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The Pearl Lam PodcastThe Pearl Lam Podcast | With Ekow EshunOn this episode of The Pearl Lam Podcast, Pearl Lam engages in an insightful conversation with British writer, curator, and cultural commentator Ekow Eshun. Eshun, renowned for his compelling work on Black identity, futurism, and the politics of representation, shares his reflections on the pivotal role of art in shaping narratives around race, memory, and belonging. Throughout the episode, Eshun delves into his curatorial practice, discussing the thought-provoking exhibitions he has curated that have left a lasting impact on the art world. He provides a detailed account of his landmark exhibitions, highlighting how they have challenged conventional...2025-05-1952 min
The Business of Fashion PodcastEs Devlin and Ekow Eshun on Belonging, Otherness and IdentityIn an intimate conversation at BoF VOICES 2024, artist and stage designer Es Devlin and writer and cultural curator Ekow Eshun discuss the transformative potential of human connection. Emerging from a desire to confront her own biases, Devlin’s “Congregation” project invited 50 Londoners from immigrant backgrounds to be drawn and displayed inside St. Mary le Strand church in London. Eshun’s new book, “The Strangers”, likewise interrogates racial identity and belonging through the stories of five Black men spanning centuries and continents.“I'm not the same person at all,” says Devlin, reflecting on her experience. “I'm...2025-02-1421 min
Everything Is ConnectedEkow Eshun: in conversation with Folasade OlogunduduOn this episode I’m joined by Ekow Eshun. Ekow Eshun is a writer, editor and curator, known for his work in arts, culture, and identity. In the episode we discuss his latest exhibition, The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, on view through February 9 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The show brings together over 60 contemporary works that unfold around three core themes: Double Consciousness, Past and Presence and Aliveness. As the former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, he played a significant role in shaping the institution's programming. Ima...2025-01-2927 min
Konnected Minds PodcastUnlocking Financial Independence: How Coach Ekow Eshun Transformed Traditional Mindsets for SuccessWhat if you could unlock your financial potential and transform your life by challenging traditional mindsets? Discover the life-changing insights shared by Coach Ekow Eshun on Konnected Minds Podcast. With over thirty years of experience as a life and finance coach, Coach Ekow takes us on a journey from his days as a struggling pastor to becoming a beacon of financial literacy. His story is a testament to the power of self-discovery, a growth mindset, and the impact of surrounding oneself with a supportive network.Throughout the episode, we explore the transformative journey from conventional media platforms...2024-12-271h 20
Notes from America with Kai WrightWriter Ekow Eshun on James Baldwin’s HistoryOur guest on the final episode of “Notes on a Native Son” is British writer Ekow Eshun. He has been described as a cultural polymath. At a startlingly young age, 29, he became the first Black editor of Arena, a mainstream magazine in the UK. He continued to break new ground when he became the first Black director of a major cultural institution, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace. These days, as chair of the Commissioning Group for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, he leads one of the world's most famous and sometimes contro...2024-11-3030 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 919 - Ekow Eshun's The StrangersEkow Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, editor, curator, broadcaster, and author of the memoir Black Gold of the Sun, which was nominated for the Orwell Prize for its exploration of race and identity. He writes for publications including the New York Times, Financial Times and Guardian, and has created documentaries for BBC4 and BBC Radio 4. Eshun was the first Black editor of a major magazine in the UK and the first Black director of a major arts organisation. In this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book The Strangers. Hosted on Acast. See acast...2024-09-2733 min
Talk ArtEkow EshunWe meet Ekow Eshun, leading curator, writer and broadcaster to discuss his new book The Strangers.In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in their own right but the representative of a type. What kind of performance is required for a person to survive this condition? And what happens beneath the mask?In answer, Ekow Eshun conjures the voices of five very different...2024-09-271h 11
Great LivesEkow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin FashanuIn 1981 Brian Clough paid £1 million pounds to bring Justin Fashanu to Nottingham Forest. It was the climax of a meteoric career, but within months the goals had dried up, he'd been going to gay nightclubs, and Fashanu had also become become a born again Christian. Four decades later Justin Fashanu remains top flight English football's only openly gay player. From his beginnings in care with brother John as Barnardo's boys, via adoption, boxing, football and failed pop star, this is an extraordinary life, beautifully highlighted by his nominator, Ekow Eshun."He was a pioneer - he broke g...2024-09-2327 min
New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow EshunPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them Author: Ekow Eshun Narrator: Ekow Eshun, Ako Mitchell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 19, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Richly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how...2024-09-1905 min
EMPIRE LINESThe Time is Always Now, Ekow Eshun (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x National Portrait Gallery, The Box)Curator Ekow Eshun reframes the Black figure in historic and contemporary art, surveying its presences, absences, and representations in Western/European art history, the African diaspora, and beyond, via The Time is Always Now (2024).
In 1956, the American author James Baldwin wrote: ‘There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.’ Heeding Baldwin’s urgent call, Ekow Eshun’s new exhibition brings together 22 leading contemporary African diasporic artists from the UK and the US, whose practices emphasise the Black figure through mediums...2024-06-2717 min
The Week in ArtBlack figuration, Surrealism is 100, Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance muralThe exhibition The Time Is Always Now, featuring 22 artists from the African diaspora whose work takes the Black figure as its starting point, is now open at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and will tour to Philadelphia later in the year. We explore the show with its curator Ekow Eshun. 2024 marks the centenary of the the first Surrealist manifesto by André Breton, and the first of a series of exhibitions focusing on the movement this year opened at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels this week, before travelling to the Centre Pompidou later in t...2024-02-231h 10
Toward Inclusive Excellence PodcastEkow Eshun on Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Thought, and In the Black FantasticEkow Eshun, author of In the Black Fantastic, joins Toward Inclusive Excellence editor-in-chief Alexia Hudson-Ward to discuss the book’s development and how it acts as a mode of possibility for Black freedom and liberation. A companion piece to the 2022 art exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, In the Black Fantastic weaves together fables, myths, science fiction, and speculative fiction from throughout the African diaspora to explore Black culture and lived experiences. The title includes various creative disciplines—music, film, visual art, and more—that pull from African stories and knowledge systems to demonstrate the freedom of Black speculative thought and how...2024-02-1238 min
Latitudes PodcastOn Blackness and Beauty with Ekow EshunIn Episode 9 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane talks to Ekow Eshun; a British writer, journalist, broadcaster and curator, about his abiding penchant for doing the difficult (and sometimes agonising) in order to spark meaningful conversations in audiences. A thoughtful and considered conversationalist, Ekow reflects on a multifaceted and impactful career that has spanned magazines, books, curating and broadcasting. He credits curiosity and a search for new ways of seeing and representation as the drive behind his work. We explore Ekow’s career highlights, his most recent offerings – think In The Black Fantastic - and look ahea...2023-12-0641 min
Cerebral Women Art Talks PodcastBasil KincaidEp.179 features Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis, Missouri) an American artist who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collaging, photography, installation and performance. Implementing materials vested with emotional and memorial content, Kincaid allows these mediums to function as spiritual technology that forward various wisdoms born from Kincaid's greatest values: family, imagination, rest, and experience.
