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Miranda Sawyer

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

April 2025

  • White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stands, as U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) signs executive orders and proclamations, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 9, 2025.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Die Die DEI; Drama on 4: The Film; Good Hang with Amy Poehler; Confessions of a Female Founder and more

  • anna foster smiling

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Today; Don’t Cross Kat; Dying for Sex; Inside Counter Terrorism Policing – review

March 2025

  • David Dimbleby

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Invisible Hands with David Dimbleby; Artworks: Talk Talk – Living in Another World; White Hot Hate; Luigi – review

    David Dimbleby on the fighter pilot who waged war on government policy; Guy Garvey celebrates a misunderstood masterpiece. Plus, confessions of an FBI agent, and divisive US murder suspect Luigi Mangione
  • Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, siblings and presenters of the podcast IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Lockdown’s Legacy; Journey Through Time; IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson – review

    A powerful Radio 4 series explores the long shadow of Covid; a new history show feels more like a lecture; and the former first lady teams up with her brother

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Where Politics Meets History; Down the Caff; Archive on 4: No Blacks No Irish – review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: The Toxic Waste Scandal; How Do You Cope?; Broken Veil; Dish – review

    • Rave, games and showers of Coco Pops: a night out at Liverpool’s Bongo’s Bingo

February 2025

  • Pamela Anderson photographed by Venetia Scott in London for the Observer New Review, February 2025.

    You ask the questions
    ‘I stripped away this caricature that I created’: Pamela Anderson on makeup, activism and gardening

    The star of Baywatch and The Last Showgirl answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Stella McCartney, Liam Neeson, Ruby Wax and Naomi Klein
  • ‘I’m either thinking about things I haven’t shot, or things I’ve done. What’s got to be done. What can I do next? Where can I go?’ Martin Parr, from the documentary I Am Martin Parr.

    ‘Photography is therapy for me’: Martin Parr on humour, holidaying and life behind the lens

    He has a prolific career and extensive portfolio, with his images of British life especially iconic. At 72, he tells Miranda Sawyer, he’s still thinking about what to shoot next

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Coming Out; The Great Post Office Trial; The Teen Commandments – review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Mad, Sad and Bad with Paloma Faith; Fin vs History; Welcome to Hell and more

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: The Scott Mills Breakfast Show; Magic Breakfast with Harriet Scott and Gok Wan; Bed of Lies; Extreme: Peak Danger – review

January 2025

  • Sean Moore, James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers sitting on a sofa

    Manic Street Preachers: ‘The band feels like something you can go into battle with against the world’

    As they release their 15th album, the Manic Street Preachers are as fired up as ever. They talk about tech bros, stealing hotel shampoo and four decades of combining friendship with being in a band
  • Scottee in a sleeveless T-shirt eyes closed, head up, outside on a sunny day

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Telepathy Tapes; Self Help; Thinking Allowed: Playgrounds – review

    A chart-topping podcast about psychic communication makes for a troubling listen. Elsewhere, more excellent mental health musings from Scottee, and in praise of the adventure playground

    • ‘We have Radio 4 voices, but we swear’: pioneering podcasters Answer Me This! on the show’s return

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Virtually Parkinson; The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby; The Pitcairn Trials; Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban – review

    • Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Human Intelligence; Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring; UnReality; The Hole Truth – review

December 2024

  • Keiko, star of Free Willy, at home in the Oregon Coast aquarium.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Good Whale; Fashion Neurosis With Bella Freud; Archive on 4: A Child’s Christmas – review

    The true story of Keiko, the orca star of Free Willy, makes for a moving new Serial tale; the fashionista follows in her grandfather’s footsteps. Plus, writers on child’s-eye-view Christmas wonder
  • Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver sit at a desk together smiling against a turquoise background, they were photographed in London for the Observer New Review in June 2024.

    Radio and podcasts: Miranda Sawyer’s 10 best listens of 2024

    Miquita Oliver and Lily Allen’s intimate chats, Jake Shears’s deep dive into queer music and the ongoing mystery of Lord Lucan were among the standouts
  • Posed portrait of Alex James

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Blur bassist Alex James: ‘I’m so happy for Oasis. Liam is an incredible singer, and he can’t help being a rock star’

    The musician on struggling to fit into his Britpop pants, his ambition to make giant Frazzle, and the football song that keeps him fed
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