Podcast Episodes

New Makar, future of musical theatre, arts funding in Scotland

Scotland's new Makar (National Poet) Peter Mackay, whose appointment was announced this week, talks about how he intends to shape the role over the n…

1 year, 10 months ago

Richard Curtis's new film, Purple Heart Warriors audio drama, Turner Prize announcement

Tom Sutcliffe hears from the Love Actually writer and director Richard Curtis about how much he's obsessed by Christmas - and how he's now moved into…

1 year, 10 months ago

Reopening of Notre-Dame, Jacob Collier, Marshall Brickman, King Winter's Birthday

In 2019 fire destroyed the much of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. As the restoration is completed, Agnes Poirier describes the work of skilled…

1 year, 10 months ago

Review: Beatles 64, Electric Dreams @ Tate Modern, The Agency

Samira Ahmed's joined by this week's critics - Louisa Buck and Matt Everitt - to review Beatles '64, documenting the fab four's first trip to America…

1 year, 10 months ago

Donny Osmond, Orhan Pamuk, Puccini's centenary

Nobel Prize winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk talks about the publication of his illustrated journals, Memories of Distant Mountains.

As he takes …

1 year, 10 months ago

Edward Berger on Conclave, Ganavya performs, Tim Robey on film flops

Director Edward Berger joins Tom Sutcliffe to talk about his thriller Conclave, staring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, which focuses on the electio…

1 year, 10 months ago

Sigourney Weaver & Selina Cadell, Art forgery on the rise? Nitin Sawhney

Friends for fifty years, Sigourney Weaver and Selina Cadell discuss acting together in the Jamie Lloyd Company's new production of Shakespeare's The …

1 year, 10 months ago

Review: Wicked, Cher's memoir, Maddaddam ballet

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Natalie Jamieson and Matt Cain to review:

Cher, The Memoir, Part one - the pop icon and Oscar winning actor tells the story…

1 year, 10 months ago

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, Celebrity Children's Books and the Art and Writing of Maud Sulter

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream speaks about Come Ahead, the band's first new album in eight years.

We discuss how the publication of books for chil…

1 year, 10 months ago

Kathryn Tickell, Liverpool's carbon neutral gigs, drag queen romance film Layla

Kathryn Tickell talks about her new album Return to Kielderside, which reinterprets and updates the tunes and themes of her debut album, On Kieldersi…

1 year, 10 months ago