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The Week in Radio: Firecrackers, fur coats and some good news at last
Wednesday 02 January 2013
"Are you looking for a job?" James Naughtie asked Dame Ann Leslie on Radio 4's Today, a note of panic in his voice. Now there's an idea. As one of the programme's guest editors, Leslie, the veteran foreign correspondent who famously went to war in a fur coat, arrived like a blast of cold air in a sticky sauna. You can imagine plenty of previous guests proffering feature ideas cobbled together by their agents, but not Leslie. She was first in the office, her sleeves rolled up and ready to kick some serious butt.
It's the tax tricksters turn to face our wrath. But do they deserve it?
Thursday 06 December 2012
Evan Davis gave the head of tax at PwC a grilling on Radio 4
BBC apologises to Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks for surprise Middle East question on live radio
Friday 16 November 2012
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks was caught off-guard this morning during a BBC Radio 4 broadcast when he made comments regarding the Gaza and Israel conflict without appearing to know he was on air.
Quiet, intense and increasingly British broadcasting royalty
Monday 02 April 2012
By Ben Riley-Smith
John Rentoul: Didn't do our prep, did we, Mr Cameron?
Sunday 08 January 2012
The Prime Minister should learn from Tony Blair and prepare an answer to the obvious question, not the one he is hoping for
The last thing we want on 'Today' is vapid good news
Wednesday 28 December 2011
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Arts review of the year - Radio: The lost sons of our wars live on in their playlists
Sunday 18 December 2011
Top of the bill, and recipient of this year's This Is Why I Pay My Licence Fee Award, is Jeremy Vine's five-programme series marking Armistice Day, The Songs My Son Loved.
Alice Jones: We don't erode language when we abbreviate it. We enrich it. IMHO
Saturday 29 October 2011
Notebook
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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