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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…
Sunday Worship and Beyond Belief
SUNDAY WORSHIP (Radio 4) opened with the interesting juxtaposition of the Irish tune Slane being sung with Persian words. The service came from St Aphrahat the Persian Sage, a Farsi-language Anglican congregation in…
Radio review: Drive and Sunday
CATHY NEWMAN is a committed feminist, but welcomed the world’s most senior female ecclesiastical appointment since Mary Magdalene with a fusillade of criticism interspersed throughout the three hours of Drive, on Times Radio,…
Radio review: Beyond Belief: Faith or fear and File on 4 Investigates: Inside the migrant hotel
THE programme Beyond Belief: Faith versus fear (Radio 4, 23 September) began a new series by focusing on migration. Or was that the Moral Maze? It wasn’t simply that the topic is prime Maze territory, but, with one Maze…
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