The Guardian UK Culture Podcast
The Guardian's UK Culture podcast features the best of our original writing, drama, reviews and news. Our latest series is Adulting, the Guardian's first foray into original podcast content
Fri, April 01, 2022
Weekend: episode two of a new podcast
Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In this episode, Marina Hyde looks at the new additions to Downing Street (2m00s), Hadley Freeman interviews Hollywood actor Will Arnett (9m56s), Sirin Kale tries her hand at quiz show Mastermind (26m32s), and David Robson examines why we’re so stressed about stress (41m08s). If you like what you hear, subscribe to Weekend on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
Sat, February 05, 2022
Weekend: episode one of a new podcast
Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In our first episode, Marina Hyde reflects on another less than stellar week for Boris Johnson (1m38s), Edward Helmore charts the rise of Joe Rogan (9m46s), Laura Snapes goes deep with singer George Ezra (18m30s), and Alex Moshakis asks, “Are you a jerk at work?” (34m40s). If you like what you hear, subscribe to Weekend on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts
Thu, July 01, 2021
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast
Have you ever wondered what famous people actually eat? In our new podcast, Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent does just that, asking well-known guests to lift the lid on the food they turn to when they’re at home alone – and what comfort foods have seen them through their lives. In the first episode, screenwriter Russell T Davies tells Grace about his childhood in Swansea, the delights of Woolworth’s pork and egg pies, and how his husband’s death informed his latest TV series, It’s a Sin. Future guests will include Nish Kumar, Rafe Spall and Aisling Bea. Episodes willl be released every Tuesday – search for it wherever you get your podcasts
Mon, February 08, 2021
Reverberate: episode 1 of our new series
The Guardian has launched a new series called Reverberate that we think you’ll like. Each week, Chris Michael will explore incredible stories from around the world about when music shook history. In the first episode, we hear from Kashy Keegan, an unknown singer-songwriter in a sleepy English town who became the voice of Hong Kong’s nascent pro-democracy movement. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series
Mon, August 03, 2020
Innermost: another episode of our new series
We wanted to bring you another episode from our Innermost series. In the last episode of our first season, two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with criminal consequences Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series
Thu, June 25, 2020
Innermost: episode 1 of a new series
The Guardian has launched a new series called Innermost that we think you will like. Each week, callers will tell Leah Green what’s going on behind closed doors. In the first episode, we hear how an uncle’s funeral and meals with an emotionally distant brother help James and Jess think about their families in new and unexpected ways. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series
Fri, May 18, 2018
The best of the rest - the British Podcast awards 2018
Rhianna Dhillon reveals the final nominees in this year’s British Podcast awards. With the winners announced on Saturday, sample shows from Russell Brand, Penguin Books and more
Thu, May 17, 2018
The British Podcast Awards: the best culture and sport podcasts of the year
All this week Rhianna Dhillon is playing the hits from the British Podcast Award 2018 nominees. Today, it’s the best culture, sports and interview podcasts
Wed, May 16, 2018
Podcasts for the soul - The British Podcast Awards
Rhianna Dhillon explores this year’s nominees for the best family, fiction and most original podcast
Tue, May 15, 2018
Podcasts that thrill and make you laugh - the British Podcast Awards
Rhianna Dhillon reveals the nominees for best comedy and true crime podcasts at this year’s British Podcast Awards
Mon, May 14, 2018
Podcasts to make you think - The British Podcast Awards
Sample the choice cuts all this week from this year’s nominees in this Guardian taster series. Today: the best new and current affairs shows.
Tue, May 01, 2018
The music of Cafe Oto – The Story podcast
Cafe Oto co-founder Hamish Dunbar guides us through some of his favourite recordings from the renowned east London experimental music venue
Tue, May 01, 2018
Ten years of Cafe Oto – The Story podcast
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the world-renowned experimental music venue, musicians, staff and volunteers tell the story of how an abandoned Dalston paint factory was transformed into a vibrant international hub of creativity. Featuring Thurston Moore, David Toop, and more
Thu, January 25, 2018
Sofia Coppola on the film that launched her – The Start podcast
Our new culture podcast, The Start, brings major artists to the mic to reveal how they began their careers. In this first episode, Sofia Coppola talks about the fear and the thrill of directing her debut film, The Virgin Suicides
Fri, November 24, 2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep6
Events come to a head in the final episode of our audio drama series. Will the wedding even take place?
Fri, November 24, 2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep5
A series of answerphone messages reveal what really happened in 2007
Fri, November 24, 2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep4
Can Daniel discover the truth before it’s too late?
Fri, November 24, 2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep3
Charlotte uncovers a decade of deceit in the third episode of our audio drama podcast
Fri, November 24, 2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep2
Charlotte arrives at the wedding venue, and makes an unexpected discovery
Fri, November 24, 2017
Adulting: the Guardian's first original podcast drama - ep1
Ten years after university, a group of friends gather for a wedding in the Lake District. But all is not as it seems...
Mon, October 02, 2017
Let's eat … date night. The changing face of British mealtimes
Gnocchi or nookie? For our last meal in this series about British mealtimes, it’s a romantic dinner for two as host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together
Wed, September 27, 2017
Let's eat … comfort food. The changing face of British mealtimes
In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years. This week, it’s time to find the perfect recipe for a duvet day
Fri, September 22, 2017
Let's eat … Dinner parties. The changing face of British mealtimes
In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week it’s time to have friends and family round for a dinner party
Fri, September 15, 2017
Let's eat … TV dinners. The changing face of British mealtimes
In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week speed and comfort rule with TV dinners
Fri, September 08, 2017
Let's eat … Sunday lunch. The changing face of British mealtimes
In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. First up, the traditional Sunday lunch
Thu, April 27, 2017
British Podcast Awards sampler - the smartest podcasts
Get inspired with this pick of the smartest series made in Britain, as chosen by the judges of the British Podcast Awards 2017.
Wed, April 26, 2017
The British Podcast Awards sampler - arts, reviews and sport podcasts
Looking to lose yourself in a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon explores the best entertainment, sport and review podcasts of the past year, according to the British Podcast Awards
Tue, April 25, 2017
The British Podcast Awards sampler - interviews & current affairs podcasts
Looking for a podcast that can make sense of our world? Rhianna Dhillon showcases the British Podcast Award nominees for Best Interview and Current Affairs series, plus the Represent award for reaching new audiences
Mon, April 24, 2017
The British Podcast awards sampler – original formats and new podcasts
Rhianna Dhillon shares the best new podcasts – and the most original formats – as chosen by judges of the British Podcast awards 2017
Sun, April 23, 2017
The British Podcast Awards sampler - comedy podcasts
Looking for a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon shares the best moments in Comedy, Fiction and True Crime from the nominees for the British Podcast Awards 2017.
Thu, November 10, 2016
Urban explorer and geographer Dr Bradley Garrett – audio interview
Dr Bradley Garrett has been exploring the forbidden parts of cities since he was a teenager. He talks to Stephen Moss about scaling skyscrapers, sneaking into sewers and the two-year court trial that almost ended it all • Find out how to experience Underworld, the Guardian’s virtual reality exploration of the sewers, guided by Bradley Garrett
Fri, November 06, 2015
Chanterelles by Evie Wyld – Forest fables podcast
In our fourth exclusive sound story celebrating Britain’s forests, the Granta young British novelist Evie Wyld reads her unsettling tale of marital tension at the end of times
Thu, November 05, 2015
The Princess Forest by Alec Finlay - Forest fables podcast
In the third of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, the Scottish poet and artist Alec Finlay reads his tale of a mythical submerged woodland
Wed, November 04, 2015
The Common Dean by Alan Garner - Forest Fables podcast
In the second of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, Alan Garner reads his own tale of a newcomer who finds ‘ancient noise’ beneath the choked underlife of of Cheshire’s woodlands• Listen to The Green Stuff by Ali Smith
Tue, November 03, 2015
The Green Stuff by Ali Smith - Forest Fables podcast
In the first of a series of exclusive sound stories inspired by the UK’s woodlands, the award-winning writer weaves a spellbinding tale from an encounter between a boy and a strange green child
Thu, June 11, 2015
Lampedusa by Anders Lustgarten - audio drama
In an audio play specially commissioned for the Guardian by Soho Theatre, a fisherman confronts the tide of refugees sweeping across the Mediterranean
Thu, May 23, 2013
James Salter reads Break it Down by Lydia Davis
James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize
Fri, January 04, 2013
Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’
Thu, January 03, 2013
Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel
Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’
Wed, January 02, 2013
Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce
Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline
Tue, January 01, 2013
Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai
Mon, December 31, 2012
Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says Jon McGregor
Sun, December 30, 2012
Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William Trevor
Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’
Sat, December 29, 2012
AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt
Fri, December 28, 2012
Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi
Thu, December 27, 2012
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata Aidoo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’
Wed, December 26, 2012
Nadine Gordimer reads 'The Centaur' by José Saramago
José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer
Tue, December 25, 2012
Simon Callow reads 'The Christmas Tree' by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story ‘A Christmas Tree’ is ‘almost Proustian’, says Simon Callow
Mon, December 24, 2012
Ruth Rendell reads 'Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook' by MR James
Ruth Rendell doesn’t believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James’s stories, like ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’, frighten her nonetheless
Sun, December 23, 2012
Richard Ford reads 'The Student's Wife' by Raymond Carver
Despite their restraint, Raymond Carver’s ‘early-period’ stories, such as The Student’s Wife, are full to the brim, says Richard Ford
Fri, December 21, 2012
Zadie Smith reads 'Umberto Buti' by Giuseppe Pontiggia
Zadie Smith launches our winter series of short stories with an almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from Giuseppe Pontiggia, ‘Umberto Buti’
Mon, August 13, 2012
Lauren Laverne's Spacepod 2012 podcast: episode 1
Lauren's studio guest at the Edinburgh festival is veteran Comedy Store Player Neil Mullarkey, who reveals how improv can improve your life, while Jon Holmes explores the set for a Polish version of the Scottish play – 2008: Macbeth
Tue, March 27, 2012
The Hands by Gemma Brockis and Tilly Tansey
The Hands By Gemma Brockis and Tilli Tansey: additional voice Sam Booth; featuring Kind Im Einschlummern, by Schumann, played by John Reid
Fri, February 03, 2012
Body Pods podcast: The Heart by Francesca Beard and Dave Hildick-Smith
The second in a unique series of podcasts co-produced by Fuel, Roundhouse and UCL Ear Institute
Mon, January 23, 2012
The Ear by David Rosenberg and David McAlpine
The first in a unique series of podcasts co-produced by Fuel, Roundhouse and the UCL Ear Institute
Thu, December 22, 2011
Everyday Moments 12: audio drama for private performance
Welcome to the final edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.Our latest playlet is by Bobby Baker and is designed to be listened to, as the artist puts it, "any old time when the shops are open, driving on a flyover, searching for Christmas presents"
Mon, November 21, 2011
Everyday Moments 11: audio drama for private performance
Welcome to the eleventh edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.Our latest playlet is by Adrian Howells and is designed to be listened to in the early hours of the morning, in bed with a hot drink
Fri, October 21, 2011
Everyday Moments 10: audio drama for private performance
Welcome to the tenth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.Our latest performance is Late Night Rain by Lemn Sissay and is designed to be listened to exactly then – late at night
Wed, September 28, 2011
Tech Weekly podcast: creating a digital public space
Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space with the British Library, the Royal Opera House and the BBC
Tue, September 20, 2011
Everyday Moments 9: audio drama for private performance
This is the ninth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.Our latest playlet is by Melanie Wilson, and is designed to be listened to in the bathroom in the evening with the door closed and standing in front of the mirror
Tue, August 23, 2011
Everyday Moments 8: audio drama for private performance
This is the eighth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.Our latest podcast playlet is by comedian Josie Long, and is designed to be listened to at 5.30pm in an express supermarket
Mon, July 25, 2011
Everyday Moments 7: audio drama for private performance
This is the seventh edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.This month's podcast is by film-maker Nick Whitfield, and is designed to be listened to first thing in the morning, with a cup of coffee, as an excuse to delay starting work
Tue, July 12, 2011
Days in the Life at the Guardian: 17 June 1996
If a newspaper could talk, what might it sound like? To celebrate the 2011 Manchester festival, Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme four: the IRA Arndale bomb
Tue, July 12, 2011
Days in the Life at the Guardian: 7 February 1958
If a newspaper could talk, what might it sound like? To celebrate the 2011 Manchester festival, Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme three: the Munich aircrash
Tue, July 12, 2011
Days in the Life at the Guardian: 6 November 1908
If a newspaper could talk, what might it sound like? To celebrate the 2011 Manchester festival, Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme two: the Guardian and the suffragettes
Tue, July 12, 2011
Days in the Life at the Guardian: 22 August 1819
If a newspaper could talk, what might it sound like? To celebrate the 2011 Manchester festival, Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme one: Peterloo and the founding of the Guardian
Fri, July 08, 2011
Everyday Moments 6: audio drama for private performance
This is the sixth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.This month's podcast is by theatremaker Nic Green, and is designed to be heard at sunrise, outside, on top of a hill or mound
Fri, May 20, 2011
Everyday Moments 5: audio drama for private performance
This is the fifth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.This month's podcast is by choreographer Hofesh Shechter, and is designed to be heard late at night, with headphones, in a completely dark room – with some space to move ...
