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Mercury Music and Booker Prize longlists; museums’ funding; new LGBTQ+ museum
This year's book and music prize lists; museum funding; Queer Britain - new LGBTQ+ museum.
26 Jul 2022,42 mins
Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival
Folk singer Bella Hardy performs; poet Thomas Lynch reads, art at the Commonwealth Games
25 Jul 2022,42 mins
Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered
A review of the film Notre-Dame On Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
21 Jul 2022,42 mins
Where The Crawdads Sing; On Sonorous Seas; Maison Margiela's Cinema Inferno
Crawdads director Olivia Newman; theatre on the runway; Hebridean artist Mhairi Killin.
20 Jul 2022,42 mins
Jean Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Tours
Jean Paul Gaultier's new show, Shakespeare's productions, and a report on music touring.
19 Jul 2022,42 mins
Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood
Life in Kraftwerk, the Spooky Men's Chorale perform, Lucy Kirkwood on Maryland for TV.
18 Jul 2022,42 mins
Persuasion & Patriots reviewed, Durham Brass Festival, Museum of the Year winner
Luke Harding and Hanna Flint review Carrie Cracknell's adaptation of Persuasion.
14 Jul 2022,41 mins
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, The Railway Children Return
Shakespeare North Playhouse opens in Prescot.
13 Jul 2022,42 mins
Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Oscar-winning Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on her upcoming BBC Proms concerts.
12 Jul 2022,42 mins
Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan / Druet
Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan/Druet
11 Jul 2022,42 mins
The Story Museum, The Waste Land and Brian and Charles reviewed, Grand Theft Hamlet
The Waste Land, Brian and Charles reviewed, The Story Museum Oxford, Grand Theft Hamlet.
07 Jul 2022,42 mins
New national poet of Wales, Lucian Freud show, The Royal Cornwall Museum, The Blue Woman opera
New national poet of Wales announced, Lucian Freud show, The Blue Woman opera premiere.
06 Jul 2022,42 mins
Claudia Rankine, Derby's Museum of Making, Streamer Fatigue
Claudia Rankine on her play The White Card and Derby's Museum of Making
05 Jul 2022,42 mins
Peter Brook; Gone With The Wind; new children’s laureate Joseph Coelho
Peter Brook remembered, the new children's laureate, Gone With The Wind and the US today.
04 Jul 2022,42 mins
All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs
Natalia Ginzburg's All Our Yesterdays, opera Sun & Sea, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs
30 Jun 2022,42 mins
In the Black Fantastic exhibition; Maya Youssef performs live; visual artist Colin Davidson's exhibition
Ekow Eshun on curating the exhibition In The Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery.
29 Jun 2022,43 mins
Arthur Hughes as Richard III, Literary Prizes, Dadaist Interventions
Arthur Hughes, the future of literary prizes, Dadaist interventions.
28 Jun 2022,42 mins
Stephen Beresford, A harp concerto about bees, James Graham, Peter Kosminsky
Playwright and BAFTA winning screenwriter Stephen Beresford on The Southbury Child.
27 Jun 2022,42 mins
Reviews of the plays Rock, Paper, Scissors and documentary Studio Electrophonique, The People's History Museum, Michael Rosen
We review Rock, Paper, Scissors - three new plays marking 50 years of Sheffield Theatres.
23 Jun 2022,42 mins
Rowan Atkinson, Windrush Sculptures, Susanne Bier
Rowan Atkinson, Thomas J Price on his Windrush sculptures, director Susanne Bier.
22 Jun 2022,42 mins
Live music festivals; Roy Williams' play The Fellowship; The Horniman Museum
The post-pandemic challenges facing the festival sector as Glastonbury returns.
21 Jun 2022,42 mins
Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry
Baz Luhrmann on Elvis.
20 Jun 2022,42 mins
Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project
Gavin Porter on National Theatre Wales's live documentary performance Circle of Fifths.
16 Jun 2022,42 mins
Freddie De Tommaso, Women’s Prize For Fiction Winner, John Byrne, Ukrainian Antiquities
Tenor Freddie De Tommaso; we announce the Women's Prize winner; John Byrne's retrospective
15 Jun 2022,42 mins
Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues
Theaster Gates' new pavilion, Pixar's Lightyear, Kate Bush, Dean Atta's YA novel in verse.
14 Jun 2022,42 mins
George Ezra performs, TV drama Sherwood reviewed, Norway's National Museum opens
George Ezra performs tracks from his new album Gold Rush Kid.
13 Jun 2022,42 mins
Reviews of the film All My Friends Hate Me and the play Cancelling Socrates; the Women's Prize for Fiction nominee Ruth Ozeki
A review of British comedy-horror film All My Friends Hate Me, directed by Andrew Gaynord.
09 Jun 2022,42 mins
Paula Rego Remembered, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak, Stones In His Pockets
Paula Rego’s life and work, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak's Women's Prize shortlisted book.
08 Jun 2022,42 mins
Ayanna Witter Johnson performs, Clement Ishmael, digital theatre
Ayanna Witter Johnson plays live, plus Clement Ishmael and digital theatre.
07 Jun 2022,42 mins
Africa Oyé, Queer Poetry, Maggie Shipstead
Music festival Africa Oyé; 100 Queer Poems, Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle.
06 Jun 2022,42 mins