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It was first published on September 28 1923, priced 2d, with information about what was on six radio stations, and now boasts the listings of 149 channels

There are lessons to be learnt from the Rushdie affair. One big lesson for the Muslim side is to prioritise free speech, the lack of which must be acknowledged as a pressing problem

20 Radio Times top factoids about the history of the magazine as it turns 100 years old.

In 1973 in the second half of my first year away from home at college, I read Erica Jong’s then recently published “Fear of Flying.” Though probably now relegated to

A best-selling author has become Bridport Prize’s new honorary patron.

CSW looks back on the creativity and context of some memorable campaigns from the postwar years

The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies seemed to more than nod to Weldon’s preternatural retribution tale when our chief villain, Alistair Petrie’s Rob Chance, opened with an address to camera against a dark red background.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens, the author Fay Weldon once declared.  This observation about life’s tendency to deliver sudden squalls between periods of apparent calm could certainly be applied to the leadership of the Conservative party.  It is only a year ago that Kemi Badenoch rather brilliantly used the leadership contest

Don’t expect to see 007 driving a Toyota. When it comes to product placement, nothing is accidental.

Don’t expect to see 007 driving a Toyota. When it comes to product placement, nothing is accidental.