Podcast Episodes

John Boorman, Anya Gallaccio, The Halfway Kid performs

John Boorman talks to Samira about his 1974 science-fiction, fantasy film Zardoz as it is screened on its fiftieth anniversary at the BFI and his nov…

1 year, 8 months ago

Review: film The Substance, Art Michael Craig-Martin, Book The Empusium

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha Mamata and Ben Luke who will be offering their verdicts on body horror film The Substance staring Demi Moore, a ma…

1 year, 8 months ago

A Very Royal Scandal, Glasgow Cathedral Festival & crime writer Peter May.

Screenwriter Jeremy Brock discusses Amazon's A Very Royal Scandal, the second dramatisation this year of Emily Maitlis' 2019 Newsnight interview with…

1 year, 8 months ago

David Peace, new plays crisis, Booker Prize 2024 shortlist

David Peace on his new novel, Munichs, about the plane crash that transformed Manchester United. Katie Posner, Co-Artistic Director of Paines Plough …

1 year, 9 months ago

Edward Enninful, Lady Blackbird performs, Booker prize shortlist

Edward Enninful, Vogue Global Creative and Cultural advisor has just made a documentary series, In Vogue: The 90s. He discusses the decade that chang…

1 year, 9 months ago

REVIEW: Film: The Critic, Exhibition: Van Gogh, Book: Garth Greenwell's Small Rain

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by David Benedict and Catherine McCormack to review Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, the first exhibition the National Gallery has…

1 year, 9 months ago

Jacqueline Wilson, JRR Tolkien poetry, BBC TV thriller Nightsleeper

Dame Jacqueline Wilson talks about Think Again, the long-awaited adult novel which is the sequel to her much-loved Girls series of books.

Actors Al…

1 year, 9 months ago

Michael Cathcart talks to Simon Armitage, Paul Kelly, Jazz Summer and Shankari Chandran

The BBC's Contains Strong Language festival has left British shores for the first time - and Australian arts and culture presenter Michael Cathcart h…

1 year, 9 months ago

Richard O'Brien & Jason Donovan on 50 years of Rocky Horror, Bella Mackie

Richard O'Brien and Jason Donovan on 50 years of the Rocky Horror Show, Bella Mackie on her new novel which follows the success her hit book How to K…

1 year, 9 months ago

REVIEW: Film: Firebrand; BOOK: Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake; TV: Kaos

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by academic and critic John Mullan and Elodie Harper, the bestselling author of The Wolf Den Trilogy for the Front Row review…

1 year, 9 months ago