Podcast Episodes

Jodie Whittaker, Japanese food art, Booker writer Anne Michaels

Jodie Whittaker talks to Tom Sutcliffe about returning to the stage for the first time in over a decade to star in an updated version of John Webster…

1 year, 11 months ago

Bronski Beat Age of Consent 40th Anniversary, Percival Everett, Horror on stage

Forty years ago Bronski Beat released Age of Consent, a record so loud and proud that it become an era-defining moment of gay liberation. We look bac…

1 year, 11 months ago

Review: Film - Timestalker, Theatre - The Other Place, TV - Disclaimer

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests journalist Stephen Bush and theatre critic Kate Maltby review the latest cultural releases. These include Apple TV's thr…

1 year, 11 months ago

Booker author Charlotte Wood, Surrealism discussion & playwright Tim Price on Odyssey '84

Booker Prize-shortlisted author Charlotte Wood talks about her novel Stone Yard Devotional.

In the month that marks 100 years since the publication o…

2 years ago

Rick Astley, The West Wing at 25, Barbara Walker

Rick Astley on his new autobiography, Never, which reflects on hitting the big time twice courtesy of his debut hit single, Never Gonna Give You Up.

T…

2 years ago

Alison Moyet, Leigh Bowery exhibition, Adrian Sutton

Alison Moyet joins us in the studio to talk about her career, from Yazoo to going solo and a new album.

Fashion renegades of the 1980s via Leigh Bower…

2 years ago

Review: Film: Joker Folie a Deux; Book: Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings

This week's big cinema release Joker: Folie a Deux is under scrutiny from Tom Sutcliffe's reviewers, broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika and film critic Tim …

2 years ago

Paula Hawkins, Photojournalism, Tape Letters Archive project

Bestselling writer Paula Hawkins, whose book The Girl on the Train was a publishing phenomenon back in 2015, discusses her latest novel, The Blue Hou…

2 years ago

The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 with Cambridge University

Tom presents live from The Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House the BBC National Short Story Award and the Young Writers' Award, now in it's tenth yea…

2 years ago

David Oyelowo, Regulating the entertainment industry, Ralph Steadman

David Oyelowo talks about playing Coriolanus in the National Theatre's new production. He explains why it's the role he's always wanted to take on - …

2 years ago