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Miranda Sawyer

Miranda Sawyer writes features for the Observer. She is also the paper's radio critic

December 2023

  • Toby Jones

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Chimes; Uncanny Christmas Special; The Today Podcast – review

    Toby Jones stars in a pitch-perfect Dickens adaptation; it’s all round to Daisy May Cooper’s haunted house; and Esther Rantzen’s frank revelations are an inspiration
  • Michael Jackson performing during his concert in Vienna

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Think Twice: Michael Jackson; Courtroom Drama; Recording on the Nomads’ Trail – review

    The fraught legacy of the king of pop is exhaustively analysed; celebrity court cases provide daft fun; and in praise of a pioneering field recordist

    • The lost art of letter writing – and why it still matters

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Naga Munchetty; The Reith Lectures; Help, I Sexted My Boss; Now You’re Asking– review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: The Rest Is Entertainment; History for You With Douglas and Hugh and more

November 2023

  • Jasmine Jobson

    Top Boy star Jasmine Jobson: ‘I’m lucky, people have had my back. Not everybody gets that’

    As she lines up roles to follow the hit drama’s much-loved Jaq, the actor talks about finding vulnerability, putting herself into care as a teen – and that cliffhanger ending
  • Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Lights Out: Dust; The Bakersfield Three; Heirs of Enslavement – review

    Can it be true that Radio 4 is axing the brilliant Lights Out? Elsewhere, Olivia LaVoice joins the dots between three murders in a gripping true crime podcast. Plus, a hit-and-miss look at the legacy of slavery

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Death of a Code Breaker; A History of the World in Spy Objects; Legacy; Disability and the Adult Industry; The Essay– review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Where It’s At: A Short History of Girl Bands; 28 Dates Later; Law in Action: Deepfakes and the Law – review

    • The week in audio: Gangster: The Story of the Burger Bar Boys; Kids of Rutherford County; Hits Radio Breakfast with AI Fleur East – review

October 2023

  • Naomi Dancy, the great-grandmother of Tristan Redman’s wife Kate.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Ghost Story; Class of 88 with Will Smith; Shaun Keaveny’s Daily Grind – review

  • A generated image of dark, gothic-looking scene featuring the heroine in a graveyard with octopus-like tentacles curling around a tomb, with a full moon and a church tower in the background.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Lovecraft Investigations: The Haunter of the Dark; Stirring It Up With Andi and Miquita Oliver; Keys to the Kingdom – review

  • Kirsty Young.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in radio: Young Again with Kirsty Young; The Today Podcast; McCartney: A Life in Lyrics – review

  • Molly Manning Walker with blond cropped hair wearing a red hooded top against a red backdrop.

    ‘Stuff happened, you know?’ How to Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker on wild youth, Magaluf and storming Cannes

  • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in radio: Have You Heard George’s Podcast?; The News Agents Investigates; Sidetracked with Annie and Nick; Uncanny – review

  • ‘I thought: how hard can it be?’ Mike Skinner on making a film – and the first Streets album in a decade

September 2023

  • a diver swims with Freddie near Amble, Northumberland in 1991.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Hooked on Freddie; Case 63; Absolute Radio – review

  • James Acaster and Ed Gamble present Off Menu

    Mainly funny and insightful, with only one rambling outlier: the UK’s top-ranking podcasts

  • Joe Rogan, left, in a studio with the comedian Duncan Trussell, tops the UK chart.

    Joe Rogan is UK’s most popular podcast, new chart reveals

  • Cillian Murphy

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Cillian Murphy’s Limited Edition; Short Cuts; Beyond the Bathroom; Crypto Kingpins – review

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