Patsy

Freelance writer Patricia Nicol has emerged as this week's radio critic in The Sunday Times, after the sacking of Gillian Reynolds. There's a review for one Radio 4 show, one Radio 3 show and one independent podcast (from a former Director of BBC Radio).  There's no mention of Times Radio. 

Patricia, 50, stood in for Gillian one Sunday in April last year, and reviewed one Radio 3 programme, one Radio 4 programme, one from Scala and one from Absolute. Presumably, either she or a permanent replacement for Gillian will have to sign up to deliver an appropriate quota for the in-house network. 

Born in Aberdeen and raised in Scotland, the UAE, Brazil and England, Patricia studied English at York and newspaper journalism at Cardiff.  She spent five years with the Sunday Times in Scotland, joining as a junior news reporter and progressing to the role of Scottish features editor before moving to London to spend ten years as Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times Culture section.