BBC News - UK — Former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker is confirmed as a guest editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. more info

The Telegraph — The singer Jarvis Cocker and novelist Zadie Smith have been announced as guest editors of BBC Radio 4's Today programme over Christmas. more info

The Telegraph — Gillian Reynolds compares Zoe Ball's fillin radio show for Jonathan Ross with Radio 4's Today both of which tackled the cheesy christmas single this week. more info

The Telegraph Blog — You know the world has gone mad when you find yourself on Radio 4's flagship news programme, Today, on budget day, discussing the release of a Guns N Roses album while the nation is in economic meltdown. John Humphrys may be one of the nation's great... more info

Pitchfork — "Carnival of Light" began as something of a goof. In a recent interview with BBC Radio 4's John Wilson [via the Guardian], Paul McCartney recalls that the track was laid down on January 5, 1967 in the midst of vocal tracking for the Beatles classic "... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Getty In an interview with BBC Radio 4, Paul McCartney revealed that he is trying to release a Beatles song that some swore didn’t exist. “Carnival of Light” is supposedly a 14 minute improvised psychedelic jam the band recorded in 1967 ... more info

Guardian Music — For Beatles fans across the world it has gained near mythical status. The 14-minute improvised track called 'Carnival of Light' was recorded in 1967 and played just once in public. It was never released because three of the Fab Four thought it too ad... more info

Guardian Music — Tom Service: I have a couple of highlights from various web trawls this week: Dutch Radio 4's free Concertgebouw symphonies and YouTube's footage of Juan Diego Flórez in concert more info

The Telegraph — Factual programmes – such as this week’s Rock in the Dock – are making a welcome return to commercial radio more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — "You and Yours", a British radio consumer affairs program broadcast on BBC Radio 4, has aired a segment on the fan-generated controversy over the audio quality of METALLICA's new album, "Death Magnetic". more info