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Shirley Williams was a model politician and human being The late Liberal Democrat had a special kind of star quality – a charisma based upon unrivalled grace and reasonableness.  Shirley Williams stood out. I remember seeing her on the platform at that special Labour conference in January 1981. I was ten, and knew very little about the substance of what was unfolding, but I remember thinking how brave, lonely and pleasant she seemed in the midst of all that turmoil with Labour delegates berating, dismissing or pleading with her. When the Social Democratic Party was founded a few mont...

Monday, 5th April 2021 at 8:00 am It was a world of Fork Handles and Raspberry Blowers, one that rejoiced in witty wordplay and made a mockery of social norms, and its floodgates of fun opened on 10th April 1971. Advertisement Following The Saturday Western and before A Man Called Ironside, The Two Ronnies brought together the immense individual talents of Ronnies Barker and Corbett on the suggestion of BBC head of light entertainment Bill Cotton. Their packed programme of colourful comedy came to be synonymous with Saturday nights on BBC One (though it did flirt with Thursdays and BBC Two f...

Last modified on Tue 16 Mar 2021 10.00 EDT On Thursday nights, drag queen Tayce settles in to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race UK with his housemates. “We sit around, get some food, watch the thing, then have a couple of bevs after,” he says, talking from his bedroom in London. The experience is a little different for Tayce than for most viewers; he is also one of the finalists in this year’s competition. One of his flatmates, A’Whora, was also on the show, just missing out on a top-four spot. “She’s upstairs now,” Tayce says, in his nimble Newport lilt. In ord...

Hello, boomers’ radio. How did you end up in the culture wars? Alex Clark It was a rain-sodden Friday night at the end of another week of lockdown ennui and anxiety; what could be more soothing than pottering about, aperitif on the go, listening to some decent tunes? And hark! A brand new radio station to ring the changes, one promising not merely a schedule brimming with aural treats but one carefully curated to reflect the tastes, the sensibilities and the vitality of an entire generation. Boom Radio, launched last week on Valentine’s Day, set its stall out in uncompromi...

I BLAME Kenny Everett. It’s like this. It was school holidays. With nothing better to do I started twiddling the knobs of a vast radio set we had in the kitchen. The sort with Athlone and Normandy and other long forgotten radio stations on the dial. Through the wheeze and screech, I bypassed Edmundo Ros’s Rumba Band and the Obernkirchen Children’s Choir ‘a-happy wandering,’ and came to an abrupt halt when Ken and Radio London, burst though the speakers. What I was listening to was like nothing I’d heard before. It wasn’t as if I was new to radio. The Archers were old frien...