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Cash Carraway on Rain Dogs: 'We always see working-class stories through a middle-class gaze'
Fleur Tashjain and Daisy May Cooper as Iris and Costello Jones in Rain Dogs
interview

Cash Carraway on Rain Dogs: 'We always see working-class stories through a middle-class gaze'

BBC Singers: Internationally renowned choir deserved to dodge the axe
Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers at Glasgow’s City Halls.
Choral

BBC Singers: Internationally renowned choir deserved to dodge the axe

Sian Brooke 'fell in love with Belfast' making gritty police drama Blue Lights
Sian Brooke as Grace in Blue Lights.
Northern Ireland

Sian Brooke 'fell in love with Belfast' making gritty police drama Blue Lights

‘The proudest day of my life’: Former Big Issue vendor opens new furniture shop with Jay Blades
Big Issue vendor Steve Wyatt and The Repair Shop presenter Jay Blades
Our vendors

‘The proudest day of my life’: Former Big Issue vendor opens new furniture shop with Jay Blades

Gary Lineker is the final nail in the BBC's coffin and I won't be renewing my licence fee
Rose Morelli

Gary Lineker is the final nail in the BBC's coffin and I won't be renewing my licence fee

'Thank you Gary': Lineker praised for opposing 'immeasurably cruel' Illegal Immigration Bill
Immigration

'Thank you Gary': Lineker praised for opposing 'immeasurably cruel' Illegal Immigration Bill

As Ken Bruce signs off from Radio 2, what will fill the PopMaster shaped hole in our lives?
Ken Bruce smiling
Popmaster

As Ken Bruce signs off from Radio 2, what will fill the PopMaster shaped hole in our lives?

Leila Farzad: I didn't see people that looked like me on TV growing up
Leila Farzad stars on new BBC police drama Better Image: BBC/Sister Pictures
TV

Leila Farzad: I didn't see people that looked like me on TV growing up

Shaun Keaveny on life after 6 Music: 'It's about the most free I've ever felt'
Sean Keaveny
interview

Shaun Keaveny on life after 6 Music: 'It's about the most free I've ever felt'

The Apprentice star Tim Campbell MBE: I honed my business skills in a DJ collective called True Elegance
Tim Campbell MBE in front of the City of London skyline
entrepreneur

The Apprentice star Tim Campbell MBE: I honed my business skills in a DJ collective called True Elegance

Martin Compston's Mayflies diary: ‘I'd never experienced a day like it on set before'
Tony Curran and Marton Compston in Mayflies
TV

Martin Compston's Mayflies diary: ‘I'd never experienced a day like it on set before'

The BBC is the repository of our cultural memory. Protect it at all costs
John Peel
Music

The BBC is the repository of our cultural memory. Protect it at all costs

Listen to all eight of Liz Truss's nightmare radio interviews, all in one place
Liz Truss

Listen to all eight of Liz Truss's nightmare radio interviews, all in one place

Boris Johnson 'was made prime minister to defeat Jeremy Corbyn'
Jeremy Corbyn on the campaign trail against Boris Johnson in 2019
Conservative chaos

Boris Johnson 'was made prime minister to defeat Jeremy Corbyn'

Lucy Sweet: Glastonbury – 'the maddest masterclass of sensory overload'
Glastonbury 2022
Music

Lucy Sweet: Glastonbury – 'the maddest masterclass of sensory overload'

Steve Lamacq: 'I'm still doing what I was doing when I was 16'
steve lamacq
letter to my younger self

Steve Lamacq: 'I'm still doing what I was doing when I was 16'

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The BBC is one of the last decent things standing. And BBC 6 Music is a jewel in its crown.
Ibibio Sound System. BBC/Sarah Jeynes/Jamie Simmonds
Radio

The BBC is one of the last decent things standing. And BBC 6 Music is a jewel in its crown.

'Pull the other one': Nadine Dorries ridiculed for claims BBC licence fee freeze will help cost of living
bbc licence fee
cost of living crisis

'Pull the other one': Nadine Dorries ridiculed for claims BBC licence fee freeze will help cost of living

Taboo: Comedy hasn't lost its edge yet
Radio

Taboo: Comedy hasn't lost its edge yet

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme might just be a work of radio genius
Radio

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme might just be a work of radio genius