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The week in audio: The Archers; Today; Death of an Artist; Gareth Gwynn Hasn’t Fin – review

There’s been high drama in Ambridge and a great start for Today’s new presenter. Plus, a delightful Lee Krasner documentary and an amusing study of unfinished art

The Guardian - UK

Emma Barnett on the Today programme review – so chilled John Humphrys will choke on his cornflakes

Cool, calm and confidently ribbing guests, Barnett will clearly bring a youthful energy to the BBC Radio 4 morning show – even if she did sound like she was on a royal visit to the studio rather than actually working there

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: To Catch a Scorpion; Romesh Ranganathan; Uncanny Series 4 – review

Sue Mitchell pursues a notorious people-smuggler; Romesh Ranganathan settles into Claudia Winkleman’s seat; and Danny Robins takes his search for the paranormal to the US

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Digested week: Trump’s McDonald’s bill is big, but its prices have ballooned

‘Coastal elites’ feel the pinch of fast-food price hikes too. Plus: Liz Truss bars Guardian journalists from book launch. Lol

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Fragments – The London Nail Bombings; Chasing Mountains; Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!; How Was It for You? – review

Powerful first-person accounts of a London terror attack; a race to climb the world’s highest peaks; and two comedies, one magnificently silly, the other soothingly everyday

The Guardian - UK

Parliamentary punch-ups, painting mishaps and red carpet insults – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

No heart attack: BBC weather presenter who gasped for breath reassures listeners

Simon King says he had just two minutes to run between studios, including up flight of stairs

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The week in audio: Radio 3’s new schedule; Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat; Strike; Wiser Than Me – review

Jools Holland’s new classical show typifies Radio 3’s dull relaunch; pleasures elsewhere included Jonny Owen’s mum on Welsh miners in the 80s and the wonderful Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The Guardian - UK

Mike Chaney obituary

Other lives: Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Radio 4 Today programme and set up BBC Radio Norfolk

The Guardian - UK

Lorna Rose Treen: ‘Someone shouted along to one of my jokes, like I was a band’

The character comic on gigging with chickens, harnessing the power of embarrassment and her spoof Radio 4 current affairs show

The Guardian - UK

Emma Barnett to join BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Woman’s Hour presenter will replace Martha Kearney as member of morning show’s team from May

The Guardian - UK

Kathryn Davies obituary

Other lives: BBC World Service current affairs presenter and a newspaper foreign correspondent in south-east Asia and the Middle East

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Emma Barnett tipped for Today presenter job after Martha Kearney steps down

Woman’s Hour host is frontrunner for BBC’s morning current affairs show after Kearney announces departure

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The week in audio: One Person Found This Helpful; Straight to the Comments!; The Rise and Rise of the Microchip; Capital Breakfast – review

Frank Skinner’s new Radio 4 panel show is a winner; the Daily Mail goes below the line; Misha Glenny gives us microchips with everything; and Capital gains Radio 1 star Jordan North

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The week in audio: Exposed: The Ashley Madison Hack; Making Sense of Social Housing; Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes – review

Not enough users of the hacked infidelity website share their stories; more on the UK’s housing crisis; and a philology of funnies

Evening Standard

Huw Merriman: Minister mocked for claiming Radio 4 comedy show is proof of BBC 'bias'

Huw Merriman also mangled BBC social affairs reporter's name

The Guardian - UK

BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz is ‘completely biased’, minister claims

Comments by Huw Merriman come day after No 10 forced to deny government pursuing agenda against BBC

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Catching the Kingpins; Carol Vorderman; Stephen Mangan; Ending Homelessness the Finnish Way – review

A cracking tale of criminals and encrypted phones; the outspoken ex-BBC Radio Wales host jumps ship to commercial; the Finns show us the way on social problems; and farewell to Annie Nightingale

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The week in audio: Things Fell Apart; The Queen’s Reading Room; Who Do You Really Think You Are? – review

Jon Ronson’s state-of-the-world series returns with aplomb, a books podcast is a royal bore, and Adam Rutherford sets out to prove we’re all blue-blooded

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The week in audio: Fixing Britain With Louise Casey; Self Help; Pet Classics; Colin Murray – review

The inspiring crossbench peer works her way through some of the UK’s biggest problems, while performance artist Scottee takes a close-to-home look at mental health

The National (Scotland)

NatWest chairman claims it is 'not difficult' to buy a house in the UK

THE chairman of Natwest who earns well over £700,000 a year has claimed it is “not difficult” to buy a house in the UK.

The Guardian - UK

Ian Pepperell obituary

Actor who played Roy Tucker in the in the long-running BBC Radio 4 drama serial The Archers

The Independent UK

Radio 4 presenter stuns listeners after swearing seven times in one minute during James Cleverly interview

Mishal Husain challenged the home secretary over his own alleged use of the swear word ‘s***’ during Tuesday’s ‘Today’ programme

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Wombles; A Single Act; ’Twas the Nighy Before Christmas; Hanif Kureishi Guest Edits Today; Dom Joly – review

A fun and furry flashback with the original ecowarriors; a double helping of Bill Nighy; gripping revelations from Hanif Kureishi; and Dom Joly on his best behaviour

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Today guest editors review – Radio 4 dishes up eggs over uneasy with Goulding, Kureishi and James May

Christmas tradition dictates unqualified celebrities edit the flagship news show for five days, with results as skippable – and occasionally tasty – as festive leftovers

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