Podcast Episodes

Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage

Samira discusses the Olivier award-winning production of Fiddler on the Roof with its star Adam Dannheisser and director Jordan Fein.

Sarah Dunant tal…

1 year, 4 months ago

Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession

Samira Ahmed and writers Dreda Mitchell and Mark Ravenhill review Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, in Mrs Warren's Profession.

They co…

1 year, 4 months ago

Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.

Paul Hartnoll of electronic music duo Orbital talks about the reissue of the band's Brown album which was originally released in 1993, with the addit…

1 year, 4 months ago

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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago