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Radio 5 Live

December 2025

  • Brian Hayes

    Brian Hayes obituary

    Pioneer of radio phone-ins who hosted a popular show on LBC in the 1970s and 80s, and won Sony awards for his work on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 5 Live

July 2025

  • Naga Munchetty with her hands on her hips wearing a high-collar, sleeveless red jumpsuit, standing against a light-blue background

    The Q&A
    Naga Munchetty: ‘When did I last cry? Watching Crystal Palace win the FA Cup final’

    The BBC Breakfast presenter on bullying, an embarrassing first date and a horrendous stint in double-glazing sales

April 2025

  • anna foster smiling

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Today; Don’t Cross Kat; Dying for Sex; Inside Counter Terrorism Policing – review

    Go-getting Anna Foster joins the BBC’s flagship show. Elsewhere, the story of a Brazilian scammer, a moving podcast about love and death, and an insider’s guide to tracking down terrorists

September 2024

  • 5 Live presenter Matt Chorley at the dispatch box in the house of commons

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Matt Chorley; Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division and New Order; In The Studio: Laurie Anderson – review

    5 Live’s new politics show gets off to a solid start; the never-boring story of New Order is retold. Plus, Laurie Anderson on knob-twiddling

March 2024

  • Barney Ronay

    Rise of internet and social media dashes beautiful dream of BBC Radio 5 Live

    Barney Ronay
  • Heidi Dawson inside the control suite for Studio 11, at Quay House, Salford.

    ‘Know your audience’: BBC 5 Live chief on the station’s staying power

January 2024

  • Carol Vorderman sitting at a desk with a microphone on in an LBC studio.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Catching the Kingpins; Carol Vorderman; Stephen Mangan; Ending Homelessness the Finnish Way – review

    A cracking tale of criminals and encrypted phones; the outspoken ex-BBC Radio Wales host jumps ship to commercial; the Finns show us the way on social problems; and farewell to Annie Nightingale

August 2023

  • Helen Skelton

    Helen Skelton quits Radio 5 Live to spend more time with her children

    Presenter, who has three young children, says pressures of juggling home and work life are ‘real’

May 2023

  • Rick Edwards in 1987

    Flashback
    Rick Edwards looks back: ‘I don’t know what my dad said to make me smile like that’

    The TV presenter turned podcaster on causing trouble at school, why he’s geeky about science and how being on TV changed him

March 2023

  • Terri White, right, with Mrs Webley, her primary school teacher, at her home in Duckmanton, Chesterfield, for the 5Live programme Finding Britain's Lost Children

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Terri White: Finding Britain’s Ghost Children; From Gay to Ze; Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?

  • The Radio 5 Live commentary positions for last Saturday’s England v France rugby fixture. Other sporting commentaries have been cancelled, in solidarity with suspended Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: BBC 5 Live; Shock and War; Countered Terrorism; The Trust Race; Movers and Shakers

December 2022

  • ‘Tireless’: the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring

    Observer critics' review of 2022
    Radio and podcasts: Miranda Sawyer’s 10 best listens of 2022

  • Nick Fisher in the kitchen at his home in Dorset in 2011.

    Nick Fisher obituary

October 2022

  • Andrew Marr in LBC studio

    LBC draws level with 5 Live as BBC loses ground to commercial rivals

    As commercial radio stations have invested and poached stars such as Andrew Marr, audiences have grown

September 2022

  • Crowds wait to catch a glimpse of the Queen’s coffin in Edinburgh last week.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: 5 Live Breakfast; LBC; Sounds of Black Britain; Empire; Love and Radio – review

    When radio coverage of the Queen’s death ended up like a long Test match commentary, it was good to turn to some alternative views of Britishness

August 2022

  • BBC Broadcasting House

    BBC stands firm on decision to scrap classified football results on Radio 5 Live

    In spite of widespread criticism the corporation has said decision to scrap classified results, which have been read out on Saturday afternoons since the mid-1950s, will stand
  • A group of football fans listen to a portable radio in October 1980.

    Guardian Sport Network
    The classified results still gave fans joy – even if we all knew the scores

    The classified football results were not just a tradition. They unified the pyramid and gave fans another reason to cheer
  • Prom 21: Gaming Prom – From 8-Bit to Infinity,

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Gaming Prom; The Silent Mind; The Electricity of Every Living Thing and more

    The first ever video game Prom proves a treat for the open-minded

May 2022

  • BBC headquarters in London

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Podcast Show; Betrayal; Sports Star; Naga Munchetty

    Podcasts revel in the spotlight, while a tale of romantic betrayal makes for uncomfortable listening – as do post-Sue Gray report PMQs

April 2022

  • Simon Mayo, left, and Mark Kermode.

    You ask the questions
    Send us your questions for Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo

    Got something to ask the film critics and broadcasters? Send it our way and we’ll put it to them
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