Podcast Episodes

The Wonder, Making Modernism, Frantic Assembly, Opera and elitism

With Samira Ahmed.

Guests Katy Hessel and Lillian Crawford review Florence Pugh's drama The Wonder, based on an Emma Donoghue novel, and the Royal Aca…

3 years, 6 months ago

Football Inspired Art, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner, Chornobyldorf opera

Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street, on writing a survival guide for new actors- An Actor’s Alphabet.

What happens when…

3 years, 6 months ago

Crime writer Michael Connelly, Folk trio Lady Maisery

American crime writer Michael Connelly is one of the world’s bestselling authors, with more than eighty million copies of his books sold worldwide. …

3 years, 6 months ago

BBC Centenary, The Art of Radio, Joy Whitby, Climate Fiction

With Samira Ahmed.

To mark the centenary of the first BBC radio broadcast, Samira Ahmed discusses the art of radio and radio’s influence on art with t…

3 years, 7 months ago

The Crown, Jafar Panahi's No Bears, Jez Butterworth, Goldsmiths Prize

The Crown: as series five is with us, we review the next ten part instalment of Netflix's royal drama as it slips into more recent territory - the tu…

3 years, 7 months ago

Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler, Photographer Craig Easton

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler discusses returning to Black Panther after the death of Chadwick Boseman and how that experience has inspired the making of th…

3 years, 7 months ago

Jennifer Lawrence, mandolin player Chris Thile, Chokepoint Capitalism

Jennifer Lawrence and director Lila Neugebauer discuss their new film Causeway.

Grammy award-winning mandolin player Chris Thile plays live in the stu…

3 years, 7 months ago

Arts Council Funding, the art of the infographic, film director Tas Brooker

Arts Council England have announced the most dramatic shift in funding for decades, diverting investment from London towards other parts of the count…

3 years, 7 months ago

The English and Living reviewed, Royal Opera's Director of Opera Oliver Mears

Joan Bakewell and Hanna Flint give their verdicts on Hugo Blick's new TV Western on BBC2 starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer, 'The English'. The…

3 years, 7 months ago

Live from Cardiff with Connor Allen, Zoë Skoulding and music from Catrin Finch and Aoife Ni Bhriain

Playwright, poet and Children’s Laureate for Wales Connor Allen talks about his grime-theatre mash-up The Making of a Monster, a semi-autobiographica…

3 years, 7 months ago