Podcast Episodes

Camilla George, Elizabeth Strout and Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari

Jazz saxophonist Camilla George plays live in the studio and talks about her new album Ibio-Ibio - a tribute to her Ibibio roots in Nigerian.

Iranian …

3 years, 11 months ago

Alan Garner Booker Shortlisted, Orfeo Reimagined, Baz Luhrmann on Peter Brook

Alan Garner’s 10th novel, Treacle Walker, may be one of the shortest books to make the Booker Prize shortlist but once read the slim volume which exp…

3 years, 11 months ago

Booker-nominated author Percival Everett, The Lost King reviewed

Author Percival Everett talks to Tom Sutcliffe about his Booker Prize nominated novel, The Trees, which uses dark humour to explore gruesome events i…

3 years, 11 months ago

Björk, NoViolet Bulawayo, James Bond at 60

Mercurial musician Björk has just released her tenth album Fossora. She discusses the experience of making the album and her interest in mushrooms.

Zi…

3 years, 11 months ago

BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers' Award winners

The announcement of the winners of the BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University live from the Radio Theatre …

3 years, 11 months ago

Viola Davis in The Woman King, playwright Rona Munro and artist Amy Sherald

American actress Viola Davis, who has won an Oscar, Emmy and a Tony for her outstanding performances, plays a female warrior in the historical epic T…

3 years, 11 months ago

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare North Playhouse and artist Samson Kambalu

Artist Samson Kambalu talks to Shahidha Bari about his sculpture Antelope, a thought provoking commentary on colonialism which has just been unveiled…

3 years, 11 months ago

The Blackwater Lightship, Filmmaker Kirsty Bell, Black Art

The Blackwater Lightship is a novel by Colm Tóibín, published in 1999 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later made into a film and has now…

3 years, 11 months ago

Anthony Roth Costanzo, Unboxed's See Monster, and the cost of living crisis

Luke Jones meets the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, whose show Only An Octave Apart is about to begin a month long run at Wilton’s Music Hall in…

4 years ago

Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered

Michael Winterbottom discusses writing and directing a SKY TV drama, This England, starring Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson during his tumultuous fi…

4 years ago