Best Film Music Queen Horror Podcasts (2025)

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25 Years of 21st Century: how art and architecture have changed since the year 2000 42:05

15m ago42:05

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Kirsty Wark and guests discuss how visual art and architecture have evolved over the last 25 years. In the latest of our special series reflecting the changing cultural landscape since the start of the millennium, Kirsty Wark discusses the significant shifts in visual art and architecture in the 21st century with Director of Exhibitions and Program…

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Muhammad Ali in South Shields, Sheila Fell exhibition in Cumbria, Dame Myra Hess 42:52

1h ago42:52

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Playwright Ishy Din on his new play, Champion inspired by the 1977 visit of celebrated boxer, Muhammed Ali, to South Shields. Art historian Frances Spalding and curator Eleanor Bradley on artist Sheila Fell - the subject of a major exhibition at Tullie Museum and Art Gallery. As a new biography of concert pianist Dame Myra Hess is published, its au…

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Walter Salles on I'm Still Here, Matt Goss performs live, The Face magazine exhibition at National Portrait Gallery 42:19

14h ago42:19

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Samira Ahmed talks to Brazilian director Walter Salles about his film I'm Still Here - which has already won multiple awards including the Golden Globe for Best Actress for its star Fernanda Torres. it's based on a true story about a family Salles knew when he was growing up in Rio de Janeiro - whose father was detained and disappeared during the m…

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Review: Bridget Jones; Linder Stirling exhibition; Memoir of a Snall animation 42:21

5d ago42:21

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Robbie Collin and Louisa Buck join Tom Sutcliffe to review the fourth Bridget Jones film Mad About the Boy staring Renée Zellweger, the Oscar nominated animation Memoir of a Snail and pioneering artist Linder's Danger Came Smiling retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. Presenter: Tom SutcliffeProducer: Claire Bartleet…

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Future of TV soaps, Joseph O'Connor's new book, stage version of Murakami short stories 42:00

6d ago42:00

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As scheduling changes are made to ITV soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale, and as the 40th anniversary of EastEnders is celebrated with a live special on BBC One, how is the future looking for continuing drama on TV? Former Executive Producer of EastEnders John Yorke and Entertainment Journalist Emma Bullimore discuss the impact of the audience's…

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25 Years of 21st Century: Books 42:29

7d ago42:29

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Front Row continues to look at how culture has changed in the first 25 years of this century with an edition focusing on books. Tom Sutcliffe is in the Front Row studio with two writers who've helped to shape the literary landscape over those years – the novelists Zadie Smith and Andrew O'Hagan. They are joined by the presenter of Radio 4's A Good …

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2 Mediocre White Dudes on Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) 1:48:23

7d ago1:48:23

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PJ and I had SUCH a blast gushing over this one. We both found so much more in this one than we even remembered on this watch...and we already liked it a lot! This is the type of episode that makes us happy we do this podcast together! Of course there is the requisite pre-gaming of anything but Nightmare...we talk Brett Goldstein (we really want to…

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Robert de Niro, Gladiators exhibition, Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new opera 42:21

8d ago42:21

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Hollywood legend Robert De Niro explains why he's starring in his first ever TV series Zero Day, where he plays a former US President out to find the culprits behind a deadly cyber-attack on America. He's joined by the show's screenwriter Eric Newman. With the British Council facing financial pressures it is considering the sale of its art collecti…

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Review: The Last Showgirl, Oedipus, Nobel author Han Kang's novel We Do Not Part 42:21

12d ago42:21

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Tom is joined by the writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright and the Observer's theatre critic Susannah Clapp to review another version of the Greek classic Oedipus, this time at the Old Vic in London and starring Rami Malek. Also reviewed: The Last Showgirl, which has Pamela Anderson starring as Shelley with Jamie Lee Curtis as her good friend. Shel…

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September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum, new Motherland spin-off TV series Amandaland, the history of Slapstick 41:59

