Podcast Episodes

Kyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetry

The UN climate conference in Kyoto in 1997 is the setting for a new play at the RSC. Its writers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson talk about the dramatic…

1 year, 11 months ago

Review: Film Green Border, Exhibition Stories of Henry VIII's Queens, TV: Federer: Twelve Final Days

Philippa Gregory and Briony Hanson join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the National Portrait Gallery’s Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens, award…

1 year, 11 months ago

Graham Gouldman, Jaws anniversary, queering Shakespeare

Musician Graham Gouldman performs live from his new album, as well as talking about his Lancashire upbringing and and playing in the band 10cc

50 year…

1 year, 11 months ago

Stephen Fry, New Comedians, Questlove

Stephen Fry stars in Treasure, where he plays a jovial Holocaust survivor who returns to his native Poland from his home New York with his stubborn A…

1 year, 11 months ago

Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books

Broadway star Stephanie J Block performs So In Love from the new production of Kiss Me Kate, at London’s Barbican. Tom talks to her and the Tony Awar…

1 year, 11 months ago

Review of films Sasquatch Sunset and Ama Gloria and a look at Vivienne Westwood's clothes

Sasquatch Sunset has been dubbed the year's strangest film, about a family of mythological bigfoot monsters.

Ama Gloria is a French film about the bo…

2 years ago

James Shapiro, BEKA, Molly Bloomsday

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro has turned his attention to the incredible story behind the Federal Theatre in 1930s America in his new study “The …

2 years ago

Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals

As Liverpool enters the Swiftularity with the arrival of the arrival of the record-breaking phenomenon that is Taylor Swift and her Eras world tour, …

2 years ago

Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Walker, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps

Jon Bon Jovi talks about his band’s new album Forever and their new documentary Thank You, Goodnight on Disney+ which celebrates the band’s 40th anni…

2 years ago

Review: Film - Rosalie, TV - Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Book - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry’s new novel is The Heart in Winter, a love story set in the American wild west in the 1890s. The film Rosalie is a period piece inspire…

2 years ago