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My latest Sceptred Dial is about listening to BBC radio abroad, and why on earth the BBC would want to bring the service to an end. Matthew Rose open.substack.com/pub/simonohaga…

"Just because history is forgotten doesn't mean it's forgotten for ever". For my latest Sceptred Dial, Kavita Puri talked to me about her award-winning Radio 4 series Three Million, in which she told the story of the Bengal Famine. simonohagan.substack.com/p/the-huge-imp…

Sceptred Dial is my Substack about radio, and here’s my report from last night’s BBC Audio Drama Awards. simonohagan.substack.com/p/a-winning-ni…

Good to know that Shakespeare was a creative genius.

David Sedaris fans — my latest Sceptred Dial (my Substack about radio) tells the story of how Sedaris and his longtime Radio 4 producer Steve Doherty forged their partnership. What happened feels like the basis for its own New Yorker essay. simonohagan.substack.com/p/im-from-cove…

My latest Sceptred Dial is a farewell to Petroc Trelawny as he presents his last ever Breakfast show on BBC Radio 3 simonohagan.substack.com/p/farewell-pet…

Banton with a A, Mr Autocorrect.

It’s the first day of a new era for BBC Radio 3 Breakfast — and this piece in The i Paper by Simon O'Hagan offers a warm and illuminating insight into what Tom McKinney has planned: inews.co.uk/culture/radio/…

“Margaret Drabble is writing a memoir” are words to brighten any day, The TLS

My latest Sceptred Dial is about why radio loves birdsong and timelessness. simonohagan.substack.com/p/the-call-of-…

Sceptred Dial in conversation with Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook - topics ranging from how radio transcends the internet to tattoos of Smiths lyrics. substack.com/home/post/p-16…

How Cate Blanchett timed her BBC Radio 4 entrance to perfection is the subject of my latest Sceptred Dial. simonohagan.substack.com/p/cate-blanche…

A Sceptred Dial piece on James Peak and his inspired BBC Radio 4 series about Banksy. simonohagan.substack.com/p/banksy-youre…

Well asked, Ros Atkins!

Tony Blair “waded in”, BBC Radio 4 PM? No, he “weighed in”.

With the last edition of the current series of Feedback coming up this afternoon on BBC Radio 4, I spoke to its presenter Andrea Catherwood - what’s it like putting your colleagues in the spot? simonohagan.substack.com/p/feedback-pre…

My latest post on Sceptred Dial is about restoring Pick of the Pops to its original 5pm on a Sunday slot (plus shout-outs to DH Lawrence and Lucy Worsley). simonohagan.substack.com/p/the-home-mar…

Very grateful to the estimable Simon O'Hagan for this piece on BBC Radio 3: simonohagan.substack.com/p/a-triumphant…

My obituary for The Telegraph of the great Brian Glanville. telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

For Sceptred Dial, an interview with radio comedy alchemist Jon Holmes, the new producer of Dead Ringers. simonohagan.substack.com/p/jon-holmes-f…