Kincaid studied drawing and painting at Colorado College, graduating in 2010. Kincaid has exhibited works with Hauser & Wirth, Mindy Solomon, Kravets Wehby, Kavi Gupta, Carl Kostyal and others. In 2019, Kincaid debuted a first museum performance, “The Release,” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis MO. In 2...2023-12-0625 min
Arts & IdeasSankofa and AfrofuturismEkow Eshun is curating an exhibition exploring the idea of Sankofa, taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present. Sarah Jilani teaches novels written by Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-2023) and Flora Nwapa (1931-1993). Sculptor Zak Ové is showing a work called The Mothership Connection as part of Frieze Sculpture display in London's Regents Park which brings together the form of a Pacific Northwest totem and a rocket with elements relating to African culture like tribal masks. They join Shahidha Bari for a conversation exploring African ideas about a better future.Producer: Marcus S...2023-10-2344 minArts & IdeasRefuge and National Poetry DayLoss and belonging are explored in an installation at the Barbican Centre in London from Sierra Leonian poet and artist/filmmaker Julianknxx which hears choirs and musicians from cities across the world voice a single refrain: ‘We are what’s left of us’. Momtaza Mehri has been Young People's Poet Laureate for London. A poem from her collection Bad Diaspora Poems is picked out in a selection for this year's National Poetry Day on October 5th, which has the theme of refuge. Matthew Sweet explores with them where we find refuge and hears from the academic Dr Jesús Sanjurj...2023-10-0444 min
Extraordinary CreativesCreating Space: Ekow Eshun's Impact on the Cultural LandscapeCeri sat down with Ekow Eshun, a creative director, writer, curator, and broadcaster, to discuss his personal journey and creative purpose. Ekow's story of growing up in Ghana and returning to a racially charged Britain in the 1970s is a testament to the power of perseverance and determination. He talks the importance of studying politics and history, and shares the publication that had a profound impact on his life. Ekow's candid discussion of the emotional ability and confidence required to speak and question his own thoughts is truly inspiring. He also talks about his current work as a curator...2023-10-021h 01
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Front RowKwame Kwei-Armah, Disney Pixar film Elemental reviewedKwame Kwei-Armah discusses his play Beneatha's Place, which imagines a future for Beneatha Younger, a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s ground-breaking 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun. He talks to Samira Ahmed about the themes of race and politics in the play, which is set in 1950s Nigeria and the present day. Samira is joined by critics Leila Latif and Ekow Eshun to review some of the cultural highlights of the week: A World in Common, an exhibition of contemporary African photography at Tate Modern in London and Disney Pixar film Elemental, which imagines a world where th...2023-07-0642 min
Royal Museums GreenwichSeeing Ourselves 2 - EP4 The Black Person as Spectacle Ekow Eshun and Serena Lee join Sharon to look at two pieces from the collection, namely ‘An engraving of Billy Walters’ and a ‘Caricature of Greenwich Pensioners’. Ideas around representation, authenticity and Blackness are explored in this episode. Interesting observations around reclaiming narratives are made, and captioned depictions from objects are challenged, thus providing fresh, new interpretations.Ekow Eshun @ekoweshunSerena Lee @georgiandiaspora2023-06-1437 min
Reflections on Dutch and Flemish CulturesStorying History: ‘How Do I Put…?’,Have you ever had the feeling that you want to contribute to an important conversation but have been held back by the fear of saying the wrong thing?
Us too.
This is why we’ve named this episode of the Storying History series ‘How Do I Put…?’, where we talk about how we can engage in the tricky but necessary conversations surrounding how we represent colonial history. Sophie Moss and Beth Tasker, two students of Dutch Studies at the University of Sheffield, take the first step in opening the conversation by honing in on three examples o...2023-05-3034 minFront RowImmersive David Hockney art and Korean film Broker reviewed; artist Mike Nelson; AI-generated writingReviews of the new immersive show David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) at Lightroom in London and Korean film Broker, with Larushka Ivan Zadeh and Ekow Eshun.Installation artist Mike Nelson on the art in his new retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London and the challenge of reconstructing such epic work.Plus AI writing. Neil Clarke, Editor of The American science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld, on suspending new submissions after being swamped by AI-generated stories, and why AI could be a serious challenge the way we think about literature....2023-02-2342 min
Intelligence SquaredWere the 1990s Britain’s Coolest Decade? with Dylan JonesSign up for Intelligence Squared Premium here: https://iq2premium.supercast.com/ for ad-free listening, bonus content, early access and much more. See below for details.1995 was the year of the Nineties, according to author and journalist Dylan Jones. It was peak Britpop (Oasis vs Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin’s tent), peak New Lad (Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, James Brown launched Loaded magazine, and pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday). It was the year Radiohead brought out The Bends, Danny Boyle started filming Trainspotting, Alex Garland wrote The Beach, and Tony Bl...2022-12-0255 min
From What If to What Next64 - What if the Black Fantastic reshaped the world?This week's episode is such a treat. Over the summer I devoured Ekow Eshun's amazing book 'In the Black Fantastic', the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name at the Hayward Gallery which, sadly, I didn't get to see. But even just the book was an incredible feast for the imagination, as was his concept of the Black Fantastic. If you enjoyed our podcast on Afrofuturism, you're going to love this one. It was such an honour to chat with Ekow, and I think you are really going to enjoy this journey into the Black Fantastic. As always...2022-11-2148 min
Frieze Masters PodcastAmy Sherald, Ekow Eshun & Jenni SorkinFrieze Masters presents this conversation with Amy Sherald, Ekow Eshun and Jenni Sorkin in partnership with Hauser & Wirth (@hauserwirth). The panelists discuss Sherald’s practice and the relevance of her work within the canon of historical portraiture. This episode also marks the release of the artist’s first substantial monograph by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, providing a unique insight into her work and studio practice, alongside newly-commissioned texts. "When I'm considering my Americanness, and my American story, I think farming and agriculture is essential to that. It's the reason that the US is a superpower. And it's the way that...2022-11-1852 minArts & IdeasThe Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022Do video games help explore war? An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum includes Sniper Elite 5, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and a military training simulator. For the 2022 discussion about how we look at warfare past and present Anne McElvoy is joined by writer & broadcaster Louise Blain, retired Colonel Lincoln Jopp, game designer Florent Maurin and IWM curator Chris Cooper.War Games runs at IWM London until May 2023 and is a free exhibition.
Louise Blain presents Radio 3's Sound of Gaming - a monthly show looking at the music written for games.You can...2022-11-0844 min
Man of the Houses AstrologyMy Mercury in Virgo feat. me, myself and Leo season part 1Mercury in Virgo is a Specialist placement
Astrology is my specialty2022-08-0808 minArts & IdeasTouki BoukiA motorbike adorned with a zebu skull is one of the central images of Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic 1973 film, whose title translates as The Journey of the Hyena. Listed as one of the 100 greatest films of all time in the Sight and Sound magazine poll, it mixes West African oral traditions with influences from the French New Wave and Soviet cinema. Mory and Anta are two young people growing up in a newly independent Senegal who fantasise about leaving Dakar for a new life in France, but how can they realise those dreams and do they really want t...2022-07-2645 min
Create Tomorrow, The WGSN Podcast57. In The Black Fantastic with Ekow EshunThis week WGSN Business Development Manager Sam Boakye and Insight Strategist Mel Larsen talk to British writer, curator and broadcaster Ekow Eshun about his new exhibition "In The Black Fantastic" now showing at London’s Hayward Gallery.
Ekow has been described as a ‘cultural polymath’ by The Guardian, he is chairman of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, overseeing the most prestigious public art programme in the UK, and the former Director of the ICA, London. He is the author of critically lauded books Black Gold of the Sun, Africa State of Mind, and, most recently In the Black...2022-07-1546 min
ShadeEkow Eshun, Writer and Curator of In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, London.In this episode I am in conversation with Ekow Eshun. Ekow is a writer and the curator of In the Black Fantastic, currently on show at the Hayward Gallery, London.In the Black Fantastic is a new exhibition of 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora, who draw on science fiction and myth to question our knowledge of the world. Although the exhibition encompasses themes within Afrofuturism, Ekow and I discuss why and how he is drawing from ideas distinct from this movement.We explore the works on display including the epic themes of exploration and...2022-07-0822 minArts & IdeasThe Black FantasticFrom Beyonce to Octavia Butler, from Chris Ofili to Jordan Peele, the speculative and the mythical have been used as powerful tools to shape Black art, film, music and writing. Ekow Eshun, who has curated a new exhibition on this theme at the Hayward Gallery, joins Shahidha Bari along with DJ/turntablist NikNak and New Generation Thinker Louisa Egbunike to discuss how this idea of the Black Fantastic relates to and in some ways challenges Afrofuturism.In the Black Fantastic runs at the Hayward Gallery, London until 18th September 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a book and...2022-07-0745 minFront RowIn the Black Fantastic exhibition; Maya Youssef performs live; visual artist Colin Davidson's exhibitionCurator Ekow Eshun on creating In The Black Fantastic: the UK’s first major exhibition dedicated to the work of Black artists who use fantastical elements to address racial injustice and explore alternative realities.With works from 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora, it delves into myth, science fiction, traditions, and the legacy of Afrofuturism to address colonialism, racial politics and identity. Encompassing painting, photography, video, sculpture and mixed-media installations, the exhibition features artists including Nick Cave, Hew Locke, Chris Ofili and Lina Iris Viktor.Dubbed the Queen of the Qanun, Maya Youssef is a co...2022-06-2943 minMan of the Houses AstrologyGratitudeMoth here putting out something positive in the air for you to declare..2022-04-1902 min
Korks TalksReview: We Are History At Somerset House curated by Ekow EshunWe Are History is an exhibition at Somerset House curated by Ekow Eshun.
