‘Come on, man! What you doing radio programmes for? Podcasts are the future, man!’
Thus spoke Alastair Campbell to Rory Stewart in their shared podcast, when Stewart plugged his Radio 4 series, A Long History of Argument from Socrates to Social Media. Alas, Campbell is probably right.
Does anyone else still listen on a radio set, catching programmes at the time they are broadcast – eg, 100 this year? ‘To the six-o’clock news and a lime-juice and gin’, as Betjeman wrote, of visiting Joan Hunter Dunn’s Surrey home.
