Radio review: Stories of heartbreak, love and loss – 2024 in radio
Desert Island Discs, Last Word and RTÉ‘s Sunday Miscellany were among the highlights of the year
Radio review: Michael Sheen, Dylan Thomas and when poetry is like ‘dreaming awake’
Michael Sheen was the guest of Roger McGough on a wonderful Poetry Please on Radio 4
Radio review: Celebrating the life and legend of Shane MacGowan one year on
Archive on 4 recalls the hellraising life and enduring music of The Pogues frontman
Ozempic, food noise and the struggle with obesity: Life-changing stories and the stigma of weight loss drugs - Radio review
For people struggling with obesity and the spectres of diabetes or heart disease, Ozempic and Wegovy are life-changers
DNA testing: A baby swap and its devastating emotional fallout years later explored in ‘The Gift’
An emotional rollercoaster that swoops between joy and moments of silent devastation
A Belfast Haunting: Ghosts, grief and the troubled streets of Lower Falls – The chilling story of 91 Beechmount Grove
Tuning in to the compelling story of a haunting in 1989 west Belfast
Remembering extraordinary lives: Olga Craig, Michaela dePrince and the power of legacy in obituaries
Review: Last Word, BBC Radio 4
Radio review: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and the diamonds and the rust of relationships
Soul Music on Radio 4 recalls the relationship between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez
From picking noses to Pippi Longstocking - listening in on the wonderful world of children’s books
Radio 4 series is presented by scholar and children’s writer Katherine Rundell
Radio Review: Love, kindness and the power of friendship
On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan explores the importance of adult relationships
Radio Review: Smart and fun look back at hey-day of glossy mags
Podcast looks at different magazine each week - in this cast Cosmopolitan of October 1982
Radio Review: Making music echo down the generations
Radio 4′s Inheritance Tracks is a potted version of Desert Island Discs
Radio review: Making science make sense to mere mortals
Professor Jim Al-Kahlili takes the difficult and makes it fascinating on Radio 4′s The Life Scientific
Radio Review: Sunny weather and the voice of sunny reason
Frank Mitchell and Ken Bruce make for easy September listening
Radio Review: Harrowing stories of suffering in schools
Publication of report on abuse in religious-run schools revealed horrific stories of children’s suffering