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/we-are-history2022-01-2930 minArts & IdeasGlovesFrom duels to hygiene and medical protection to the image of the gloved aristocrat whose hands aren’t coarsened by work: Shahidha Bari dons a pair of gloves as she finds out about tranks, fourchettes, lace, wool and glove making which is on The Heritage Craft Assosicaion's 'Red List' of Endangered crafts. The Glove maker Riina Oun creates high-fashion bespoke gloves. She has collaborated with designers such as Giles Deacon and Meadham Kirchhoff, and she also teaches the art of gloving. Technologist Tom Chatfield considers the glove as cutting edge technology, explains what haptic feedback does for us and wh...2022-01-0544 minFront RowJoan Didion remembered, Call the Midwife, The Tragedy of Macbeth and a review of the year in cultureWriter and essayist Olivia Laing reflects on the work of the American journalist and essayist Joan Didion, who has died at the age of 87.With the Christmas Special of Call the Midwife taking its usual slot on BBC One on Christmas Day – for the tenth consecutive time - the show’s creator and writer Heidi Thomas discusses how she tries to keep the stories fresh, year on year. She’s also joined by ‘super-fan’, the historian Tom Holland, to consider its lasting appeal. The British Council's Director of Film Briony Hanson and writer and broadcaster Ekow Eshun...2021-12-2342 min
Man of the Houses AstrologyWhy We do What we Do - Being a Conduit for High ConsciousnessWhy connecting and making content to share with the world lights us up
Purpose, Mission and Soul Calling
Having gifts, not undermining them and sharing them
Doing it for fun and doing God's will
Giving people permission to live a more enriched fulfilling life
2021-11-2729 min
Man of the Houses AstrologyTaurus - Scorpio Polarity, North Node - South NodeCoaches Man of the Houses and Melissa Lago reunite to have a fun chat exploring the Taurus-Scorpio opposition and how it can impact below, as above, on an individual and community level. This is the axis for the moon's nodes from Jan 2022 -July 2023.2021-11-2755 minFront RowNobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageCush Jumbo’s long-awaited performance as Hamlet and debbie tucker green’s film ear for eye come under the critical gaze of Ekow Eshun, Vanessa Kisuule and Sarah Crompton.Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. He joins Front Row to discuss his work and how he feels about winning. The Poet Laureate Simon Armitage on his fresh and contemporary new translation of the classic poem The Owl and the Nightingale.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Sarah JohnsonPhoto Credit: Helen Murray2021-10-0742 min
Man of the Houses AstrologyGetting to Know yourself better using Astrology in 18 minsIt's Man of The Houses back with a new episode.
Are you new to Astrology? Want to know what all those unusual symbols and glyphs, numbers and lines are?
Here's an intro to Planets, signs, houses, more and how it can help you with self-discovery and self mastery.
I cover: The meaning of the symbols: planets mostly; signs; houses; aspects and retrogrades
Everything that has been started or birthed has a chart Fire, earth, air, and water elements in a natal chart
An intro to cycles like The Saturn Re...2021-07-2618 min
NKATA: Dots of ThoughtsEP13: To Organise a place as if it was a photograph – with Eric GyamfiSend us a textEric Gyamfi (1990, Ghana) is a visual artist working with and within photography. This podcast conversation was induced by the inclusion of his work in the book, Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Re-imagines A Continent “by Ekow Eshun. Rightfully so, the conversation build’s on Eshun’s central premise of focusing on photographers/works that fall within the 21st-century timeframe. Eric Gyamfi’s work, although beautifully photogenic, accounts for processes outside and beyond the frame. He considers the photographic medium as a space to be unravelled. Thus when, in the podcast, he says “beyond wan...2021-07-221h 04
NkataEP13: To Organise a Place as if it was a Photograph – with Eric GyamfiEric Gyamfi (1990, Ghana) is a visual artist working with and within photography. This podcast conversation was induced by the inclusion of his work in the book, Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Re-imagines A Continent “by Ekow Eshun. Rightfully so, the conversation build’s on Eshun’s central premise of focusing on photographers/works that fall within...2021-07-2200 min
Man of the Houses AstrologyReviewing the RetrogradeHi, Man of The Houses back with another episode looking at Mercury Retrograde, at hindsight, in true retrograde fashion.
I cover:
Embedding the benefits of Mercury Retrograde whilst we are in the shadow period.
Mercury, the planetary principle of Mind and Intellect
Mercury Retrograde the Cosmic Phenomenon
The Doom and gloom surrounding Mercury Retrograde
A holistic perspective of Mercury Retrograde
Mercury stationing Direct and the Shadow Period
Life after Mercury Retrograde2021-06-2516 minThe Week in ArtViking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years agoThis week: Viking-age treasures—what the medieval gold, silver, textiles and even dirt in a hoard found in 2014 in Scotland can tell us about the Viking age, its people, its art and its international networks.Ben Luke talks to the curator Martin Goldberg about the Galloway Hoard, which has just gone on view at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Also this week: six proposals for the highest-profile public art commission in London, the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, have gone on view at London’s National Gallery. We discuss the proposals and the...2021-05-2858 minArts & IdeasFashion, Art, and the BodyWearing denim, workwear, or sharp tailoring makes a statement about how we think of ourselves. Charlie Porter has been exploring the relationship between artists and clothes. He joins writer Olivia Laing and Ekow Eshun for a conversation about clothing, bodies, and our expression of our sexuality, hosted by Shahidha Bari.Olivia Laing's latest book is called Everybody: A Book About FreedomCharlie Porter has published What Artists Wear. A former Turner prize judge, he writes and curates and is a visiting Fashion lecturer at the University of Westminster.British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor's work...2021-05-2645 min
Man of the Houses AstrologyTaurus Season & 420Join Man of the houses and Josie Vinten as they explore Taurus Season and:
Life after Aries
The Characteristics of this Zodiacal style
It's archetype
Nature
it's correlations with Cannabis & 420
Experiences of 420
420 connoisseurs
It's opposite sign's correlations with Cannabis usage
Indica vs Sativa
Ramifications of Cannabis abuse2021-05-021h 07
Man of the Houses Astrology9th House State of MindMOTH and 'Queen of the 9th' Melissa explore the astrological 9th house, covering:
Enquiry and the search for Higher Meanings
Relevance to Sagittarius and Jupiter
Importance of movement
Successful Navigation of the 9th House
Subjectivity
Planets in the 9th House
The Concept of 'sin'
Polarity with the opposite area of experience - The 3rd House
Involvement of God
2021-04-1757 min
Man of the Houses AstrologyAries New Moon 2021Simplifying the meanining of the recent Aries New Moon; How you can benefit from it and a preview to the relationship emphasis in Astrology.2021-04-1219 min
NKATA: Dots of ThoughtsEP11: 21st Century Photographers Re-articulate The Continent – with Ekow EshunSend us a textIn this episode of Dots of Thoughts Podcast, Emeka Okereke is joined by Ekow Eshun to reflect on the book, “Africa State of Mind” edited by Ekow Eshun and published by Thames & Hudson. The book brings together works from 52 contemporary photographers from Africa. Fundamental to the book is Ekow Eshun’s intention to “explore how contemporary photographers have presented Africanness and Africa as a physiological space as much as a physical space”.The conversation departs from the book’s periodical marker: all photographic works were made in the 21st century. It...2021-02-2153 min
