Podcast Episodes

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,

Harvey Keitel stars in The Tattooist of Auschwitz - a six-part Sky Atlantic series based on the best-selling novel by Heather Morris, inspired by the…

2 years, 1 month ago

Spirited Away at London Coliseum, Eurovision build-up, terminal diagnosis films

Award winning director behind Les Miserables John Caird and co-writing partner Maoko Imai talk about adapting the iconic Studio Ghibli film Spirited …

2 years, 1 month ago

Michelangelo exhibition at British Museum, Jembaa Groove perform, Inside Number 9

Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon and art curator Kate Bryan discuss Michelangelo: the last decades, a major new exhibition at the British Museum which f…

2 years, 1 month ago

Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Arts Council funding

Hanif Kureishi has joined forces with Emma Rice to adapt his 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia into an RSC production that’s just opened at the Swan …

2 years, 1 month ago

Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition

The Pet Shop Boys are the most successful duo in UK music history. Forty years after their first hit West End Girls they are about to release their n…

2 years, 1 month ago

The Legend of Ned Ludd, Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, Mohammad Barrangi

The Legend of Ned Ludd - writer Joe Ward Munrow and director Jude Christian discuss their new play at the Liverpool Everyman theatre which explores t…

2 years, 1 month ago

Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, Black British music exhibition

The British Library isn’t all books; it has a huge sound archive, one of the largest in the world. It has drawn on this for Beyond the Bassline, the …

2 years, 1 month ago

Designer Sir Kenneth Grange, Taylor Swift's new album, Venice Art Biennale

Taylor Swift returns with The Tortured Poets Department, a surprise double album that features 31 tracks that fans are saying is her most intimate an…

2 years, 1 month ago

London Tide with music by PJ Harvey, Salman Rushdie's story of survival: Knife and tenor Ian Bostridge

Knife is Salman Rushdie’s memoir about surviving a near-fatal knife attack in August 2022 and the long, painful period of recovery that followed.

Be…

2 years, 1 month ago

Lionel Shriver's new book Mania, Tyrell Williams on Red Pitch

Lionel Shriver on her latest novel Mania, in which she creates an alternative USA where the Mental Parity Movement insists that everyone is equally c…

2 years, 2 months ago