Forget about telly . . . A wireless world The Wireless World of Gerry Wells (BBC World Service, Friday) was a terrific portrait of an eccentric. It was also a love letter to radio: Gerry Wells, as presenter Dan Shepherd noted, “has spent his life mending wireless sets”. His south London home is a museum [...]

Moazzam Begg . . . ‘a figure who divides and continues to divide’. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian Journalist Steve Evans was in the South Tower of the World Trade Centre on the morning of 9/11, but managed to escape. As he noted somewhat bitterly in British Muslims, Father and Son (Radio 4), at [...]

Jonathan Mills, director of the Edinburgh international festival. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian Jonathan Mills has urged politicians and arts funding organisations to avoid reducing the arts to a “soundbite” or “fast food” as they search for ways to cut public spending. The director of Edinburgh’s international festival said that the scale and diversity [...]

Follow that ape . . . Mountain Gorilla. Photograph: BBC NHU/Graham MacFarlane/BBC NHU I feel like I know the Virunga volcanoes of central Africa quite well. I’ve been there often, without having left the sofa, obviously, to see the gorillas. I actually recognise some of them, they’ve been on the telly so often. Yup, that’s Titus, [...]

Colton Harris-Moore leaves a plane handcuffed in Nassau after two years on the run. Photograph: Felipe Major/AP The tale of the Barefoot Bandit (aka 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore), like so many crime stories, reached almost mythical status for those who followed reports of his burglaries...