Podcast Episodes

Writer Jack Thorne, Derek Jarman’s Blue reimagined, music for the King’s coronation

Jack Thorne talks about his new play, The Motive and the Cue, which is about John Gielgud directing Richard Burton in a 1960s production of Hamlet on…

3 years, 1 month ago

Sir Lenny Henry on his new play, music from the Tashi Lhunpo monastery, publishing and net zero

Sir Lenny Henry is making his debut as a playwright for the stage with August in England, a one-man drama about the Windrush scandal. Tom Sutcliffe …

3 years, 1 month ago

Rachmaninoff - the 20th century's great romantic

Samira celebrates the music and life of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

With pianist Kirill Gerstein, who has released a new recording of Rachmaninoff's Second …

3 years, 1 month ago

Patrick Bringley on being a museum guard and TV drama Citadel reviewed

Patrick Bringley sought solace after the death of his brother and found it as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where he worked f…

3 years, 1 month ago

The making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline

A special edition following the Royal Shakespeare’s Company’s new production of Cymbeline, the final play in Shakespeare’s First Folio - a collection…

3 years, 1 month ago

Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron, musician Stewart Copeland and is Morris dancing having a moment?

The playwright Ryan Calais Cameron's critically acclaimed play For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy has just transf…

3 years, 1 month ago

Patrick Radden Keefe on the Sackler family, Iestyn Davies performs live, sustainable theatre

Patrick Radden Keefe, who has been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize of Prizes award, discusses his book Empire of Pain: The Secret History o…

3 years, 1 month ago

Everything But the Girl, French film Pacifiction and TV drama The Diplomat reviewed

Tom Sutcliffe meets Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt of Everything But the Girl as they release Fuse, their eleventh studio album and their first in almost …

3 years, 1 month ago

Opera composer Jeanine Tesori, Margaret MacMillan on Paris 1919, new ideas in architecture

Composer Jeanine Tesori's Blue for the ENO; Baillie Gifford winner of winners for non-fiction shortlist - Margaret MacMillan; new ideas in architectu…

3 years, 1 month ago

Jazz singer Georgia Cecile, the controversy surrounding Barcelona’s La Sagrada Família

Plans to finish Barcelona’s famous church, La Sagrada Família, have been causing controversy as they involve demolishing apartment blocks to make way…

3 years, 1 month ago