Podcast Episodes

Review Show: Trainspotting the Musical, Colson Whitehead's new novel

Hanna Flint and Chris Power join Tom Sutcliffe to review:

The new stage musical adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, featuring famous son…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Andrew Ridgeley on Wham in China

In 1985, Wham were the first Western pop group to perform in communist China, and the tour changed people's lives. As a new documentary about this la…

2 months ago

Ruth Madeley on new TV drama The Rapture, Nadine Shah on her BBC Prom

Actor Ruth Madeley on starring in new TV drama The Rapture - a psychological thriller where the competing interests of an oil company, a religious cu…

2 months ago

The first PM with an English degree, plus a new museum of WWII espionage

Trent Park, the House of Secrets is a new museum in north London which explores the story of the secret listeners who eavesdropped on the conversatio…

2 months ago

Review: Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey with Matt Damon and Zendaya

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by film critic Tim Robey and classicist Edith Hall to discuss:

Christopher Nolan's much anticipated film version of Homer's ep…

2 months ago

Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman

The coming-of-age series Heartstopper has been a phenomenon with young readers and viewers in recent years. Its creator Alice Oseman joins us as the …

2 months, 1 week ago

Christopher Nolan on his film The Odyssey, Little House on the Prairie, novelist Candice Carty-Williams

British director Christopher Nolan discusses his biggest cinematic blockbuster yet: The Odyssey, which stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland a…

2 months, 1 week ago

Diane Morgan on playing a robot in TV comedy Ann Droid.

Diane Morgan on her BBC TV comedy series Ann Droid, in which she stars as the eponymous robot helper to Sue Johnston.

We pay tribute to actor Sam Nei…

2 months, 1 week ago

Review Show: The Rolling Stones album Foreign Tongues

Critic and columnist Dr Kate Maltby and author Michael Donkor join Tom Sutcliffe to review Robota, the inaugural large-scale production at the Schwar…

2 months, 1 week ago

Lynval Golding of The Specials on Live from the Cathedral, the album the band has said will be their last

Lynval Golding of two-tone and ska legends The Specials , on the band’s final album, Live from the Cathedral, which was recorded in Coventry Cathedra…

2 months, 2 weeks ago