CMAT: If My Wife New I’d Be Dead review – one of the best albums of 2022

CMAT has a real skill for presenting living and breathing issues on a silver platter

Childhood summers: magic moments with Cat Stevens and Perry Como

Some summer sounds are now tinged with sadness since my Granny died last year

Kylie Minoue: Golden review – it's like Dolly Parton does full disco

Review: Musically Golden is a bit like a chain of Texas steakhouses – fun but with a slightly ersatz, almost cheap, feel

Louis Walsh: ‘Boyzone were more fun than Westlife’

‘Ireland’s Got Talent’ star on ungrateful popstars and being falsely accused of sex assault

Sean Moncrieff: I don't get Nathan Carter and the Country and Irish music tribe

Country and Irish? To my ears it sounds like country music but with all the blood drained out

Album of the Week - Lisa Hannigan’s At Swim: a transitional, sometimes stark collection

What I love most about women is their voices

My earliest recollection is of women chattering above my cot. In adolescence, my greatest comfort was the soft, posh voices of female presenters on BBC Radio 3