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Review Show: Tony, film about the early life of chef Anthony Bourdain

Academic and critic Maria Delgado and writer and producer Jake Cunningham join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the film Tony, a film about the early career of food writer Anthony Bourdain, who is played by D...

2026-08-14

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The best theatre at this year's Edinburgh Festivals

Australian writer and performer Hannah Reilly talks to us about her much-anticipated one woman show about sex, power and authenticity, Roleplay, which is produced by the team behind Fleabag and Baby R...

2026-08-13

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Steph McGovern on how to buy art

Steph McGovern, presenter of new BBC show The Big Deal, is joined by Marie Le Conte to discuss how to buy art. Fleabag actor Sian Clifford on her lead role in "Lady", a new mockumentary film about a ...

2026-08-12

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Game of Thrones at the RSC first night review

What's the Royal Shakespeare Company's much anticipated stage adaptation of Game of Thrones like? Critics Boyd Hilton and Kate Maltby give their verdict. Conductor Marin Alsop on what makes American...

2026-08-11

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Review Show: Irvine Welsh's new novel and Glenn Close's new film

Suzi Feay and John-Paul Stonard join Samira to review: Can Nothing Save Us?, the new novel from Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, a state-of-the-nation thriller set in the US. The Summer Book, a ne...

2026-08-07

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Live from the Edinburgh Festivals: Stockard Channing on directing Krapp's Last Tape

In the first of our special programmes from the Edinburgh Festivals, actress Stockard Channing - star of Grease, Six Degrees of Separation and Practical Magic - joins us alongside her friend, actor Da...

2026-08-06

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Magic live in the studio

Samira is joined by two magicians live in the studio, from the stage show "Now You See Me Live". And then she takes part in a trick and is bamboozled! Jacqueline Crooks' latest novel Sky City follows ...

2026-08-05

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John Hannah on his new comedy crime drama set in Benidorm

John Hannah plays a washed-up former detective who has moved to Spain to run a pub in the new Channel 5 comedy drama Benidorm is Murder. He discusses the appeal of television crime series, and why wor...

2026-08-05

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Review show: Childhood in War, Children of Wolves and kids in Luton

Rhianna Dhillon and Sarfraz Manzoor join Tom Sutcliffe to review: Childhood in War, an exhibition at the Imperial War Musuem exploring how children have experienced conflict from 1914 to the present ...

2026-07-31

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How the opiod crisis inspired an opera

Composer Missy Mazzoli discusses her opera The Galloping Cure, which fuses a live orchestra with electronic beats and features a charismatic antihero and talking dogs. An allegory for a crisis which h...

2026-07-30

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Mary Beard reveals the Booker Prize longlist, plus Bill Pullman on taking on Chekhov

Professor Dame Mary Beard reveals the 2026 Booker longlist and how she has found the process of being Chair of the judges. British contemporary pop artist Philip Colbert’s latest installation has jus...

2026-07-29

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Bill Oddie, remembered by his friend Graeme Garden

Graeme Garden remembers his friend and Goodies colleague, Bill Oddie. Frank Miller reimagined Batman as a tougher, grittier sort of comic book hero: The Dark Knight. He has written a memoir and a gui...

2026-07-28

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Review Show: Trainspotting the Musical, Colson Whitehead's new novel

Hanna Flint and Chris Power join Tom Sutcliffe to review: The new stage musical adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, featuring famous songs from the 1996 Danny Boyle film as well as new ...

2026-07-24

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Andrew Ridgeley on Wham in China

In 1985, Wham were the first Western pop group to perform in communist China, and the tour changed people's lives. As a new documentary about this landmark moment in pop lands in cinemas - and screens...

2026-07-23

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Ruth Madeley on new TV drama The Rapture, Nadine Shah on her BBC Prom

Actor Ruth Madeley on starring in new TV drama The Rapture - a psychological thriller where the competing interests of an oil company, a religious cult, a protest group and a disturbed young woman con...

2026-07-22

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The first PM with an English degree, plus a new museum of WWII espionage

Trent Park, the House of Secrets is a new museum in north London which explores the story of the secret listeners who eavesdropped on the conversations of German senior military prisoners of war. Sami...

2026-07-21

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Review: Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey with Matt Damon and Zendaya

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by film critic Tim Robey and classicist Edith Hall to discuss: Christopher Nolan's much anticipated film version of Homer's epic The Odyssey, shot with IMAX cameras and with a...

2026-07-17

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Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman

The coming-of-age series Heartstopper has been a phenomenon with young readers and viewers in recent years. Its creator Alice Oseman joins us as the film Heartstopper Forever lands on Netflix, and as ...

2026-07-16

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Christopher Nolan on his film The Odyssey, Little House on the Prairie, novelist Candice Carty-Williams

British director Christopher Nolan discusses his biggest cinematic blockbuster yet: The Odyssey, which stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland and more, in his retelling of Homer’s epic poem abou...

2026-07-15

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Diane Morgan on playing a robot in TV comedy Ann Droid.

Diane Morgan on her BBC TV comedy series Ann Droid, in which she stars as the eponymous robot helper to Sue Johnston. We pay tribute to actor Sam Neill, who has died at the age of 78. His screen wor...

2026-07-14

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