NkataEP11: 21st Century Photographers Re-articulate The Continent – with Ekow Eshun“There is no simplicity or singleness to Africanness”, Ekow says. One might think that this needn’t be said in 2021. This is precisely what this book hopes to achieve: These photographers show that such concerns have become secondary to image-makers of today. 2021-02-2053 min
The Messy Truth - Conversations on PhotographyEkow Eshun - On CurationIn this episode, Gem Fletcher chats to writer and curator Ekow Eshun. His writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Granta, Wired and Aperture. He is Chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, overseeing London’s most significant public art programme, and the former director of the ICA. In this conversation, we discuss how his upbringing in London informed his creative work. We discuss what he is looking for in emerging artists and his devotion to Black culture. We unpack his latest book Africa State of Mind that gathers tog...2021-02-1838 minMan of the Houses AstrologyThe Alpha Vs. CardinalityBrief introduction, exploring the Alpha in you. Yes you do have it in you.2021-02-1609 min
A Lens on SustainabilityTraditionAs the world faces upheaval in the uprooting of statues, culture wars and industrial globalisation, we ask, what is happening to tradition in art, media and urban communities? How does photography capture all of this? Guests include photographer Rena Effendi, authors Roman Krznaric and Ekow Eshun, and former Editor of the London Evening Standard and editor of the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4, Sarah Sands. Don’t miss the accompanying e-book illustrating this episode: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/99173/ 2020-12-1231 min
The COS Catch upEkow Eshun and Campbell AddyTwo friends from the world of contemporary culture catch up in our debut podcast series. So sit back, listen in and enjoy as writer and curator Ekow Eshun and photographer Campbell Addy discuss freedom, what it means to be British-Ghanaian and the importance of being ‘you’ in our latest episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2020-12-0142 minArts & IdeasThe Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020What does it mean to make art to commemorate histories of conflict? Anne McElvoy's guests are artists Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, Art Fund director Jenny Waldman, chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group Ekow Eshun and Paris Agar from the IWM as Radio 3 joins with the Imperial War Museum for the 2020 Remembrance Debate.Es Devlin and Machiko Weston worked together on a digital artwork commission to mark the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima. What images and words were appropriate to use?
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/i-saw-the-world-end1,600 volunteers, all men, dressed in replica World...2020-11-1144 min
Man of the Houses AstrologyMOTH Guest Appearance on ilive RadioJoining Caz & Fernandez Fly at ilive Radio to discuss astrology, cosmos meeting consciousness and the planets, signs, houses, aspects, the diagnostic people are missing out for a richer fuller view of their map of potential.2020-10-272h 44
iLive Radio UKN.O.W. Chat Show #11 w/ Caz & Fernandez Fly ft. guest: Ekow Eshun | 23.10.2020If you want inspiring debate, uplifting tunes, community updates, and a rundown of what’s happening for the weekend, we've got you covered!
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Every Friday 4pm-7pm on iLive UK.2020-10-232h 44Man of the Houses AstrologyThe 12 Zodiac Signs are 12 ProcessesAn examination of generic star sign astrology and why the 12 signs should be seen as processes that include tasks and agendas for particilar parts of the personality2020-09-2136 minMan of the Houses AstrologyDecans astrologyA Brief insight into the decans of an astrological sign2020-08-0943 min
B&H Photography PodcastContemporary Photography from Africa, with Ekow EshunThis week on the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome journalist, curator, and author Ekow Eshun to discuss his incredible new book, Africa State of Mind. With more than 250 photographs by fifty photographers, the book is a gorgeous collection of contemporary art photography from throughout Africa. Established artists such as Pieter Hugo and Zanele Muholi are profiled, along with many lesser-known photographers working in (and between) a range of genres. Supported by Eshun’s insightful commentary, the book delves into the unique voices depicting their Africa experience today. Our conversation begins with...2020-04-3047 min
B&H Photography PodcastContemporary Photography from Africa, with Ekow EshunThis week on the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome journalist, curator, and author Ekow Eshun to discuss his incredible new book, Africa State of Mind. With more than 250 photographs by fifty photographers, the book is a gorgeous collection of contemporary art photography from throughout Africa. Established artists such as Pieter Hugo and Zanele Muholi are profiled, along with many lesser-known photographers working in (and between) a range of genres. Supported by Eshun’s insightful commentary, the book delves into the unique voices depicting their Africa experience today. Our conversation begins with...2020-04-3047 min
The VerbAfrican WritingIan McMillan explores African writing with Maaza Mengiste, Ekow Eshun, Jennifer Makumbi and Ellah Wakatama.Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Cecile Wright2020-04-0350 min
Life and Art from FT WeekendNoah Baumbach on his film Marriage Story. Plus: everything you need to know before the OscarsWe're back with a brand new season! In our pre-Oscars special, Gris talks to Noah Baumbach, director of the nominated film Marriage Story, about love, divorce — and how Netflix is changing film. Plus: the FT's film critic Danny Leigh drops into the studio ahead of the Academy Awards. Who's going to win? Who really should win? And do the Oscars — for which no female directors and just one actor of colour were nominated — still matter in 2020?As always, we'd love to hear from you. Say hi on Twitter @FTCultureCall, or by email at culturecall@ft.com to tell u...2020-02-0658 min
Saturday ReviewBeckett triple bill, Bombshell, Avenue 5, American Dirt, Tullio CraliA triple bill of Samuel Beckett plays has just started at London's Jermyn Street Theatre. Directed by Trevor Nunn, it's a chance to see Krapp's Last Tape as well as two lesser-known works - Eh Joe and The Old Tune.https://bit.ly/2Rm8AtG https://bit.ly/2uWA95b
Bombshell has been Oscar nominated. It's the story of Roger Ailes' reign at Fox News and the sexual harrasment cases that were brought against him. It stars Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie
Armando Iannucci has a new comedy TV series on HBO. Avenue 5 is set onboard a...2020-01-1853 min
Man of the Houses Astrology@manofthehouses astro chat 'n' chill with @illadelphiavishThis light chat 'n' chill delves into how 2 Capricorn Moon born astrologers encountered astrology, a brief look at the Aquarian Full Moon, a glimpse at Saturn, evoking charts vs participating in life and more. This is one of many more. Hope you enjoy this conversation.2019-08-161h 57Man of the Houses AstrologyMan of the Houses Astrology (Trailer)2019-08-1500 minSaturday ReviewGloria Bell, Wife at The Kiln Theatre, Frank Bowling, Brian Bilston, Wild BillChilean director Sebastián Lelio's 2013 film Gloria has been remade for an English-speaking audience as Gloria Bell. Starring Julianne Moore it's extremely faithful to the original; what's new about it?
