Podcast Episodes

Reviews - Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody Sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest

Reviews of: The ITV comedy drama Douglas is Cancelled - a four part series written by Steven Moffat, starring Hugh Bonneville as middle-aged televis…

2 years, 3 months ago

Next to Normal, British TV history, In the Eye of the Storm

Next to Normal stormed Broadway in 2009 with its portrayal of a woman struggling with her mental health. It went on to win three Tonys and a Pulitzer…

2 years, 3 months ago

The Marilyn Conspiracy, Rachel Podger, Emma Glass

Presenter: Kate Molleson Producer: Paula McGrath

2 years, 3 months ago

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…

2 years, 3 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…

2 years, 3 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…

2 years, 3 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…

2 years, 3 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…

2 years, 3 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago