Here’s some canny proof that you can’t always trust what you hear - June 2021 The Telegraph - By TRISTRAM FANE SAUNDERS - June 16th, 2021

That presenter was the comedian Stewart Lee, whose recent tribute to punk singer Robert Lloyd, King Rocker, has, so far, been one of this year’s most entertaining Dlms. Radio 4 should use him more, pronto. “Chroniclers have been lying to us since the Drst troglodyte daubed an exaggerated bison on a French cave wall,” he…

Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator - June 2021 The Times - By Patricia Nicol - June 13th, 2021

Reardon, as his much-interrupted work on his memoirs attests, is an unreliable narrator, which was the topic of yesterday’s entertaining, inventive Archive on 4, presented by the stand-up and writer Stewart Lee. Lee begins his journey “walking along Cecil Court”, off the Charing Cross Road, which when Lee first arrived in London was lined with…

Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator. - June 2021 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - June 13th, 2021

To research this Radio 4 essay about the role of the unreliable narrator, Stewart Lee spent almost three weeks with the Inrravat people of northern Canada, who believe in a trickster god whose stories cannot be trusted. What did he learn about this ancient culture? Well, almost nothing in a literal sense as all their…

SAVE BBC RADIO FROM ITSELF - March 2019 March 18th, 2019

Dear Mail List Just at a time when the wealth of music available to everyone finds young people making connections between previously disparate approaches for themselves, and beating down ancient barriers of culture and history, BBC radio is travelling in the opposite direction, by scrapping the very shows that embody that ideal. Luke Turner of…

Max Reinhardt – Late Junction - April 2016 April 21st, 2016

Max Reinhardt is joined by comedian, columnist and musophile Stewart Lee with the debut edition of the Late Junction Mixtape. A tribute to the age-old tradition of making a mixtape for a friend, guests are invited to explore the full diversity of their record collections, to dig out those obscure gems and much-loved rarities which…

We loved, we hated and, fucking hell, we moaned - April 2016 Drowned In Sound - By Marc Burrows - April 18th, 2016

‘But, right, the thing about Riot Grrl is that, like, they didn’t know what it was at the time. It was proto-Riot Grrrl. It’s, like, punk for women, like, proto-punk.’ There’s a guy behind me in the queue for the chip shop. He must be about 20, long hair, kind-of posh sounding. He beat-boxes under…