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The week in audio: Unlicensed; The Name Is DeSantis; Today; Room 5; Away From Home

A US crime drama takes a weird-noir turn, James Naughtie analyses Ron DeSantis, and the Ukrainian football team with pluck on their side

The Guardian - UK

Economist Ha-Joon Chang: the Tory mini-budget was like trying to bring back terrible Tex-Mex

In a mouth-watering new book, the South Korean academic fuses his twin passions of food and economics to interrogate capitalism

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Reading the Air; Flight of the Ospreys; The Paddlefish Caviar Heist; Book of the Week

The poetry of birds and birdwatching, a curious caviar conservation disaster and Greta Thunberg seeks responses to the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

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Radios 3, 4 and 5 see huge drop in listeners

The Radio 1 breakfast show has also lost 5% of its audience in a year

Wales Online

BBC Radio 4 and 5 Live suffer massive drop in listenership over past twelve months

BBC Radio 4’s total average audience is down 9% year-on-year from 10.8 million listeners to 9.8 million listeners, while listeners to 5 Live have dropped 18% from 5.9 million to 4.9 million

Daily Mirror

Radio 4 and 5 Live suffer drop in listeners over past year

All the major BBC stations have seen a decline in audience.

The Independent UK

The week in audio: The Witch Farm; File on 4: Is the Patient Breathing?; The Martin Lewis Podcast

The paranormal tale of a remote Welsh cottage, the state of the NHS and the outlook for household budgets all offer plenty of scares

The Guardian - UK

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Robbie Coltrane 'put on too much weight' before death claims 'furious' Miriam Margolyes

Miriam says she is truly devastated by the news and offered a colourful tribute to him on Radio 4 this morning.

Daily Record

Miriam Margolyes swears live on air on BBC Radio 4 as she talks about new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

The Harry Potter star was being interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Saturday morning when she swore and the presenters had to apologise

Chronicle Live

Miriam Margolyes' most controversial moments from swearing to eye-watering cheeky stories

Miriam Margolyes has had her fair share of funny and controversial moments while appearing in the media

Daily Mirror

Miriam Margolyes swears live on air as she discusses Jeremy Hunt with BBC forced into apology

The BAFTA-winning Harry Potter actress made the explicit remarks on Radio 4’s Today programme

Daily Record

Miriam Margolyes says 'f*** you' to new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt live on Radio 4

Listeners had quite the wake up this morning

Manchester Evening News

Avanti boss apologises for 'terrible' Manchester service and promises return to 'normal' for Christmas in brutal BBC grilling

The rail boss was interviewed on Radio 4 this morning

Manchester Evening News

Martin Lewis' astonishing net worth after earth-shattering tragedy made him a teen recluse

Friends say that when Martin Lewis lost of his mother, it changed the Money Saving Expert founder in a profound way

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian - UK

Diana makes explosive revelations and Partridge devours the hand that feeds him: 100 years of the BBC, part eight

Steve Coogan’s alter-ego appears, as does Ricky Gervais’s in The Office, while Panorama rocks the royals

The Guardian - UK

Critics lament cuts to BBC radio drama – seedbed of UK talent

Stoppard, Pinter and Orton are among playwrights to have cut their teeth on a service that’s being cut back because of budget restraints

The Independent UK

Four speakers for the 2022 BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures announced

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lord Rowan Williams, Darren McGarvey and Dr Fiona Hill will give the lectures on the topics of freedoms.

The Independent UK

Radio 4 to broadcast long-lost episode of Hancock’s Half Hour featuring Peter Sellers

‘The Marriage Bureau’ has not been heard since 1955

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The Guardian - UK

BBC to broadcast long-lost episode of Hancock’s Half Hour

The radio show, which has not been repeated since first airing in 1955, will be played on Radio 4 on 18 October

The Guardian - UK

First sitcom, first chef, first castaway, first dance and first Woman’s Hour: 100 years of the BBC, part three

Desert Islands Discs launched, a raffish bachelor made sitcom history, hoofers had a riot and a man called Alan hosted Woman’s Hour – which revealed how to keep your husband’s suits crease-free

The Independent UK

Ernie Rea to step down as Beyond Belief presenter after two decades

Rea has hosted the Radio 4 show since its launch in 2002.

The Guardian - UK

The radio was the soundtrack to my life. But I turned it off a week ago – and may never turn it back on

I could handle the monarchism after the Queen died, but not the repetition. I’m getting my news from Twitter now

Daily Mirror

When is Jeremy Paxman leaving University Challenge? Huge amount his successor earns

Jeremy Paxman is due to step down as University Challenge host in 2023, with the BBC's media editor Amol Rajan due to replace him. Reports suggest Rajan is due for a pay bump after bagging the role

Daily Mirror

Martin Lewis breaks down exactly how much your energy bill could rise by this winter

MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis appeared on Radio 4 to explain what the latest Ofgem price cap prediction could mean for your monthly energy bill payments

The Guardian - UK

The Archers: why June Spencer was the Queen of Ambridge

The actor, who plays Peggy, appeared in the very first episode of the Radio 4 soap in 1951

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