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Astronomical Society’s The Supermassive Podcast. Both have me convinced there’s no topic better suited to the oral medium than space. Not even history. Unless you happen to be an astronaut, you’ll find much of what is described so alien,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-space-is-the-perfect-subject-for-podcasts/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1355460675.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1355460675.jpg?resize=1001,667 1001w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1355460675.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1355460675.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1355460675.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1355460675.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, 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article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/david-sexton/"> David Sexton </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/radio-3-unwind-is-music-for-the-morgue/"> Radio 3 Unwind is music for the morgue </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Soon after the launch of Classic FM in 1992, the then controller of Radio 3, Nicholas Kenyon, asserted that his high-minded station was not in any competition with its commercial rival and certainly not lurching into ‘some ghastly descent into populism’, even as he hired Classic FM’s presenters and fiddled with the programming to create</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/radio-3-unwind-is-music-for-the-morgue/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sian_JS-66-2.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sian_JS-66-2.png?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sian_JS-66-2.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sian_JS-66-2.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sian_JS-66-2.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sian_JS-66-2.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sian_JS-66-2.png?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">21 Nov 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-526898" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Avoids the breathless hype of so many podcasts: Finding Mr Fox reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, 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<span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">We are all surely familiar with those stories of naive young Brits who travel abroad and are persuaded by a charming new holiday friend to bring back what they’re told is an innocuous package, only to end up on the sharp end of drugs smuggling charges. The latest series of the BBC’s World of Secrets</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/avoids-the-breathless-hype-of-so-many-podcasts-finding-mr-fox-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1726336117.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1726336117.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1726336117.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1726336117.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1726336117.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1726336117.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1726336117.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1726336117.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">13 Nov 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-525645" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="I listened to a solid week of Woman’s Hour…">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/julie-burchill/"> Julie Burchill </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Julie Burchill" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Julie_B.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-listened-to-a-solid-week-of-womans-hour/"> I listened to a solid week of Woman’s Hour… </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I was a weird kid, and though I harboured the usual innocent girlish ambitions of being a drug fiend and having sex with pop stars, I also nursed a desire to appear on Woman’s Hour. As a shy, provincial virgin, the programme opened up a world of women’s troubles from anorexia to zuigerphobia – and</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-listened-to-a-solid-week-of-womans-hour/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2182629592.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2182629592.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2182629592.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2182629592.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2182629592.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2182629592.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2182629592.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2182629592.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">6 Nov 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-524093" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Radio 4’s Lord Lucan series is rescued by a brilliant narrator">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/radio-4s-lord-lucan-series-is-rescued-by-a-brilliant-narrator/"> Radio 4’s Lord Lucan series is rescued by a brilliant narrator </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">It was 50 years ago this week, on 7 November 1974, that Lord Lucan fled what was destined to become the most talked about crime scene of the 20th century. A coroner’s inquest jury named him as the killer of Sandra Rivett, his children’s nanny, but his disappearance ensured that he was never convicted of</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/radio-4s-lord-lucan-series-is-rescued-by-a-brilliant-narrator/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-758824697.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-758824697.png?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-758824697.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-758824697.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-758824697.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-758824697.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-758824697.png?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">23 Oct 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-521155" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Mandy Rice-Davies saw the Profumo affair as an adventure, not a scandal">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/mandy-rice-davies-saw-the-profumo-affair-as-an-adventure-not-a-scandal/"> Mandy Rice-Davies saw the Profumo affair as an adventure, not a scandal </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">In the decades since the Profumo scandal gripped a nation, Mandy Rice-Davies has been fixed in the public imagination largely in the form of one verbal comeback and a photo. The comeback – ‘Well he would, wouldn’t he?’ – came after being told by a barrister in court that Lord Astor had denied sleeping with</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/mandy-rice-davies-saw-the-profumo-affair-as-an-adventure-not-a-scandal/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Radio.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Radio.png?resize=986,657 986w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Radio.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Radio.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Radio.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Radio.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Radio.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Radio.