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Back to SearchThe Courier, Deceit, 2.22 A Ghost Story review
In 1962 the USA and USSR engaged in one of the most terrifying acts of brinksmanship the world has seen. But few people know of the role played by an…
4 years, 9 months ago
Celebrating Stravinsky
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky died 50 years ago this year. Yet his influence is still felt today, whether it's the pounding rhythms of The Rite of…
4 years, 10 months ago
Paradise, John Boyne, Stuart Semple
Paradise opens at the Olivier auditorium of the National Theatre tomorrow. It's a new version of a play that had its premiere, and was acclaimed, in …
4 years, 10 months ago
Phil Wang, Shape Open exhibiton, All Bound Together, Lost manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Phil Wang joins us to discuss his stand up show, Philly Philly Wang Wang that he filmed at the London Palladium over the pandemic. Exploring race, ro…
4 years, 10 months ago
Sir Tom Stoppard, Ryan Bancroft, Museum of The Year, Nick Laird
Sir Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning play Leopoldstadt closed because of Covid in March 2020. Tomorrow it returns to the same stage and the same …
4 years, 10 months ago
Sarah, Duchess of York on her new novel, Max Richter
Sarah, Duchess of York, talks to Nick Ahad about her debut Mills and Boon novel, Her Heart for a Compass, based on the life of her ancestor, Lady Mar…
4 years, 10 months ago
Repairing Beirut's museum artefacts, Vivo, DCMS performer Visas
On the anniversary of the Beirut port explosion, we talk to representatives from both The British Museum and The Archaeological Museum at the America…
4 years, 10 months ago
Elif Shafak, Jonathon Heyward, Stillwater review
Booker Prize shortlisted Turkish writer Elif Shafak has a new novel: The Island Of Missing Trees. Set in Cyprus it follows lovers who risk everything…
4 years, 10 months ago
Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster, Tim Renkow, Scarlett Johansson suing Disney.
Yesterday the audience was on its feet – more than once - to applaud the cast, the band and the design of Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in Lo…
4 years, 10 months ago
Billie Eilish reviewed, Sir James MacMillan on the First Night of the Proms, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edinburgh Art Festival
Ben Okri's new play Changing Destiny is an adaptation of one of the world's oldest known stories, the ancient Egyptian Tale of Sinuhe. Tonight marks …
4 years, 10 months ago