Best Band Biography Podcasts (2025)

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How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes 42:28

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38m ago42:28

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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 Museum in Sweden and designer Anna Campbell Jones. Bestselling author John Niven talks about his latest novel The Fathers, an exploration of contemporary fatherhood and masculinity which is set …

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Football and Art - united in a new work created by former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer 42:20

22h ago42:20

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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 premiered at the Buxton International Festival, Helen Goodman, artistic manager at the festival, and Hannah Ellis Ryan, artistic director of theatre company, HER Productions, discuss how shor…

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Pete Firman - this man did WHAT to a mouse? 47:40

2d ago47:40

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Hiya Toasters! We're back with another in depth and important interview via an online purchase history. This week Pete Firman is our guest, and he brings us tales of mouse and/or fire eating, how best to entertain someone waiting for chips in Middlesborough, and some fascinating insights into just what he gets up to in his shed. Don't forget kids: …

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Gruelling film productions - stories from the sets of Apocalypse now and Fitzcarraldo 42:23

2d ago42:23

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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 during the making of Apocalypse Now and Fitzcarraldo. Documentaries made about both films have been re-released - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse, about Apocalypse Now is in cine…

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Review Show: Wet Leg's new album and Johnny Depp's artist biopic Modigliani 42:52

6d ago42:52

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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 debut reached number one on the UK charts. They also assess Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness, directed by Hollywood star Johnny Depp. The film is Depp's first since 1997 and it cov…

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GLENN MOORE AND VITTORIO ANGELONE: TOASTED 31:35

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Yes! We've done it! Another slightly aimless amble through some recent episodes as Tom and Beth take on huge topics including MICE, WASPS and PERCUSSION. Some of the products talked about today include: COMPOST BIN LINERS (for the freezer, if you're cool) BUNTING HUMANE MOUSE TRAPS and MAP ERRORS FOR DADS That's it for today - make sure you're full…

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Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls 42:41

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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 at the British Museum in London next year. Comedian and actor Kat Sadler on her BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls, which is set in a dysfunctional single parent family. Sitar virtuoso Nis…

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Superman is back on the big screen 42:59

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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 pioneering black film star Dorothy Dandridge. Best known for Carmen Jones, (her performance made her the first African American to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar) she died aged just 42 …

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Vittorio Angelone: Purchases! Percussion! Positions (rugby)! 42:18

9d ago42:18

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Hello fellow Online Purchase History Rubber-kneckers Today it's the turn of the wonderful Vittorio Angelone to allow us to bravely explore his own personal Amazon. We start with his youth in Belfast and early relationships to his career in classical music and eventual and excellent pivot to stand-up comedy. Along the way we've got some classic weir…

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Oasis comeback tour reviewed 42:25

9d ago42:25

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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 Bloomsbury, how publishers respond when a book's authenticity is called into question. Oasis are performing together for the first time in 16 years, kicking off in Cardiff at the weekend. Music journa…

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Review: RSC's The Constant Wife 42:31

10d ago42:31

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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. Also Wendy Erskine's Belfast -set novel; The Benefactors. A polyphonic telling of a teenage girl's assault and its aftermath. And Rebecca Lenkiewicz's directorial debut Hot Milk. Based on Debora…

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Reaction to the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case verdicts, and Back to the Future at 40 42:39

14d ago42:39

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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. On the eve of the 40th anniversary of its release, The Independent's chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey and Dan O'Brien of the University of Essex discuss Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's infl…

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Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island 42:34

15d ago42:34

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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 and Marcia Hutchinson on setting their stories in Bradford. Playwright Ntombizodwa Nyoni on reimagining the 5th Pan African Congress which took place in Manchester in 1945 for her new play,…

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Kaye Adams shares her shopping history and (MUCH) more 👀👀👀 42:15

16d ago42:15

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We're back! Yet MORE Amazon auditing here on MMBAT and this week we welcome our first EVER Loose Woman, the wonderful Kaye Adams. On the show today we discuss: Baby geniuses Maggie Thatcher The longest Duolingo streak ever? AND The one item Kaye was REALLY worries Tom would find. We're back soon with more Toasted, and next week we're diving head fi…

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Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards 42:26

16d ago42:26

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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 latest chapter in the blockbuster dinosaur film franchise. He also talks about the making of his film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which is gaining even more acclaim after the huge success of th…

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TM 966 - 8 Elements of Metal, Rock the Tides & More 9:23

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Mark Strigl talks. Email me for tshirt info - [email protected] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Review Programme: Van Gogh and Anselm Kiefer 42:25

20d ago42:25

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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 German language film From Hilde, with Love. And Sarfraz Manzoor is on to discuss a new Bruce Springsteen compilation – Tracks II: The Lost Albums Presenter: Tom SutcliffeProducer: Claire Bart…

