Podcast Episodes

Derby: 300 Years of Making

Geeta Pendse visits the new Museum of Making in Derby - an £18 million redevelopment that celebrates the city's 300-year industrial heritage.

Jamie …

4 years, 10 months ago

Tokyo: Art & Photography, Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed, Wellcome Photography Prize

Tokyo: Art & Photography at The Ashmolean in Oxford is a celebration of the city currently hosting the Olympics. The exhibition’s curator Lena Fritsc…

4 years, 10 months ago

David Lan on The Walk, The 2021 Booker Prize longlist, David Livingstone birthplace re-opening

As a 3.5 metre tall puppet called Little Amal begins an 8,000km journey from Turkey to Manchester to highlight the difficulties faced by refugee chil…

4 years, 10 months ago

Morris Hayes on posthumous Prince album, reopenings in Northern Ireland, actor Amir El-Masry on new film Limbo

Five years after Prince's death, the musician's music director of over 20 years, Morris Hayes, discusses Prince's posthumous new album Welcome 2 Amer…

4 years, 10 months ago

April De Angelis, Tokyo Olympics, Jordan Tannahill, Neil Mendoza

Playwright April De Angelis joins Tom to talk about her new musical Gin Craze! Described as 'a booze soaked love ballad from the women of Gin Lane.' …

4 years, 10 months ago

McKellen's Hamlet reviewed, Mercury Prize nominees, Alex Von Tunzelmann on statues

Susannah Clapp, theatre critic of The Observer reviews the new age-blind production of Hamlet starring Ian McKellen, which officially opened up at th…

4 years, 10 months ago

Jon Batiste, Museum of the Year shortlist, The Humboldt

American musician Jon Batiste has many strings to his bow – he’s an activist, recording artist, band leader for a daily TV late night chat show, a si…

4 years, 10 months ago

Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte on his film Night of the Kings, Best Pick podcast, Tirtzah Bassel Canon in Drag

Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte talks about his film Night of the Kings, set in a notorious Abidjan prison run by the inmates, in which he explores …

4 years, 10 months ago

Debbie Harry on a new Blondie album, 'Reclaiming Amy', Reassessing Amy Winehouse's musical legacy

Chart-topping New York post-punk group Blondie have more than 40 years of chart success under their belts and in 2019 they decided to travel to play …

4 years, 10 months ago

Quentin Tarantino, YA Fiction, Report from Cannes, The Vegetable Seller

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is a Hollywood veteran and it was the ending of Hollywood’s golden age that was the subject of his last film – Once Upon …

4 years, 10 months ago