Podcast Episodes

Live music festivals; Roy Williams' play The Fellowship; The Horniman Museum

As Glastonbury returns this week after a two year pandemic hiatus, a summer of festivals gets under way while some festivals are forced to cancel due…

3 years, 11 months ago

Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry

Director Baz Luhrmann on the making of Elvis, his new biopic of Elvis Presley, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. Director Mathilde Lopez talks a…

3 years, 11 months ago

Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project

National Theatre Wales is about to open a new production described as a live documentary performance, Circle of Fifths. With cast and stories drawn …

3 years, 11 months ago

Freddie De Tommaso, Women’s Prize For Fiction Winner, John Byrne, Ukrainian Antiquities

Operatic tenor Freddie De Tommaso on his overnight breakthrough to stardom and performing at the First Night Of The Proms.

We announce and speak to th…

3 years, 11 months ago

Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

Chicago based artist Theaster Gates on The Black Chapel - his design for this year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion, which is created each year by world…

4 years ago

George Ezra performs, TV drama Sherwood reviewed, Norway's National Museum opens

Fresh from performing at the Queen's platinum jubilee concert, singer-songwriter George Ezra plays in the Front Row studio from his new album, Gold R…

4 years ago

Reviews of the film All My Friends Hate Me and the play Cancelling Socrates; the Women's Prize for Fiction nominee Ruth Ozeki

On our Thursday review panel this week: the film critic Leila Latif and Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University o…

4 years ago

Paula Rego Remembered, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak, Stones In His Pockets

Artist Paula Rego remembered. Following the sad news today of the death of one of the most important figurative painters of our times, we look back o…

4 years ago

Ayanna Witter Johnson performs, Clement Ishmael, digital theatre

Ayanna Witter-Johnson is a singer-songwriter, cellist and composer blurring the boundaries of classical, jazz, reggae and R&B. Performing live in the…

4 years ago

Africa Oyé, Queer Poetry, Maggie Shipstead

Africa Oyé, the UK's largest festival of music from the continent of Africa, celebrates its 30th anniversary in Liverpool's Sefton Park this month. …

4 years ago