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UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy 42:28

21d ago42:28

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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, media and sport. Last week 27-year-old Scottish author Margaret McDonald become the youngest ever winner of the Carnegie medal for children's writing, for her debut novel Glasgow Boys, a book …

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Billy Porter on activism and artists 42:18

22d ago42:18

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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 theatre with This Bitter Earth. Jesse is an introspective Black playwright and when Neil, Jesse’s boyfriend, who is a white Black Lives Matter activist, accuses him of political apathy, their pa…

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Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer on F1 starring Brad Pitt 42:25

23d ago42:25

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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 Potter celebrate the extraordinary music and life of the French composer Erik Satie, whose centenary is marked on Radio 3 on Saturday. Alistair's play about Satie, called Three Pieces in the S…

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TOASTED: Alistair Barrie 30:10

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Hello Toasters Welcome along to another episode of Toasted, where we take a brief walk around the previous episode of My Mate Bought a Toaster. Today we talk about three huge topics: poo, Moss Bross and how long a game of cricket takes. Some items and topics from today's show include: Bird Repellant! Malcolm Gladwell's Blink Katherine Ryan on golf …

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Review Show: Pixar's new film Elio 42:06

27d ago42:06

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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 film is then reviewed by film producer and critic Jason Solomons and art critic and writer Hettie Judah. Tom and guests also discuss a major retrospective of the work of painter Jenny Saville…

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Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie plays live, plus poet and Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen on his new novel 42:54

28d ago42:54

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On the opening night of the Glasgow Jazz Festival, Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie performs from his forthcoming album The Shieling live in the Front Row studio. Writer and Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen talks about his debut novel Muckle Flugga – a story of love and family set on a remote Scottish island – and reads from the p…

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The producers of RuPaul's Drag Race, plus pianist Alfred Brendel remembered 43:09

29d ago43:09

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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 guests of honour at this year's Sheffield DocFest. Radio 3 presenter Tom Service discusses the life and legacy of Alfred Brendel who was a celebrated author, poet and pianist. Caroline Norbury, t…

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Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on 28 Years Later 42:24

29d ago42:24

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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 Aaron Taylor-Johnson. It's the follow up to their post-apocalyptic fast-paced, gory zombie movies 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. The Rage virus escaped a medical research laboratory and - …

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Alistair Barrie chats neurodiversity, nerf guns and ninjas 52:48

1M ago52:48

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Alright Toasters? Today, comedian Alistair Barrie allows Tom Price to have a serious (and quite funny) Amazon delve and dig out a wide variety of stupid, sad, funny, random topics including: A detailed account of a sophisticated scam that cost Alistair £200. John Bishop dealing with a muddy fan at the Comedy Store The weirdest way to deal with bird…

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Talking Metal 965 Air Guitar, Iron Maiden and Shreddy Mercury 14:14

1M ago14:14

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Mark Strigl talks to Shreddy Mercury. Join Me This Saturday Night in NYC! June 21! I’m honored to be one of the judges at this year’s Air Guitar Manhattan Regional Championship—and I want YOU to be there with me for what’s guaranteed to be an epic night of fun, music, and mayhem. I’ll be judging alongside Frank Bello from Anthrax, Josh Bernstein fr…

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Review Show: Pulp's new album More 42:31

1M ago42:31

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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 British artists Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun which are running in parallel at Tate Britain. Plus they give their verdict on Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, inspired by actual experiences o…

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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered. 42:17

1M ago42:17

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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered Turner Prize winning artist Rachel Whiteread talks about her retrospective exhibition at the brand new Goodwood Art Foundation in Sussex. We celebrate the centenary of the National Library of Scotland and hear about its plans to send important items from its collection to museums around the country - from N…

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TOASTED: Clean Bandit and Shalaka Kurup 32:15

1M ago32:15

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Hello Toasters As promised we've got another Toasted episode for you, where we take a slightly deeper and definitely more tangent-based look through some recent episodes. This week we're having a brief stroll through the Clean Bandit and Shalaka Kurup episodes. And, as ever, here are some of the products we discuss just in case you fancy buying The…

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Was 1975 the best year for music? 42:31

1M ago42:31

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Sarah Moss, the celebrated author of Ghost Wall, discusses her new novel Ripeness, which oscillates between tension-filled contemporary Ireland and a heady summer in 1960s Italy. Dylan Jones discusses his new book 1975: The Year The World Forgot and debates whether this was the best year for music with chief music critic of the Daily Telegraph, Nei…

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Shalaka Kurup reveals her life story via Amazon 50:27

