3 d. ago Radio 4 hosts locked in bitter feud as they follow in the footsteps of other famous names

As BBC Radio 4 Today presenters Nick Robinson and Emma Barnett are rumoured to be locked in a feud, The Mirror takes a look at other famous co-host clashes where on-screen friendships are masked behind-the-scenes tensions.

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8 d. ago Young people: share your thoughts on the Netflix show Adolescence

We’d like to hear what young people think of the show and if they have been affected by any of the issues raisedWe’re interested in finding out more about what young people think of the Netflix show Adolescence. What did you think when you watched it? Have you been affected by any of the issues raised? If so, what was your experience like? Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Tributes after 18 people in Greater Manchester die including Piccadilly Radio DJ

The full list of family announcements can be found by visiting the Manchester Evening News section of our partner website

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1 week ago Is there a feud at the heart of the Today programme? 'Clashing egos' rumours after stars Emma Barnet and Nick Robinson go 90 days without co

Not only do Radio 4's Emma Barnett and Nick Robinson, for instance, irritate more than their fair share of listeners - it is now claimed they rub each other up the wrong way too.

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1 week ago Emma Barnett: ‘People ask, is that the radio you or the real you?’

The broadcaster and author talks maternity leave, childhood curiosity and her imaginary radio audienceAt school, I was the girl who wanted to dissect sheep lungs. I had a lack of horror around gore, I’m not squeamish at all, which was helpful when it came to all those needles for IVF. I thought about being a surgeon. I also thought it would be interesting to become a fishmonger. I’m fascinated by fish – I don’t know why.As an only child, radio was my companion. I had a little battery-operated radio at the table next to my cereal bowl. Continue reading...

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1 week ago BBC Radio 4 show to hear from people who woke up to find a Banksy on their wall

The show will speak to people who found works in Lowestoft and Margate.

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2 w. ago Maternity Service by Emma Barnett review – a tour of duty in early motherhood

In this valuable, brutally honest guide, the broadcaster argues that a supposedly joyful time is often steeped in drudgery and social isolation“It’s a bloody weird experience, maternity leave, and it’s OK to acknowledge that,” Emma Barnett writes in Maternity Service, her short, no-nonsense guide to surviving this curious – and relatively recent – phenomenon that can feel, in the thick of it, like a temporary exile from the outside world. For many new mothers, the abrupt severance from their professional lives and previous identities can leave them flailing in a strange and destabilising limbo where it seems almost taboo to voice any feelings of dislocation, in case these come across as a lack of maternal devotion.Barnett proposes that the whole business should be rebranded – rather than “maternity leave”, which suggests a nice relaxing break, it should be styled “maternity service”, with all the latter term’s connotations of a military tour of duty. Words such as “duty” and “servic...

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