Charlotte Runcie

Scotland

Writer and Contributor at The Telegraph

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Articles

Standing Ovations

3 days ago | piper.de | Charlotte Runcie

1Alex Lyons klappte direkt nach der Vorstellung seinen Laptop auf und schrieb die Kritik innerhalb einer Dreiviertelstunde. Er vergab einen Stern. Die Bewertung bereitete ihm kein Kopfzerbrechen – ich hatte noch nie erlebt, dass er sich über irgendetwas den Kopf zerbrach.
How I joined the ‘sandwich’ generation aged just 28

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Charlotte Runcie

Soon after the birth of my first child, when I was too sleep-deprived to cook, Mum drove round to our place with a homemade fish pie in a pale blue cast iron casserole dish. “Keep the dish, by the way,” she said. “It’s too heavy for me. I can hardly lift it out of the oven these days.”The dish is still in my cupboard. My mother was dead within two years of giving it to me. The first two years of my daughter’s life were lived alongside the last two years of my mother’s.
when artists bite back at their critics

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Runcie

Nobody likes a negative review - but what happens when a performer's disappointment tips over into a desire for revenge? In 1973, the theatre critic John Simon wrote a negative review of a performance by Sylvia Miles, mocking the actress as "one of New York's leading party girls and gate-crashers". Unfortunately for Simon, he happened to be dining in the same restaurant as Miles soon afterwards. On seeing him, she dumped her plate of steak tartare and brie over his head.
A young novelist to stir America’s and Ireland’s souls

Jan 18, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Runcie

In New York City on the morning of 9/11, teenage Cora is skipping school, waiting for a boyfriend who never shows up. Frustrated, she drops a tab of acid on her tongue, moments before the planes slam into the Twin Towers. As Cora watches the disaster on the news and the sky outside fills with smoke, her life and her acid-blurred perceptions of the world begin to spiral out of control. Cora’s father is at work, inside the World Trade Center’s North Tower, and will never be seen again.
A sensual love letter to the very fringe of Britain

Jul 4, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Runcie

Shetland sheep at a clifftop edge Credit: James Warwick Shetland is much further from the mainland than most people think.
The best radio programmes and moments from the last decade

Jan 26, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Runcie |Jilly Cooper

The top 12 radio moments from the last decade Credit: Francesco Carta fotografo Here’s a small selection of some of the best radio programmes and moments from the last decade.
The 12 greatest radio shows of the past 10 years

Jan 26, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | Charlotte Runcie

Here’s a small selection of some of the best radio programmes and moments from the last decade. These are the shows, series and podcasts that I’ve returned to as comfort listening, that I’ve recommended to other people countless times, or just that made me gasp with horror, collapse into laughter, or start sobbing while unloading the dishwasher.
In my time as Telegraph radio critic I’ve learnt that BBC bosses are touchy, and audiences often know best

Jan 25, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Runcie |Melvyn Bragg

Radio stars: (from left to right): Melvyn Bragg, Sara Cox, Ken Bruce and John Humphrys This week I’ve said goodbye to the regular radio column I’ve written for this paper since 2019, and the radio writing I’ve done in general since 2016. Writing about radio every week has been joyous, exasperating, absurd, occasionally even a little bit profound.
In my time as Telegraph radio critic I’ve learnt that BBC bosses are touchy, and audiences often know best

Jan 25, 2024 | sg.style.yahoo.com | Charlotte Runcie

Radio stars: (from left to right): Melvyn Bragg, Sara Cox, Ken Bruce and John HumphrysThis week I’ve said goodbye to the regular radio column I’ve written for this paper since 2019, and the radio writing I’ve done in general since 2016. Writing about radio every week has been joyous, exasperating, absurd, occasionally even a little bit profound. And, when I started, I had no idea how much I’d come to learn about the world just from keeping the radio on all the time.
Will podcasts and audio books on the BBC and online mean the end of radio as we know it?

Jan 23, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Runcie

Charlotte Runcie's first radio was in the shape of Wallace and Gromit Credit: BBC/Aardman In the 1990s, I had this novelty FM radio that was in the shape of Wallace and Gromit sitting in their living room.