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Theatre Audience Podcast

Natalie Maher & Darren Murphy

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Step into the captivating world of live performance with the Theatre Audience Podcast! Hosted by the dynamic duo, Natalie and Darren, this ongoing series promises to whisk you away into the heart of the theatre scene. Every week, we bring you thrilling insights into the latest shows, buzz-worthy theatre news, and exclusive interviews with industry insiders. It's your backstage pass to the drama, the laughter, and the sheer magic of the stage. Join us on this exhilarating theatrical journey w ...
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Jimmerish FM

Jimmerish.com

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Jimmerish FM is an internet talk radio station and podcast studio based in Perth, Western Australia. It is focused on spirited, casual, round-table discussions and intimate one-on-one conversations with artists, scientists and everyday people. We discuss anything from Film, Space, Television, Theatre, Love, Video games and the rest of the arts and technology. Visit us at www.jimmerishfm.com
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The Longborough podcast

Longborough Festival Opera

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Longborough Festival Opera is a 500-seat homegrown theatre in the Cotswolds. Our podcast series was born out of the Covid lockdown. We'll be welcoming lots of our friends from the world of opera and the arts, including singers, players, directors, conductors and more, for what will be some thought-provoking discussions. We hope you'll join us too.
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'Our Family' is a three-part audio drama exploring the differences of living life at various points in history through a group of orphans in three distinct times of their life: the second World War, the seventies and the 2020 lockdown. A Prop Box Youth Theatre starring our students, produced in association with Isaac Lawrence Films and Hayden Davey Audio Production.
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Only We Know is an original performance series created, developed, and produced by Theatre 2108. Only We Know: Where We Go From Here features 14 new monologues, poems, and one-act plays written, recorded, and produced as part of Theatre 2108 Offstage, the collective's portfolio of artistic creations while in lockdown. To learn how you can donate and partner with Theatre 2108, email [email protected] today.
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Production Meetings

Mark Shayle & Natasha Houghton

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Backstage theatre folk chatting. We asked Stage Managers, Producers, Directors, Production Managers, Technicians, and even a few lovely actors to come along to our "Production Meetings". Sharing pearls of wisdom, swapping comedy theatrical stories, and generally having a bit of a lark. Nothing too serious or time-consuming. With their tour off the road and the theatres shut due to COVID lockdown, two Stage Managers, Natasha Houghton and Mark Shayle, talk shop with invited guests ( *cough*, p ...
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Dark Traveller

CFUV, WHoS, SNAFU

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𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓 is the first-ever podcast created by incarcerated artists in Canada. Voice acting, audio commentary, and homemade sound effects are performed by the team of actors who are incarcerated at William Head Prison in Victoria, BC. William Head on Stage Prison Theatre Company (WHoS) has staged a play for the public every fall for the last 40 years. This is their first-ever radio play, recorded inside the institution during the pandemic lockdown. The podcast features the team performi ...
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Library Words

Lewisham Libraries

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Stories, poetry, histories and memories are all shared in our fortnightly podcast created by Lewisham libraries staff. We started collecting material at the beginning of Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020 and shared them with customers and residents through Facebook as the weekly series “Lewisham Voices”. We are now publishing them more widely through this podcast. There are memories from residents of growing up in Lewisham during the 1950s, and local author Caleb Azumah Nelson reflects on a mo ...
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Woodhouse Players presents Overheard - A Series of Short Radio Plays Overheard is a collection of original audio plays written and performed by the Woodhouse Players on the theme of Overheard. The small interactions which perhaps hint at much more. A whole drama unravelling from something we were perhaps not meant to hear. Each play is an original play written specifically for Overheard during the Winter/Spring 2021 COVID-19 UK National Lockdown. Keeping theatre alive! Listen and spark your ...
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”To Be Or Not To Be” – it’s the most famous speech in all of English drama, but what on earth is Hamlet actually talking about?This series, made by BAFTA winner, double Emmy Award winning documentary producer Andrew Smith, features contributions from Adrian Lester, Harriet Walter, Sir Mark Rylance, Samuel West and many more. The first 14 episodes were produced during lockdown to raise awareness for theatres and for actors in a time of pandemic and theatre closures. If you would like to suppo ...
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Welcome to The Zoom Green Room hosted by Anne Meighan. The Green Room is the lounge in the theatre where artists meet, talk, drink and in this case you can even smoke if you want to....because it's all virtual! So pull up a chair and listen to real artists and arts workers share past, present and future stories, opinions, plans...and gossip.
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My name is Mahboobeh. I am a Digital Artist, Filmmaker, Theatre Maker and Writer. I am starting this new series of Our New World to open our eyes to new prospectives in our life now that has changed in many ways because of the virus. I hope you enjoy my podcasts.
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Men Behaving Better

