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Kate Sutcliffe
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British Gangsters!
Paul Knight - 10 Years in Broadmoor!
Paul Knight was in Broadmoor with Terrorists, Rapists & Murderers for almost 10 years! For the First time since his release Paul goes back to Broadmoor with 'British Gangsters' Liam Galvin, Yvette Rowland & BrendanMcGirr! Paul talks about taking people hostage, being tasered, attempted murder, Kate Kray visiting Ronnie Kray & a murder that took place where the victim was stabbed 18 times with a bayonet! Paul also tells us about the inmates he was locked up with including The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, Robert Napper, Peter Bryant, The Stockwell Strangler & Ian Ball who tried to kidnap Princess Anne! Hosted on Acast. See acast...
2025-12-08
45 min
American Conservation Experience Podcast
THE IMPACT OF CONSERVATION CORPS: INSIDE ACE'S CREW PROGRAM
In this episode of the American Conservation Experience, host Elyse Cogburn discusses ACE's Crew Program with Adam Scherm, ACE's National Director of Crew Programs, and Kate Sutcliffe, ACE alumna and board member. They delve into the structure and operations of conservation crews, the diverse environmental projects undertaken, and the personal growth and career paths inspired by participation in ACE.The episode highlights the critical role conservation crews play in supporting land management and facilitating public access to natural spaces, and it stresses the importance of resilience, teamwork, and passion for conservation.
2025-09-10
41 min
Front Row
Marks and Gran on Freud and Hitler, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason performance, Medea on stage and screen
Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have created some of comedy's most beloved characters, including Birds of a Feather's Sharon and Tracey, and The New Statesman's Alan B'Stard. As their play Dr Freud Will See You Now Mrs Hitler comes to London, they discuss alternate histories, the limits of comedy, and how they still make each other laugh. Medea remains one of the most complex and terrifying characters in mythology, and Natalie Haynes's new novel No Friend to this House reimagines the story of the sorceress from Colchis. She discusses depictions of Medea with theatre director Carrie Cracknell.
2025-09-09
42 min
KILLJAM X X X
JAM 05 - AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE!
With Faustina and Bellamy finally together, the question is: Can these two weirdos from very different worlds get along? And will Bellamy’s vengeful enemies prove to be even more dangerous than Faustina’s? Transcript CONTENT WARNINGS: Gunfire, Dangerous Driving, Gambling references, Gore (37:20-39:00), Graphic Violence, Eating Sounds (4:03-4:13, 4:48-5:00), Sexual noises (8:41-9:08), Kink References, Alcohol, Murder, Torture (37:20-39:00). KILLJAM XXX is created by Addison Peacock and Henry Galley. Audio engineered and Directed by Meg Molloy Tuten. Executive producers Zuwie Le Fou and Gus Zag...
2025-05-28
39 min
Trail Listening Post
Joy French + Shannon Flanagan - 'ABUN-DANCE'
https://www.thewestsidetheater.com/abundanceSHOW DATES|TIMESMay 16 @ 7:30pmMay 17 @ 2pmMay 17 @ 7:30pmLocation: Montana TheaterUniversity of Montana Campus, PARTV buildinglocation note:Due to the overwhelming enthusiasm about abunDANCE from both cast and audience, we moved the show to the Montana Theater!We’re excited to be able to offer more seats, easier parking, and more cast and audience accessibility by being on campus for this year’s community production!about the showWestside Theater’s newest...
2025-05-16
14 min
Front Row
Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical
Critic Kate Maltby and Beatles author Ian Leslie join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss two documentaries about John Lennon remaking his life in New York - Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade and One to One: John & Yoko. They also discuss Tina Fey’s new series The Four Seasons, based on the 1981 film of the same name, which explores the relationships of three longstanding couples who holiday together. And we'll be reviewing a new musical version of The Great Gatsby, fresh in from Broadway. Plus writer Louise Dean, the founder of The Novelry, a creative writing school, talks about her organisation's ne...
