Podcast Episodes

Big Mood, how does comedy work? Bach St John Passion

Camilla Whitehill on her new Channel 4 sitcom Big Mood, starring Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West, which explores the lives of Millennials.

Gareth Malo…

2 years, 6 months ago

Norah Jones performs, Sir Ian McKellen on Player Kings, Keisha Thompson

Norah Jones discusses her new album, Visions, and reflects on the song, Come Away With Me, that made her name along with a special performance in the…

2 years, 6 months ago

Poet Nikki Giovanni, Andrew Buchan on TV drama Passenger

Nikki Giovanni is one of only a handful of poets whose work has been published as a Penguin Modern Classic in their own life time. A key figure of Am…

2 years, 6 months ago

Kristen Wiig drama Palm Royale and animation Robot Dreams reviewed, Michael Ondaatje on his new poetry collection

The Independent’s chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey and the Telegraph’s film critic Tim Robey review the Oscar-nominated animation Robot Dreams whi…

2 years, 6 months ago

Kazuo Ishiguro on jazz, March hares and film ratings

Writer Kazuo Ishiguro and jazz musician Stacey Kent talk about collaborating on their new book of lyrics, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain.

Wh…

2 years, 6 months ago

Marjane Satrapi, using AI for alternative history, and the Harlow Sculpture Trail

Marjane Satrapi is best known for being the cartoonist and film maker behind Persepolis. She talks to Samira Ahmed about her new book - Woman, Life, …

2 years, 6 months ago

Architect Daniel Libeskind, composer Karl Jenkins

Daniel Libeskind, the architect best known for the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the World Trade Centre masterplan in New York, talks about designing a…

2 years, 6 months ago

Keir Starmer, Monster and Reading Genesis reviewed

Labour leader Keir Starmer joins to discuss his party's new arts strategy, which he unveiled this morning, aiming to boost access to the arts and gro…

2 years, 6 months ago

Paul Theroux on Orwell, Patsy Rodenburg on training actors, musician Sam Lee

Paul Theroux discusses his new novel, Burma Sahib, about George Orwell’s formative years as a colonial police officer in what is now Myanmar.

Voice ex…

2 years, 6 months ago

Philippa Gregory on Richard III, Blackpool's Showtown, has the superhero franchise bubble burst?

Historical novelist Philippa Gregory talks to Nick Ahad about writing her first stage play, Richard, My Richard, for Shakespeare North Playhouse in P…

2 years, 6 months ago