Podcast Episodes

Edinburgh Festival: Burn, Counting & Cracking, Aftersun, Festival picks

Live from Edinburgh, with a review of Alan Cumming's one man show, Burn, which sets out to update the biscuit-tin image of Robert Burns. Plus Countin…

3 years, 10 months ago

Immy Humes and Aindrea Emelife, Charlotte Higgins and David Greig, Stefan Golaszewski

Both journalist Charlotte Higgins and playwright David Greig are fascinated by the Roman occupation of Britain. Higgins’s book Under Another Sky: Jou…

3 years, 10 months ago

Live from the Edinburgh Festival: Matt Forde, Anne Sofie von Otter, Exodus

Kate Molleson and guests live from Edinburgh Festival.

Comedian and impressionist Matt Forde talks about capturing the essence of political figures i…

3 years, 10 months ago

Jordan Peele on Nope, trombonist Peter Moore, Where Is Anne Frank film review, Edinburgh Art Festival

Nope is the latest film from Oscar-winning writer-director Jordan Peele, whose breakthrough was the critically acclaimed 2017 horror Get Out. Tom Sut…

3 years, 10 months ago

Bullet Train & Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man reviewed, conductor Semyon Bychkov

Tom Sutcliffe and guest reviewers Bidisha and Amon Warmann discuss Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt. It's a vivid mixture of comedy and violence from…

3 years, 10 months ago

The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Ted Gioia on Duke Ellington, musician Carolina Eyck performs

Huw Stephens reports from the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Tregaron, Ceredigion, talking to Archdruid Myrddin ap Dafydd, winner of this year’s Nov…

3 years, 10 months ago

Disabled-access ticket booking, Writer Will Ashon, Artists Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs

Disabled-access ticket booking – for concerts, comedy clubs, theatre, festivals, and more. Carolyn Atkinson reports on problems with new initiatives …

3 years, 10 months ago

Beyoncé's album Renaissance, poet Don Paterson, the New Diorama Theatre, Free-for-All exhibition, Nichelle Nichols remembered

Beyoncé's Renaissance: we discuss Beyoncé's house and disco inspired new album – her first solo material in six years - and her huge significance as …

3 years, 10 months ago

Hit the Road & Mercury Pictures Presents reviewed, Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Bernard Cribbins remembered

Panah Panahi is the son of acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. Panah's film Hit the Road is a road movie with a difference as a family travel …

3 years, 10 months ago

Sister Act, Dramatising the Ugandan Asian exodus, David Olusoga

Sister Act the Musical is returning to the London stage, after two years of Covid delays and thirty years after the much loved Whoopi Goldberg film. …

3 years, 10 months ago