Podcast Episodes

Beth Orton, Jodi Picoult, South Korean Art

Beth Orton performs two songs from her new album, Weather Alive, and discusses creative partnerships as well as life after being dropped by her recor…

4 years ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of our country's greatest ever composers.

Born 150 years ago in 1872, he is known for creating a sense of Englishness i…

4 years ago

Louise Doughty on her BBC drama Crossfire, singer-songwriter Miki Berenyi from Lush, author Jenn Ashworth

Bestselling author Louise Doughty discusses her new BBC One drama Crossfire, a thriller about a terrorist attack in a luxury holiday resort, starring…

4 years ago

Ticket to Paradise film, Winslow Homer exhibition, National Short Story Award shortlist announcement

Journalist and author Hadley Freeman, and Art UK editor and art historian Lydia Figes, review Ticket to Paradise starring George Clooney and Julia Ro…

4 years ago

Cellist Abel Selaocoe, Art & History, Curlews In Music

Genre-defying South African cellist Abel Selaocoe speaks to Samira and performs a piece from his new album Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae), which will be …

4 years ago

Richard Eyre's The Snail House; Sylvia Anderson and women in TV; the late Jean-Luc Godard

Sir Richard Eyre is one of the UK’s most distinguished and celebrated directors - equally at home in theatre, film, and television. At the age of 79,…

4 years ago

Eileen Cooper, Northern Ireland Opera, Basic Income For The Arts In Ireland, Roger McGough

Eileen Cooper is a painter and printmaker who’s been quietly creating boldly coloured figurative images and ceramics since the 1970s. This year final…

4 years ago

Trumpet player Alison Balsom and the campaign to revive the works of author Jack Hilton

The trumpeter and musician Alison Balsom has performed with some of the world’s greatest orchestras. She talks about her latest album, Quiet City.

Ja…

4 years ago

Loudon Wainwright III performs live, the Booker Prize shortlist, studying English Literature

American singer songwriter Loudon Wainwright III performs live in the studio and talks about his decades-long career, his current UK tour and his lat…

4 years ago

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Venice Film Festival, Booker Longlisted Shehan Karunatilaka, Tom Chaplin

David Cronenberg’s new film Crimes of the Future is a science fiction body parts horror movie starring Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydo…

4 years ago