13d ago41:59

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Writer Holly Walsh and actor Lucy Punch on the Motherland spin-off series, Amandaland which also stars Joanna LumleyDirector, screenwriter and producer of September 5, Tim Fehlbaum about his new film that explores what happened at the 1972 Munich Olympics from the perspective of the sports journalists who found themselves broadcasting the story As …

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25 Years of 21st Century: Film and Television 41:56

14d ago41:56

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Front Row continues to look at how culture has changed in the first 25 years of the century with an edition focusing on film and TV. Samira is joined by Radio 4's Screenshot presenters Mark Kermode and Ellen E. Jones, Jane Tranter, who relaunched Doctor Who in 2005 and co-founded Bad Wolf productions and Boyd Hilton, the Entertainment Director of H…

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Director Coralie Fargeat on The Substance, Josephine Baker's autobiography, poet Anne Carson on Elektra on stage 42:30

14d ago42:30

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Coralie Fargeat has been nominated as best director for her film The Substance which stars Demi Moore. She tells Samira about her inspiration for the satirical horror about a Hollywood star who takes a dangerous drug to create a younger version of herself. Josephine Baker’s memoir has been translated into English for the first time, fifty years aft…

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Review: Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Inside No. 9 on stage, film Saturday Night 42:22

18d ago42:22

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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writer Dreda Say Mitchell and critic Scott Bryan to assess the week's cultural releases, including a new stage version of the hit TV series Inside Number 9. They've also been watching Mike Leigh's first film in 6 years, Hard Truths, which has reunited him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste who was nominated for an Oscar in his h…

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The Great Gatsby centenary, The Testament of Gideon Mack, A New Prize for Contemporary Dance 42:12

20d ago42:12

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We celebrate the centenary of the publication of F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel The Great Gatsby, with Fitzgerald experts James West and Sarah Churchwell, Writer and performer Matthew Zajac talks about his new theatre production The Testament of Gideon Mack, based on James Robertson's acclaimed book about a Minister who doesn't believe in God, …

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2 Mediocre White Dudes on Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) 1:25:41

21d ago1:25:41

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PJ & I love Rachel Talalay from her work on Doctor Who, Tank Girl and many other projects so we're excited to see her make her debut as a director in a series she worked on throughout! The first Final Nightmare! Tonally inconsistent with the rest of the series thus far, there is a lot to enjoy!By PLD

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Jane Austen's sister, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, football in fiction 42:22

21d ago42:22

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As new BBC One drama adaptation, Miss Austen, shines fresh light on Jane Austen's sister Cassandra, Gill Hornby, who wrote the eponymous novel on which Miss Austen is based, and Claire Harman, author of Jane's Fame, How Jane Austen Conquered The World, discuss how perceptions of Cassandra's burning of her sister's letters have been changing. Paris-…

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25 Years of 21st Century: Music 42:22

22d ago42:22

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Front Row looks at how culture has changed in the first 25 years of this century, starting with Music. Samira is joined by Radio 4's Add to Playlist hosts Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe, music journalist Kitty Empire and former Spotify exec Will Page. They discuss how transformations in technology have impacted what we listen to and what music is b…

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Review: supernatural thriller film Presence, Edmund White's sex memoir and Brazil! Brazil! at the Royal Academy 43:21

26d ago43:21

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Rowan Pelling, journalist and founding editor of the Erotic Review, and the film critic Tim Robey join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the Oscar nominations and review Edmund White's The Loves of My Life, Steven Soderbergh's supernatural horror thriller Presence and Brazil! Brazil! a major exhibition featuring 20th century artists at the Royal Academy in …

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James Graham on Brian & Maggie, The Merchant of Venice, Live music from Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart 42:23

27d ago42:23

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Writer James Graham on his Channel 4 drama Brian & Maggie, which stars Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter, and which tells the story of a hard-hitting interview between broadcaster Brian Walden and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which helped precipitate Thatcher's downfall in the early 1990s, John Douglas Thompson talks about playing Shylock in Sha…

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Anora director Sean Baker, Caryl Phillips's new novel, Somerset House exhibition on Soil 42:19

