Podcast Episodes

Mercury Music and Booker Prize longlists; museums’ funding; new LGBTQ+ museum

The Mercury Music and Booker Prize lists - we discuss the albums and books nominated this year for these two major prizes. We're joined by writer and…

3 years, 10 months ago

Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival

Singer and fiddle player Bella Hardy talks about her new album – her tenth – Love Songs, which sees this adventurous musician return to where she beg…

3 years, 10 months ago

Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered

Notre-Dame On Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, is a film dramatising the events of the horrifying night on April 15, 2019 when the cathedral th…

3 years, 10 months ago

Where The Crawdads Sing; On Sonorous Seas; Maison Margiela's Cinema Inferno

Where The Crawdads Sing: director Olivia Newman on bringing the multi-million copy best-selling novel to the big screen. Cinema Inferno: the new c…

3 years, 10 months ago

Jean Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Tours

Reflecting on his 50 years in fashion, designer Jean Paul Gaultier sits down with Samira Ahmed to talk about his life, Madonna, London and how it has…

3 years, 10 months ago

Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

Karl Bartos, musician and composer, on his life in the German band Kraftwerk - as told in his new memoir The Sound of the Machine.

Playwright and scre…

3 years, 10 months ago

Persuasion & Patriots reviewed, Durham Brass Festival, Museum of the Year winner

The new film Persuasion based on Jane Austen’s novel starring Dakota Johnson and directed by Carrie Cracknell has already attracted a lot of attentio…

3 years, 11 months ago

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, The Railway Children Return

In the late 16th century, the Merseyside town of Prescot had the only purpose-built, indoor theatre outside London. Now the Shakespeare North Playhou…

3 years, 11 months ago

Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Oscar winning Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir talks about her new commission for the BBC Proms, inspired by political division, and the difference …

3 years, 11 months ago

Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan / Druet

Jack Absolute Flies Again, at the National Theatre, is an adaptation of Sheridan’s comedy of manners The Rivals. Writers Richard Bean (who wrote One …

3 years, 11 months ago