Men Behaving Better

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From the creator of the multi-award winning Irishman Abroad podcast, comes a new series, a different kind of conversation, a one of a kind panel discussion about what men need to do to improve. Recorded live at venues such as London's Soho Theatre and The Other Palace Theatre, comedian and Irish podcasting pioneer Jarlath Regan presents his post-Weinstein discussion with rotating panel of well known guests and experts in the field of gender equality. Expect the best and brightest male and fe ...
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Stories to Tell When You Stay at Home Specially developed during April 2020, when large part so the globe were on lockdown. It is strange times, we all know that, oddly familiar yet completely unknown. These are stories for adults, while they tidy up, do the washing up, sit very still, try to get some sleep….They are recorded in lockdown, created in a homemade recording studio made from duvets and light fittings. Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night A series of 9 episodes of short, str ...
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Pure Graft

Tom Stocks

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It's very easy in the arts to get down in the dumps if your not getting auditions regularly, or you have had a few knockbacks from a casting you really wanted or your stuck in your day job & struggling to stay motivated. Well we are here with comedy sketches, discussing all the funny things that happen to us all in the industry & of course our hilarious audition/ industry stories of the week sent in by you. So basically we are here to cheer you up & make sure you start your week of grafting ...
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SEASON 3 is out now. Join me as i take Bernie and my car and go on a roadtrip around Europe. Doing an awkward route but chasing clubs! Seeking joy and putting on shows wherever they will have me. SEASON 2 is up now! Hello! I am back, it’s ten years since What Would Beyonce Do?! and I am turning 40 this year so join me as i embark on a Best of my one woman show, show!! TOUR Season 1 Following me chatting on my stand up tour in Autumn 2021. Hello, I am Luisa Omielan, creator of one woman stand ...
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jeromew_uk

