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Front RowReview Show: Pulp's new album MoreProfessor 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 of Laura Piani, who is making her directorial debut with this film.Tom also talks to Visual Art Curator Sim Panaser and artist Abi Palmer, about Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff - one of the finalists in the Art Fund Mus...2025-06-1242 min
The Horse Girl GazetteerEvolution (History Ep 1) - With Abi SutcliffeWelcome to the start of our history series! This week's episode centers on evolution and how the modern horse came to be.Speaking topics include: the equus family, why zebras aren't domesticated, and where horses came from.For more fun, and to support the project directly, you can join the Patreon at patreon.com/HorseGirlGazetteEnjoy!2025-02-1229 min
The Daily Football BriefingHave you heard? The Champions League is backMonday began a significant week in the world of football. Yes the Champions League is back, we’ll get to that.But first it was all about Manchester City, whose trial against the Premier League for alleged spending breaches got under way. Matt Slater is on hand to tell us what we should and should not expect. We also had football on Monday in the form of League One’s finest: Tom Brady’s Birmingham facing Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham. David Beckham was there, but so was Richard Sutcliffe.And finally as promised, the Champions...2024-09-1709 min
The Queer Soul Spotlights3e8 - ABI SUTCLIFFE | lesbian, wedding photographer, and plus size hikerAbi (she/her) is a lesbian wedding photographer and plus size hiker based in Minnesota. We chat about plus size representation in the wedding industry and the outdoors world, getting aesthetic attraction and romantic attraction confused as a queer visual artist, and a truly cringe-worthy song I had the misfortune of performing in my musical theatre college program.
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2023-08-3039 minThe Daily Football BriefingWhere do Tottenham go from here?How Do Spurs Recover From This? Jack Pitt Brooke runs the rule over a disastrous day for TottenhamCan Manchester United stop rivals Manchester City from winning the treble? Carl Anka worries that it may be very trickyAnd How Was Saturday Night In Wrexham? Richard Sutcliffe was thereProduced by Abi Paterson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-04-2413 minFront RowDiversity at the Oscars and Baftas; plays and the cost of living; children's books; Phyllida BarlowThe conclusion of the Oscars marks the end of the film awards season, so Front Row took the opportunity to look at the progress made on representation in film and at awards. Tom is joined by the film critic Amon Warmann, Katherine Pieper of LA's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which looks at equalities at the Oscars, and Marcus Ryder of the Lenny Henry Centre For Media Diversity.Plus, with a host of new productions exploring the cost of living crisis, we look at how playwrights are tackling this. Writer Emily White talks about her new play, Joseph K...2023-03-1442 min
Abi of PellinorAll the Series I Need to Finish 😱I can't be the only one who starts a load of series and then ends up with them perpetually on their tbr... right? Today I'm going through all of the series that I haven't finished! There's a fair few!
📚Books Mentioned📚:
The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence
Cathy's Series by Stewart, Weismann, and Brigg
The Languedoc Series by Kate Mosse
Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Legend by Marie Lu
The Baby Ganesh Agency by Vaseem Kahn
An Ember in the Ashes Series by Sab...2021-11-0709 min
Abi of Pellinormy intimidating tbr!! 📚All of us have those books that we're just... a little scared to pick up and read. Some of them cause they're big. Some of them it's because of the author. Today I'm chatting about the books that intimidate me!
📚Books Mentioned📚:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
War Storm by Victoria Aveyard
This Savage Song by V.E. Schwab
The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles by Rosemary Sutcliffe
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Three Sisters Three Queens by Philippa Gregory ...2021-11-0710 min
Abi of Pellinorfive TBR Veterans 😱📚Sometimes books just kinda... sit on your tbr shelves a while. Here's 5 of mine and me guilt tripping myself into reading them sooner rather than later!!
📚Books Mentioned📚:
Cathy's Key by Stewart, Weissman and Brigg
Cathy's Ring by Stewart, Weissman and Brigg
The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles by Rosemary Sutcliffe
Red Queen by Christina Henry
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
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✨Find me on the so...2021-11-0707 min
Saturday ReviewMisbehaviour, On Blueberry Hill, Abi Dare, Warhol, Breeders and Kate+KojiMisbehaviour is a new film about the 1970 Miss World pageant which saw the first black Miss World and was also disrupted by the nascent Women's Liberation movement who threw flour bombs at host Bob Hope
Sebastian Barry's play On Blueberry Hill is set in a prison cell where two men's stories of how they got there become intertwined.
Abi Daré's novel The Girl With The Louding Voice is the tale of Adunni, a fourteen year old Nigerian girl who has to go into domestic service in Lagos but is determined to better herself
A new retrospective of the w...2020-03-1449 min
ABI PodcastEpisode 82 - Chapter 9 Experts Discussing Municipal DistressChapter 9 Experts Discussing Municipal Distress
The latest ABI Podcast features a panel discussion led by ABI Resident Scholar Prof. Juliet Moringiello and Patrick Darby of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Daniel Egan of DLA Piper LLP, Marc Levinson of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and George South of DLA Piper LLP to discuss municipal distress. As four of the five authors of Municipalities in Peril: The ABI Guide to Chapter 9, Darby, Egan, Levinson and South discuss their book and some of the unique problems that arise under chapter 9. They also discuss recent chapter 9 filings, including Vallejo, Calif. and cities reportedly said...2015-06-0440 minSaturday ReviewDallas Buyers Club; Hanif Kureishi; Inside Number 9Dallas Buyers Club is based on the real life story of Ron Woodruff who fought to make new treatments available to patients with HIV and AIDS. The film is nominated for six Oscars - but is it a winner?We discuss Hanif Kureishi's latest book, The Last Word. A tale of two men, an old novelist and his young biographer who comes to stay, so what does it reveal about writers and the art of writing?Abi Morgan's new play The Mistress Contract is based on the 30 year arrangement of one couple - she provided...2014-02-0841 minSaturday Review21/01/2012Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers David Aaronovitch and Sarfraz Manzoor and historian Amanda Vickery review the week's cultural highlights including the film Coriolanus.Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with a film adaptation of Coriolanus, playing the title role in a modern day version of Shakespeare's play. Vanessa Redgrave plays his ambitious mother who wants him to capitalise on his success as a military leader by entering the political fray in Rome.Julie Otsuka's novel The Buddha in the Attic tells the story of Japanese 'picture brides' who travelled to San Francisco nearly a...2012-01-2142 minSaturday Review07/01/2012Tom Sutcliffe and his guests the novelists Deborah Moggach and Michael Arditti and academic and critic Maria Delgado review the week's cultural highlights including The Iron Lady.The Iron Lady is Phyllida Lloyd's film about Britain's first woman Prime Minister - Margaret Thatcher. Written by Abi Morgan it stars Meryl Streep in the leading role.Edmund White's novel Jack Holmes and His Friend follows its two central characters - Jack and Will - across several decades from the early 1960s in New York City. Jack is gay and can never quite get over his unrequited...2012-01-0741 min