Podcast Episodes

Trumpet player Alison Balsom and the campaign to revive the works of author Jack Hilton

The trumpeter and musician Alison Balsom has performed with some of the world’s greatest orchestras. She talks about her latest album, Quiet City.

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3 years, 9 months ago

Loudon Wainwright III performs live, the Booker Prize shortlist, studying English Literature

American singer songwriter Loudon Wainwright III performs live in the studio and talks about his decades-long career, his current UK tour and his lat…

3 years, 9 months ago

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Venice Film Festival, Booker Longlisted Shehan Karunatilaka, Tom Chaplin

David Cronenberg’s new film Crimes of the Future is a science fiction body parts horror movie starring Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydo…

3 years, 9 months ago

Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power; Three Thousand Years of Longing; Nick Drnaso; the Edinburgh Festivals

Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power is a prequel and in keeping with the epic scale of Tolkein’s books and their film versions it doesn’t begin a two y…

3 years, 9 months ago

Joyce Carol Oates, The comeback of Jungle, RIOPY

Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel, Babysitter, is the story of a woman caught in an abusive relationship with her lover, set against the background of…

3 years, 9 months ago

Best-selling book charts, author Ann Cleeves and Composer James B.Wilson on the last night of the Proms

Bestselling crime novelist Ann Cleeves joins Samira Ahmed to discuss the return of her no-nonsense Northumberland crime-fighter, Detective Inspector …

3 years, 9 months ago

Shelea, Reviewing Official Competition and Red Rose, Gus Casely-Hayford

The BBC Proms is celebrating what would’ve been Aretha Franklin’s 80th birthday, and leading the tribute is American singer-songwriter Sheléa. She's …

3 years, 9 months ago

Gregory Doran and the RSC, WASWASA – Whispers in Prayer performance, Taiwan's new cultural landmark

When Gregory Doran was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012, his stated ambition was for the company to stage the en…

3 years, 9 months ago

Anne-Marie Duff on Bad Sisters, Returning the Benin Bronzes, Public Service Broadcasting's Prom

Anne-Marie Duff talks to Samira about her new Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters, where she plays one of five sisters who is trapped in a coercive marriage…

3 years, 9 months ago

Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine, Abdul Shayek and Ishy Din, Threats to writers

Jacob Collier has won a Grammy Award for each of his first four albums. In fact, he has five Grammys altogether. He’s back home in London after his r…

3 years, 9 months ago