After 27 years and 1,000 episodes, veteran broadcaster Melvyn Bragg this week announced he’s stepping down as host of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, marking the end of an era for the institution. The ...

Misha Glenny remembers the episode that pulled him into In Our Time: plate tectonics. The BBC Radio 4 program he’s now taking over aired it in 2008, about a decade after Melvyn Bragg first launched ...

To understand all that is now wrong with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and what was once so right with it, listen to “Slime Moulds”, first broadcast in January of this year. You might ...

I wrote recently about the departure of Melvyn Bragg as host of the BBC radio show and podcast “In Our Time,” and about my surprising feelings on hearing that news. Here’s an update. BBC Radio 4 has ...