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Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his five-decade retrospective exhibition.
Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his retrospective exhibition, which spans a five decade career. Best known for his work in the landscape, this exhibition sees the…
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Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on making her debut as a playwright with a Liverpool legend
Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on putting Wayne and Coleen Rooney at the heart of her debut play - The Legend of Rooney's Ring - which has just opened at…
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Tom Lehrer remembered, plus Nick Drake's unreleased songs
Richard Stilgoe pays tribute to the great American humorist and songwriter Tom Lehrer, who has died at the age of 97. Samira discusses newly released and…
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Review Show: Burlesque the Musical
Tom is joined by poet and writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes and dance critic Lyndsey Winship to review the latest big screen to stage musical adaptation Burlesque the…
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Prison-themed stage productions, Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and the composer Bruckner's fascination with death masks
A new stage production that's been inspired by the writer's own experience as an inmate. Academy Award winning playwright and director Terry George served a…
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Jimmy McGovern on Unforgivable and Has Marvel cracked the superhero reboot?
Jimmy McGovern on his challenging new BBC drama, Unforgivable, about a convicted child abuser.The Fantastic Four changed comics forever in 1961 by making…
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Mark Gatiss on Bookish
Samira talks to Mark Gatiss about his new detective series, Bookish. Playwright Suzie Miller discusses her new courtroom drama Inter Alia, about a Crown Court…
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Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North TV Series
Tom Sutcliffe with reviewers Bidisha and Caroline Frost discuss the TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep…
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How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes
As a new exhibition of Ikea textiles opens, we discuss the impact of Scandinavian design concepts on our homes, with curator Anna Sandberg Falk of the Ikea…
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Football and Art - united in a new work created by former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer
Former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer on creating a new work for the Manchester International Festival. As four new twenty minute operas are…
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Gruelling film productions - stories from the sets of Apocalypse now and Fitzcarraldo
We mark Bastille Day with a dive into President Macron’s cultural policy for France. And we revisit the dark heart of filmmaking with two people who were there…
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Review Show: Wet Leg's new album and Johnny Depp's artist biopic Modigliani
Nancy Durrant and Boyd Hilton join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Moisturizer, the second album from the female English indie rock duo Wet Leg. Their self-titled…
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Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls
Bestselling novelist Kate Mosse - much of whose historical fiction is set in medieval France - reacts to the news that the Bayeux Tapestry is to go on display…
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Superman is back on the big screen
Superman is back on the big screen for the first time in nearly a decade, we speak with director James Gunn. We preview a season of films at the BFI, starring…
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Oasis comeback tour reviewed
Author Raynor Winn is accused of fabricating parts of her memoir The Salt Path, which she denies. We ask Alexandra Pringle, former Editor in Chief at…
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Review: RSC's The Constant Wife
Tom is joined by reviewers Kate Maltby and Stephanie Merritt to discuss Laura Wade's adaptation for the RSC of Somerset Maugham's comedy The Constant Wife…
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Reaction to the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case verdicts, and Back to the Future at 40
As the jury in the trial of music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs delivers its verdicts, author and cultural critic Mikki Kendall discusses how Americans will react…
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Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island
Comedian and poet Tim Key on writing and starring in The Ballad of Wallis Island which has become one of the surprise film hits of the year.Novelists Saima Mir…
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Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards
British director Gareth Edwards talks to Samira Ahmed about how his love of the films of Steven Spielberg inspired his new film Jurassic Park Rebirth, the…
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Review Programme: Van Gogh and Anselm Kiefer
Charlotte Mullins and Katja Hoyer are with Tom Sutcliffe to review The Royal Academy of Arts' Kiefer/Van Gogh exhibition, Nell Stevens novel The Original, and…
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UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy
UK Culture Secretary LIsa Nandy talks us through the Government's new Creative Industries Sector Plan which aims to unlock growth and opportunity in culture…
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Billy Porter on activism and artists
Billy Porter, famous for his Broadway roles in such shows as Kinky Boots and Grease, and onscreen in Pose and Cinderella is making his directorial debut in…
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Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer on F1 starring Brad Pitt
Samira talks to legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer, whose latest film F1 stars Brad Pitt as a racing car driver. Alistair McGowan and Dr Caroline…
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Review Show: Pixar's new film Elio
Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi talk to tom Sutcliffe about directing Pixar's latest film Elio, about a lonely boy who wants to make contact with aliens. The…
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Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie plays live, plus poet and Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen on his new novel
On the opening night of the Glasgow Jazz Festival, Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie performs from his forthcoming album The Shieling live in…
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The producers of RuPaul's Drag Race, plus pianist Alfred Brendel remembered
RuPaul's Drag Race producers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato join Nick Ahad to talk about their career making making television and movies, ahead of being…
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Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on 28 Years Later
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland tell Tom Sutcliffe about their new film, 28 Years Later; a whole new take on the story which stars Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer and…
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Review Show: Pulp's new album More
Professor John Mullan and writer Lucy O’Brien join Tom to review More, Pulp's first album in nearly 24 years. They also discuss exhibitions by the 20th century…
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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered.
