Podcast Episodes

Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North TV Series

Tom Sutcliffe with reviewers Bidisha and Caroline Frost discuss the TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes

As a new exhibition of Ikea textiles opens, we discuss the impact of Scandinavian design concepts on our homes, with curator Anna Sandberg Falk of th…

10 months, 4 weeks ago

Football and Art - united in a new work created by former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer

Former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer on creating a new work for the Manchester International Festival.

As four new twenty minute …

10 months, 4 weeks ago

Gruelling film productions - stories from the sets of Apocalypse now and Fitzcarraldo

We mark Bastille Day with a dive into President Macron’s cultural policy for France. And we revisit the dark heart of filmmaking with two people who …

10 months, 4 weeks ago

Review Show: Wet Leg's new album and Johnny Depp's artist biopic Modigliani

Nancy Durrant and Boyd Hilton join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Moisturizer, the second album from the female English indie rock duo Wet Leg. Their self-…

11 months ago

Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls

Bestselling novelist Kate Mosse - much of whose historical fiction is set in medieval France - reacts to the news that the Bayeux Tapestry is to go o…

11 months ago

Superman is back on the big screen

Superman is back on the big screen for the first time in nearly a decade, we speak with director James Gunn. We preview a season of films at the BFI…

11 months ago

Oasis comeback tour reviewed

Author Raynor Winn is accused of fabricating parts of her memoir The Salt Path, which she denies. We ask Alexandra Pringle, former Editor in Chief at…

11 months ago

Review: RSC's The Constant Wife

Tom is joined by reviewers Kate Maltby and Stephanie Merritt to discuss Laura Wade's adaptation for the RSC of Somerset Maugham's comedy The Constant…

11 months, 1 week ago

Reaction to the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case verdicts, and Back to the Future at 40

As the jury in the trial of music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs delivers its verdicts, author and cultural critic Mikki Kendall discusses how Americans wi…

11 months, 1 week ago