Mon, April 25, 2011
Everyday Moments 4: audio drama for private performance
This is the fourth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.This month's podcast is by the performance artist Peggy Shaw, and is designed to be heard at dawn, at home, after a sleepless night
Thu, March 24, 2011
Everyday Moments 3: audio drama for private performance
This is the third edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download.This month's podcast is by poet and comedian John Hegley, and is designed to be heard on a Saturday morning, as you're doing jobs around the house
Wed, February 23, 2011
Everyday Moments 2: audio drama for private performance
Here's the second edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatremakers and poets to composers and comedians – and is free to download.This month's podcast is by performance poet Inua Ellams and is designed to be heard on a city bridge, at midnight, with a pen and paper – and some friends
Mon, February 14, 2011
The Truth podcast: Eat Cake
Confirmed singletons Elizabeth and Brian each have their own alternative Valentine's Day traditions. But can homemade coconut cake + random phone calls = love? Find out in the second of our radio dramas from US producer Jonathan Mitchell
Tue, February 08, 2011
The Truth podcast: Moon Graffiti
A new series of radio dramas by US producer Jonathan Mitchell launches with an alternative moon landing
Thu, January 20, 2011
Everyday Moments: audio drama for private performance
In collaboration with theatre producers Fuel, today we launch a series of podcasts that bring fragments of theatre into everyday life. They're free to download, and designed to be listened to in a specific place, at a specific time of day – site-specific performance with a twist.We'll release one a month; future artists to be involved include poet Lemn Sissay, choreographer Hofesh Shechter and comedian Josie Long. The first podcast in the series is entitled In the Evening, In the Bath, by Kazuko Hohki, and should be listened to exactly where it says ...
Wed, December 22, 2010
Helen Simpson reads 'The Kitchen Child' by Angela Carter
In the last of our 12 tales for Christmas, Helen Simpson reads Angela Carter’s ‘triumphant comedy’, ‘The Kitchen Child’ For more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and Helen Dunmore reading Frank O’Connor, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short story, join the discussion on our open thread
Tue, December 21, 2010
Short story podcast: Ali Smith reads A Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley
Ali Smith reads a ‘breathtaking, breathgiving’ look at an argument between an elderly father and his writer daughterIn the original version of this podcast, Ali Smith’s reading was cut short. The version below has been corrected with the full-length reading
Sun, December 19, 2010
Short story podcast: Tessa Hadley reads 'The Jungle' by Elizabeth Bowen
Tessa Hadley reads a story from one of her ‘writing family’, Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Jungle’
Wed, December 15, 2010
Margaret Drabble reads 'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield
Margaret Drabble reads Katherine Mansfield’s ‘memorable, painful’ The Doll’s House – the first adult short story she ever readFor more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and William Boyd reading JG Ballard, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short story, join the discussion on our open thread
Tue, December 14, 2010
Colm Tóibín reads Music at Annahullian by Eugene McCabe
Colm Tóibín delights in the hidden landscapes and hidden lives revealed in Eugene McCabe’s Music at AnnahullianFor more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and William Boyd reading JG Ballard, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short story, join the discussion on our open thread
Wed, December 08, 2010
Short Story Podcast: Short Story Podcast: Julian Barnes reads Homage To Switzerland by Ernest Hemingway
Julian Barnes chooses a quiet, sly, funny story from an author deeply out of fashionFor more podcasts, including Anne Enright reading Raymond Carver and William Boyd reading JG Ballard, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short story, join the discussion on our open thread
Wed, December 08, 2010
Short story podcast: Philip Pullman reads 'The Beauties' by Anton Chekhov
Philip Pullman opens our podcast series of authors reading their favourite short stories with Chekhov’s ‘masterpiece of minimalism’, ‘The Beauties’
Fri, November 26, 2010
Short stories podcast: Coming soon
Lisa Allardice introduces the Guardian’s forthcoming series of short stories podcasts
Tue, October 12, 2010
Private View podcast: A walk across Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern
Adrian Searle takes a walk across Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's latest installation at Tate Modern: 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds, each painstakingly handmade. A journey across a summer beach, or an expedition across a frozen desert?
