Like many other listeners I have been distressed to learn that by next spring the BBC's Radio 4 Extra may be no more - as a DAB radio st...

Sorry to learn that Billy Shelton is unwell. Jan D'Agostino Trapani recently posted the following on Facebook:    My good friend and fel...

   Today marks 100 years since that perennial children's favourite, Winnie the Pooh, was published. It wasn't the writer's first...

If you saw the documentary Freddie Davies: A Life in Show Business on Talking Pictures TV recently you will have caught a glimpse of his gra...

If you missed the broadcast yesterday, Martyn Tott's "chatumentary", as he has called it, about Freddie Davies is currently av...

  A distinction drawn in Radio 4's Today programme between the genres of autobiography and memoir  may be less than wholly convincing - ...

  At last t he film Sven Klang's Combo (as it was known on its UK release) is - at the time of writing, anyway - available to watch onli...

    When I first heard the Flamingos' doo wop classic Golden Teardrops I was puzzled by the reference to "a cottage by the sea...

  As the Guardian has published a list of the Kinks' 40 greatest songs which omits several of my favourites I've dusted off these  n...

Hard to believe but Donovan, that seeming child of faerie, recently turned eighty.  He is still performing and only a week or two ago on soc...

 Danish chain Flying Tiger Copenhagen has been based in Croydon's Whitgift Centre for at least seven years, but its store is now labelle...

  The soundtrack double album for the fifties-set British film That'll Be the Day was number one  on the UK charts today in 1973, or so ...

Although I found Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show on Radio 4 entertaining I had reservations about whether it really worked as a sitcom,...

 Today, or hereabouts, marks fifty years since West Country group the Wurzels had a UK Number One with Combine Harvester, their parody of Me...

Today, as is readily apparent on social media sites, marks 100 years since Eric Morecambe was born. I don't recall Ernie Wise's cent...