Farm
COMPLINE has graced Radio 3’s schedules in Lent and Advent in recent years, and has made a welcome return on Sunday evenings for the four Sundays of this season of preparation. The first instalment was notable for the…
Desert Island Discs and Sunday
ARGUABLY, no single figure has played a more dramatic part in recent British religious history than Sir Salman Rushdie. He notched up his second appearance on Desert Island Discs (Radio 4, Sunday), 37 years after first being…
The Media Show, Sunday, and Bells on Sunday
IN A week when the BBC spent a great deal of time talking about itself, The Media Show (Radio 4, Wednesday) was essential listening precisely because it is made by insiders for insiders. Such is the present fear-filled…
All in the Mind, and Sunday
NOBODY can be unaware of the surge of concern about young people’s mental health in recent years. According to NHS figures, one child in five between the ages of eight and 16 has a mental-health disorder. Schools have…
All Things Considered and Sunday
IN ADVANCE of the enthronement on Saturday of Cherry Vann as Archbishop of Wales in Newport Cathedral, All Things Considered (BBC Radio Wales, Sunday) consisted entirely of her half-hour pre-recorded interview with the…
PM, Evening Extra, News at One, and Heart and Soul
AS THE KING and Queen touched down in Rome, Ed Stourton gave PM (Radio 4, Wednesday of last week) a historically literate review of the state visit’s importance. He told listeners that, although ecumenism was now routine,…
Sunday, AntiSocial, and 20th Century Radicals
THE Canterbury Cathedral graffiti imbroglio (News, Viewpoint, 17 October) seemed to misalign BBC producers’ instincts for finding balance in a debate. Even Sunday (Radio 4) pitted two arty spikes against one another, in the…
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