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys rememberedTurner Prize winning artist Rachel Whiteread talks about her retrospective exhibition at the brand new Goodwood Art…
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Was 1975 the best year for music?
Sarah Moss, the celebrated author of Ghost Wall, discusses her new novel Ripeness, which oscillates between tension-filled contemporary Ireland and a heady…
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Twin Peaks creator plus Ian Rankin on Frederick Forsyth
Ian Rankin pays tribute to the best-selling thriller author Frederick Forsyth, whose death was announced today. Samira talks to Twin Peaks' co-creator Mark…
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Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl
Tom and guests review What it Feels Like for Girl, the BBC's coming-of-age drama based on the memoir of Paris Lees; Taylor Jenkins Reid's new novel…
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Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser
Daisy Goodwin discusses her debut play, By Royal Appointment, which stars Anne Reid as Queen Elizabeth and Caroline Quentin as her dresser, and which opens…
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Nick Mohammed on comedy and improvisation
Comedian Nick Mohammed on his stand-up show Mr Swallow, and Deep Cover, his action thriller about a group of comedy improvisers.Kate Wasserberg, Artistic…
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Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage
Samira discusses the Olivier award-winning production of Fiddler on the Roof with its star Adam Dannheisser and director Jordan Fein.Sarah Dunant talks about…
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Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession
Samira Ahmed and writers Dreda Mitchell and Mark Ravenhill review Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, in Mrs Warren's Profession.They consider…
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Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.
Paul Hartnoll of electronic music duo Orbital talks about the reissue of the band's Brown album which was originally released in 1993, with the addition of 23…
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Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival
Live from the Hay Festival, Alison Steadman talks to Samira about her career, from Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey. Laura Bates and Gwyneth Lewis discuss…
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Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio
Stereophonic is a play about the creative process, power dynamics and fraught personal relationships of a 1970s rock band. It won a Tony and many other awards…
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Mission Impossible & Benicio Del Toro
Benicio Del Toro talks about playing a business tycoon in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme. This aesthetically stylised film, by the director who also made…
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Shirley Manson of Garbage
Frontwoman of Garbage, Shirley Manson talks about the band's latest album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, which is inspired by contemporary events…
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Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé
Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé. As a huge retrospective of the work of the artist Helen Chadwick…
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Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat
25 years after Joanne Harris introduced readers to the soothing delights of Chocolat, she's released her new book Vianne. It’s the prequel that explains how…
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Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director
David Benedict and Viv Groskop review Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are, a surreal story of brunch and existential dread; French film about about…
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Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera
Colin Bulfield, Executive Producer of the new film Ocean With Attenborough, talks about working with the celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker Sir David…
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Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary
Novelist Elif Shafak, artist and writer Edmund de Waal and Professor Rachel Bowlby join Samira to discuss the centenary of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. As…
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Suzanne Vega sings in the studio, P Diddy trial, Mother Courage in County Durham
Suzanne Vega has just released her first album of all-new material for nearly a decade. "Flying With Angels" continues her folk-influenced sound and introduces…
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Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air
Authors Matt Cain and Eimear McBride join Tom Sutcliffe to review a new remake of Ang Lee's 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet. They also discuss Isabel…
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Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli
Acclaimed German journalist and film producer Sandra Maischberger talks about her new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, which re-examines the life and career…
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Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis
In the wake of President Trump's proposed film tariffs, Jake Kanter, International Investigations Editor at Deadline, discusses what the impact could be for…
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A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945
To mark the 80th anniversary this week, we explore British culture around VE Day in 1945, reflecting on the music, books, films and theatre that defined the…
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Ryan Coogler on Sinners, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Book Bans in the US
US director Ryan Coogler on his supernatural horror film, Sinners. Anne Sebba discusses her new book, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, about the orchestra…
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Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical
Critic Kate Maltby and Beatles author Ian Leslie join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss two documentaries about John Lennon remaking his life in New York - Borrowed…
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King James VI & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower
Jeff Pope on his new series Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent man who was killed by police on a London tube in 2005, which…
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Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir
In 1975, at the height of their fame, British band Slade made a feature film, Slade in Flame. The film was a critical and commercial failure at the time, but…
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Universal Theme Park, Olivier award-winning play Giant, Two to One
Mark Rosenblatt on Giant, his Olivier award-winning play starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl.As Universal Studios announce plans for a major new theme park in…
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Review: Self Esteem's album A Complicated Woman; RSC's Much Ado About Nothing; Julie Keeps Quiet tennis film
Journalist Siân Pattenden & critic Stephanie Merritt join Tom to discuss Self Esteem's third album A Complicated Woman, which features collaborations with…
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The ethics of publishing posthumous diaries, Pianist Igor Levit, and Memorials to great women.
As the journals of the American writer Joan Didion (based on conversations with her psychiatrist) are published, writer and journalist Rachel Cooke and Alan…
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Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre
Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison, on setting Dante's Inferno on the island of her birth; Journalist Joanna Moorhead on Pope Francis' relationship…
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JMW Turner: 250th anniversary of Britain's greatest painter
Mr. Turner director Mike Leigh, art historian Charlotte Mullins and senior curator at Tate Amy Concannon join Tom Sutcliffe to celebrate the life and work of…