Culture

The rap artist best known for the Streets made his name in the early 2000s, taking on the garage scene and making it relatable to swathes of Britain’s disaffected young people. 

Cathy is joined by Alastair Campbell, journalist and former Downing Street director of strategy and communications under Tony Blair, who has interviewed Huw Edwards about mental health.

We spoke to Roger Bolton, who worked for 50 years as a producer, editor and presenter at the BBC, and now hosts the Beeb Watch podcast. 

The BBC presenter Huw Edwards is being treated in hospital, as his wife says he’s suffered another serious episode of depression after what she called “five extremely difficult days” for their family.

We spoke to Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole about the Ryan Tubridy scandal, and began by asking him whether parliamentary inquiries are always so popular they’re played in pubs in Ireland.

Ireland’s RTE has seen its highest paid star Ryan Tubridy appear before the Irish parliament’s public accounts committee.

We spoke to former Head of Religion & Ethics at the BBC Aaqil Ahmed and began by asking him why it took the BBC so long to act on the complaints made in May.

We spoke to the former editor of the Guardian newspaper Alan Rusbridger and began by asking him what he thought of the BBC’s response.

The BBC say a second person has made new claims of bullying about the high profile presenter at the centre of a row over alleged payments for sexually explicit images.

We spoke to solicitor and legal commentator, Joshua Rozenberg.

A letter from a lawyer representing a young person at the heart of allegations against an unnamed BBC presenter has described the claims, reported in the Sun newspaper as “rubbish”. The Sun, which based its report on claims by the young person’s parents – said they had seen evidence to support those concerns. The Metropolitan…

Is it possible to live in the moment in the age of social media? As hundreds of thousands hit Glastonbury this weekend, can a 22-metre-high “rave tree”  break through to impress on the festival-goers the importance of climate change? Our culture correspondent Minnie Stephenson is among the revellers.

Over 20 years since its first performance and film adaptation, The Shape of Things – Neil LaBute’s play about a bookish student transforming himself to please his stylish girlfriend – is returning to the London stage.

How did we get here – and where do we go now? 

General Levy began his career as a dancehall reggae artist, but he fell into jungle music with songs that for many came to define the 1990s.