5 h. ago Anna Foster replaces Mishal Husain on BBC Radio 4's Today programme

The former BBC Middle East correspondent has presented across BBC News At One and appeared on the BBC News Channel and the BBC News At Six and Ten

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5 h. ago BBC's Vernon Kay sets record straight after leaving Lorraine Kelly 'incredibly offended'

TV legend Lorraine Kelly scolded Vernon Kay on his BBC Radio 2 mid-morning programme last week after he attempted a Scottish accent

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7 h. ago Rylan Clark giggles as he's targeted by 'scam' after revealing his 'daddy'

The BBC Radio 2 star has had quite the entertaining few days

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7 h. ago BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend: Biffy Clyro, Tom Grennan and Nia Archives announced for 2025 event

BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend is coming to Sefton Park in Liverpool this May 🎶📻🎶

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7 h. ago Where and when is BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend Festival 2025 as Tom Grennan confirmed as headliner for Friday

Biffy Clyro, Confidence Man and James Hype also on bill for ‘first festival of the summer’

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8 h. ago BBC’s former Middle East correspondent Anna Foster to join Today programme

She has presented across BBC News At One and appeared on the BBC News Channel and the BBC News At Six and Ten.

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8 h. ago I’m a Celebrity star lands date with Carol Vorderman after sharing his crush on her

‘Dreamed it then real lifed it,’ said the BBC Radio 1 DJ

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23 h. ago Ten Pound Poms series two review – this trashy, soapy migration drama is a knockoff Call the Midwife

Michelle Keegan is the only nurse in this 50s-set drama about Brits emigrating to Australia, but its slight take on social issues that are relevant today recalls the BBC birthing drama Sunday nights on BBC One should offer an escape from the disappointments of the working week. But what’s this? We’re thousands of miles away and in the distant past, but we’re uncomfortable and frustrated, mopping our troubled brows and wondering if we’ve all made a horrible mistake? That’s right: Ten Pound Poms is back for a second season.Based on a real scheme that saw hundreds of thousands of Britons flee postwar austerity and move to Australia, paying a tenner for their passage on the understanding that a utopian existence awaited them in Oz, Ten Pound Poms concerns a gang of unfortunate Englanders who sail from Southampton to Sydney in 1956. Their plucky optimism is instantly squished when they find that, as was often the case with the real ten-pounders, the suburban idyll they’ve been promised i...

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24 h. ago Melvin Odoom finally lands 'date' with crush Carol Vorderman after I'm A Celebrity dream

BBC Radio presenter and I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! star Melvin Odoom has delighted his fans by sharing a snap alongside his biggest celebrity crush, Carol Vorderman

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30 h. ago Rylan says 'my wildest dreams have come true' as he declares 'love' for BBC star

BBC Radio 2 star Rylan Clark noticed he has a striking similarity to one of the newest stars of BBC hit Gladiators, having previously joked he could be his father

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32 h. ago Vernon Kay scolded by Lorraine Kelly for ‘incredibly offensive’ fake Scottish accent

Vernon Kay broke out in a fake Scottish accent during his BBC Radio 2 show on Friday, but found himself at the wrath of ITV star Lorraine Kelly

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41 h. ago Boom Radio host David Hamilton warns it may go bust if BBC launches 'Radio 2 lite' for older fans

Boom presenter David Hamilton, who worked at the BBC for 25 years, branded the corporation 'pathetic' after they axed veteran broadcasters like Steve Wright to attract younger listeners.

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41 h. ago BBC News at One presenter Anna Foster upsets favourites as she replaces Mishal Husain on Radio 4's Today programme

The journalist, 45, who currently presents the BBC's News at One and was the Corporation's Beirut-based Middle East correspondent, will replace Ms Husain, who left the BBC last year.

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59 h. ago The Archers star Charles Collingwood: ‘The last lie I told? Darling, marvellous isn’t the word’

The actor on his beloved Jag, being naughty at nursery school and the trouble with his hairBorn in Canada, Charles Collingwood, 81, studied at Rada. He began his career in repertory theatre and moved into children’s television. He later worked on the 90s quizshow Telly Addicts and in Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders. He is best known for playing Brian Aldridge in BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers, and this year celebrates 50 years in the role. His wife, Judy Bennett, played Shula Hebden Lloyd in The Archers. They live in Hampshire.When were you happiest? My childhood. I was an only child, happy and secure, and there was always plenty of time to play cricket. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’

Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealthFive years ago, we were beginning to face the imminent reality of lockdown. We were confronted with an uncertain future in which our habitual ways of coping, succeeding, displacing and overworking were going to be put mercilessly on hold because of an unprecedented existential threat. And for a few months we lived through a see-saw of emotions: public and private grief at the scale of loss; anger and confusion over the restrictions imposed, withdrawn, re-imposed; exhaustion at the pressure of sustaining basic public services – and also a kind of guilty, sporadic excitement at possibilities we hadn’t guessed at. Clearer skies, silent roads; time; a sense of what mattered and who mattered, to us as individuals and to the whole of society. Fragile shoots of some sort of renewed spiritual imagination pushed a centimetre or so thro...

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3 d. ago Lorraine Kelly issues 'horrid' health update after hiding swelling under sunglasses

The ITV presenter turned up to Scott Mills' BBC Radio 2 show sporting a pair of shades, only to reveal that there was a serious reason behind her doing so

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3 d. ago Scott Mills says 'do not do that' as he issues Rylan Clark warning to new Eurovision act

The BBC Radio 2 star explained to the Eurovision contestants that Rylan Clark "can't wait" for a "night out with the girls"

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3 d. ago Eurovision act Remember Monday told to 'lock themselves in a room' to avoid Rylan Clark

In today's episode of the Scott Mills Breakfast Show, the BBC Radio 2 star revealed to the Eurovision hopefuls that Rylan Clark "can't wait" for a "night out with the girls"

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3 d. ago Allowing physician associates to take on doctors’ responsibilities ‘costs lives’

The Royal College of Physicians and the British Medical Association (BMA) are among those who have raised concerns about the use of PAs and AAs.

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4 d. ago BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine dresses up as The Gruffalo for World Book Day

The 59-year old presenter took part in the fancy dress day to celebrate his favourite children’s book character.

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