Thu, July 15, 2010
The South London gallery: Private view with Adrian Searle
In the latest instalment of his audio series, our art critic guides you around the 'knockout' new space – a historic gallery that has been completely overhauled, and filled with specially commissioned works by artists including Fiona Banner and Paul Morrison
Wed, February 17, 2010
Private view podcast: Adrian Searle describes Crash, art's homage to JG Ballard at the Gagosian
Where can you see a mangled jet, writhing orgy and Afghan space station all in one place? At a new art exhibition at London's Gagosian Gallery, where an eye-popping collision of sex and technology pays homage to JG Ballard's dystopian vision. Adrian Searle gives us a guided tourIn pictures: See images from the show here
Mon, November 02, 2009
Do we need a new morality for the 21st century? 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas
In the last podcast from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, we ask if a new morality is needed in the new world order of the 21st century
Thu, October 29, 2009
Social mobility: what's holding Britian back? 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas
In this latest talk from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, we ask what is holding back social mobility in the UK
Wed, October 28, 2009
David Starkey on Henry VIII: Famous for 500 years
At the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, David Starkey gives the first Mark Pigott Lecture, on Henry VIII and his legacy
Tue, October 27, 2009
John Baldessari: Private view with Adrian Searle
Why has a veteran Californian artist arranged for a beautiful woman and her poodle to share an ear-shaped sofa? Fantasy has never seemed so real at the Sprüth Magers gallery in London, finds Adrian Searle
Mon, October 26, 2009
Becoming Barbie: 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas discusses female stereotypes
Dr Jude Browne presents a panel discussion on the cultural significance of Barbie, at the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Mon, October 26, 2009
Willie Brown and guests at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas discuss the legacy of the recession
Professor Willie Brown and a panel of experts discuss the legacy of the recession at the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Fri, October 23, 2009
An age of austerity for the arts? Cambridge Festival of Ideas
In the second of our podcasts from the Cambridge festival of ideas, we ask if the recession is likely to decimate the arts, and what can be done to boost private funding
Thu, October 22, 2009
Where do ideas come from? 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas - Podcast 1
Professor Adrian Poole chairs a debate from the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on the origin of ideas, with writers Lisa Appignanesi and Andrew Robinson, and academics Dame Gillian Beer and Professor Rosamond McKitterick
Tue, October 20, 2009
Grayson Perry: Private view with Adrian Searle
Adrian Searle finds the seven ages of man, from birth into a river of blood to death in the mouth of a fearsome-looking devil, are laid out in Grayson Perry's new work, The Walthamstow Tapestry
Wed, October 14, 2009
Ed Ruscha: Private view with Adrian Searle
Adrian Searle is thrilled by the paintings of Californian artist Ed Ruscha, whose signs, cornstalks and burning gas stations offer a rare glimpse into the American mind
Wed, September 23, 2009
Matthew Brannon: Private view with Adrian Searle
Standing in a room above a pub in east London, Adrian Searle is impressed by this hotly tipped American artist's first UK solo show – a cruise ship on a doomed voyage across the Atlantic
Tue, August 04, 2009
Boule to Braid: Private view with Adrian Searle
Adrian Searle pays close attention to the 'funny, serious and inscrutable' works arranged by artist Richard Wentworth for a new show at London's Lisson Gallery, cleverly connecting disparate works by the likes of Bridget Riley, Tony Cragg and Donald Judd
Thu, June 04, 2009
Adrian Searle on Steve McQueen at the Venice Biennale
Adrian Searle takes a first look at Steve McQueen's new film, Giardini, at the Venice Biennale and is stunned by its ethereal melancholy
Tue, May 26, 2009
Madeleine Bunting introduces a debate about Iran's Shah 'Abbas
An exhibition focusing on Shah 'Abbas at the British Museum forms the starting point for a debate about the 17th-century ruler's influence on modern Iran
Thu, May 21, 2009
Benjamin Zephaniah talks to Hannah Pool
Benjamin Zephaniah talks to Hannah Pool
Mon, May 18, 2009
Adrian Searle on Francis Alÿs
Some look saintly, some look cross ... Adrian Searle visits Francis Alÿs's tribute to Saint Fabiola at the National Portrait gallery
Wed, April 08, 2009
Whitechapel takeover: Mark Titchner on the art of liberty
To celebrate the reopening of the Whitechapel gallery, artist Mark Titchner explores the relationship between art and freedom. Here, he talks to AC Grayling, Shami Chakrabarti and Jason Horsley about the role art plays in an increasingly restricted society
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