The Celebrity Traitors: episode two – as it happened
James Acaster and Amol Rajan ended last night’s episode in coffins – but which one will be murdered? And which will end up having to distract from Richard E Grant’s big mouth?
September 2026
TV tonight
TV tonight: the final series of hit Aussie romcom Colin from Accounts
A chance encounter brings Gordon and Ashley together again in this wonderfully messy comedy. Plus: a chaotic University Challenge. Here’s what to watch this evening
August 2026
Amol Rajan warns BBC destined to shrink at ‘accelerating rate’
Presenter says he is moving to YouTube to avoid being left ‘behind the curve’ as media landscape changes
July 2026
Today was not perfect when John Humphrys was presenting
John Humphrys criticises successors on ‘irritating’ Today programme
March 2026
Has Today had its day? BBC’s flagship Radio 4 show grapples with podcast age
As it searches for a new editor and presenter, programme is facing questions over its direction and status
January 2026
Amol Rajan to leave Radio 4’s Today programme to start own company
Presenter wants to ‘unleash my inner entrepreneur’ in creator economy but will still host University Challenge
June 2025
TV tonight
TV tonight: Amol Rajan explores grief and faith by the Ganges
The journalist goes in search of emotional closure at the Hindu Kumbh Mela festival. Plus: a transatlantic twist on Dragons’ Den. Here’s what to watch this evening
May 2025
TV review
‘Any 11-year-old could tell you that!’ The University Challenge final, reviewed by last year’s winner
As another series comes to a nailbiting end, last year’s Imperial captain finds one team way too leisurely – and some of the questions altogether too easy. Must try harder!
April 2025
Gary Lineker’s critics have got it wrong. It’s reasonable to talk about more than sport
Max Rushden
The Match of the Day presenter has been challenged again on his views on Gaza and Israel. But can we really expect him to have no opinions about the outside world?
May 2024
The politics sketch
It’s Labour’s turn to crash and burn as party can’t defend Elphicke’s defection
John Crace
Anneliese Dodds drew the short straw and was sent out to pretend Nat had always been Labour through and through
March 2024
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
S6 Ep 5: Amol Rajan, broadcaster
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
UK politics: Sunak refuses to say how abolition of national insurance would be funded – as it happened
January 2024
TV tonight
TV tonight: Sheila Hancock is on sparkling form in a brilliant interview
‘We need jungle, I’m afraid’: how University Challenge went viral on the rave scene
December 2023
University Challenge special axed over lack of support for disabled contestants
Christmas alumni episode had one blind entrant and another who was neurodivergent, both of whom say they did not get help
October 2023
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in radio: Young Again with Kirsty Young; The Today Podcast; McCartney: A Life in Lyrics – review
Kirsty’s back with the A-listers in a classy but flimsy format, Nick Robinson and Amol Rajan get emotional during their new show, while Macca takes a leisurely trip down memory lane
July 2023
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Bear; The Sixth Commandment; Rosie Jones: Am I a R*tard?; University Challenge – review
The Chicago kitchen drama returns for a slow-burn second helping; Timothy Spall astounds in Sarah Phelps’s true crime drama; Rosie Jones confronts hate speech; and fingers on buzzers…
TV review
University Challenge review – Amol Rajan is lighter, kinder and more passionate than Paxman
The new set may resemble something from the Flintstones cartoon, but Rajan clearly takes this quiz gig seriously. If only he looked more comfortable in the chair
TV tonight
TV tonight: Timothy Spall stars in dark drama about true story of seduction and murder
A repressed academic is taken advantage of by a student. Plus, Chris Packham explores the mind-bending reaches of geological time. Here’s what to watch this evening
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radioThe week in radio: Young Again with Kirsty Young; The Today Podcast; McCartney: A Life in Lyrics – reviewKirsty’s back with the A-listers in a classy but flimsy format, Nick Robinson and Amol Rajan get emotional during their new show, while Macca takes a leisurely trip down memory lane
Observer TV reviewsThe week in TV: The Bear; The Sixth Commandment; Rosie Jones: Am I a R*tard?; University Challenge – reviewThe Chicago kitchen drama returns for a slow-burn second helping; Timothy Spall astounds in Sarah Phelps’s true crime drama; Rosie Jones confronts hate speech; and fingers on buzzers…