28d ago42:19

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Anora is one of the leading contenders in the current film awards season - and its star Mikey Madison looks likely to get an Oscar nomination too. Its director Sean Baker explains how he uses both violence and comedy to explore the story of a son of a Russian oligarch who becomes entangled in the world of a sex worker in New York. Caryl Phillips ta…

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The Brutalist director Brady Corbet and star Adrien Brody, Sidney Poitier season at BFI 42:21

29d ago42:21

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The Brutalist's director Brady Corbet and star Adrien Brody talk about making the hotly anticipated film. With a season of Sidney Poitier's films underway at the British Film Institute and a play about a key moment in his early, Retrograde, transferring to London's West End in March we discuss the legacy of the great actor with - writer, Ryan Calai…

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Review: Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, TS Eliot prize poetry, Italian wartime film Vermiglio 42:17

1M ago42:17

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Lemn Sissay and Rhianna Dhillon review the new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown starring Timothée Chalamet, the TS Eliot Prize-winning poetry collection Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi and the Italian language film, Vermiglio set in a remote Alpine village during World War Two. We pay homage to David Lynch, director of Twin Peaks and Mulholland Dri…

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Franz Ferdinand play in the studio, Richard Price on his new novel Lazarus Man, verdict on BAFTA nominations 42:41

1M ago42:41

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Franz Ferdinand play live from their new album The Human Fear, eleven songs which explore deep-set human anxieties and how overcoming and accepting them drives and defines our lives. Richard Price - the author of Clockers, and a writer on The Wire, talks about his latest novel, Lazarus Man, a chronicle of New York life set in the aftermath of a des…

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2 Mediocre White Dudes On A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) 1:50:39

1M ago1:50:39

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A film we were....surprised by! Stephen Hopkins films takes some swings and might not always connect, but it is better than its reputation. #anightmareonelmstreet5 #anightmareonelmstreet #freddykrueger #robertenglundBy PLD

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Vivaldi's Four Seasons reimagined, impact of L.A. fires on culture, Leigh Whannell's new horror film, Dead Ink Books 42:51

1M ago42:51

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Sir Michael Morpurgo and violinist Daniel Pioro discusss reimagining Vivaldi's Four Seasons for a recording with the Manchester Camerata featuring new poetry by Sir Michael and improvisations by Daniel. Pat Saperstein, Deputy Editor of Variety, and Peter Bowes, BBC Correspondent in Los Angeles reflect on the impact of the L. A fires on the film, te…

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Michael Sheen, Matthew Bourne on Oliver! and ghostwriting 42:23

1M ago42:23

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Actor Michael Sheen explains how he was rehearsing his role as the creator of the NHS, Nye Bevan when he heard about the demise of National Theatre Wales and decided to make plans for a new organisation, using some of his own money. Matthew Bourne talks about his new stage production of the musical Oliver! and the 30th anniversary tour of his groun…

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Review: Angelina Jolie's Maria, AL Kennedy's novel Alive in the Merciful Country, Architecton documentary 42:33

1M ago42:33

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Viv Groskop and David Benedict join Tom Sutcliffe to talk about Maria, the Maria Callas biopic staring Angelina Jolie. They also review Alive in the Merciful Country by A.L. Kennedy and Architecton, a study of concrete and stone from the Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky. Plus Jeremy Treglown, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, who talks…

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Asif Kapadia's dystopian film 2073, anthology comic marks 25 years since armed forces "gay ban" lifted, Nick Frost in Get Away 42:21

1M ago42:21

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Presenter: Kirsty Wark Producer: Fiona MacLellanBy BBC Radio 4

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Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin on their film A Real Pain, improving visual literacy in school, how Jerry Springer changed TV 42:33

1M ago42:33

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Tom Sutcliffe talks to Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin about their new film A Real Pain - in which they play mis-matched cousins touring Poland to honour their grandmother. Can you teach someone to look at art intelligently? Oxford University is about to start a 3 year study on visual literacy – assessing how much looking at art can impact young …

