More than any other media, radio helped us through the pandemic. That’s the view of journalist Miranda Sawyer, audio critic for the Observer newspaper.
Unusually for a Swindon Festival of Literature guest, Miranda doesn’t have a book to promote.
Sure, her book on middle age, Out of Time, is available – but that was published in 2015.
And there’s a new book in the works about long-term relationships, but that – she admits – is overdue. She hopes to finish it by the end of the summer.
Meanwhile, she’s been invited to talk to the Literature Festival – which is as much a festival of ideas as it is a festival of books – about radio.
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