Recommendation Engine: Pottering

Plus The Man on the Run, The Overturn, and Big Lives

11:00 AM GMT+1 on April 2, 2026

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Miranda Sawyer in the Observer

The Overturn (The Future Justice Project) - “I’m no conspiracy theorist, but listening to The Overturn can make you feel as though every institution is designed to preserve the power of the powerful at the expense of the little person.”
Inheritance: Samsung (BBC World Service) - “This story is a business tale and, at times, the corporate nature of the story can seem unappealing.”
Big Lives (Pushkin) - “The subjects are great: Jane Fonda, George Michael, Richard Pryor, Amy Winehouse and more. Dzotsi and Wright have been given access to the BBC archive to do this, so you could assume it might be a chatty, interesting take on Archive on 4.”

Patricia Nicol in the Sunday Times

Dish (Waitrose) - “Just works in that alchemical way that really great mashed potato works. Sara Pascoe being served minestrone soup recently was entrancing.”
Life’s A Beach (Keep It Light Media) - “Bob Mortimer talking about his love of Paul Whitehouse, the Lakes and terrible food… was cockle-warming”
The Romesh Ranganathan Show (Ranga Bee Productions) - “I felt totally seen by his comment that “it’s really easy to be a maths teacher at parents’ evening because the parents don’t want to talk about maths either. You’re giving them PTSD.””
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth (Plain Jaine Media) - wes streeting - “Brandreth shows keen fascination with each guest and is in turn clearly trusted by them. Last week he interviewed Wes Streeting, about whom I knew far less than I thought.”
Jeeves & Wooster: The Collected Radio Dramas (Wave Maker) - “Joy in the morning, or any other time.”