John Humphrys’s dismal legacy

After 32 years on BBC Radio Four’s flagship news programme, Today, John Humphrys has told the Daily Mail that he is “assuming” he’ll leave the programme this year. Unfortunately, his legacy will be a style of interviewing that has made our news media less, not better equipped to give our politicians the scrutiny and interrogation a healthy democracy needs…

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Postcard from the past

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are philosopher JULIAN BAGGINI and journalist EMILY DUGAN, senior reporter for BuzzFeed News. In this New Year episode, we discover the perils of anthropomorphism, the joy of hitch-hiking, and venture towards a philosophy of postcards. Along the way we learn some grubby secrets of south coast coffee making and brave a breakfast-time singalong. Wish you were here?

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