Podcast Episodes

The Story Museum, The Waste Land and Brian and Charles reviewed, Grand Theft Hamlet

This week’s cultural critics, music journalist Jude Rogers and film critic Rhianna Dhillon, join Tom Sutcliffe to review a new Radio 3 drama, He Do T…

3 years, 11 months ago

New national poet of Wales, Lucian Freud show, The Royal Cornwall Museum, The Blue Woman opera

The role of National Poet of Wales is demanding: ‘to represent the diverse cultures and languages of Wales at home and abroad, take poetry to new aud…

3 years, 11 months ago

Claudia Rankine, Derby's Museum of Making, Streamer Fatigue

The American writer Claudia Rankine is best known for her poetry, which has won critical acclaim and international fans. She discusses her play The…

3 years, 11 months ago

Peter Brook; Gone With The Wind; new children’s laureate Joseph Coelho

Peter Brook: we look back on the life and career of the great theatre and film director, with critic Michael Billington.

Gone With the Wind was an ins…

3 years, 11 months ago

All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs

Best-selling novelist Lawrence Norfolk and award-winning writer Joanna Walsh review a new edition of All Our Yesterdays, a novel by the acclaimed pos…

3 years, 11 months ago

In the Black Fantastic exhibition; Maya Youssef performs live; visual artist Colin Davidson's exhibition

Curator Ekow Eshun on creating In The Black Fantastic: the UK’s first major exhibition dedicated to the work of Black artists who use fantastical ele…

3 years, 11 months ago

Arthur Hughes as Richard III, Literary Prizes, Dadaist Interventions

Arthur Hughes, known for his roles in The Archers, in which he plays Ruairi, and the BBC2 drama Then Barbara Met Alan, details the significance of hi…

3 years, 11 months ago

Stephen Beresford, A harp concerto about bees, James Graham, Peter Kosminsky

Playwright and BAFTA winning screenwriter Stephen Beresford has returned to writing for the stage with The Southbury Child, a co-production between T…

3 years, 11 months ago

Reviews of the plays Rock, Paper, Scissors and documentary Studio Electrophonique, The People's History Museum, Michael Rosen

Critic Ben East and academic Catherine Love review Rock, Paper, Scissors, a trilogy of plays written by Chris Bush to mark the 50th anniversary of Sh…

3 years, 11 months ago

Rowan Atkinson, Windrush Sculptures, Susanne Bier

Rowan Atkinson is associated with a lot of ‘B’s – Blackadder, Bean, bumbling British spies... and now bees. He plays an inept house-sitter in a luxur…

3 years, 11 months ago