Blindness
Second sight
What I learned from going blind
Senses sent awry
Jesus is a Malteser. You might say I’m a liar or accuse me of the most egregious heresy, but the…
The eyes have it
Stuart Jeffries on the tyranny of the visual
Paradis regained
Selina Mills on Maria Theresia von Paradis, the gifted but forgotten 18th-century composer, whose story will finally be told in a new chamber opera
When things fall apart
Okay, I admit it. I have a girl crush on Juliet Stevenson. Ever since I first saw her in the…
The BBC admit they’re not ready to switch off analogue radio
As Bob Shennan, the BBC’s director of radio and music admitted this week, there are almost two million podcast-only listeners…
More menace – and magic – on the moors
Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney was one of the surprise stand-outs of last year, and a worthy winner of the…
The write stuff
The deadline for Radio 2’s 500 Words competition falls next Thursday. Children between the ages of five and 13 are…
Long life
Most people, when asked if they would rather be deaf or blind, say they would rather be deaf. I would…
Ways of seeing
Perhaps the news that Radio 5 live will be the only BBC station (under the new broadcasting rights agreements) to…