Wife is the latest play by Samuel Adamson which has just opened at The Kiln in London. Drawing on many influences including Ibsen's A Doll's House, it explores many decades of gay history
Guyana-born artist Frank Bowling OBE has lived in then UK since he was a teenager and been a painter almost as long. Now at the age of 85, Tate Britain is staging a retrospective exhibition of his a...2019-06-0851 minSaturday ReviewListeners' suggestions for the best of 2018Find out what Saturday Review listeners chose as their cultural highlights of 2018. We'll discuss all the regular genres: films, theatre, exhibitions, books and television. And lots of items which we didn't get a chance to review from the past 12 months. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Tiffany Jenkins and Ekow Eshun and lots of listeners on the phone from around the country, who tell us what particularly impressed them last year.
The producer is Oliver Jones
Podcast extra recommendations:
Ekow: Strange days exhibition
Tiffany: pre-sale auction houses
Tom; Bill Viola2018-12-291h 21
Loose EndsFay Weldon, Mark Kermode, Clare Perkins, Ekow Eshun, Sarathy Korwar, Her's, Nikki Bedi, Clive AndersonClive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Fay Weldon, Clare Perkins, Mark Kermode and Ekow Eshun for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sarathy Korwar and Her's.Producer: Debbie Kilbride.2018-10-0936 min
1-54 Forum1-54 Forum London 2018 | Artist Talk: Athi-Patra Ruga1-54 Forum London 4 -7 October 2018 Artist Talk Ekow Eshun (Writer and 1-54 Forum Curator) in conversation with artist Athi-Patra Ruga on his practice and first major solo exhibition in the UK, Of Gods, Rainbows and Omissions, currently on display at Somerset House. Through mythical characters set in dramatic scenes and presented in multiple mediums, Ruga criticises and parodies South Africa’s political status quo, ideas of utopia and the pre-colonial.Image: © Katrina Sorrentinowww.1-54.com2018-10-041h 05
1-54 Forum1-54 Forum London 2018 | Opening Remarks by Ekow Eshun1-54 Forum London 4 -7 October 2018Welcome & Opening Remarks by programme curator Ekow Eshun.Image: © Katrina Sorrentinowww.1-54.com2018-10-0413 min
1-54 Forum1-54 Forum New York 2018 | Archiving Distance1-54 Forum New York 4-6 May 2018Archiving Distance Lyle Ashton Harris (Artist) discusses intimacy, collective memory, and photography with Ekow Eshun (Writer and Curator). Harris’s archive of 35 mm Ektachrome images registers ephemeral moments and emblematic figures from the late 1980S and early 1990s against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalisation. Harris and Eshun will discuss the archive and other projects in relation to the 'unfinished business' of mourning in the African Diaspora. Image: © Katrina Sor...2018-05-041h 03Life and Art from FT WeekendOscars 2018: the movies and the moment. Plus: Ekow Eshun on Black PantherFilm special! We debate the Academy Awards, why they matter and who should win: Get Out, Call Me By Your Name or Lady Bird? And what does Three Billboards — its success and backlash — say about the current climate? Later, Griselda talks to Ekow Eshun about why Black Panther is a cultural turning point. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2018-03-0251 minSaturday ReviewPeter Carey, Gursky, Last Flag Flying, John, Altered CarbonPeter Carey's novel A Long Way From Home tells the story of a husband and wife taking part in a round-Australia endurance race in the 1950s.The Hayward Gallery in London reopens after a multi-million pound refit with an exhibition of work by the photographer Andreas Gursky. Giant photographs on brutalist walls.Richard Linklater's film Last Flag Flying is about three Vietnam veterans who come together to bury a son who has died in the conflict in Iraq. It stars Laurence Fishburne, Brian Cranston and Steve Carell.
John is the name of a new play...2018-01-2752 minLife and Art from FT WeekendBasquiat, Banksy and Hollie McNishWe're back! We head to the Barbican's Basquiat show 'Boom for Real' - then chat to Ekow Eshun about this 'radiant child'. Later, poet and YouTube phenomenon Hollie McNish drops by. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-09-2550 minSaturday Review22/04/2017Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy star in in Their Finest; a new film about the vital role of movies in Britain during The War.
A revival of Christopher Hampton's 1970 play The Philanthropist has opened in London. It features a glittering array of actors best known for their TV work. How well do their skills transfer to the stage?
