Magazines you like

[Bryn]

Nature's Home (RSPB)
Private Eye
BBC Music Magazine (though mainly for the cover disc).

[Sir Velo]

Like many here, I used to read The Gramophone, but that was in a different, pre digital world. Now, if I'm interested in reading a review, I google it and read the cached version. Most of my reading is done via the web these days (or on kindle) and, therefore, I will either pay for the privilege of reading a particular article, or more often the case, just go elsewhere.

[Old Grumpy]

BBC MM
Countryfile
Jazzwise
The Week

Also Yorkshire Post Magazine on Saturdays and Observer Magazine on Sundays

[Cockney Sparrow]

The last subscription I would cancel would be Private Eye - the news/info they don't want us to read........ (and it makes me laugh).

I was about to cancel Gramophone, having swithered, because the issues pile up and I just don't have time to read them, and am restrained in my buying these days so don't need to be led to greater excess. Also they are available via the Library service. OTOH I would regret losing access to the review archive, and am supportive of the magazine, it having been restored from its debased and superficial years.

However, I have been bought a year's subscription by a friend to whom I have given weekly lifts to choir rehearsals! When the publisher opens up again in January I'll see if I can pay the extra and go for the digital + review access option. Otherwise, the issues will pile up again.........

[LHC]

The magazines I read regularly are

Gramophone
Literary Review
Hi-Fi News
Home Cinema Choice

I used to subscribe to Opera magazine, and may do so again now I have returned to opera going.

I have a soft spot for Hi-Fi News, having twice won the competitions they used to run (for the record, a complete Mission Cyrus system in the 80s, and in the 90s some speakers made by a Polish company which was trying to break into the UK market at the time).

[french frank]

Prospect magazine. A good mix of politics/current affairs,/arts/book reviews etc. For the past year it's been edited by Alan Rusbridger (who sends me Christmas cards ). Consulting with a fellow reader, we both agreed it seemed rather less sharp/stimulating than it used to be under Tom Clark. Maybe a news editor and a magazine editor needs different skills? I still like the open-minded policy where finding a thoughtful column by someone you instinctively disagree with (dislike even?) proves valuable.

[jayne lee wilson]

[QUOTE=french frank;903692]Prospect magazine. A good mix of politics/current affairs,/arts/book reviews etc. For the past year it's been edited by Alan Rusbridger (who sends me Christmas cards ). Consulting with a fellow reader, we both agreed it seemed rather less sharp/stimulating than it used to be under Tom Clark. Maybe a news editor and a magazine editor needs different skills? I still like the open-minded policy where finding a thoughtful column by someone you instinctively disagree with (dislike even?) proves valuable.[/QUOTE]

...exactly why I like to read the Telegraph's Tim Stanley, or hear him on The Moral Maze....

[JasonPalmer]

Will keep an eye out for prospect when I next in WH Smith's.

I forgot to mention I sometimes read writers magazine, have been on a few creative writing courses and written poems, short stories.

Loving the new time slot for words and music, I wonder if it's just for the Christmas break, noticed a few years ago that the Christmas offering from radio 3 very good while telly tend to show films I have seen and the Christmas specials are a bit naff.

[oddoneout]

Will keep an eye out for prospect when I next in WH Smith's.

I forgot to mention I sometimes read writers magazine, have been on a few creative writing courses and written poems, short stories.

Loving the new time slot for words and music, I wonder if it's just for the Christmas break, noticed a few years ago that the Christmas offering from radio 3 very good while telly tend to show films I have seen and the Christmas specials are a bit naff.

In Tune and its mixtape are off at the moment and the space has been rejigged to give an extended NGA slot plus the Words and Music. Back to "normal" next Wednesday by the looks of things.

[JasonPalmer]

Picked up the weekend ft today due to interesting headline about markets losing $30tb in worst year since financial crisis.

[JasonPalmer]

Finally finished the ft, I had to snatch time here and there, great read, lots of intersting information. Is amazing how well markets work with investors policing and hounding plc firms to make ever more profits.

[hmvman]

Another Private Eye subscriber here, although I spend quite a lot of time on the crossword

[Ein Heldenleben]

My local library has a huge range of magazines available as e loans. These are exact facsimiles of the printed edition. It has also has an excellent ebook library. It’s all free.

[smittims]

Good to hear someone still lives near a good public library. I've witnessed a terrible decline since the golden days of the 1960s, wheneven Stockport had an excellent collection of miniature and study scores

[Ein Heldenleben]

Good to hear someone still lives near a good public library. I've witnessed a terrible decline since the golden days of the 1960s, wheneven Stockport had an excellent collection of miniature and study scores

Unfortunately the library isn’t that good. It sold off its excellent score collection library years ago. The e library section is good but concentrates too much on trashy fiction. Over the 4,000 books in it I reckon I’ve read the 2 to 300 worth reading so I now wait for the odd piece of real literature to come in. Currently reading A Gentleman In Moscow.