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Fangirls musical, countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Sam West
Tom talks to the creators of the hit new musical Fangirls.
22 Jul 2024,42 mins
Review: TV: Those About To Die, Film: Thelma, Theatre: ECHO
Review Show: Those About to Die TV series, the film Thelma and play Echo.
18 Jul 2024,42 mins
Danny Dyer and Pete Bellotte on his hits for Donna Summer
The cultural impact of the Olympics in Paris 1924 and a look at new series Mr Bigstuff.
17 Jul 2024,42 mins
Disco Prom, fast-food themed immersive art, arts funding crisis in Wales, Bill Viola remembered
Disco at the Proms, Sweet Dreams in Manchester, arts funding crisis in Wales, Bill Viola.
16 Jul 2024,42 mins
Anne-Marie Duff, Al Murray, Melvyn Hayes, Billboard art
Anne-Marie Duff, World War 2 on Film, Melvyn Hayes, Billboard art.
15 Jul 2024,42 mins
Review Show: Theatre: Slave Play, Film: Fly Me To The Moon, TV: Sunny
Film Fly me to the Moon, TV show Sunny and Slave Play are reviewed.
11 Jul 2024,42 mins
Museum of the Year winner announced
Breaking as an Olympic sport, Museum of the Year winner, playwright Mark Ravenhill.
10 Jul 2024,42 mins
Chariots of Fire staged, Pompidou Centre redeveloped, My Native Land republished
Chariots of Fire on stage, the Pompidou Centre redeveloped, and My Native Land republished
09 Jul 2024,42 mins
Laurie Anderson's album Amelia, what's in the new Culture Secretary's in-tray?
Laurie Anderson on Amelia Earhart and Julie Hesmondhalgh on saving the Oldham Coliseum.
08 Jul 2024,42 mins
Review: Starlight Express, Anita Desai's book Rosarita, film: The Nature of Love
Reviews of Starlight Express, Rosarita by Anita Desai and rom-com The Nature of Love.
04 Jul 2024,42 mins
Poet Paul Muldoon, film Unicorns and writer Stefan Zweig.
Unicorns film directors Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd.
03 Jul 2024,42 mins
The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly, Dundee Contemporary Gallery
Ebon Moss-Bacharach on The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly performs live, new Children's Laureate.
02 Jul 2024,42 mins
Lynda la Plante, AI and copyright, funding literary festivals
Lynda la Plante discusses her final Jane Tennison novel.
01 Jul 2024,42 mins
Reviews - Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody Sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest
Reviews of Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest.
27 Jun 2024,42 mins
Next to Normal, British TV history, In the Eye of the Storm
Musical star Caissie Levy, Modernism in Ukraine exhibition and key moments in TV history.
26 Jun 2024,42 mins
The Marilyn Conspiracy, Rachel Podger, Emma Glass
Rachel Podger plays live, a new play about Marilyn Monroe, Emma Glass's novel Mrs Jekyll.
25 Jun 2024,42 mins
Kyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetry
A play inspired by a climate conference, live Americana, and poems for midsummer.
24 Jun 2024,42 mins
Review: Film Green Border, Exhibition Stories of Henry VIII's Queens, TV: Federer: Twelve Final Days. Plus Joseph Coelho
Six Lives exhibition, Asif Kapadia’s Federer, Yoto Carnegie Medal winner Joseph Coelho.
20 Jun 2024,42 mins
Graham Gouldman, Jaws anniversary, queering Shakespeare
Graham Gouldman performs, Jaws at 50 and queering Shakespeare with Will Tosh.
19 Jun 2024,42 mins
Stephen Fry, New Comedians, Questlove
Stephen Fry on new film Treasure, new stand-ups discussion, Questlove on Hip-Hop history.
18 Jun 2024,42 mins
Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
Stephanie J Block sings from Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
17 Jun 2024,42 mins
Review of films Sasquatch Sunset and Ama Gloria and a look at Vivienne Westwood's clothes
The Women's Prize for fiction and non fiction and the Walter Scott prize announced.
13 Jun 2024,42 mins
James Shapiro, BEKA, Molly Bloomsday
Groundbreaking 1930s US theatre, live music from BEKA, and an all-women festival.
12 Jun 2024,42 mins
Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals
Taylor Swift art trail, Les Dennis in Twelfth Night, independent festivals at risk?
11 Jun 2024,42 mins
Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Warner, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps
Jon Bon JovI, Clare Pollard and Marina Warner, The Dead Don't Hurt
10 Jun 2024,42 mins
Review: Film - Rosalie, TV - Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Book - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
A wild west love story, the world of Paris fashion, and an unconventional marriage.
06 Jun 2024,42 mins
Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship
Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship.
05 Jun 2024,42 mins
Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas
Candice Carty-Williams, portraying modern dating on stage, and female pirates in fiction.
04 Jun 2024,42 mins
Richard Linklater, Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, Esther Swift
The director on his new film, Hit Man, and the Scottish harpist plays live.
03 Jun 2024,42 mins
Review: The Beast, We Are Lady Parts, Beyond Fashion exhibition
Samira Ahmed and guests review some of this week's TV and film releases.
30 May 2024,42 mins