Lisa McInerny won The Bailey's Prize 's for her first novel The Glorious Heresies. Her latest, The Blood Miracles, continues that story with same characters many years older and a little wiser
Ashley Bickerton is a painter and sculptor whose work...2017-04-2246 minSaturday ReviewTrackers of Oxyrhynchus, Endless Poetry, Taboo, History of Wolves, On Kosovo Field.Tony Harrison's play The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus is revived at London's Finborough Theatre
87 year old Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's latest film Endless Poetry is the second instalment of a planned five part autobiographical series
Tom Hardy stars in BBC TV's new drama Taboo,
Emily Fridlund's History of Wolves is the growing-up tale of a lonely Minnesota schoolgirl
BBC Radio drama On Kosovo Field is a 5-part fantasy play by Finn Kennedy which includes a score by PJ Harvey, whose notes, photos, poetry and songs helped to inspire it
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Viv Groskop, Ekow Eshun and...2017-01-0741 minSaturday ReviewOne Night in Miami, The Mountaintop, Black Mirror, Ali Smith, Beyond CaravaggioWe're looking at two plays about black America this week: Kemp Powers' One Night In Miami imagines a meeting in 1964 between boxer Cassius Clay, activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke & American Football star Jim Brown as they decide how they can each change the world. Katori Hall's The Mountaintop is set 4 year's later and imagines Rev Martin Luther King's last night alive, in a hotel room in Memphis
Charlie Brooker's distopian TV show Black Mirror was a huge success when it began on Channel 4. The new series has moved on to Netflix - a different scale of budget and...2016-10-1541 min
1-54 Forum1-54 Forum London 2016 | Opening Remarks and Keynote, Dandyism and Black Masculinity by Ekow Eshun1-54 Forum London 6 - 9 October 2016Opening Remarks & Dandyism and Black MasculinityOpening Remarks by Koyo Kouoh (Curator of 1-54 Forum) on Material PropositionsEkow Eshun (Cultural Commentator and Curator of the exhibition, Made You Look: Dandyism and Black Masculinity) looks at themes of race, identity and style as radical personal politics in the work of artists such as Samuel Fosso, Malick Sidibé and Hassan Hajjaj. www.1-54.com2016-10-061h 27Saturday ReviewSon of Saul, Mark Haddon, Kings of War, Love Nina, Pablo Bronstein at TateSon of Saul is an award-laden Hungarian film dealing with the sonderkommandos at Auschwitz, Jewish inmates who were forced to prepare and mislead new arrivals.
Mark Haddon's latest book is a collection of rather dark short stories which he hopes can "create empathy for unloveable people in difficult circumstances".
Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove has condensed several Shakespeare royal plays into Kings of War; four and a half hours in Dutch, telling English history.
Nick Hornby has adapted Nina Stibbe's Love Nina for BBC TV
Pablo Bronstein brings dance to Tate Britain
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Ekow Eshun...2016-04-3041 min
Nesta: The UK's independent innovation foundationFunk legend George Clinton on the origins of his careerIn episode eleven of our FutureFest podcast we return to the Future Music theme.
George Clinton talks to Ekow Eshun about his legendary music career. Joana Seguro of Artists & Engineers and musician Stevie Wishart discuss social media music communities. And Bittersuite brings us a 4-D sensory symphony.
This podcast features music from Bittersuite, “Melt” by Broke For Free, and "Planet Zero" by Jahzzar.
Presented by Emily Elias.
A transcript of this episode will be available soon.
To find out more about FutureFest visit www.nesta.org.uk/futurefest2015-09-0714 min
Nesta UKFunk legend George Clinton on the origins of his careerIn episode eleven of our FutureFest podcast we return to the Future Music theme.
George Clinton talks to Ekow Eshun about his legendary music career. Joana Seguro of Artists & Engineers and musician Stevie Wishart discuss social media music communities. And BitterSuite brings us a 4-D sensory symphony.
This podcast features music from BitterSuite, “Melt” by Broke For Free, and "Planet Zero" by Jahzzar.
Presented by Emily Elias.
A transcript of this episode will be available soon.
To find out more about FutureFest visit www.nesta.org.uk/futurefest2015-09-0714 minNesta: The UK's independent innovation foundationFunk legend George Clinton on the origins of his careerIn episode eleven of our FutureFest podcast we return to the Future Music theme.
George Clinton talks to Ekow Eshun about his legendary music career. Joana Seguro of Artists & Engineers and musician Stevie Wishart discuss social media music communities. And Bittersuite brings us a 4-D sensory symphony.
This podcast features music from Bittersuite, “Melt” by Broke For Free, and "Planet Zero" by Jahzzar.
Presented by Emily Elias.
A transcript of this episode will be available soon.
To find out more about FutureFest visit www.nesta.org.uk/futurefest2015-09-0714 minNesta: The UK's independent innovation foundationFunk legend George Clinton on the origins of his careerIn episode eleven of our FutureFest podcast we return to the Future Music theme.
George Clinton talks to Ekow Eshun about his legendary music career. Joana Seguro of Artists & Engineers and musician Stevie Wishart discuss social media music communities. And Bittersuite brings us a 4-D sensory symphony.
This podcast features music from Bittersuite, “Melt” by Broke For Free, and "Planet Zero" by Jahzzar.
Presented by Emily Elias.
A transcript of this episode will be available soon.
To find out more about FutureFest visit www.nesta.org.uk/futurefest2015-09-0714 min
The World TonightWhat's wrong with using the word 'coloured'?Benedict Cumberbatch has apologized profusely for using the term "coloured actors" while talking about the lack of opportunities for black British actors in the UK. But why does the word cause such controversy?
Writer Ekow Eshun and linguistics lecturer Dr Vineeta Chand discuss.2015-01-2805 minSaturday ReviewHenry IV, '71 film, Gotham on TV, Lila by Marilynne Robinson, Tracy EminPhyllida Lloyd's all-female production of Henry IV at The Donmar Warehouse. '71, a film about a young British army soldier who becomes separated from his unit while on patrol during The Troubles in Belfast. Gotham is a new series on Channel 5 that explores that city in the days before Batman. Our novel is Lila by Pulitzer-winning Marilynne Robinson; the third part of her Gilead trilogy. Tracy Emin's latest exhibition of drawings, paintings and bronze work at London's White Cube.
