Podcast Episodes

Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio

Stereophonic is a play about the creative process, power dynamics and fraught personal relationships of a 1970s rock band. It won a Tony and many oth…

1 year ago

Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival

Live from the Hay Festival, Alison Steadman talks to Samira about her career, from Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey.

Laura Bates and Gwyneth Lewis…

1 year ago

Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro

Benicio Del Toro talks about playing a business tycoon in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme. This aesthetically stylised film, by the director who…

1 year ago

Shirley Manson of Garbage

Frontwoman of Garbage, Shirley Manson talks about the band's latest album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, which is inspired by contemporary eve…

1 year ago

Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé

Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé. As a huge retrospective of the work of the artist Hele…

1 year ago

Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat

25 years after Joanne Harris introduced readers to the soothing delights of Chocolat, she's released her new book Vianne. It’s the prequel that expla…

1 year ago

Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director

David Benedict and Viv Groskop review Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are, a surreal story of brunch and existential dread; French film abo…

1 year ago

Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera

Colin Bulfield, Executive Producer of the new film Ocean With Attenborough, talks about working with the celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker Sir Dav…

1 year ago

Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary

Novelist Elif Shafak, artist and writer Edmund de Waal and Professor Rachel Bowlby join Samira to discuss the centenary of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dallo…

1 year, 1 month ago

Suzanne Vega sings in the studio, P Diddy trial, Mother Courage in County Durham

Suzanne Vega has just released her first album of all-new material for nearly a decade. "Flying With Angels" continues her folk-influenced sound and …

1 year, 1 month ago