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">9 Oct 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-518090" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="This UFO testimony had me hooked">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/this-ufo-testimony-had-me-hooked/"> This UFO testimony had me hooked </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">In October 1964, a young man was driving to a dance in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, when his radio began to pick up a strange frequency. At first he thought it was just tuning in to a local channel, but then voices came through discussing some kind of nuclear war – and issuing bomb reports. Recalling the</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/this-ufo-testimony-had-me-hooked/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-514901290.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-514901290.jpg?resize=1100,733 1100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-514901290.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-514901290.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-514901290.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-514901290.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-514901290.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-514901290.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">26 Sep 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-515192" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The fascinating mechanics of striking a deal">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-fascinating-mechanics-of-striking-a-deal/"> The fascinating mechanics of striking a deal </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">If you wish to know how to become a master negotiator, a formidable body of books will now offer to train you in that art, but I’m not entirely sure it can be taught. The greatest natural asset, I suppose, is the ability to enjoy the game: the performative mulling, tough-talking, buttering-up, pitching of curve</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-fascinating-mechanics-of-striking-a-deal/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-97868651.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-97868651.png?resize=1046,697 1046w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-97868651.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-97868651.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-97868651.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-97868651.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-97868651.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-97868651.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">12 Sep 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-512515" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="How Berlin nearly broke Bowie">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-berlin-nearly-broke-bowie/"> How Berlin nearly broke Bowie </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">This week’s Archive on 4 is a treat for David Bowie fans. Francis Whately, the producer behind several of the BBC’s Bowie films, including The Last Five Years, has patched together old recordings and new interviews with Bowie’s lovers and friends to examine his life in West Berlin between 1976 and 1978. It was a</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-berlin-nearly-broke-bowie/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Radio.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Radio.png?resize=986,657 986w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Radio.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Radio.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Radio.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Radio.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Radio.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Radio.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">29 Aug 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-510055" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Glamour or guilt? The perils of marketing the British country house">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-inviting-visitors-to-brood-on-slavery-the-best-way-to-get-people-to-country-houses/"> Glamour or guilt? The perils of marketing the British country house </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The most angst-ridden sub-category of the very rich – admittedly a lucky bunch to start with – must surely contain those who have inherited a British country house, along with the exhortation to keep it up. Imagine the anxiety of knowing that one is custodian of a large, crumbling pile of distinguished architecture, stuffed with</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-inviting-visitors-to-brood-on-slavery-the-best-way-to-get-people-to-country-houses/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1328396108.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1328396108.png?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1328396108.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1328396108.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1328396108.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1328396108.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1328396108.png?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">22 Aug 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-509111" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A familiar OE-led balls-up: Rory Stewart’s The Long History of Ignorance reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jonathan-meades/"> Jonathan Meades </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-familiar-oe-led-balls-up-rory-stewarts-the-long-history-of-ignorance-reviewed/"> A familiar OE-led balls-up: Rory Stewart’s The Long History of Ignorance reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">In my next life I intend to have my brain removed in order to become a telly executive. You know: ‘where ignorance is bliss/ ’Tis folly to be wise’ (Thomas Gray, OE). Such ignorance is a state which, happily enough, Rory Stewart, OE and a fully tooled-up Mob from rent-a-thinker (what one of those executives,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-familiar-oe-led-balls-up-rory-stewarts-the-long-history-of-ignorance-reviewed/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/453748-1.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/453748-1.png?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/453748-1.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/453748-1.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/453748-1.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/453748-1.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/453748-1.png?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">15 Aug 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-508028" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A fiery examination of the damage wrought by internet culture">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-fiery-examination-of-the-damage-wrought-by-internet-culture/"> A fiery examination of the damage wrought by internet culture </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Historically, when a woman was giving birth, she was attended by the women she trusted most, including her child’s prospective godmother. The word ‘gossip’ derives from the Old English ‘god-sibb’, meaning godparent, but came to refer to what went on around the childbed. As Erica Jong later put it: ‘Gossip is the opiate of the</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-fiery-examination-of-the-damage-wrought-by-internet-culture/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-471767565.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-471767565.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-471767565.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-471767565.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-471767565.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-471767565.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-471767565.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-471767565.