Razia Iqbal is joined by Naomi Alderman, Marika Cobbold and Ekow Eshun. The producer is Oliver Jones.2014-10-1141 minSaturday ReviewNymphomaniac; True Detective; A Taste of HoneyWill Gompertz is joined by this week's reviewers Ekow Eshun, Viv Groskop and Gillian Slovo. They've watched both parts, some four hours in total, of Lars von Trier's controversial film, Nymphomaniac. We hear what they make of the provocative director's latest offering which focuses on the sexual adventures of Joe, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stacy Martin.True Detective is the latest TV series from HBO, the US network behind The Sopranos, The Wire and, most recently, Game of Throne. Does the new eight part drama starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson live up to form?2014-02-2241 minSaturday ReviewMojo revived; The Counselor; Paul Smith at the Design MuseumThe coincidence of a really hot cast and the restaging of a play by a writer whose most recent work was lauded and awarded should be a guarantee of a hit. Jez Butterworth's Mojo was originally staged at The Royal Court in London 18 years ago. His stratospheric success with Jerusalem and a cast that includes Ben Wishaw and Rupert "Ron Weasley" Grint (making his West End stage debut) means there is a lot of press attention and positivity towards "Mojo" at the Harold Pinter Theatre, but is there enough substance beneath the hype?The Counselor is a...2013-11-1641 minSaturday ReviewBlue Jasmine, Serpentine Sackler GalleryCate Blanchett stars in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine - new territory for him as much of it's set in San Francisco. He's rumoured to be back on form: will the West Coast and a plot that owes a debt to A Streetcar Named Desire inspire a great film?Back in New York, Thomas Pynchon, author of V, Gravity's Rainbow and Mason and Dixon, has always divided readers between those who are geekily entranced by his vision and wordplay and those who just can't work out what's going on. Bleeding Edge is thought to be one of his...2013-09-2841 min
Front Row: Archive 2013Fourth Plinth art; Stephen King reviewed; Alfred and Adrian Brendel; BBC Short Story AwardWith Mark Lawson.The artworks competing to occupy Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth in 2015 and 2016 were unveiled today. Shortlisted artists Marcus Coates and Liliane Lijn discuss their designs, along with Ekow Eshun, chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, who make the final decision about which two artworks will be successful.Stephen King publishes a sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining today. The boy Danny Torrance has grown up, but has he managed to escape the legacy of his alcoholic psychopathic father? Rachel Cooke reviews Doctor Sleep.Lionel Shriver is the latest writer in...2013-09-2428 minSaturday ReviewThe World's End; A Season in the Congo; Burton and Taylor reimagined on BBC4Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike star in the film The World's End, the last of the so-called Cornetto Trilogy following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, directed by Edgar Wright. Can Gary King make it through the pub crawl he failed to finish as a teenager in his home town of Newton Haven?Joe Wright directs Chiwetel Ejiofor in A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic, a powerful political play by Aime Cesaire charting the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba in the early days of Congolese independence.Rachel Joyce's novel Perfect...2013-07-2041 minSaturday ReviewThe Great Gatsby and Propaganda at the British LibraryBaz Luhrmann's long-awaited The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan hits the 3D screens promising a great party. F Scott Fitzgerald's book has had a troubled history in film... will Luhrmann be the one to make it work?Propaganda: Power and Persuasion at the British Library is a major and thought-provoking new exhibition that brings together wartime material alongside public health messages, banknotes and social media. Does it make a convincing argument about the definition of propaganda?Up the Women (BBC4) and Psychobitches (Sky Arts) are two new comedy shows highlighting women performers...2013-05-1841 minSaturday ReviewThe Book Of Mormon, Craig Zobel's film Compliance and Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising AsiaThe Book of Mormon arrives on the London stage, much anticipated and as shocking as you might expect from the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It's reported to have delighted the Prime Minister already. How funny is it and does it work as a musical? Craig Zobel's film Compliance is based on real events and set in a fast food joint where the employees are convinced by someone pretending to be a police officer to strip search a colleague. Mohsin Hamid's much-acclaimed The Reluctant Fundamentalist is followed now by a novel that's superficially a self-help...2013-03-2341 minSaturday Review03/11/2012Tom Sutcliffe and guests Ekow Eshun, Andreas Whittam Smith and Linda Grant offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events.The much hyped Silver Lion winning film "The Master", directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams comes under scrutiny. Set in post World War 2 America, it explores a familiar narrative trope, the relationship between master and pupil, but in a very unfamiliar and deeply cinematic way, and through the prism of a cult which bears many parallels with the Church of Scientology - of whom Tom Cruise is...2012-11-0541 minSaturday Review04/08/2012Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Adam Mars Jones and Lisa Appignanesi and writer Ekow Eshun review the week's cultural highlights including Seth MacFarlane's film Ted.Mark Haddon's best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has been adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens. The production at the National Theatre is directed by Marianne Elliot and stars Luke Treadaway as Christopher Boone - a 15 year old "mathematician with behavioural difficulties" (his own description). When Christopher tries to find out who killed a neighbour's dog he unearths more about his own life than he...2012-08-0442 minSaturday Review12/05/2012Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Miranda Sawyer and Ekow Eshun and historian Kathryn Hughes review the week's cultural highlights including Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary MantelBring Up The Bodies is the sequel to Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning historical novel Wolf Hall. It is 1535 and Thomas Cromwell is Henry VIII's chief minister, trying to serve the king's interests following the break with Rome.The Rest Is Silence is dreamthinkspeak's deconstruction of Hamlet, performed in a warehouse in Shoreham-by-Sea as part of the Brighton Festival. Directed by Tristan Sharps, the action takes place...2012-05-1241 min
Counterpoint Podcast SeriesCloud Culture (discussion only) CounterpointCounterpoint, the British Council's think tank launched its book Cloud Culture: the global future of Cultural Relations by Charles Leadbeater with a discussion at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts on 8 Februrary 2010. The evening was chaired by Lloyd Davies, Tuttle Club and included speakers, Ekow Eshun, ICA, Paul Hilder, AVAAZ, Catherine Fieschi, Director Counterpoint, and Charles Leadbeater, the author. For information about use of this recording under a creative commons license, please email counterpoint@britishcouncil.org or see our website: www.counterpoint-online.org/cloud-culture.2010-02-1027 min