Miranda Sawyer
Miranda Sawyer writes features for the Observer. She is also the paper's radio critic
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Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radioThe week in audio: Marianna in Conspiracyland; Women of Web3; Gateway: Cocaine, Murder & Dirty Money in Europe; The ArchersMarianna Spring keeps her cool with conspiracy mongers; Lauren Ingram guides (some of) us into the metaverse; a drug-smuggling tale is well told; and the dreaded Rob returns to Ambridge
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The 5 Live presenter got results when probing the crisis in Sudan. Plus, a winning wartime drama for children and two new crime series
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A gripping six-parter tells of a shamanic dealer who scammed north London’s elite, while Russian spies pull off a different kind of trick, passing as an ‘ordinary American couple’ for several years
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As the ska band release a new album, their formidable frontwoman talks candidly about the heyday of 2 Tone, doing battle with men and microaggressions, and finding her birth mother at 42
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Radio 4 took an in-depth look at local incarnations of the housing crisis from Leeds to Ullapool, while Jonathan Ross and Tim Burgess find new radio homes
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As her hit feminist novel, The Power, becomes a TV series, the writer talks about dark episodes in her past that underpin her work, and how she is inspired by a new generation of women
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White’s emotional investigation into kids in abusive households is a must-hear. Plus, queer parents debunk gender roles and a hilarious return for Radio 4’s spy drama
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On Mother’s Day, seven Observer writers talk about the women who shaped their lives in a host of different ways, by instilling a love of art and creativity, by navigating life’s complexities – or even through their painful absence
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Even the Lineker row couldn’t stop Stephen Nolan; Gordon Corera launched an insightful look back at the Iraq war; and Rory Cellan-Jones talked to others about the trials of Parkinson’s Disease