Podcast Episodes

Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air

Authors Matt Cain and Eimear McBride join Tom Sutcliffe to review a new remake of Ang Lee's 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet. They also discuss Isabe…

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Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli

Acclaimed German journalist and film producer Sandra Maischberger talks about her new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, which re-examines the life …

1 year, 1 month ago

Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis

In the wake of President Trump's proposed film tariffs, Jake Kanter, International Investigations Editor at Deadline, discusses what the impact could…

1 year, 1 month ago

A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945

To mark the 80th anniversary this week, we explore British culture around VE Day in 1945, reflecting on the music, books, films and theatre that defi…

1 year, 1 month ago

Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical

Critic Kate Maltby and Beatles author Ian Leslie join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss two documentaries about John Lennon remaking his life in New York - Bo…

1 year, 1 month ago

King James IV & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower

Jeff Pope on his new series Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent man who was killed by police on a London tube in 2005, whi…

1 year, 1 month ago

Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir

In 1975, at the height of their fame, British band Slade made a feature film, Slade in Flame. The film was a critical and commercial failure at the t…

1 year, 1 month ago

Universal Theme Park, Olivier award-winning play Giant, Two to One

Mark Rosenblatt on Giant, his Olivier award-winning play starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl.

As Universal Studios announce plans for a major new them…

1 year, 1 month ago

Review: Self Esteem's album A Complicated Woman; RSC's Much Ado About Nothing; Julie Keeps Quiet tennis film

Journalist Siân Pattenden & critic Stephanie Merritt join Tom to discuss Self Esteem's third album A Complicated Woman, which features collaborations…

1 year, 1 month ago

The ethics of publishing posthumous diaries, Pianist Igor Levit, and Memorials to great women.

As the journals of the American writer Joan Didion (based on conversations with her psychiatrist) are published, writer and journalist Rachel Cooke a…

1 year, 1 month ago