The best picturesThe American radio journalist Susan Stamberg (1938‒2025), who was the first woman to host a national news programme in the USA, is credited with having observed that “the pictures are better on radio,” presumably contrasting it with television. When asked what she meant she explained that “anything you can imagine is better than anything you can see.”1Using Stamberg’s epigram as a book title,2 Adam Carroll-Smith described how, as a sports reporter for a UK national newspaper agency, he would write his report based on the radio commentary, thanks to which “I had an excellent visual image in my mind, which I could then commit to paper.”In 2005 England’s cricketers were playing Australia in the fourth test match at Trent Bridge. Carroll-Smith missed Jonathan Agnew’s commentary on the final moments of the match, about which he commented “Had I been watching on the television, I would have been sorely…