New BBC move to leave London: Radio 3 ‘may go north’ and shows such as Radio 4’s Today could spend time outside the capital in latest shake-up for the broadcaster It is expected to see episodes of Today programme broadcast outside London Last night there was even speculation that Radio 3 could be moved to Salford … Read more
US broadcaster Megyn Kelly savages ‘totally un-self-aware’ Meghan Markle for saying she ‘doesn’t believe in grandeur… then inviting the Clooneys and Oprah to her wedding and covering herself in blood diamonds from a Saudi Prince’ Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly criticises Meghan Markle over interview She referred to diamonds allegedly given to Meghan by … Read more
Sir Peter Bazalgette surveys an elaborate network of fencing snaking through Notting Hill Gate, where a huge leak recently turned the West London thoroughfare into a lake. We’ve been discussing his great-great-grandfather – the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who masterminded the capital’s Victorian sewer system – and the ITV chairman and arts grandee draws an … Read more
No pronouncement by any politician – here today and gone tomorrow – and no referendum on this or that issue of the day will have any effect on my understanding of myself and where I belong. It makes me feel better just to put those words down on the page. The Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis … Read more
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby condemns Martin Bashir for the ‘bizarre and awful’ way he exploited ‘troubled’ Princess Diana for Panorama interview Veteran journalist slammed Bashir for using ‘deception and lies’ to secure Diana He said Bashir should have taken greater care over her emotional vulnerability BBC announced this week it would launch a full inquiry into … Read more
Mark Mardell has warned the BBC‘s diversity drive will ‘annoy and dismay’ its audience in a parting shot as he left the corporation after a 30-year career. The veteran broadcaster, 63, announced on Twitter last month that he would be presenting his last World At One show after taking redundancy. Yesterday he expressed his frustrations … Read more
Shuffling around the exercise compound in a grim penitentiary, a bearded young man, humiliatingly clad in baggy orange overalls stamped with the word ‘CORRECTIONAL’, draws on a cigarette. Virtually the only white prisoner among hundreds of black inmates serving time for every imaginable crime, Oscar Pistorius has become a tormented, self-pitying figure. A born-again Christian, … Read more
WHAT BOOK would writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth take to a desert island? Gyles Brandreth is currently reading Word Perfect by lexicographer Susie Dent He would take the diaries of Samuel Pepys to a desert island Broadcaster said James Joyce’s final masterpiece Finnegans Wake, left him cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 29 October 2020 | … Read more
Ex-BBC star Sue Cook, 71, accuses broadcaster of unbalanced Covid coverage and pushing too hard to shut down UK by forever ‘wheeling out’ ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson over other scientists Sue Cook, 71, was speaking to journalist Anna Brees about BBC’s Covid coverage She slammed ‘unbalanced’ corporation and said she’d stopped listening to Today Claimed … Read more
Moroccan lamb by broadcaster Andrew Marr By Compiled By Kyle Cathie Published: 00:02 BST, 4 October 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 4 October 2020 Moroccan lamb by broadcaster Andrew Marr So far, I have enjoyed a lucky, materially easy life: I have never been homeless. When I was about 18, I did follow an unsuccessful … Read more