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">1 Aug 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-505758" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="We’ve been doing a monstrous disservice to goldfish">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/weve-been-doing-a-monstrous-disservice-to-goldfish/"> We’ve been doing a monstrous disservice to goldfish </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">As everyone knows, Londoners don’t talk to strangers. And heaven forbid that anyone should make eye contact on the Tube. But despite having lived in the city for decades now, I’ve never really found this to be true. My average day out and about is punctuated by pleasant little conversations with strangers. Now and then,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/weve-been-doing-a-monstrous-disservice-to-goldfish/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Radio.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Radio.jpg?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Radio.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Radio.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Radio.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Radio.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Radio.jpg?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">18 Jul 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-503044" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Do men and women need different podcasts?">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-men-and-women-need-different-podcasts/"> Do men and women need different podcasts? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Do men and women need different podcasts? The notion goes against the unisex, every-sex, what-is-sex-anyway culture we have come to inhabit. Yet this week we find, on the BBC no less, a podcast dedicated to men’s problems and one satirising women’s problems. Some would say the pushback has begun. Geoff Norcott’s Working Men’s Club is</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-men-and-women-need-different-podcasts/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/468782.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/468782.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/468782.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/468782.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/468782.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/468782.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/468782.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/468782.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">4 Jul 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-500059" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="How we became addicted to vaping">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-we-became-addicted-to-vaping/"> How we became addicted to vaping </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">For those of us with a poor grasp of time, who can still recall when a night at the pub could be sharply revisited by a Proustian wave of stale smoke arising from yesterday’s clothes, it can almost feel as if vaping crept up on us out of nowhere. One moment, it seemed, all the</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-we-became-addicted-to-vaping/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Podcast6Jul_2f7db8.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Podcast6Jul_2f7db8.jpg?resize=917,611 917w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Podcast6Jul_2f7db8.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Podcast6Jul_2f7db8.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Podcast6Jul_2f7db8.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Podcast6Jul_2f7db8.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Podcast6Jul_2f7db8.jpg?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">20 Jun 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-497259" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Rushdie on how the best magical realism transcends fantasy">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/rushdie-on-how-the-best-magical-realism-transcends-fantasy/"> Rushdie on how the best magical realism transcends fantasy </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Ask the man in the street to quote a line from one of Salman Rushdie’s novels, and he might struggle. Ask him whether he’s heard the phrase, ‘Naughty but nice’, specifically in the context of cream cakes, and you will probably make his day. It was Salman Rushdie who came up with that slogan in</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/rushdie-on-how-the-best-magical-realism-transcends-fantasy/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153258995.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153258995.png?resize=1008,672 1008w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153258995.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153258995.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153258995.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153258995.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153258995.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153258995.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">6 Jun 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-494380" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Under the Taliban, Afghan light entertainment accrued unusual weight">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/under-the-taliban-afghan-light-entertainment-accrued-unusual-weight/"> Under the Taliban, Afghan light entertainment accrued unusual weight </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">For a television talent show, Afghan Star had unusually high stakes. When it first hit Afghanistan’s screens in 2005, four years after the fall of the Taliban, it represented the triumph of music over those who had attempted to smother it. Even from the show’s somewhat chaotic inception, it galvanised a nation, sending supporters out</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/under-the-taliban-afghan-light-entertainment-accrued-unusual-weight/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-56497719.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-56497719.jpg?resize=966,644 966w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-56497719.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-56497719.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-56497719.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-56497719.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-56497719.jpg?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">23 May 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-491153" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The jaw-dropping story of the British Museum thefts">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-jaw-dropping-story-of-the-british-museum-thefts/"> The jaw-dropping story of the British Museum thefts </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">It’s August 2023 when news breaks that artefacts have gone missing, presumed stolen, from the British Museum. I’m about an hour into investigating the story for a feature when a suspect is named in the press. I know him. He’s the curator I was seated next to at a British Museum dinner nine months earlier.</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-jaw-dropping-story-of-the-british-museum-thefts/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1633735682.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1633735682.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1633735682.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1633735682.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1633735682.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1633735682.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1633735682.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1633735682.