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Miranda Sawyer

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

October 2024

  • A black and white image of football fans fighting on the pitch.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The English Disease; Mag Hags; Parents vs the Internet; Between the Ears – review

    A thoughtful study of football hooliganism; glossy mags of yore amusingly revisited; the mother of murdered teen Brianna Ghey on online safety; and it’s a wonderful pond life

September 2024

  • Marianna Spring.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Why Do You Hate Me?: USA; The Louis Theroux Podcast; Split Screen: Thrill Seekers; Where Should We Begin? – review

  • Stevie Wonder.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Wonder of Stevie; Greatest Hits Radio 60s; Archive on 4; Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman – review

  • Neneh Cherry photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review, August 2024.

    You ask the questions
    ‘My whole life’s interconnected’: Neneh Cherry on the relationships that inspire her, leaving home at 15, and the joy of a trashy box set

  • Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd composite for radio. for Weirdos book club podcast

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club; The Coming Storm; Proms 2024

  • A different goal: how women’s football is changing the beautiful game

  • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Matt Chorley; Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division and New Order; In The Studio: Laurie Anderson – review

August 2024

  • Steve Wright in the studio in November 1979

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Radio 2 Remembers Steve Wright; The Grand House: Boom Or Blight? – review

    A tribute to the much-loved DJ is by turns heartwarming and heart-sinking. And Tristram Hunt explores the survival of Britain’s country houses
  • Rioters facing off against a line of police in Liverpool

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Policing Protest; Dream Space; Sing It Pink; Prom 21; Hip-Hop Is History – review

    A documentary on law and dissent is overtaken by events; Gemma Cairney invites DJ Paulette to fill a limitless imaginary space; and let’s hear it for the Pink Singers
  • American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist James Baldwin poses at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, on November 6, 1979. AFP PHOTO RALPH GATTI (Photo credit should read RALPH GATTI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Lost Archive of James Baldwin; Extreme: Muscle Men; Paris Olympics – review

    The American writer’s personal effects, languishing in a French lock-up, are only part of a touching story. Plus, an entertaining tale of 80s bodybuilding, and gymnastics on the radio

July 2024

  • Suella Braverman wearing a headset in an LBC studio with a microphone in front of her.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Suella Braverman on LBC; Dangerous Memories; World of Secrets: The Apartheid Killer – review

  • The razor-topped walls and watchtowers of the former Maze prison.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    This week in audio: Escape from the Maze; State of Play: Summer Games; Today With Tonies – review

  • Jon Holmes

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Hysterical; The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman; Jon Holmes Says the C-Word

  • Forensic psychologists Sally Tilt and Kerensa Hocken, who were interviewed for Behind the Crime.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Behind the Crime: Liam; The Skies Are Watching; Time of the Week – review

June 2024

  • ‘Gentle and curious’: Sam Tyler, maker of Sonic Fields, at Glastonbury in 2008.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Sonic Fields; Buried: The Last Witness; The Vaping Wars – review

    A dive into the history of the UK’s music festivals is life-enhancing, while two disturbing investigative series tackle toxic dumping in Wales and the origins of vaping
  • Sir Keir Starmer on Nick Ferrari’s breakfast show

    The week in audio: Nick Ferrari; The News Agents; The Rest Is Politics; Oh God, What Now?; Electoral Dysfunction; The Turnout With GK Barry – review

    With days to go to the UK’s general election, our critic listens to Starmer and Sunak face LBC’s listeners and dips into the big-name political podcasts

    • ‘People like it because it’s the messy truth’: Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver on their hit podcast Miss Me?

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Everything to Play For; There’s Only One Michael Mosley; Everything I Know About Me; Cocaine Inc – review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Thief at the Museum; Memories from the Dance Floor; The John Dredge Nothing to Do With Anything Show; More or Less – review

May 2024

  • Paul Weller by Dean Chalkley

    ‘Politicians? They’re mugs, all of them’: Paul Weller on music, style and the state of the nation

    At 66, the Modfather may have mellowed, but he’s lost none of his cool. Paul Weller reveals how he beat his demons, found a new sound – and why he’s still angry with the establishment
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