Podcast Episodes

Steve Martin and Alison Brown talk bluegrass and banjos

Comedy giant Steve Martin on making new bluegrass music with pioneering banjo player Alison Brown with their new album, Safe, Sensible, and Sane.

Fi…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cathy Tyson stars in the Leicester Curve Theatre production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. She talks about the demanding, drunke…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein film

Guillermo Del Toro talks about his new Frankenstein film and our critics deliver their verdict. Julia Roberts plays a college professor whose career…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Richard Ashcroft on his new album

Singer songwriter Richard Ashcroft - former frontman of The Verve - talks about the material on his new album Lovin You, and about supporting Oasis o…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Sam Ryder performs live

Sam Ryder talks to Samira about his career, gaining Eurovision success with Space Man and he performs the song Armour live, a track from his forthcom…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Lang Lang plays in studio

Pianist Lang Lang's 2019 album Piano Book was one of the best selling classical albums that year, with over a billion streams and counting. He’s now …

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Review Show: I Swear film and The Poems of Seamus Heaney

Alexander Larman and Susannah Clapp join Tom to discuss I Swear, a film which tells the life story of John Davidson MBE who was diagnosed with Touret…

8 months ago

Tamsin Greig on her role in Sally Wainwright's Riot Women

Actor Tamsin Greig discusses her role in Sally Wainwright's latest drama series, Riot Women, in which a group of middle-aged women in Hebden Bridge, …

8 months ago

Marina Abramović on her dream creation - Balkan Erotic Epic

Artist Marina Abramović on the world premiere of her largest-scale performance artwork - Balkan Erotic Epic - at Aviva Studios in Manchester.

BBC Cul…

8 months ago

Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai

Film director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker. She discusses her new film A House of Dynami…

8 months ago