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">9 May 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-488240" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="A gripping podcast about America’s obsession with guns">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-gripping-podcast-about-americas-obsession-with-guns/"> A gripping podcast about America’s obsession with guns </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The love affair between so many Americans and their guns – long a source of international fascination – appears to be getting more painfully intense. The greater the publicity over gun crime, the more Americans think they’d better acquire a firearm to keep themselves safe. There are now roughly 400 million guns in the US</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-gripping-podcast-about-americas-obsession-with-guns/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Radio.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Radio.jpg?resize=1050,700 1050w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Radio.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Radio.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Radio.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Radio.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Radio.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Radio.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">25 Apr 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-485462" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="How to live off the land for a year">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-live-off-the-land-for-a-year/"> How to live off the land for a year </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Could you live off the land for a year without buying a single thing to eat? This was the challenge a retired journalist set himself on Radio 4 this week. Max Cotton lives on a five-acre smallholding near Glastonbury in Somerset with his wife Maxine, two pigs, two dozen hens and a Jersey-Friesian cross named</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-live-off-the-land-for-a-year/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1438674784.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1438674784.jpg?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1438674784.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1438674784.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1438674784.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1438674784.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1438674784.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1438674784.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">11 Apr 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-482670" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="I’m ashamed that I used to think ABBA wasn’t cool ">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/im-ashamed-that-i-used-to-think-abba-wasnt-cool/"> I’m ashamed that I used to think ABBA wasn’t cool  </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">One of the joys of listening to archive BBC interviews with pop stars is the chance to hear long-discarded hipster jargon served up in its original setting. Near the beginning of Radio 2’s ABBA at the BBC, marking 50 years since the group won Eurovision with ‘Waterloo’, a prime example was unearthed from the immediate</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/im-ashamed-that-i-used-to-think-abba-wasnt-cool/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Radio.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Radio.png?resize=1028,685 1028w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Radio.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Radio.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Radio.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Radio.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Radio.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Radio.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">26 Mar 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-480175" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Don’t tell them but the French didn’t in fact invent etiquette">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dont-tell-them-but-the-french-didnt-in-fact-invent-etiquette/"> Don’t tell them but the French didn’t in fact invent etiquette </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">When dining in France, it is considered rude to finish the bread before the main course has been served, and ruder still to slice the bread with a knife, lest the crumbs land in a lady’s décolletage. In China, you should never place your chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice, and in Bangladesh you</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dont-tell-them-but-the-french-didnt-in-fact-invent-etiquette/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_5275f1.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_5275f1.png?resize=986,657 986w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_5275f1.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_5275f1.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_5275f1.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_5275f1.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_5275f1.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_5275f1.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">21 Mar 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-478704" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="How depressing when people over-identify with their ethnicity">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/sam-kriss/"> Sam Kriss </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-depressing-when-people-over-identify-with-their-ethnicity/"> How depressing when people over-identify with their ethnicity </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I am a Jew. I live in a council estate in London where considerably more than half of my neighbours are Muslims. These people aren’t my friends, but we get along fine: I pick up their parcels; we coordinate complaints to the council about the strange, blue-tinged fluid that sometimes drips from everyone’s ceilings, as</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-depressing-when-people-over-identify-with-their-ethnicity/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_db3f44.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_db3f44.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_db3f44.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_db3f44.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_db3f44.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_db3f44.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_db3f44.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio_db3f44.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">14 Mar 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-477251" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The BBC seems to have come around to catcalling – in the Caribbean">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bbc-seems-to-have-come-around-to-catcalling-in-the-caribbean/"> The BBC seems to have come around to catcalling – in the Caribbean </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Where in the world is it best to be a woman? You might think that’s a tricky question to answer, given the number of factors that go into the mix, but a new BBC podcast has pledged to find out. The format of the show is that on any given topic – body image, say,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bbc-seems-to-have-come-around-to-catcalling-in-the-caribbean/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio.png?resize=1025,683 1025w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Radio.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">29 Feb 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-474627" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Why are there so few decent poetry podcasts?">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-there-so-few-decent-poetry-podcasts/"> Why are there so few decent poetry podcasts? