Tonight with Andrew Marr, LBC, review: the voice is back – it just needs a little work
For weeks, in all the promotional material surrounding his new radio gig, Andrew Marr has been talking about “getting his voice back”. “Anyone wanting bland, safe, wearily…
Andrew Marr: ‘My wife worries I’ll be cancelled during the first week of my show’
Anyway, back to Putin. Everyone was shaking, we can assume in fear. Everyone was also in smart suits, because that’s what you wear when interviewing world leaders,…
At a time of crisis, we still huddle round the wireless
Of course, there’s been no shortage of alternatives in a week that’s seen radio consumed by reaction to the crisis, whether in a superb Woman’s Hour segment featuring a…
Exit left, Emily Maitlis – all that was wrong with BBC current affairs
The case of Jon Sopel is slightly different. He never attracted the same amount of criticism as Maitlis but many observers, this one included, reckoned that his coverage…
Andrew Marr is a BBC man to his core – and that’s why he had to go
And he has also been quite clear-sighted about the organisation he worked for. Back in 2006, for instance, talking about alleged bias at the BBC he said:…