Elusive quest for impartiality
RADIO 4 IS AS FAMILIar to a middle-class British audience as a lockdown Waitrose delivery. It also has many of the same strengths and weaknesses, being high-quality and undershooting at stand-out moments. Just as you rarely get a surprise in the Waitrose chilled ready-meal sections, the big ask for Radio 4 is: “What have you got for us that is not just another organic chicken tagine?”
The positives have been on display in a year when we have staggered downstairs to start a day of Zooms with the programme in the background. I have even been so tired on a Saturday — a gangland coming-of-age fable”.