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">The late John Berryman described A.E. Housman as ‘a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but an absolutely marvellous minor poet… and a great scholar’. The Times obituarist went further, declaring Housman to have been, on occasion, ‘so unapproachable as to diffuse a frost’. That such a man could be</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-there-so-few-decent-poetry-podcasts/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Radio.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Radio.png?resize=986,657 986w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Radio.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Radio.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Radio.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Radio.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Radio.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Radio.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">15 Feb 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-472389" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="How did the internet become so horrific?">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-did-the-internet-become-so-horrific/"> How did the internet become so horrific? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I can dimly remember the internet getting going, gradually staking its claims on our attention with hardly anyone except tech nerds – and famously David Bowie – realising what was going on. In our defence it was the 1990s and we had a lot else to think about: Britpop, The End of History, lads’ mags,</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-did-the-internet-become-so-horrific/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-187171065.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-187171065.jpg?resize=963,642 963w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-187171065.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-187171065.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-187171065.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-187171065.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-187171065.jpg?resize=800,533 800w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">1 Feb 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-470031" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Ought we not have some shrine to the pips?">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/daisy-dunn/"> Daisy Dunn </a> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ought-we-not-have-some-shrine-to-the-pips/"> Ought we not have some shrine to the pips? </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">Next week marks the centenary of the pips. On Monday at 9 p.m. a documentary will be broadcast on Radio 4 debating whether the six little tones which ring in each hour ought to be axed as obsolete or preserved for tradition’s sake. Some contributors will speak of them as annoyances – ‘the cockroaches of</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ought-we-not-have-some-shrine-to-the-pips/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.jpg?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.jpg?resize=1023,682 1023w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.jpg?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.jpg?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.jpg?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.jpg?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">18 Jan 2024</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-467955" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="The Queen’s Reading Room needs more Queen">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-queens-reading-room-needs-more-queen/"> The Queen’s Reading Room needs more Queen </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">In the dog days of winter, when venturing out under darkened, sleety skies is to be avoided if at all possible, an online book club often seems the most appealing kind there is. Here in the UK, on territory in which the daytime TV hosts Richard and Judy once held undisputed reign, a bookish royal</p> </div> </header>  <figure class="article__image article__image-right"> <a class="article__image-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-queens-reading-room-needs-more-queen/"> <img width="440" height="293" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.png?resize=440,293" class="ratio-6/4" alt="" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.png?resize=1023,682 1023w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.png?resize=320,213 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.png?resize=375,250 375w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.png?resize=500,333 500w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.png?resize=640,427 640w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.png?resize=800,533 800w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Radio.png?resize=980,653 980w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px" fetchpriority="auto" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </a> </figure> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-separator"></div> </div> <div class="mosaic mosaic--vertical"> <div class="mosaic__date"> <div class="archive-entry__date"> <h4 class="archive-entry__day">6 Dec 2023</h4> </div> </div> <div class="mosaic__grid mosaic__grid-singles" data-grid="lead"> <div class="mosaic__tile mosaic__tile--lead-up"> <article id="article-462580" class="article article--lead-up article--horizontal article--post article--arts-reviews highlight-color-green article--image-right" data-analytics-id="" data-analytics-kicker="" data-analytics-author="" aria-label="Fascinating: Radio 4’s Empire of Tea reviewed">   <header class="article__header"> <a class="article__author article__author--link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/jenny-mccartney/"> Jenny McCartney </a> <img width="176" height="176" src="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?w=176" class="avatar avatar-176 photo article__avatar wp-post-image" alt="Jenny McCartney" loading="lazy" srcset="https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png 512w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=150,150 150w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=300,300 300w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=203,203 203w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=100,100 100w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=200,200 200w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=330,330 330w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=156,156 156w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=284,284 284w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=232,232 232w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=320,320 320w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=68,68 68w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=56,56 56w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=368,368 368w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=250,250 250w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=358,358 358w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=247,247 247w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=190,190 190w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=196,196 196w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=65,65 65w, https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jenny_M.png?resize=108,108 108w" sizes="(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px"> <h3 class="article__title"> <a class="article__title-link" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/fascinating-radio-4s-empire-of-tea-reviewed/"> Fascinating: Radio 4’s Empire of Tea reviewed </a> </h3> <span class="article__sign-post highlight-color"> Radio </span> <div class="article__excerpt"> <p class="article__excerpt-text">I can scarcely remember a time before tea: I started drinking it at around four, at home in Belfast, as a reward after school. 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