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Nicole Kidman on Babygirl, Brian Eno on art and Herod 42:08

1M ago42:08

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Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson talk about their award-winning new film Babygirl, where she plays a married mum and high powered tech CEO who begins an affair with a young intern at her company after he realises she has sexual desires that she's not been able to embrace before. Novelist Tayari Jones and literary scholar Dr Deborah G. Plant discu…

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Review: Nosferatu, Lockerbie, Nickel Boys 42:21

2M ago42:21

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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by the critics Bidisha and Peter Bradshaw to review the highlights of the week: Nosferatu - Robert Eggers' remake of F.W Murnau's 1922 silent vampire classic, which was itself based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. Nickel Boys - the Golden Globe nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel about two African American…

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Front Row on the Shipping Forecast, at the Cutty Sark 41:51

2M ago41:51

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Samira Ahmed presents Front Row's contribution to Radio 4's New Year's Day celebration of the Shipping Forecast, marking a century since the BBC began broadcasting it. This edition of the arts programme explores how the Shipping Forecast inspires musicians, writers, artists of all kinds, and how it has become a powerful presence in the psyche of th…

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Front Row Hogmanay live from Glasgow 42:26

2M ago42:26

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Kirsty Wark hosts a Hogmanay edition live from Glasgow. Featuring performances by The Bluebells and piper Malin Lewis. Plus Alan Cumming; Scotland's new Makar, Peter Mackay; and an exploration of representations of New Year in cinema, literature and poetry.By BBC Radio 4

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Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 42:38

2M ago42:38

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As Bradford limbers up for its year as UK City of Culture, in a special edition of Front Row, Nick Ahad meets: Steven Frayne, the award-winning Bradford-born magician formerly known as Dynamo. Frayne's magic skills have brought him success in arenas and television studios worldwide and his biography Nothing is Impossible: My Story became a bestsell…

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Review: Better Man, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and How to make Millions before Grandma Dies 42:30

2M ago42:30

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Boyd Hilton and Arifa Akbar join Tom to review: Better Man, the Robbie Williams biopic with a twist – he’s depicted as a Monkey. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Almeida theatre’s new production of Tennesee Williams' play with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Kingsley Ben-Adir. And How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies, a new film from Thai director Pat Boonniti…

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Chris McCausland, Lauren Mayberry and Barry Jenkins 42:02

2M ago42:02

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Fresh from his success as the winner of Strictly Come Dancing, comedian and actor Chris McCausland joins us to talk about his new TV film Bad Tidings, his forthcoming solo tour and of course triumphing in TV's biggest dance contest. Singer Lauren Mayberry, best known as the frontwoman of Scottish synth pop band Chvrches, talks about her debut solo …

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Simon Russell Beale, Rufus Wainwright and Kate Garner 42:24

2M ago42:24

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The actor Simon Russell Beale speaks about playing the poet and scholar A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's play 'The Invention of Love', as well as discussing his memoir. The singer, songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright was inspired to write a Requiem by his love of the composer Giuseppe Verdi and the loss of his dog, named Puccini. He speaks abou…

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Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas, Nick Park on new Wallace & Gromit film, Organs discussion 43:24

2M ago43:24

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Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas talks to Front Row about writing the drama's Christmas special, Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham discuss co-directing the new Wallace & Gromit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, and ahead of the Royal College of Organists' new initiative - Play The Organ 2025 - organists David Pipe and Claire M Singer join Nick to disc…

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Review: The Devil Wears Prada, 100 Years of Solitude, The Universal Theory 42:21

2M ago42:21

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Samira is joined by novelist Linda Grant and critic Jason Solomons to review the musical version of The Devil Wears Prada with music by Elton John. We also review the new TV dramatisation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is released today – how did they manage the magic realism?  And The Universal Theor…

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Jesus and Mary Chain, The politics of pantomime & Video games of the year 42:04

2M ago42:04

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Brothers William and Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain talk to Kirsty Wark about the ups and downs of their career in music. Plus a discussion on the politics of pantomime, And the video games of the year. Presenter: Kirsty WarkProducer: Mark CrossanBy BBC Radio 4

