Podcast Episodes

Van Gogh Self Portraits, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir Part II, Dr Semmelweis

Van Gogh’s self portraits have defined our sense of his inner life. As a new exhibition gathers many of them together for the first time, The Courtau…

4 years, 4 months ago

Romola Garai, Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers & Francis Bacon: Man and Beast reviewed

The actress Romola Garai talks about her directorial debut, the horror film Amulet.

Critics Maria Delgado and Louisa Buck review Pedro Almodóvar's f…

4 years, 4 months ago

Isabel Allende on her new novel Violeta, Freya McClements on the play The White Handkerchief, William Sitwell and Façade,

Isabel Allende was born in Peru in 1942 and raised in Chile. Most famous for her novel The House of the Spirits, her works have been both bestsellers…

4 years, 4 months ago

Martin Freeman on The Responder and Cultural Levelling Up

The Responder, a five-part BBC drama broadcast on consecutive nights this week, was written by ex-police response officer Tony Schumacher. He joins S…

4 years, 4 months ago

Olly Alexander, Honorée Fannone Jeffers, Femi Elufowoju jr on Rigoletto

The singer and actor Olly Alexander discusses his new album, Night Call, and playing the central role in the Russell T Davies drama acclaimed televis…

4 years, 4 months ago

Ciarán Hinds, Nightmare Alley and The Gilded Age reviewed, the latest Serpentine exhibition on the gaming platform Fortnite

Belfast-born actor Ciarán Hinds tells Tom Sutcliffe about playing Kenneth Branagh’s grandfather in the director’s semi-autobiographical film Belfast,…

4 years, 4 months ago

Munich: The Edge of War, Australia, Jo Browning Wroe on her novel, A Terrible Kindness

Munich: The Edge of War is new film set in 1938 at the time of the Munich Agreement when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was making a…

4 years, 4 months ago

Tilda Swinton, secrecy in screen casting, proposed cuts at Stoke museums

Tilda Swinton talks to Samira about her new film Memoria, in which she plays a Scottish woman who, after hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, begins ex…

4 years, 4 months ago

Adrian Lester on Trigger Point; Heal and Harrow perform live; northern writing prizes

Actor Adrian Lester joins Samira to discuss his varied career on stage, in film and now back on UK television in the gripping new ITV police drama, T…

4 years, 4 months ago

Boiling Point and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise reviewed, Costa Children's Award winner Manjeet Mann

Writers Okechukwu Nzelu and Stephanie Merritt join Tom Sutcliffe to review Hanya Yanagihara’s novel To Paradise, eagerly awaited by fans of her Booke…

4 years, 4 months ago