2025-05-01
41 min
Engaging and Empowering School Libraries
Teen Fiction Trends: Sparking a Love for Reading
In this episode, school librarians Donna Baird, Jennifer Horan, and my regular co-host Ruth Maloney join me to discuss the current trends in teenage fiction, whether books today gravitate more towards heavier themes rather than humour, and how these trends impact young readers. The conversation touches on the challenges and opportunities faced by librarians in curating collections that both engage and empower students. They also offer insights into guiding reluctant readers, the influence of social media on reading choices, and the need for diverse genres, including humor and fantasy, in teenage fiction. Whether you're a librarian, educator...
2025-04-03
53 min
Breathing Space: A Sci-Fi Western Audio Anthology
[S04Finale04] The Exhibition After Dark, part 2
[Due an exporting error, the first couple hundred of you to download this episode got both files. Sorry about that. Go ahead and re-download or just skip to the 45 minute mark to jump right to the new content] "Welcome to the Grand Circumsolar Exhibition, valued vendor /contributor /service worker. Here is your complimentary orbital map and emergency commdress list. We hope you enjoy your stay at the Fair, and thank you for your participation in the expansion of the fellowship of all humankind." It may be night cycle on the orbital, but that...
2024-10-18
1h 26
Front Row
Review: Film - Timestalker, Theatre - The Other Place, TV - Disclaimer
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests journalist Stephen Bush and theatre critic Kate Maltby review the latest cultural releases. These include Apple TV's thriller Disclaimer which stars Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen, Alice Lowe's comedy sci-fi film Timestalker and Alexander Zeldin's modern reworking of Antigone at the National Theatre, The Other Place. And after today's announcement that Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her former editor at Granta Magazine, the author Max Porter talks about her poetic prose. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paula McGrath and Natasha Mardikar
2024-10-10
42 min
Front Row
Review: TV: Those About To Die, Film: Thelma, Theatre: ECHO
Jason Solomons and Kate Maltby join Tom to review Those About to Die, the new 10-part ‘sword and sandal’ series from Amazon Prime, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Anthony Hopkins. The film Thelma which follows an elderly grandmother who turns action hero to track down her scammer, inspired by her favourite film series – Mission Impossible. And Echo at the Royal Court, the new play from the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, starring a new unrehearsed performer every night. The likes of Meera Syal and Adrian Lester take to the stage while guided by Soleimanpour live from his flat in Berlin...
2024-07-18
42 min
GG Weekend Watch
"He is an absolute WEAPON" 🚀 | ITV Racing Tips & Preview 13th July | Newmarket, York, Ascot
Dave Young and Andrew Mount super sub Matty Sutcliffe run through their tips for all 11 races on ITV Racing on Saturday 13th July 2024, with Kate Tracey hosting. The team discuss the runners and provide their BEST BETS for the a bumper day of racing at England's three premier Flat tracks - Newmarket, York and Ascot. The Group 1 July Cup is the headline race, but Ascot hosts the Group 2 Summer Mile, and York has Group racing itself with the John Smith's Silver Cup Stakes. The GG Weekend Watch podcast is kindly sponsored by BetMGM. New customers can get £60 in FREE B...
2024-07-12
51 min
Front Row
Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
Broadway star Stephanie J Block performs So In Love from the new production of Kiss Me Kate, at London’s Barbican. Tom talks to her and the Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher about creating the musical show within a show, which is based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.The BBC’s Culture Editor Katie Razzall on what the political parties have included in – and left out of - their manifestos on the Arts and Culture. We also hear from The Lowry’s CEO Julia Fawcett and The Times’ Chief Culture Editor Richard Morrison about their though...
