Podcast Episodes

Steph McGovern on how to buy art

Steph McGovern, presenter of new BBC show The Big Deal, is joined by Marie Le Conte to discuss how to buy art.

Fleabag actor Sian Clifford on her lead…

1 month, 1 week ago

Game of Thrones at the RSC first night review

What's the Royal Shakespeare Company's much anticipated stage adaptation of Game of Thrones like? Critics Boyd Hilton and Kate Maltby give their verd…

1 month, 1 week ago

Review Show: Irvine Welsh's new novel and Glenn Close's new film

Suzi Feay and John-Paul Stonard join Samira to review:

Can Nothing Save Us?, the new novel from Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, a state-of-the-nati…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Live from the Edinburgh Festivals: Stockard Channing on directing Krapp's Last Tape

In the first of our special programmes from the Edinburgh Festivals, actress Stockard Channing - star of Grease, Six Degrees of Separation and Practi…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

John Hannah on his new comedy crime drama set in Benidorm

John Hannah plays a washed-up former detective who has moved to Spain to run a pub in the new Channel 5 comedy drama Benidorm is Murder. He discusses…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Magic live in the studio

Samira is joined by two magicians live in the studio, from the stage show "Now You See Me Live". And then she takes part in a trick and is bamboozled…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Review show: Childhood in War, Children of Wolves and kids in Luton

Rhianna Dhillon and Sarfraz Manzoor join Tom Sutcliffe to review:

Childhood in War, an exhibition at the Imperial War Musuem exploring how children ha…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

How the opiod crisis inspired an opera

Composer Missy Mazzoli discusses her opera The Galloping Cure, which fuses a live orchestra with electronic beats and features a charismatic antihero…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mary Beard reveals the Booker Prize longlist, plus Bill Pullman on taking on Chekhov

Professor Dame Mary Beard reveals the 2026 Booker longlist and how she has found the process of being Chair of the judges.

British contemporary pop ar…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Bill Oddie, remembered by his friend Graeme Garden

Graeme Garden remembers his friend and Goodies colleague, Bill Oddie. Frank Miller reimagined Batman as a tougher, grittier sort of comic book hero: …

1 month, 3 weeks ago