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Poetic valediction
It is with great sadness that we heard of the sudden death of Michael Vestey on Friday. For more than ten years, he had been The Spectator's...
Spectator, The, 09/02/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
Kill joy
A slice of social history was aired last week in The Archive Hour: Remember Last Summer (Saturday). The programme looked back at the rise of the...
Spectator, The, 08/26/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
An ogre, nonetheless
It became apparent that the academic and journalist Christopher Hitchens was regretting having agreed to appear on Great Lives on Radio Four last...
Spectator, The, 08/19/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
Joining forces
The origins of the corrupt, wasteful and inefficient entity we call the European Union are being explored in Forging the Union (Mondays), a...
Spectator, The, 08/12/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
About turn
It must be a nightmare when you spend weeks making a current-affairs programme only to find that days before it's broadcast the subject you've been...
Spectator, The, 08/05/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
Rhythm and blues
The American stand-up comedian, satirist and general iconoclast Lenny Bruce, who died 40 years ago, was very much an acquired taste while he was...
Spectator, The, 07/29/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
Holding court
When Bow Street magistrates court closed last Friday, 271 years of legal history came to an end; Radio Four broadcast a programme about it on its...
Spectator, The, 07/22/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
Shared values
Ian Hislop has been searching for Middle England in Looking for Middle England (Saturdays), a three-part series on Radio Four, and he certainly...
Spectator, The, 07/15/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
Personal rapport
What really goes on between world leaders at summits? Sir Christopher Meyer, former press secretary to John Major and later ambassador to...
Spectator, The, 07/08/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication -
Cancer ward
It was good to hear Nick Clarke's voice again last week when his audio diary on having cancer and a leg amputated was on Radio Four in Fighting to...
Spectator, The, 06/30/06 by Vestey, Michael · More from publication
