Gillian Reynolds
Gillian Reynolds is the Daily Telegraph's radio critic. Her award winning column is on the tv and radio pages on Tuesdays and her radio previews appear in the Daily Telegraph every weekday, in Review on Saturdays and the 7 section on Sundays. Her MBE was awarded for services to radio.
Gillian Reynolds biography
Gillian Reynolds was born in 1935 in Liverpool. She was educated at Broad Square County Primary School, Liverpool Institute High School for Girls and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she read English. She was a postgraduate student at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.
She has been radio critic of The Daily Telegraph since 1975 and also writes all the previews for both the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Winner of the Media Society's Gold Award, she was made the first Fellow of the Radio Academy in 1990 and a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1996. She was made an MBE for services to broadcasting in 1999.
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Today's radio highlights
The best radio programmes on BBC, commercial and digital stations chosen by Gillian Reynolds, the UK's top radio critic.
17 Jan 2011
Vanessa Feltz: a voice like lemon tea
Feltz's voice is bright, light, clear and precisely sweet enough, says Gillian Reynolds.
17 Jan 2011
Radio review: The readings that turned the Bible into a road movie
Gillian Reynolds reviews the past week in radio including Radio 4's Readings from the King James Bible, the return of Ed Reardon (Radio 4) and To Catch a Thief (Radio 4).
10 Jan 2011
First The Archers, then the Bible - Radio 4 falters again, radio review
Gillian Reynolds is disappointed by the first programme in Radio 4's season on the King James Bible - and by the 60th anniversary episode of The Archers.
04 Jan 2011
In Ambridge, less is more, it seems
The BBC bosses got it wrong. In The Archers it’s big news if a gate is left open and a pig gets out.
02 Jan 2011
An ode to the year in radio
In our Radio Critic's annual festive poem, 'Fairy Gill the radio sprite' voices her fears for the future...
28 Dec 2010
New Year 2010: radio highlights
Christmas's best radio programmes on BBC, commercial and digital stations chosen by the UK's top radio critic, Gillian Reynolds.
23 Dec 2010
A drama too far down on the farm?
The Archers is about to mark its 60th anniversary with some earth-shattering surprises.
21 Dec 2010
Five best Archers’ moments
Gillian Reynolds selects her dramatic highlights in the programme’s 60 year history.
21 Dec 2010
A fond ovation for 100 years of the London Palladium, radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week's radio, including I'm in Charge, Radio 4's celebration of the London Palladium's centenary with Bruce Forsyth, and Comedy Showcase: No Angel (R2) starring Martine McCutcheon.
20 Dec 2010
Radio 4 profiles Liu Xiaobo, review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week in radio including The Hemlock Cup (Radio 4) and I Have No Enemies, a profile of Nobel Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo (Radio 4).
13 Dec 2010
Cold comfort for farmers on Radio 4
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week's radio, including Farming Today This Week (Radio 4), Open Country (Radio 4), iPM (Radio 4) and Wives and Daughters (Radio 4).
07 Dec 2010
Escaping The X Factor with the help of Pinter and Jacobi, radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week's radio, including Radio 4's adaptations of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker and Robert Graves's I, Claudius.
29 Nov 2010
Jane Austen: great stories, shame about the music, radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week's radio programmes, including Radio 4's irritating use of music on Juvenile Jane, and Murder in the Title, starring Bill Nighy.
23 Nov 2010
How radio helped to fill the hole left by ITV1's Downton Abbey: radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week in radio, including Russell Davies and Paul O'Grady on Radio 2, as well as Julian Fellowes's The Last of The Thomas Hardy Players (Radio 4).
15 Nov 2010
What a relief to have at least one day without Today: radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week in radio, including the effect of the NUJ strike and Evan Davis and Sarah Montague's crossing of the picket line.
08 Nov 2010
Chris Evans v Chris Moyles in the daft battle of the breakfast egos, radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the past week in radio including the on-air spat between breakfast show presenters Chris Moyles and Chris Evans, The Classic FM Interview and Radio 4's Feedback.
01 Nov 2010
A History of the World in 100 Objects, radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week's radio, including the conclusion of Radio 4's epic series A History of the World in 100 Objects, Radio 2's The Friend in the Corner, Craig Brown's Lost Diaries (Radio 4), and Feedback (Radio 4).
26 Oct 2010
Sex, Porn and Teenagers, Radio 4, review
Gillian Reynolds reviews Radio 4's documentary Sex, Porn and Teenagers, plus the comedy series Ida Barr: Artifical Hip-Hop (Radio 4).
04 Oct 2010
New national network makes a Smooth attack on Radio 2
Gillian Reynolds on Smooth Radio's hopes for taking on the might of Radio 2 when they jump from regional to national radio.
01 Oct 2010
Believing the unbelievable, from magic to the Milibands, radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week in radio including The Magic Carpet Flight Manual (World Service), The Musical (R2), The David Jacobs Collection (R2) and The Archers (R4).
27 Sep 2010
'The BBC's treatment of children's radio is shameful', radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week in radio, including The Reunion (Radio 4), The Strongest Girl in the World (Radio 4) and Listen Again (Radio 4).
21 Sep 2010
Radio, not TV, is now the home of serious drama
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week's radio, including Radio 3 and 4's flurry of gripping dramas and the debut of Alex Masterley on Classic FM.
13 Sep 2010
The Blitz and Uncertain Climate, radio review
Gillian Reynolds reviews Radio 4's season dedicated to the 70th anniversary of The Blitz plus documentary Uncertain Climate (R4).
07 Sep 2010
Annie Nightingale reigns 40 years on
Radio 1’s longest-serving DJ talks to Gillian Reynolds about the changing face of broadcasting
01 Sep 2010
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