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The week in audio: Courtney Love’s Women; Kicking Back With the Cardiffians; The Belgrano Diary; Word in Your Ear – review

The grunge grand dame tells her anarchic life story through the music she loves, while Charlotte Church has a tender chat with her ‘dada’. Plus, a deep dive into the Falklands war and Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits days

Thirty years after the death of her husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, and the release by her band, Hole, of their 1994 breakthrough album Live Through This(a raucously accessible entry point into feminism and punk for teenage girls, of whom I was one), Love is now quite the alternative grande dame of the airwaves. Two more recommendations this week: the London Review of Books is a few brilliant episodes into , in which the novelist Andrew O’Hagan tells the story of the Falklands war through excellent BBC and ITV archive recordings, officer diaries and LRB pieces from the time by the Labour MP Tam Dalyell. Digging into his gorgeously ordinary working years before fame, the singer-songwriter recounts being the father of the chapel for his union during a dispute with Robert Maxwell, while Hepworth recalls Tennant negotiating his Smash Hits contract in a cafe, demanding extra apple pie and custard.

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