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Antonia Quirke

Antonia Quirke is an author and journalist.  She writes for the Financial Times, presents Pick of the Week on Radio 4 and Film 2013 on BBC 1. She writes a column on radio for the New Statesman. 

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TV and Radio
Tanning Tales and Arthur in the Underworld on BBC Radio 4
18 July 2013

You know when you've been Tango'd.

TV and Radio
Glastonbury on the BBC Radio 1: Better off at home?
11 July 2013

Pyramid selling.

Books
The Authorised Biography of Oliver Reed by Robert Sellers: Sadly and crushingly, most important was that he was an alcoholic
11 July 2013

The "Bill Sikes" actor turned down Spielberg, Polanski and even James Bond - why?

TV and Radio
Saturday Edition on BBC Radio 5 Live: A complete waste of space
04 July 2013

The programme took a good three hours to tell us why commercial space travel has been nothing but a disappointment.

TV and Radio
John Lydon on BBC 6 Music: When he was bad, he was rotten
27 June 2013

Antonia Quirke's take on the stand-in presenter for Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service on BBC 6 Music.

TV and Radio
The Beach Boys Story on BBC 6 Music: Surfing the airwaves
20 June 2013

While there are those who will tell you that Pet Sounds is one of the most influential records of all time, the Beach Boys could be proper tedious.

TV and Radio
Disability, a New History on Radio 4: We can't get enough
13 June 2013

We’ve hear diaries of the disabled from all centuries, discarded flyers for freak shows, letters between aristocrats disfigured by smallpox and grappling with wooden limbs, and an account of Samuel Pepys visiting a lady with a beard (“It was a strange sight to me, I confess. And pleased me mightily”).

TV and Radio
Sounds Natural on BBC Radio 4 Extra: A kind of Desert Island Animal Noises
07 June 2013

After Tweet of the Day, which is mainly about birds tweeting, comes Sounds Natural (26 May, 11am), which is mainly about natural sounds. BBC Radio 4 Extra pulled out an interview from 1972 with the Hammer Film actor Peter Cushing, who died in 1994 but would have turned 100 this May, in which he requests his favourite things from the BBC’s natural history archive – a kind of Desert Island Animal Noises.

TV and Radio
The Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio: Absolutely fatuous
30 May 2013

What happened to the drinks sideboard as a item of furniture; the mighty Katherine Jenkins possibly looking less attractive without her make-up; what appears to be a Wickes-sponsored section on power tools - just some of the unbelievably boring conversations to be had on the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show.

TV and Radio
Jan Morris's Travels Round My House on Radio 3: Unbotheredly contemplating death
28 May 2013

Anthony Sattin went through scrapbooks and photo albums picking things out for comment. There hung over the whole interview the discomfiting threat that any mention of gender reassignment would be considered not just prurient and vulgar, but (worse) boring.

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