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The Week in Radio: Could Radio 4 learn from Tinie Tempah?

If the BBC Trust is serious about wresting the young and ethnic minorities away from their existing radio choices and on to Radio 4, it should perhaps get in touch with Brits winner Tinie Tempah. On paper, he already sounds like the archetypal Radio 4 listener. "He was passionate about English and Shakespeare," enthused his school teacher. "He was the only person I knew who looked forward to National Poetry Day." Unfortunately for the Trust, the 22-year-old from Peckham who has risen to be Britain's foremost rapper seems entirely resistant to social engineering and loyal to Radio 1Xtra.

Inside Features

Doctor Who Experience - picture preview

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

The Doctor Who Experience, a fully interactive themed adventure and exhibition, opens at London's Olympia Two venue on Sunday. Here, we bring you a sneak peak. Warning! There will be no sofas to hide behind...

Where the wild things are

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Steve Backshall's wildlife show Deadly 60 is a jungle-sized hit with the kids. Nick Harding explores why.

This portrayal of traveller life shows huge ignorance

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Roxy Freeman: Channel 4's smash hit 'Big Fat Gypsy Wedding' does not reflect the society I know so well.

Let's talk it over: Reviving the broadcast interview

Monday, 14 February 2011

Ian Burrell: Can the BBC save the art of TV interrogation from bland celebrity banter?

Why does reality TV hate women?

Monday, 14 February 2011

Half the population is getting a raw deal on screen. Fiona Sturges says it's time to switch off the sexism

The Scottish mill that brings 'Boardwalk Empire' to life

Monday, 14 February 2011

The small Scottish town of Newmilns may not immediately appear a place of Hollywood dreams, but one of its last remaining mills has a particularly glamorous claim to fame.

The Week in Radio: A double dose of daft death and stylish murder

Thursday, 10 February 2011

You could never accuse Classic FM of being po-faced, but you'd go far to find a more irreverent approach than in this week's Saturday Concert, "Sticky Endings", which explored the many hilarious and undignified ways that great composers have died. In a show which must have been great fun to research, Howard Goodall, Classic FM's composer-in-residence, ran through Jean-Baptiste Lully, who died of blood poisoning and gangrene after accidentally stabbing himself in the foot with the conductor's baton; Alkan, who was crushed to death by a bookcase; and Borodin, who collapsed in full national dress on the dance floor. The atonalist members of the second Viennese school had appropriately ludicrous deaths: Arnold Schoenberg, who suffered from a morbid fear of the number 13, died on 13 July 1951; and Anton Webern was accidentally shot in post-war Austria, when GIs arriving to arrest his son-in-law saw him light a cigar and assumed it was a weapon. "Yet another smoking-related death!" quipped Goodall, irrepressibly.