The week in podcasts and radio: On the Ground – review

A notorious friendly fire' incident during the Iraq war is picked apart in this meticulous 5 Live podcast

On the Ground (BBC 5 Live) | BBC Sounds

Audrey Gillan is known to radio lovers as the Scottish reporter who befriended two rough sleepers in Spitalfields, London, and made a six-part series about them. Tara and George was broadcast on Radio 4, and won radio programme of the year at the 2019 Broadcasting Press Guild awards. It was a tender and affecting series, with Gillan, if not at the forefront, decidedly involved: she was honest about her feelings around homelessness, her worries about Tara and George and how they were living. It was this relationship - as well as the one between Tara and George themselves - that gave the series its flavour and heart.