Podcast Episodes

Ocean Vuong, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore reviewed, Southampton UK City of Culture bid, Nadifa Mohamed

Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet whose recent works include a best-selling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and a multi-prize-winnin…

4 years, 5 months ago

Mike Bartlett, Hannah Hodgson, Nick Laird

The playwright Mike Bartlett is busy. The 47th, his dark comedy about the next presidential race, with Bertie Carvel giving an uncanny performance as…

4 years, 5 months ago

Rae Morris performs live, author Ashley Hickson-Lovence, video artist Rachel Maclean

Rae Morris discusses her latest single, ‘No Woman is An Island,’ ahead of the release of her new album.

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney joins us to discuss the …

4 years, 5 months ago

A Clockwork Orange, the National Poetry Competition winner announced, Slow Horses and Coppelia reviewed

Critics Sarah Crompton and Abir Mukherjee review Slow Horses, the brand new series from Apple TV+ starring Gary Oldman, Kristen Scott Thomas, Olivia …

4 years, 5 months ago

Glasgow's Burrell Collection reopens; Orphans the musical; Yoga Concerto; Edinburgh’s new Makar Hannah Lavery

Presented by Kate Molleson from Glasgow.

As the Burrell Collection reopens in Glasgow after a £68 million refit, Sunday Post art critic Jan Patience …

4 years, 5 months ago

How to refill theatres; the 2022 Windham Campbell Prizes; crime writing duo Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter

We look at how audience figures are recovering after two years of shutdown and pandemic restrictions. Carolyn Atkinson reports on the business of sea…

4 years, 5 months ago

Sonia Boyce, Cellist Laura van der Heijden, the Oscars

Artist Sonia Boyce discusses her new video work, the product of being embedded with social services in Barking and Dagenham, which addresses domestic…

4 years, 5 months ago

The Hermit of Treig film and Anne Tyler's novel French Braid reviewed; Erich Hatala Matthes on art and morality

Critics Viv Groskop and Hanna Flint review The Hermit of Treig, a documetary film made by Lizzie Mackenzie who follows Ken Smith, a man who has spent…

4 years, 6 months ago

Bridgerton showrunner Chris van Dusen, choreographer Ivan Michael Blackstock, William Morris wallpaper

Bridgerton is based on Julia Quinn's best-selling novels, set in the competitive world of Regency era London's ton during the season. The series fol…

4 years, 6 months ago

Joachim Trier, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Angus Robertson

Director Joachim Trier has been nominated for the Best Original Screenplay and Best International Film Oscars for The Worst Person in the World. If t…

4 years, 6 months ago