Michael Henderson on Radio

Too much disinformation

“SPRING IS HERE,” BEGINS ONE OF Rodgers and Hart’s best-known songs. “Why doesn’t my heart go dancing?” That depends on which Spring you have in mind. Is it the season of renewal we greet each April, when all the flowers bloom, tra-la, and the nights lengthen? Or is it Marianna of that ilk, the BBC’s “disinformation” tsarina, promoted with unnerving speed, and determined not to let the grass grow under her size sevens? For this Spring is here, there and everywhere. Only 28, she has already presented several programmes and podcasts with titles so enticing that only the foolish do not pay attention. If How to Cure Viral Misinformation doesn’t grab you, there’s The Anti-Vax Files. Other favourites include Death by Conspiracy?, Disaster Trolls and Marianna in Conspir-acyland (with illustrations, presumably,…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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