Podcast Episodes

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…

4 years, 2 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…

4 years, 2 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…

4 years, 2 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…

4 years, 2 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…

4 years, 2 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 …

4 years, 2 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 …

4 years, 2 months ago

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…

4 years, 2 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…

4 years, 2 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…

4 years, 2 months ago