2024-06-17
42 min
GG Weekend Watch
✅ "He ticks EVERY BOX!" | Epsom Derby Tips & Preview | Weekend Watch 1st June 2024
Weekend NAPsDave Young: Silky Wilkie (15:45 Epsom)Matty Sutcliffe: Billy Webster (15:10 Epsom)Kate Tracey: Regal Reality (14:35 Epsom)Dave bets:14:00 Epsom - Astral Beau14:35 Epsom - Epictetus15:10 Epsom - Mashadi15:45 Epsom - Silky Wilkie16:30 Epsom - Ancient WisdomMatty's bets14:00 Epsom - Astral Beau14:35 Epsom - Highland Avenue15:10 Epsom - Billy Webster15:45 Epsom - Lethal Nymph16:30 Epsom - Dallas Star/Kamboo18+ Gamble responsibly: https://begambleaware.orgWebsite: https://gg.co.ukTwitter: twitter.com/ggcoukTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ggcouk#racing #racingtips #horseracing #horseracingtips
2024-05-30
40 min
GG Weekend Watch
🤬 "66/1 is INSULTING!" | Irish 2000 Guineas Tips & Preview | Weekend Watch 25th May 2024
Kate Tracey, Andrew Mount and Matty Sutcliffe run through their tips for the ITV Racing on Saturday, headlined by the Irish 2000 Guineas held at the Curragh racecourse. Racing also comes from Haydock, York and Goodwood in a bumper 10-race special! Make sure you like, comment and subscribe to GG. The GG Weekend Watch podcast is kindly sponsored by BetMGM. New customers can get £40 in FREE BETS when placing a £10 bet on the racing this weekend. Sign up here ➡ bit.ly/BetMGM-GG Please bear in mind the Weekend Watch is filmed on Thursday afternoon and Andrew's selections could change between now...
2024-05-23
40 min
Front Row
John Cleese's Fawlty Towers on stage, Beatrice Harrison, Cannes
Fawlty Towers arrives on the West End stage nearly 50 years after it first appeared on TV. John Cleese talks about why the sitcom wasn’t initially regarded as a great success, his love and appreciation of comedy as an art form, and how a future project will see Basil running a hotel with his daughter.100 years ago this month, the musician Beatrice Harrison was responsible for a landmark event in BBC history when she persuaded the corporation to broadcast live from her garden as she played her cello, accompanied by nightingales. Writer and cellist Kate Kennedy who ha...
2024-05-15
42 min
Front Row
Michelangelo exhibition at British Museum, Jembaa Groove perform, Inside Number 9
Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon and art curator Kate Bryan discuss Michelangelo: the last decades, a major new exhibition at the British Museum which focuses on the last thirty years of Michelangelo’s life. Reece Shearsmith discusses the ninth and final series of the BAFTA award winning Inside No. 9. Written with Steve Pemberton, the six episodes will feature new stand-alone stories, starting with ‘Boo To A Goose’ . Guest stars include Charlie Cooper and Katherine Kelly.Jembaa Groove perform live. The Berlin-based band produce Ghanaian highlife/American R&B fusion music, an optimistic and positive sound created when they g...
2024-04-30
39 min
I See News
Season 12 Episode 6: Kate Revelations
The Tories attempt to downplay yet another racism scandal, America's stance on Israel hardens as the UN warns Palestinians in Gaza face a horrific famine, and Princess Catherine ends weeks of speculation by revealing that she is receiving treatment for cancer.In this episode our resident conspiracy theorist Danny Sutcliffe frantically walks back some of his online speculation following Kate's cancer diagnosis, Tom King looks at America's shifting position on Israel through the prism of the multiverse, and Che Burnley isn't exactly chuffed about Frank Hester's racist criticisms of Diane Abbott.Enjoying the show? Don't...
2024-03-24
31 min
GG Weekend Watch
The Return of Andrew Mount! GG Weekend Watch | 13th January 2024
Kate Tracey, Matt Sutcliffe and the returning Andrew Mount give us their thoughts on all the ITV action on Saturday (you can still sign the petition to get Matty back after another winning NAP 😉) Find out who Dave, Kate and Andrew are siding with in all the action on ITV this Saturday, and don't forget to comment your NAP for Saturday's action! 🤝 The GG Weekend Watch is kindly sponsored by BetMGM 🤝 New customers can get £40 in FREE BETS when you sign up to BetMGM here ➡ bit.ly/BetMGM-GG Why not place a qualifying £10 bet by using one of the NAPs from the...
