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In 2016, amid the post-EU referendum chaos, one man had an idea. His name was Steve Baker, and he was a low-profile Tory MP. But his WhatsApp group - the home of the hard Brexiteers - soon became the most powerful force in British politics. Sam Coates of Sky News thinks that political WhatsApp groups like Baker’s helped bring...

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The company behind the JACK fm brand in the UK has announced the station will return – when they want....

DJ Steve Wright, who presented programmes for BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for more than four decades, has died at the age of 69.

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Something to cheer a January of storms, floods and diverted flights: Ian Hislop on the history of jokes. If my editors scrapped the rest of this review and printed just that sentence I think readers would be persuaded that there was something worth listening to this week....

Run by Omega Auctions – who have been granted access to the BBC archives – the listing is filled with rare vinyl, equipment and BBC memorabilia, ready for a hefty series of online sales. The auction is a treasure trove for vinyl collectors and BBC fans....

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Matthew Sweet tells the extraordinary story of the hiatus between Doctor Who’s cancellation in 1989 and its spectacular revival in 2005.

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It’s the time of year for spectacular displays around the country, but for many of our pets, the loud sounds and bright lights can make them feel nervous and anxious....

One episode delves into the mystery of MI5 agent ‘Jack King’. During World War II, a network of British fascists gathered secret information that might help the Nazi cause and hasten their own country’s defeat. They thought they were passing these secrets to Jack King, a Gestapo officer who had been planted in England. In...

Originally broadcast in September 1952, You Must Listen was written by Nigel Kneale, one of the most admired English science-fiction writers of the last century. His Quatermass trilogy continues to influence generations of admirers and filmmakers, among them Russell T Davies and John Carpenter....

Twenty years ago The Da Vinci Code gripped the world with the notion that Jesus Christ married, had a secret honeymoon in France and sired a hidden line of future European rulers. You probably know the story. After all – Dan Brown’s conspiracy thriller sold 80 million copies within five years of its release and spawned a...

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Until recently, Bryan Johnson was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to infuse one litre of his teenage son’s youthful plasma into his own ageing blood stream every month. “I’ve never paid more attention to what he’s eating … because that was going into my body,” the 46-year-old American tech entrepreneur says...

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This fresh take on the satirical comedy slot will feature new programmes from the likes of Rachel Parris, who will kick off the series with a range of comic characters including digital stars Rosie Holt and Michael Spicer; Dom Joly, who will take a mischievous approach to investigating the week’s biggest stories; Ria Lina,...

Ahead of the adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s new novel Long Island, the BBC have made the previous book, Brooklyn, available on Sounds.

BBC Radio 2 lost more than a million listeners since Ken Bruce left the station for commercial rival Greatest Hits Radio, according to official audience data....

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