Men's Hour; Chart the Week; Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star; Do Pirates Rule the Airwaves? | Radio review

Men with feelings, trad lads, pirates, failed rock stars – males certainly got more than a fair hearing last weekMen's Hour – as opposed to Men 24 Hours, as some might call Radio 5 Live – launched last Sunday, its heart twitching vulnerably on its sleeve. Presenter Tim Samuels kept insisting that the show was where men could be "unusually emotional and painfully candid", as though a sports station wasn't for that anyway. Sadly, the format worked against such poignant moments, by asking its...

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