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Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino, Public Service Broadcasting perform live 42:26

2M ago42:26

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Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino talk about their new film Queer, which is based on the William S. Burroughs novella about a love affair between an aging alcoholic and a young discharged serviceman in post-war 1950s Mexico City. Public Service Broadcasting perform The South Atlantic from their latest album The Last Flight, which is themed around th…

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2 Mediocre White Dudes On A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) 1:36:56

2M ago1:36:56

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Renny Harlin (and others....) manage to direct the hell out of a film that despite everything working against it, so many bad decisions, and a deadline ends up being entertaining! #anightmareonelmstreet4 #nightmareonelmst #freddykrueger #robertenglundBy PLD

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Kelsey Mann on Inside Out 2, Humphrey Bogart documentary, Susan Chardy 42:28

2M ago42:28

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Disney's hit Inside Out 2 film explored youthful emotions to incredible success as the film is not only the highest grossing film of 2024 but it's also the most successful animated film of all time. Director Kelsey Mann explains how they made it. Humphrey Bogart remains one of Hollywood's most iconic screen stars and new the new documentary Bogart:…

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Review: Rumours, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grand Theft Hamlet 42:22

3M ago42:22

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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Naomi Alderman and Mark Ravenhill to review a new production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre, starring the current Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa, W1A’s Hugh Skinner and Sharon D Clarke. Plus comedy horror Rumours starring Cate Blanchett, and Grand Theft Hamlet – a documentary film which was shot inside…

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New Makar, future of musical theatre, arts funding in Scotland 42:13

3M ago42:13

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Scotland's new Makar (National Poet) Peter Mackay, whose appointment was announced this week, talks about how he intends to shape the role over the next three years. Elizabeth Newman of Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Jon Gilchrist of Birmingham Hippodrome discuss new initiatives to boost the production of musical theatre around the UK. Plus Jacob R…

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Richard Curtis's new film, Purple Heart Warriors audio drama, Turner Prize announcement 42:22

3M ago42:22

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Tom Sutcliffe hears from the Love Actually writer and director Richard Curtis about how much he's obsessed by Christmas - and how he's now moved into animation for his latest film That Christmas, based on his trilogy of children’s books. There's advice on the best books to buy this Christmas from the literary critic Alex Clarke and Toby Lichtig, Fi…

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2 Mediocre White Dudes On A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) 1:30:38

3M ago1:30:38

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PEAK Freddy Krueger. When you think of Nightmare on Elm Street....when you think of Freddy Krueger. THIS is the Krueger/Nightmare you think of. So many iconic kills, so many iconic people involved! PJ & I were so happy to return and talk this sequel. Top 3 horror sequels of all time! #anightmareonelmstreet3 #nightmareonelmst #freddykrueger #roberte…

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Reopening of Notre-Dame, Jacob Collier, Marshall Brickman, King Winter's Birthday 42:18

3M ago42:18

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In 2019 fire destroyed the much of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. As the restoration is completed, Agnes Poirier describes the work of skilled artisans that she has watched over the past five years. Her documentary series for the World Service In the Studio programmes can be heard on BBC Sounds. Jacob Collier discusses and plays from his new…

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Review: Beatles 64, Electric Dreams @ Tate Modern, The Agency 42:15

3M ago42:15

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Samira Ahmed's joined by this week's critics - Louisa Buck and Matt Everitt - to review Beatles '64, documenting the fab four's first trip to America with previously unseen footage shot by pioneering brothers Albert and David Maysles. They've also been to see Tate Modern's new exhibition Electric Dreams, exploring how artists were inspired to use m…

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Donny Osmond, Orhan Pamuk, Puccini's centenary 42:22

3M ago42:22

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Nobel Prize winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk talks about the publication of his illustrated journals, Memories of Distant Mountains. As he takes on the role of Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh, Donny Osmond talks about his career in music. And in the week that marks the centenary of his…

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