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Miranda Sawyer

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

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
  • Two people hugging in animal costumes.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Fur & Loathing; Dead Man Running; About the Boys; Vanessa Feltz – review

    Nicky Woolf investigates a chemical attack at a furry convention, Myles Bonnar pursues a Scottish fugitive, Catherine Carr takes a sensitive approach to teenage boys, and a storm hits LBC
  • Small Boat Migrant Crossings Are At Record Levels For Early Part Of 2024<br>DOVER, ENGLAND - MARCH 06: An inflatable dinghy carrying around 65 migrants crosses the English Channel on March 06, 2024 in Dover, England. According to official figures 401 migrants arrived in the UK by small boat on Monday, the busiest day of the year so far for Channel crossings. This brings the provisional total number of UK arrivals so far this year to 2,983. Government data indicates this is more than the 2,953 logged this time last year and surpasses the running totals documented between January 1 and March 4 each year since current records began in 2018. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: To Catch a Scorpion; Romesh Ranganathan; Uncanny Series 4 – review

    Sue Mitchell pursues a notorious people-smuggler; Romesh Ranganathan settles into Claudia Winkleman’s seat; and Danny Robins takes his search for the paranormal to the US

April 2024

  • a smiling lookalike prince harry flanked by two young women taking selfies with him

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Bachelor of Buckingham Palace; The Price of Paradise and more – review

  • MEMORIAL bomb/file 2<br>File dated 30/4/1999 of the scene in the Soho area of London after a nailbomb explosion in the Admiral Duncan Public House

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Fragments – The London Nail Bombings; Chasing Mountains; Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!; How Was It for You? – review

March 2024

  • Guantánamo detention camp seen from above.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Serial season 4: Guantánamo; Hidden Treasures: The Dumb Waiter, Traitor; Dial F for Football – review

    The grandaddy of podcasts reassesses the US terrorist detention camp; a rerun of Pinter and Potter plays is not to be missed. And at last, a genuinely funny new radio comedy…
  • Miquita Oliver and Lily Allen, hosts of Miss Me?.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Miss Me?; 53 Minutes; Heroes and Humans of Football – review

    Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver get honest on their new podcast, while the duos of Dara Ó Briain and Josh Widdicombe, and Simon Kuper and Mehreen Khan dive deep into football

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates; The Sports Agents; Diving With A Purpose – review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Electoral Dysfunction; Black Box; The Price of Music; An Taobh Tuathail – review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Three Million; Who Trolled Amber?; Who We Are Now; A Muslim & a Jew Go There – review

February 2024

  • Kneecap – left to right, Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara and DJ Próvaí – at Madden’s Bar, Belfast, February 2024

    Belfast rappers Kneecap on stunts, drugs and Kemi Badenoch: ‘We don’t discriminate who we piss off’

    Their riotous music is uniting young people in Northern Ireland and reviving the Irish language. The punk-rap trio talk about raving, working with Toddla T – and enraging politicians
  • Frank Skinner

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: One Person Found This Helpful; Straight to the Comments!; The Rise and Rise of the Microchip; Capital Breakfast – review

    Frank Skinner’s new Radio 4 panel show is a winner; the Daily Mail goes below the line; Misha Glenny gives us microchips with everything; and Capital gains Radio 1 star Jordan North

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: The Gatekeepers; Million Dollar Lover; Radical Empathy and the Devil; Barry Humphries: Gloriously Uncut – review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Queer the Music; Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative; Elis James and John Robins – review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Why Do You Hate Me?; Patient 11; Theory of Everything: Not All Propaganda Is Art – review

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