Jerome Whittingham

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Constructive conversations with solutions-focused people, and audio documentaries. Presented by Jerome Whittingham @jeromew_uk Topics include: community development, social issues, social enterprise, conservation and environment, health and wellbeing, arts and culture. Get in touch if you have something to share. Jerome is a professional FREELANCE photographer, writer, podcast & radio producer. He believes in giving people and communities a voice - to give them influence. Your support is muc ...
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Director and Screenwriter PJ Hogan, creator of the 1994 comedy Muriel's wedding, speaks to Samira Ahmed about the new musical adaptation of his film. With lead actors leaving, and ratings down, there are questions about the future of Doctor Who. Author John Higgs, and entertainment writer Caroline Frost, talk about the past, present and future of t…
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Classics professor Edith Hall and writer Lawrence Norfolk join Tom to review The Return, a retelling of the end of Homer’s Odyssey, where the hero Odysseus returns to his kingdom decades after the battle of Troy to find his wife Queen Penelope fending off suitors out to take his throne. The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche talk to Tom …
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Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman talks about the re-release of her eponymous debut album after 35 years, about how those songs of oppression and aspiration, written so long ago, speak to us today, and about going from almost unknown to world famous in one performance. We ask two directors of productions of The Crucible (by Scottish Ballet, and at Sh…
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Kym Marsh on stepping into the iconic role of Beverly in theatre classic Abigail's Party as the play opens at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Film critic Hannah Strong and George Pundek, co-host of the Pulp Kitchen film podcast, on why so many of the big film franchises are facing difficulties. Severance creator Dan Erickson on making a t…
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In this special episode we’re celebrating the best of London theatre with a full breakdown of the 2025 Olivier Awards. With Fiddler on the Roof leading the nominations with 13, it was an exciting night for theatre, but a range of shows came out victorious. Fiddler on the Roof, Giant, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button each took home three awar…
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Theatre director Robert Icke's production of Oedipus won best revival and a best actress award for Lesley Manville at last night's Olivier Awards - but his new play Manhunt is now demanding his attention at the Royal Court Theatre in London. The drama focuses on the story of Raoul Moat who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her new boyfriend bef…
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Nancy Durrant and Jason Solomons join Tom to review:The new offering from Guy Ritchie, Mobland, with familiar themes of drug gangs and violence and starring Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy, amongst others.Giuseppe Penone's Thoughts in the Roots exhibition which is in and outside the Serpentine gallery, expanding on the significance of trees…
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Tilda Swinton talks about her role in Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical film The End, and about her intention to take a break from acting, Actor and artistic director of the new Welsh National Theatre Michael Sheen, and screenwriter Russell T Davies reveal plans for the company's first season. Plus we discuss the influence of schoolmast…
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Charlie Brooker talks about the return of his wildly popular tech and sci-fi dystopian drama Black Mirror. This new six-part series includes Paul Giamatti as a man using AI to reconnect to a lost love who has died, Emma Corrin as a digitally recreated 40s screen star and, for the first time, follow-up episodes of two of the show's most popular epis…
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This week we’re reviewing three thrilling productions that explore power, privilege, and history. From the raw intensity of The House Party at Rose Theatre to the euphoric vibes of House of Life following its sold-out Edinburgh run, and the gripping portrayal of Sidney Poitier in Retrograde at the Apollo Theatre, this episode is full of thought-pro…
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Front Row looks at freedom of expression in the arts. From rows about cancel culture to allegations of censorship and the charge that the arts has become 'woke', we explore what is happening. Samira is joined by art curator, Ekow Eshun, novelist Philip Hensher, poet and author of Hounded, Jenny Lindsay and theatre critic Kate Maltby, who sits on th…
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For our review programme Tom Sutcliffe is joined by critics Dorian Lynskey and Briony Hanson. They are looking at: New comedy series The Studio, set in Hollywood and starring Seth Rogan and Catherine O’Hara. Delusions of Grandeur, Grayson Perry’s new exhibition where he selects items from the Wallace Collection, adds 40 new works and a new alter eg…
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Peter Capaldi talks about his latest album – Sweet Illusions – a nod to the thriving 80s music scene in Glasgow where Peter made his musical debut fronting The Dreamboys. Through the Shortbread Tin is a new National Theatre of Scotland production about the supposed third century Scottish bard Ossian. Its writer – poet Martin O’Connor – and director…
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This week we’re reviewing an exciting array of productions that span genres from comedy and dark drama to thrilling suspense and musical theatre. We’re diving into The Habits, Alterations, and Weather Girl, and we also bring you insights from the media event of Alfred Hitchcock Presents – The Musical. Plus, we sit down with Jennifer Jennings and Ph…
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The actor and director Peter Mullan talks about taking on the role of Bill Shankly in the new theatre production in Liverpool, Red or Dead, about the much-loved Liverpool football club manager. In April 1925 the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a seven-month exhibition of contemporary design, opened in Paris. A…
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Bryan Ferry discusses his latest album, Loose Talk and reflects on his long career in music. Disney's new live action version of Snow White has just opened and has attracted criticism from those who felt it departed too far from the original film. Film critics Larushka Ivan Zadeh and Al Horner explore why Disney's reinterpretation of its own canon …
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Critics Hanna Flint and Boyd Hilton join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Clueless, a new musical based on the 1995 film staring Alicia Silverstone. They also discuss Flow, Oscar-winning, dialogue-free, animated film based around the story of a cat who must find safety after its home is devastated by a flood. Plus Robert de Niro playing two gangsters in th…
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French auteur Francois Ozon, whose previous films include 8 Women, Swimming Pool and Potiche, talks about his latest, When Autumn Falls, a bittersweet story of age, youth and breaking the rules, set in a picturesque Burgundy village. As the centenary of his birth approaches, leading pianist Tamara Stefanovich and musicologist Jonathan Cross discuss…
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The 15th annual Offies Awards recently took place at Central Hall Westminster in a star-studded ceremony hosted by drag superstar Divina De Campo. The event celebrated the best of London's Off-West End theatre scene, recognising groundbreaking work before it reaches mainstream acclaim. Special Award Recipients Lynette Linton & Daniel Bailey receive…
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Sculptor Antony Gormley and Professor of French literature, Catriona Seth discuss Victor Hugo's visual art with Tom Sutcliffe. Victor Hugo was a 19th century cultural colossus, known for monumental works such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables as well as his poems, plays and political writings. It's not so well known that throughout …
