Podcast Episodes

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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months ago

Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre

Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison, on setting Dante's Inferno on the island of her birth; Journalist Joanna Moorhead on Pope Francis' re…

1 year, 5 months ago

JMW Turner: 250th anniversary of Britain's greatest painter

Mr. Turner director Mike Leigh, art historian Charlotte Mullins and senior curator at Tate Amy Concannon join Tom Sutcliffe to celebrate the life and…

1 year, 5 months ago

Review: Alex Garland's film Warfare, Audition by Katie Kitamura, Shanghai Dolls by Amy Ng on stage

Alex Garland's latest film Warfare, which is co-directed by US military veteran Ray Mendoza turns back the clock back nearly twenty years to reconstr…

1 year, 5 months ago

Photographer Susan Meiselas, The Impact of Trump's Tariffs on Musical Instrument Manufacturers, Author Ewan Morrison.

American documentary photographer and President of the Magnum Foundation Susan Meiselas speaks about her fifty-year career, as she receives the Outst…

1 year, 5 months ago

Ryan Coogler on Sinners, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Book Bans in the US

US director Ryan Coogler on his supernatural horror film, Sinners. Anne Sebba discusses her new book, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, about the o…

1 year, 5 months ago

Muriel's Wedding the Musical, Doctor Who new series & impact on culture, Anthony Hororwitz on Marble Hall Murders

Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Harry Graham

1 year, 5 months ago

Review: The Return reunites Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes, On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Holy Cow film

Classics professor Edith Hall and writer Lawrence Norfolk join Tom to review The Return, a retelling of the end of Homer’s Odyssey, where the hero Od…

1 year, 5 months ago