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Quiet courage
'Listeners may find some of the content disturbing, ' said the announcer before the programme began (a warning that was also given in the Radio...
Spectator, The, 11/14/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Sharp as an arrow
Four couples but only three available bedrooms is the brilliant stratagem devised by Alan Ayckbourn for his 1975 relationship comedy Bedroom Farce....
Spectator, The, 11/07/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Quiet heroism
When did you last hear something on the TV that was so true, so direct, so resonant that it keeps popping back into your mind? If you're anything...
Spectator, The, 11/07/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
quick and the dead, The
His two sons, his grandsons and a family friend all gathered at the mortuary to wash him thoroughly, before his body, simply covered in a shroud,...
Spectator, The, 10/24/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Moment of truth
I wonder how many people still listen to plays on radio now that there is so much competition for our attention from Twitter, YouTube and...
Spectator, The, 10/10/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Heartbeat of the past
'Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments, ' wrote Dr Johnson (of whom you may think you have heard too much in...
Spectator, The, 10/03/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Children in need
'I want people to feel quite shocked, ' said Professor Tanya Byron in her opening lecture for Radio Three's annual Free Thinking festival. This...
Spectator, The, 10/01/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Remains of the day
Back in 1924 when radio was still a young upstart technology, full of daring invention and brazen selfconfidence, a nature-loving cellist, Beatrice...
Spectator, The, 09/26/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Celebrating Dr Johnson
If Dr Johnson, who was born 300 years ago on Friday (at least according to the post-1752 Gregorian calendar, which overnight lost 11 days from...
Spectator, The, 09/19/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication -
Two's company
On Desert Island Discs the other week Joan Bakewell chose a couple of discs from the Sixties because, she said, 'the music was better then'. On...
Spectator, The, 08/29/09 by Chisholm, Kate · More from publication
