Sayers." The podcast has many narrative strands, and features a series of jaw-dropping coincidences and connections, yet to his great credit, Redman holds it all together to create a "hopelessly addictive" treat. "I hesitate to reveal more, though I can tell you that there is a spy subplot and a cameo from the crime writer Dorothy L. She was shot in the face, supposedly by her brother, who had returned from the First World War with shrapnel in his brain. But it is also a real-life murder mystery: Redman discovers that in 1937 his wife's great-grandmother, Naomi Dancy, was killed in the house next door. It's a haunted-house story, in that it begins with a Victorian house in London – Redman's childhood home – and sightings of a ghostly faceless woman. The journalist Tristan Redman's new podcast has an "unremarkable" title, but the tale " Ghost Story" tells is astonishing and gripping, said Fiona Sturges in the Financial Times. Together, they provide listeners with a "practical, funny, well-informed guide to a mad and fascinating industry". Hyde is "hilarious", while Osman brings "insidery" insights from his years as a TV producer. These are "smart people", and the tone is enjoyably "sarcastic and sceptical". In lesser hands, such a "fluffy" and unfocused brief might lead to trouble. The new venture pairs Guardian columnist Marina Hyde with author and TV presenter Richard Osman, to discuss "showbiz, gossip, music and celebrity scandal". That's emphatically not the case with " The Rest Is Entertainment", the latest, excellent, addition to Gary Lineker's empire of "The Rest Is…" podcasts. "Being intelligent about showbiz is usually a fast route to pretension," said James Marriott in The Times. Listen via headphones for the full immersive effect it is "simultaneously poetic and apocalyptic". We hear the sounds of breaking waves, wind, the deep rumbling of a volcano and footsteps on snow evocative music (by Phil Smith) drifts in and out. In "Dust", Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason and Scottish conceptual artist Katie Paterson explore the landscapes that have inspired their work. In "Dead Ends", writer-producer Talia Augustidis uses the fragments of surviving audio of her mother, who died when Augustidis was three, to "create an intimate and moving collage of absence and loss". Now a sixth series has landed, and it is as impressive as its forerunners. One episode from 2019, "A Sense of Quietness", won the Prix Europa for best radio documentary. Each of its 29 half-hour episodes (available on BBC Sounds) is a "small masterpiece of soundscaping and storytelling". The documentary strand "Lights Out", made by the production company Falling Tree for BBC Radio 4, elevated sound design "to the realms of high art", said Fiona Sturges in the FT. Terri White: Finding Britain's Ghost Children Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalismĪrchive on 4: Charles – the Making of a King
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