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Adi Tantimedh writes Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4's epic historical drama reached episode seven out of its ten-week run this week. This week, we interview Rufus Wright, who plays Gregor, the Sultan's spymaster charged with rooting out traitors and spies who would seek to bring down the empire Gregor's progress set one of the main threads of the[...]

And you can hear him recite it to BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme this morning to promote his graphic memoir by Peter David and Colleen Doran. No, no mention of Steve Ditko, obviously. But he was also asked about Iceman being outed as gay recently in the All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men comics And it came[...]

On BBC Radio 4, available online around the world right here, a documentary on 25 years of Twin Peaks, ahead of the new revival is going to be broadcast in seventy-five minutes And available to listen again afterwards right here. It's been 25 years since we first entered the 'cherry pie' logging town and met Agent[...]

BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning, ran a feature towards the end of its three hour broadcast, looking at the ethnic makeup of modern day comic book creators. Today's edition of the show was guest-edited by long-standing British comedian, writer and producer Lenny Henry, who rocketed to media attention this year after preaching about the[...]

Last night at 11pm, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first two parts of their adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omens, starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap. Naturally everyone was a) tucked up in bed b) out on the lash c) living in another country. But if you would like to enjoy both episodes in[...]

But here are the final three episodes of BBC Radio 4's Good Omens playing over Christmas week, illustrated by Sean Phillips, using the likeness of the actors Exclusive to Bleeding Cool, apparently, which is nice. It may be worth pointing out to our colonial chums that while the show will play late in the UK, 11pm[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran an article about Sean Phillips creating illustrations for the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens running over Christmas. And it's worth pointing out that this will be available free, worldwide, through the BBC iPlayer, both live and streaming afterwards We will run links But it[...]

Grant Morrison was the subject, as we mentioned before, of a radio interview on BBC Radio 4, for the show Chain Reaction You can hear the show right here, worldwide, free, for seven days. And next week, Grant Morrison interviews The Rutles' Neil Innes. But in this interview, Grant details his earliest years on the Captain Clyde[...]

Chain Reaction is a BBC Radio 4 interview show in which one guest interviews another – and the next week the second guest interviews a third, and so on. It began as comedians interviewing comedians, until Stewart Lee went off-piste and interviewed Alan Moore Then Alan Moore interviewed Brian Eno, complete with their mutual Peter Cook[...]

"Here's the Watchmen, here's Swamp Thing, here's Hellblazer and here's the Sandman and my education began." Sheen is reading An Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman for Radio 4's Book At Bedtime from Monday, through the week. Michael Sheen on comic books and Neil Gaiman at the hands of drama college student[...]

Scarfe later apologised saying he was unaware of the day, and both the editor of the paper and publisher Rupert Murdoch have also apologised – a rare event indeed. Stephen Pollard of the Jewish Chronicle and Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell got into it on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme today Pollard called the cartoon blood[...]

Alan Moore has become quite the doyen of BBC Radio 4 of late Chain Reaction, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Today Programme, he seems to pop up two or three times each year And now Alan Moore has just appeared on The World At One on BBC Radio 4, a political current affairs programme, at around[...]

British comedian Stewart Lee guest edited BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning And chose Alan Moore to deliver an Alternative Thought For The Day You can find it at 1 hour 22 minutes in… British comedian Stewart Lee guest edited BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning And chose Alan Moore to deliver an[...]

And Moore went on BBC Radio 4 in the morning for the Today programme, a weekday Radio 4 show with a reputation of setting the political agenda, to talk about the book. They asked him if, by writing this book, the life of one child would be harmed, would it be worth it This rather incensed[...]

Americans and non-British people will probably have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about today. THE ARCHERS is a BBC Radio 4's daily soap opera that's been running since 1951, which might make it the longest-running soap opera in the world it's basically about a farming family and the people they know in a fictional[...]