Podcast Episodes

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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago

Ascension, John Preston on Robert Maxwell and is vinyl manufacturing at breaking point?

Kirsty Lang speaks to John Preston who has won the Costa biography award for Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell.

As a new vinyl pressing plant opens …

4 years, 8 months ago

Winner of TS Elliot Prize for Poetry, Unboxed, Folk at the Hampstead Theatre

We talk to Joelle Taylor fresh from her win last night of the 2021 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry for her collection of poems which explores her life as a…

4 years, 8 months ago

Sheffield Crucible Theatre at 50, Philosophy in the Gallery, Self Esteem

As Sheffield's Crucible Theatre celebrates its 50th anniversary, Nick Ahad talks to Artistic Director Robert Hastie.

Sheffield pop star Self Esteem o…

4 years, 8 months ago