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Front Row's artist in residence, acclaimed Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson, reflects on five years since lockdown and we have another listen to his Front Row lockdown performance of the Adagio from Bach's Organ Sonata Number 4. How were the arts affected when the country locked down five years ago? Matthew Hemley of The Stage and Louisa Buck of…
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Samira Ahmed and guest critics - the novelist and anthropologist Tahmima Anam and Ben Luke from the Art Newspaper - give their verdict on the week’s cultural releases. They’ve been to see Cate Blanchett in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull at the Barbican Centre. The classic drama still features characters from Russian nobility – but it’s given a mo…
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Songwriter and musician Edwyn Collins performs live from his latest album, Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation, a series of 11 optimistic and defiant tracks released two decades on from two devastating cerebral haemorrhages. American novelist Torrey Peters, whose book Detransition, Baby became a bestseller and was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fic…
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Music extracts and discussion on Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, ahead of the new production at Longborough Festival Opera in 2025. Featuring Bjarte Eike and Tom Guthrie of Barokksolistene, Longborough's Artistic Director Polly Graham and Longborough Emerging Artists Frances Gregory and Sofia Kirwan-Baez. Accompanied by Satoko Doi-Luck at the harpsichor…
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As Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel The Leopard is dramatised for television, director Tom Shankland and film critic Peter Bradshaw discuss the power of this classic Italian novel. Natasha Brown's first novel, Assembly, saw her favourably compared to Virginia Woolf and won a Betty Trask award. Her eagerly-awaited second novel Universality has j…
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This week we’re reviewing two brilliant productions that offer everything from nostalgia and laughter to dark comedy and suspense. We take a look at The Last Laugh, a hilarious new play celebrating the lives of Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe, and Bob Monkhouse, and Farewell Mister Haffmann, a poignant and intense piece set during Nazi-occupied Paris.…
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Adolescence – the new Netflix series starring Stephen Graham – explores every parent’s worst nightmare: a teenage son accused of a knife-crime. Co-writers and directors Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini join us to explain how the “single-shot” filming technique sheds light on the way toxic masculinity spreads online among young people. Fantasy ficti…
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In Front Row's Thursday review, Ellah Wakatama and Rhianna Dhillon give their take on Bong Joon Ho's new film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattison, David Szalay's new novel Flesh, and Get Millie Black, Channel 4's Jamaica-set crime drama from Marlon James. Plus we hear from Sophie Elmhirst, whose Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Sh…
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Actor Jessica Lange discusses her latest film, an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning play Long Day's Journey Into Night, in which she plays Mary Tyrone, a woman with a morphine addiction at the centre of a dysfunctional family, and a role for which she previously won a Tony Award on Broadway. Welsh National Opera's new joint CEOs…
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A new exhibition at London's National Gallery hopes to shed light on artists in 14th Century Siena, who have often been overshadowed by their Tuscan neighbours in Florence. Samira is joined in the studio by one of the curators, Imogen Tedbury, and by Maya Corry, a Renaissance expert from Oxford Brookes University to discuss the astonishing colours …
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This week we’re reviewing three electrifying productions that span a range of genres and styles. From the jaw-dropping true crime story in KENREX to the tense AI thriller East Is South at Hampstead Theatre, and the hilarious, sharp wit of Much Ado About Nothing starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell, this episode has it all. KENREX KENREX is the…
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Sean Baker made Oscar history, becoming the first person to win four Academy Awards for directing, editing, writing and producing a single film, Anora. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh joins Samira to look at this year's Oscar winners and what they say about cinema today. The RSC's co-artistic director Daniel Evans discusses playing Christopher Marlowe's Edward…
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Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the film critic Ryan Gilbey and art critic and author Charlotte Mullins review the week's latest cultural releases including Tate Modern’s exhibition on the unconventional artist and performer Leigh Bowery, the Greek film featuring gay romance, The Summer With Carmen and Michael Amherst’s first novel, The Boyhood of Cai…
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Kirsty Wark talks to Anjelica Huston about playing a magnificent matriarch in the adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, which begins on BBC One this weekend. The director of the British Museum, Nicholas Cullinan, talks about the appointment of an architectural firm who will be redeveloping the Museum's galleries, about the pressures of runn…
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As the Oscars hove into view this weekend, the news is the women are coming - Stacey L Smith from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on their research showing more women leading Hollywood box office hits. Berlin ER is the new medical drama from Apple set in a run down A&E department in the German capital. Creator and former doctor Samuel Jefferson …
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This week on Theatre Audience Podcast, we’re reviewing three powerful performances that span genres from historical drama to Greek tragedy and contemporary theatre. We start with Mrs President at the Charing Cross Theatre, move on to the intense Elektra starring Brie Larson and Stockard Channing, and finish with the emotional Second Best starring A…
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We look back at the quarter century in performing arts, exploring the changes in live stage performance and asking how the theatrical landscape has changed over those years. Samira Ahmed hears about some of the big trends that have changed the experience - such as immersive theatre and discusses the challenges the sector has faced. She is joined by…
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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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Music extracts and discussion on Wahnfried: the birth of the Wagner cult, a major new opera with the UK premiere at Longborough Festival Opera in 2025. Featuring the opera's composer Avner Dorman, conductor Justin Brown and Polly Graham who will direct the 2025 production. This was recorded live at an event for Longborough members in February 2025.…
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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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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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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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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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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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This week we’ve got an exciting lineup of reviews and insights, from the grand stage of the London Palladium to the heartfelt If/Then concert performance. We’re reviewing Figaro, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, the If/Then concert starring Kerry Ellis, David Hunter, and Adam Garcia, and celebrating the 50th birthday of Paines Plou…
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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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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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