By Andy Ford As it often does with period drama, the BBC has done an outstanding job in dramatising the backgrounds of the three Bronte
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Review by Andy Ford BBC Radio 4’s Briefing Room programme can sometimes give a fascinating insight into the views of some of the more sober
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Books of the year 2025
By Michael Roberts Every year at this time, I look back at the books that I have reviewed during the year on this blog. This
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Book review: The Children of the Arbat
By John Pickard I have just started reading the third book in the Arbat trilogy by Anatoli Rybakov (1911-1998). If it is half as good
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Why Lucy?
By Robin Jamieson, C Psychol, AFBPsS, former head of Psychology for an NHS trust. The Lucy Letby documentary on ITV disturbed me, not for its questionable
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Book reviews: dollar decline, failures of mainstream economics and epochal crisis
By Michael Roberts It’s mid-summer in the Northern hemisphere, so I thought it might be the time for a quiet review of some books on
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CMAT’s song – ‘Euro Country’: a ‘millennial anthem’ on greed and corruption in the Irish “Celtic Tiger” economy
By Jamie Green Irish singer and songwriter, Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson (pictured), known as CMAT, from County Meath, Ireland, has released a new single, “Euro Country”
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TV drama review: ‘What it feels like for a girl’.
Ray Goodspeed reviews the groundbreaking new drama currently showing on BBC 3 [which can be watched here] It is a very welcome coincidence that this
By Andy Ford, biomedical scientist Autism, and the apparent rise in the numbers of autistic children, has become a political issue, thanks to the remarks
By Joe Langabeer Louis Theroux is a hugely popular documentary maker who has been producing work with the BBC for decades and he has just
