Podcast Episodes

Sarah Ogilvie

Sarah Ogilvie is a lexicographer and a proud and self-confessed word nerd: languages are her passion and are at the heart of her writing and scholars…

1 year, 8 months ago

Jenny Beavan

The costume designer Jenny Beavan has won three Academy Awards for three very different films: the elegant Merchant Ivory drama Room with a View; the…

1 year, 9 months ago

Lucian Msamati

Lucian Msamati has played leading roles on our most famous stages: Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus at the National Theatre, Iago in Othello at the…

1 year, 9 months ago

Jay Rayner

Jay Rayner has his dream job: he loves writing and he loves food, and for the past 25 years he’s been the restaurant critic for the Observer.

Jay is …

1 year, 9 months ago

Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves is one of Britain’s most successful and prolific crime writers, reaching millions of readers around the world.

She’s reached millions of …

1 year, 9 months ago

Norman Ackroyd

Artist and printmaker Norman Ackroyd was born in Leeds in 1938. He fell in love with the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, riding around on his bicyc…

1 year, 10 months ago

Thomas Adès

Thomas Adès is one of the UK’s foremost and most successful composers. His first opera, Powder Her Face, was premiered in 1995, when he was just 24. …

1 year, 10 months ago

Daniel Handler

The best-selling American writer Daniel Handler is perhaps better known by his pen name, Lemony Snicket.

Lemony is the cynical narrator of a thirteen…

1 year, 11 months ago

Clio Barnard

The director Clio Barnard won prizes and critical acclaim for her first feature film The Arbor: it blended fact and fiction to depict the short, trou…

1 year, 11 months ago

Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson began his career as a guitarist and a songwriter when he was still a teenager – and six decades on, his passion for making and shari…

2 years ago