Podcast Episodes

Jessica Lange, Welsh National Opera's new joint leaders, artist Alison Watt

Actor Jessica Lange discusses her latest film, an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning play Long Day's Journey Into Night, in which …

1 year, 7 months ago

Raoul Peck on photographer Ernest Cole, the death of Bill Dare, 14th-century art in Siena, Colum McCann's novel Twist

A new exhibition at London's National Gallery hopes to shed light on artists in 14th Century Siena, who have often been overshadowed by their Tuscan …

1 year, 7 months ago

Daniel Evans as Edward II, Laura Carreira's film On Falling, last night's Oscar winners

Sean Baker made Oscar history, becoming the first person to win four Academy Awards for directing, editing, writing and producing a single film, Anor…

1 year, 7 months ago

Review: Leigh Bowery exhibition, The Summer with Carmen film, Michael Amherst's novel The Boyhood of Cain

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the film critic Ryan Gilbey and art critic and author Charlotte Mullins review the week's latest cultural releases inclu…

1 year, 7 months ago

Anjelica Huston, Tim Roth and British Museum Director Nicholas Cullinan

Kirsty Wark talks to Anjelica Huston about playing a magnificent matriarch in the adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, which begins on BBC O…

1 year, 7 months ago

New medical drama Berlin ER, Stacy L Smith, German Elections, Santanu Bhattacharya

As the Oscars hove into view this weekend, the news is the women are coming - Stacey L Smith from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on their researc…

1 year, 7 months ago

25 Years of 21st Century: Theatre

We look back at the quarter century in performing arts, exploring the changes in live stage performance and asking how the theatrical landscape has c…

1 year, 7 months ago

Review: A Thousand Blows, Richard II, Perspectives by Laurent Binet

John Mullan and Caroline Frost join Tom to review Steven Knight's new historical drama A Thousand Blows, Nicolas Hytner's production of Richard II s…

1 year, 7 months ago

25 Years of 21st Century: how art and architecture have changed since the year 2000

Kirsty Wark and guests discuss how visual art and architecture have evolved over the last 25 years.

In the latest of our special series reflecting th…

1 year, 7 months ago

Muhammad Ali in South Shields, Sheila Fell exhibition in Cumbria, Dame Myra Hess

Playwright Ishy Din on his new play, Champion inspired by the 1977 visit of celebrated boxer, Muhammed Ali, to South Shields.

Art historian Frances S…

1 year, 7 months ago