Reviews

Something Understood

“Quiet, reflective, due weight given to the words, the music, the pauses, the thoughts, the spaces in and between everything. They are contemplative programmes in a mad world and I appreciate them for that.”  (radio critic Paul Donovan)

Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey To The Other Side

“Robbie could easily have presented himself as a deranged pop star with too much time and money on his hands, slowly unravelling among fellow sci-fi freaks in the desert, but he doesn’t.  He answers Ronson’s gently-put-but-aimed-at-the-heart-of-the-matter questions with trademark humour and a surprising depth of integrity and intelligence.”   (Jane Anderson, Radio Times)

“Ronson's gift is in being able to involve the listeners by presenting a scenario that invites them to respond, not just to his solution but to come up with their own alternative…. And there's the thing. Ronson makes you see things from another angle. It's a gift, and it's what makes him special.”   (Chris Campling, The Times)

Life With Henry and Freddie

“Radio has a way of slipping you into someone else's skin. It's why people stay in their cars on driveways, waiting for plays to end. It's why something we hear in a documentary can suddenly make us comprehend how it is to live another life. Life With Henry and Freddie was one of those programmes….Laura Parfitt who produced this documentary made Henry and Freddie's story an extraordinary testimony to the power of human love and hope, the very things we tend to forget as the daily news rains down on us…”

Gillian Reynolds / Telegraph 22 Oct ,2002

Something Understood

“A radio treat awaits in the form of one of Radio 4's best kept secrets – the remarkable Something Understood.” Ray Snoddy, The Times