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Alright? Up for a new bit of Toaster? Course you are. Today we've got stand-up soon-to-be superstar Shalaka Kurup who, via a thrilling shopping history that includes a cracking inflatable willy, tells us a life story of travel, PHDs and pole dancing. Exercise. Sorry Pole Exercise. Enjoy and make sure you check out Shalaka if you're off to Edinburgh…

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Twin Peaks creator plus Ian Rankin on Frederick Forsyth 42:24

1M ago42:24

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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 Frost and podcaster Mike Munser about the show's enduring legacy 35 years on, as Twin Peaks is re-released and celebrated at the BFI Film on Film Festival. Playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti talks …

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Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl 42:28

1M ago42:28

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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, Atmosphere, set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and new film, Lollipop, about a young woman released from prison battling to regain custody of her children, written and directed…

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Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser 42:30

1M ago42:30

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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 this week at Theatre Royal, Bath. The life and legacy of Irish novelist playwright and poet Edna O'Brien is discussed by writer Jan Carson and the director of the documentary Blue Road: The Edna…

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Nick Mohammed on comedy and improvisation 42:20

1M ago42:20

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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 Director of Theatr Clywd on the theatre's £50 million redevelopment, and opening the new auditorium with a production of the musical Tick Tick... Boom! Ulrich Birkmaier, senior conservator of pai…

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Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage 42:17

1M ago42:17

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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 the women in the Renaissance who became art patrons, as she publishes her novel The Marchesa, about Isabella d'Este of Mantua. Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, whose films include Far From the …

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Clean Bandit have the best band parents in HISTORY! 43:13

1M ago43:13

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This week on the show it's the turn of Grace and Jack from off of Clean Bandit to put their shopping history on display so we can all gawp like passing idiots. And what a display of personality-revealing shopping it is. Communism, cats, and arguably the best parental support in the history of pop music. ALSO Grace reveals how her cello got her SACK…

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TM 964 Mark Talks Tommy of Motley Crue, Maiden and More 16:00

2M ago16:00

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Recorded and posted May 31, 2025 - Mark Strigl talks about stuff. Talking Metal shirts are for sale - email me if you want one - [email protected] Sign up for my email blast here: http://eepurl.com/hjKGNH See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

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Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession 42:25

2M ago42:25

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Samira Ahmed and writers Dreda Mitchell and Mark Ravenhill review Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, in Mrs Warren's Profession. They consider, too, theatre director Marianne Elliott's first foray into film, The Salt Path, based on a Raynor Winn's bestselling memoir of how she and her husband, after they have lost their house and farm…

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Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark. 42:13

2M ago42:13

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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 extra tracks of rarities and previously unreleased material and about the intersection between dance music and politics. Frances Wilson, who has previously published acclaimed biographies of …

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Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival 42:24

2M ago42:24

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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 Arthurian Legends and The Mabinogion. Hisham Matar champions the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. And transatlantic husband and wife country duo Outpost Drive perform on stage. Presente…

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Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio 42:23

2M ago42:23

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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 on Broadway. Now Stereophonic has come to the West End. Playwright David Adjmi and Will Butler, sometime of Arcade Fire, who has written the music, discuss their own artistic process as they …

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EP 214 HIATUS 9:29

2M ago9:29

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Hosts only episode. HIATUS needed.By Jared "Pete" Gile & Carly Evans

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Mission Impossible & Benicio Del Toro 42:35

2M ago42:35

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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 The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, is reviewed by Tom and critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Rachel Cooke. They also give their verdict on Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckon…

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Shirley Manson of Garbage 42:18

2M ago42:18

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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 including the killing of George Floyd in Los Angeles, but which presents an optimistic perspective on a dystopian world. We hear from the winner of the International Booker Prize, which was announc…

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Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé 42:26

2M ago42:26

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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 opens at The Hepworth Wakefield, art critic Louisa Buck and the exhibition's curator, Laura Smith, discuss why Chadwick should be viewed as the godmother for a golden generation of British c…

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Mel Giedroyc CONFESSES her Amazon Sins (and tells which celeb she saw in the nude!) 45:02

2M ago45:02

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Hello Toasters A quick dip back into a previous episode this week, as we remind ourselves just why Mel Giedroyc is one of the finest humans out there. We'll discuss bike rides, Moomins, McCall and Macrame. Here are a few favourite items: Nitting! Moomins! Wild Swimming! Thanks for listening and don't forget to tell your friend(s). See you next week…

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Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat 42:21

2M ago42:21

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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 her heroine found her way into the world of high end French confectionery. A new exhibition at the British Museum sheds light on the provenance of popular images of the Hindu god Ganesha, the B…

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Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director 42:31

2M ago42:31

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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 grassroots music, The Marching Band and Daniel Kehlmann’s new novel, The Director, about a real life German filmmaker navigating the Third Reich. Presenter: Tom SutcliffeProducer: Simon Richar…