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1 week ago
The long-lived radio show broadcast an interview with David Attenborough to commemorate the dateMartin Rowson
3 weeks ago
Radio 4's documentary about Britain's ageing prison population made for sobering listeningDying Inside (R4) | iPlayerBut They Are Only Russians (R4) | iPlayerLondon Soundscape (R2) | iPlayerNew Year, new you! How depressing. So let's sod the yoga and stretch the carb-slugged brain instead. Give it a[...]
7 weeks ago
John Humphrys's discussion about child poverty made for uneasy listeningToday (R4) | iPlayerHow New Is the New Philanthropy? (R4) | iPlayerBringing Up Britain (R4) | iPlayerAlan Milburn on Tuesday's Today programme was a depressing listen. Not because of him, particularly, but because of what he was[...]
9 weeks ago
Listening to PMQs is like being cooped up with a couple who detest each otherPrime Minister's Questions (5 Live) | iPlayerPrisoners' Women (R4) | iPlayerThe Alias Men (R4) | iPlayerThe 404 (podcast) | ListenNature (podcast) | ListenAnswer Me This! (podcast) | ListenLast Wednesday, the day of the pub[...]
10 weeks ago
Liz Ball is a deafblind wheelchair user but when G4S invited her to take part in a trial interview they failed to arrange an interpreterWhen I was asked to take part in the testing of the first draft of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment, I was very uneasy about it. While I didn't w[...]
11 weeks ago
Glitzy event has chosen Leeds in December for its Coronation after online votes decide between the regions' and nations' finalistsLeeds has got used to the notion of a close connection with coronations, what with our Kate Middleton's elevation to Royal status, but the next on our civic agenda has no[...]
11 weeks ago
Matthew Taylor, who presents a new series about neuroscience on Radio 4, argues we should favour treatment over punishment
Part one of Brain Culture is at 4pm on TuesdayAccording to a UK Cabinet Office study published last week, the primary motivation for participation in this summer's ri[...]
Part one of Brain Culture is at 4pm on TuesdayAccording to a UK Cabinet Office study published last week, the primary motivation for participation in this summer's ri[...]
15 weeks ago
The role of employment advisers is diminishing as web-based services come to the fore, but what about the personal touch?Margaret-Anne Mackenzie left school in April without any qualifications. "I didn't get any careers advice at school," the 16-year-old says. She's not alone – one in four 15- to [...]
16 weeks ago
Topical, lively and touching, Victoria Derbyshire's 5 Live show is radio with a bit of bottleVictoria Derbyshire (5 Live) | iPlayerToday (R4) | iPlayerCurb Your Judaism (R4) | iPlayerSticking the knife into Woman's Hour last week left me feeling… wrong. Unsisterly. A bad feminist, liable to be str[...]
16 weeks ago
Government efforts to build civic or village pride look feeble beside the record of BBC local radio stationsHere's a rum thing. The Government's new 'community organiser' scheme has just announced its first 47 recruits in a £15 million programme; yet at the same time, the biggest community organisa[...]
18 weeks ago
A forthcoming game from Channel 4 seeks to analyse how our cities might be mended by empowering communitiesThe city is ruined. Bored and frustrated residents patrol the night streets, windows are smashed, buildings ransacked – there is no will or desire to fix anything or to understand its value. [...]
19 weeks ago
Poll shows 28% of those studying apprenticeships, BTecs and GNVQs are missing out on careers counsellingA quarter of teenagers say they have never received any careers advice, according to a poll.The survey of 1,620 15- to 19-year-olds found those on vocational courses were least likely to have been[...]
19 weeks ago
Poll shows 28% of those studying apprenticeships, BTecs and GNVQs are missing out on careers counsellingA quarter of teenagers say they have never received any careers advice, according to a poll.The survey of 1,620 15- to 19-year-olds found those on vocational courses were least likely to have been[...]
22 weeks ago
Man tricked security firm employees by wrapping prosthetic limb in bandage, allowing him to remove it and flout court curfewPrivate security firm G4S has sacked two members of staff who tagged a man's false leg, allowing him to remove it and flout a court-imposed curfew.Christopher Lowcock, 29, foo[...]
24 weeks ago
When people are rightly angry it's the duty of the courts to punish more severely – but not to do as the government tells themNational revulsion and popular demand for punishment are dangerous things. They licensed the rule-bending that miscarried justice in the 80s, for the Birmingham Six and Gui[...]
26 weeks ago
For all the 'big society' talk, philanthrocapitalism often looks a lot more like capitalism than it does philanthropyIt is pointless at this stage to pretend to be surprised that charities are facing £100m worth of cuts to their local authority funding, although it is ironic that the sector mo[...]
27 weeks ago
Prisons inspector Nick Hardwick says 'objectionable practice' by escort staff at Gatwick airport should cease immediatelyThe chief inspector of prisons has condemned the immigration authorities for "a distressing and inhumane practice" of taking detainees to the airport as "reserves" for others bein[...]
32 weeks ago
Three million viewers are hooked on the TV series 24 Hours in A&E. But what persuaded King's College Hospital to let the cameras in?Imagine this: you are horribly injured in a car crash. You are raced to A&E, where staff spend hours piecing your broken body back together again. And then, when you ev[...]
42 weeks ago
About 30,000 warders in England and Wales to vote on industrial action, which could include strikesPrison officers are to hold an "indicative ballot" on whether they should take industrial action, including strikes, to try to halt the government's decision to privatise more jails – a move that cou[...]
42 weeks ago
Farewell, DS Boyd. After a decade of digging, Waking the Dead has unearthed its final corpseIt's more than 10 years since DS Boyd and his team cracked their first cold case in Waking the Dead (BBC1), though it feels a great deal longer. Probably because I often get the storylines muddled u[...]
44 weeks ago
The privatisation of prisons raise ethical questions about the role of incarceration in our societyKen Clarke's decision to award the security firm G4S the contract to run the 1,400-place Birmingham prison, announced in the House of Commons, has reignited the debate about the role of the private sec[...]
44 weeks ago
• Prison officers meet to consider defying strike ban
• G4S also to run 'super-size' jail in £750m contracts winThe military has been put on standby as the prison service braces itself for a day of industrial disruption over the first privatisation of an existing British jail.The Prison Of[...]
• G4S also to run 'super-size' jail in £750m contracts winThe military has been put on standby as the prison service braces itself for a day of industrial disruption over the first privatisation of an existing British jail.The Prison Of[...]
45 weeks ago
Journalists try to intervene as Benghazi woman fleeing sexual assault is taken away by government officials It was just another breakfast time at Tripoli's smart Rixos Al Nasr hotel, sleepy foreign journalists helping themselves to cereals, rolls and terrible coffee in the restaurant, looking out ov[...]
45 weeks ago
Glasgow grandmother and her husband whose flat is to be demolished for 2014 games forced out after losing legal battleA couple in Glasgow whose home is earmarked for demolition for the 2014 Commonwealth Games have been evicted by police and sheriff officers after losing a series of legal battles.Mar[...]
46 weeks ago
MPs and the media hardly notice working-class communities. It's time the labour movement gave them back their voiceI met Mrs Parry a few months ago in the centre of Ashington, a 27,000-strong community about 17 miles north of Newcastle. Once the world's biggest mining village, thousands were thrown [...]
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