Podcast Episodes

Celebrating the art of Illustration, with Sir Quentin Blake and Posy Simmonds

As the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration prepares to open in London, we find out how illustrators are adapting to a changing world.

Starting with …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Review: Spanish master Zurbarán at the National Gallery

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by playwright Mark Ravenhill and academic and critic Maria Delgado to review:

The first major UK exhibition of Spanish master …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Paul Weller on his musical evolution

From the rebellious spirit of The Jam in the 1970s to the soulful sound of The Style Council and mellow ballads as a solo artist, singer-songwriter P…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the new Children's Booker Prize

Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce launches the Children's Booker Prize and discusses some of the themes of his forthcoming Waterstones Childre…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

The Devil Wears Prada 2, with director David Frankel

The Devil Wears Prada 2 director David Frankel on why it was time to bring the old gang back together again. David Haig's new play "Magic" imagines t…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Reviewing Richard Gadd’s follow up to his hit Baby Reindeer

Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ludovic Hunter-Tilney join Tom to review Half Man, Richard Gadd’s follow up to his hit Baby Reindeer.

They also discu…

5 months ago

Antoine Fuqua's controversial biopic of Michael Jackson

A new biopic chronicles one of the 20th century’s biggest and most controversial music icons, but appears not to paint the whole picture about his li…

5 months ago

Vivaldi film, author Ben Lerner and V+A East's Music Is Black exhibition

Primavera, a new film about Vivaldi tells the story of his composing for pupils of an institution for abandoned girls. We speak to the film's directo…

5 months ago

Echoes of Shakespeare in a Scottish gangster drama

Director Charlotte Regan on her new BBC thriller, Mint

Have heterosexual male novelists stopped writing sex scenes? We discuss with writer Luke Kennar…

5 months ago

Reviewing Lena Dunham's memoir, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Big Mistakes

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by reviewers Dreda Say Mitchell and Viv Groskop to consider Lena Dunham's controversial memoir - Famesick. A new adaptation o…

5 months, 1 week ago