Radio head: daytime Radio 2
The emphasis may be on entertainment in Radio 2's daytime slots, but there is still an energy there that feels very real  The Radio 2 messageboard is all abuzz on the subject of a daytime schedule brimful of holiday cover. With reference to Zoë Ball sitting in for Ken Bruce, Chris Tarrant in for Steve Wright and Liza Tarbuck for Simon Mayo, a lively debate has emerged about what constitutes a "real DJ". It's the ongoing resistance, really, to entertainers and television stars arriving...

Can the violence be justified?
Too much violence? Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba in Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me. Photograph: c.IFC Films/Everett / Rex Features Mark Kermode: film critic As with the source novel, the psychopathic violence depicted in The Killer Inside Me is both disturbing and problematic. All too often film-makers use women as props to be leered at, with glamorised Assault a depressingly regular selling point. Within this context, I understand entirely why Michael Winterbottom 's film...

The Boss: in charge of Radio 2 DJs' debut songs | Media Monkey
So Chris Evans - as you may already know by now - chose The Beatles' All You Need Is Love for the first song on his all-new BBC Radio 2 breakfast show. But another former BBC Radio 1 DJ was also making a new start on Radio 2 yesterday - Simon Mayo in Evans's old drivetime slot. So what did Mayo choose for his first song. Well, after a bit of stuff and nonsense, he got there finally - Bruce Springsteen 's Born To Run . "You worry about it for months but in the end you just have...

Kim Cattrall visits BBC Radio Two
Sex and the City hasn’t even been released yet and we are already talking about a third? Of course we are, because we can’t get enough! The illustrious Kim Cattrall was surprised by a lucky fan in front of the BBC Radio Two studios on Wednesday, April 14th. Many may call her a diva but she seemed really sweet and gave the guy a big snuggly hug. She chatted during the Simon Mayo Drivetime program and discussed her time on London’s West End, her role in Roman Polanski’s latest film,

The Evening Session: It's back, back, back
Well, it's back for one night. Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq are reuniting for a one-off revival of The Evening Session . On 6Music rather than Radio One, but in the old time slot. If this is a success, 6Music promises that there are no plans at all to ask Goodier to do a similar exercise. (Although, in all seriousness, it'd be nice to have a week with Kid Jensen, Janice Long, Simon Mayo and Richard Skinner getting to revive Night-Time Radio One.) The revived Evening Session must, by law, contain...