It is worth remembering that the BBC, despite its recent, excessively well-aired problems, gives us a great many stimulating, well-made programmes, on both radio and television. Rather surprisingly, given its format and the yawning, ever-present potential for dumbed-down disaster, the BBC2 Maestro series, aired in August/September this year, turned out to be all of those things. How could this ...

When mortgage rates dropped to the lowest levels in almost a year, Warren Zeger seized the opportunity to slash $720 off his monthly mortgage payment by refinancing his home in Potomac, Md. Just don't expect him to spend the savings. "I'd love to tell you ...

Full marks to the BBC for an innovative way of bringing the world of classical music to those of us who stand, baffled, outside it. Maestro, the reality show in which a selection of celebrities compete to learn conducting skills in a Strictly Come Dancing-style knockout format, has been compelling viewing. But with every passing episode, the lay viewer ...