Radio 3 devotes its daytime schedule to the BBC’s Railway 200 celebrations, broadcasting in real time from the Inverness to London train line. From 7.30am, when Petroc Trelawny boards the Highland ...

Jony Ive has often been a mysterious and guarded personality, and any insight into his mind has always been interesting. So Ive’s appearance today on the BBC’s ‘Desert Island Discs’ was sure to be ...

Desert Island Discs offers podcast tasters from past episodes. You can catch a snippet from Dame Judi Dench, who has appeared three times on the programme. The actress is still working at 90.

It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that a country artist would want country music as their top desert island album pick, rock artists would want rock, pop would want pop, so on and so on. But ...

For example, you can listen to Tom Hanks talk about loneliness for three minutes and 43 seconds or Davina McCall talk for three minutes 53 seconds about addiction or Adele talking for two minutes 19 ...

When it comes to country music, the artists we are such fans of are actually fans of the genre, too! Many singers look up to one another and are genuinely into the music their idols colleagues are ...

Almost exactly 10 years ago, I received a small package from London containing a book titled “The Pleasure of Reading,” edited by the eminent biographer Antonia Fraser, with a preface by Victoria Gray ...