Books & Arts > Radio
Sunday, The Business, The Inquiry, and Heart and Soul
BARELY 24 hours after the first American and Israeli missiles struck Iran last weekend, William Crawley interviewed the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, on Sunday (Radio 4). In contrast with the self-assurance…
Israel and the Palestinians, and Worship at Home
WE ARE lucky to have a state broadcasting network that regularly produces serious religious programming. Radio 4’s 15-minute Lent Talks started on Sunday night, and this year involve an exploration of power in the light of…
Sunday Morning, The Interview, and Sunday
LURED to Sunday Morning (Radio Scotland) by promises of conversation about growing up Roman Catholic in 1980s Derry, I found that Zara Janjua’s interview with the Derry Girls screenwriter Lisa McGee was, instead, largely an…
The Early Music Show, Sunday, Heart and Soul, and Understand
HANNAH FRENCH visited Christ Church, Oxford, on The Early Music Show (Radio 3, Sunday) to help to celebrate the 500th anniversary of what was initially Cardinal College (News, 17 October 2025). The era’s political and…
Heart and Soul and All Things Considered
WOMEN have always been significant guardians of African-American culture and faith, but, in the rural south of the United States, it is still something of a rarity to see a woman in a pulpit. On Heart and Soul (BBC World…
Strong Message Here, Sunday, and Sounds Sacred
HAVING the satirist and writer Armando Iannucci as the presenter brings a star name to Strong Message Here (Radio 4, Thursday), the programme aimed at “decoding the baffling world of political language”. This is clearly a…
What Happened to Progress? and Sunday
IN THE second of a four-part series, What Happened To Progress? (Radio 4, 5 January), Matthew Sweet explored a crisis in the actually dominant faith of our times. The interviewees covered a wide spectrum of views, from the…
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…
TRENDING