2024-01-11
48 min
GG Weekend Watch
GG Weekend Watch | Saturday 6th January 2024
It's 2024 and Kate Tracey, Matt Sutcliffe and Dave Young are back with their top tips for this weekends racing. The guys ended last year with a whole plethora of winners, with both Matty and Dave having winning NAP's at 6/1 & 11/2. Sandown is OFF, but there's still some great tips from Wincanton to get stuck into!
2024-01-05
40 min
Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals
The Tale of the Tell-Tale Heart
Low-budget movie mogul Roger Corman sets out to produce a papier maché blockbuster adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of psychological suspense. Loosely following the plot of the original, Poe is tasked with taking care of a Scottish castle belonging to a certain formerly popular children's author. But uh oh! His wacky pal Stephen King arrives... with his all-amateur band, the Rock Bottom Remainders, in tow! When an electrical blackout results in the Pals smashing a priceless collection of literary awards, it's a race to get the castle presentable again before the gender-critical reptilian returns! Content no...
2023-12-19
33 min
GG Weekend Watch
GG Weekend Watch | Saturday 16th December 2023
Kate Tracey, Matt Sutcliffe and Dave Young give us their thoughts on all the ITV action on Saturday. After a superb round of tipping last week that saw Matt and Dave both have winning NAP's (including an impressive 16/1 winner for Matt), the team have plenty of confident picks to follow up this week. Find out who Andrew, Matty and Kate are siding with in all the action on ITV this Saturday, and don't forget to comment your NAP for Saturday's action! The podcast is kindly sponsored by BetMGM - You can get £40 in FREE BETS when you sign up t...
2023-12-14
45 min
GG Weekend Watch
GG Weekend Watch | Saturday 9th December 2023
Kate Tracey, Matt Sutcliffe and Dave Young give us their thoughts on all the ITV action on Saturday. Dave fancies a 40/1 cult legend but Matty disagrees with his confident pick. Find out who Andrew, Matty and Kate are siding with in all the action on ITV this Saturday, and don't forget to comment your NAP for Saturday's action! The podcast is kindly sponsored by BetMGM - You can get £40 in FREE BETS when you sign up to BetMGM here ➡ bit.ly/BetMGM-GG 🔞 Full T&Cs Apply. Visit BeGambleAware.org for more information on responsible gambling. Please bear in mind the We...
2023-12-07
46 min
Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals
The Tale of the Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith, crime writer, snail friend, and lovable weirdo known for her shabby trenchcoat, eccentric habits, and possibly imaginary wife, investigates a bizarre double murder. Two people who don't know each other, or if you will, "strangers", meet on a rail vehicle, or as it were, "train", and plan the perfect crime. What really happened with Mary Shelley and her polycule at Lake Geneva last summer?Content notes: swearing, violence, murder, death including by train and drowning.CAST: Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZAEdgar Allan Poe — RODRIGO BORGESClive Barker — SISTER INDICAHP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSONDean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERYS...
2023-11-28
47 min
Front Row
The Rolling Stones; Foe; television food consultant; Doctors axed
Film critic Ryan Gilbey and music and club culture writer Kate Hutchinson deliver their verdict on Hackney Diamonds - the first new Rolling Stones album for 18 years – and Garth Davis’ film Foe, which is based on a sci-fi novel by Iain Reid and stars Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal. Lessons in Chemistry was 2022’s hit novel about a thwarted chemist who becomes an early TV cook. It’s now been turned into a series for Apple TV, starring Brie Larson, complete with authentic 1950s food. Chef and cookbook author Courtney McBroom, who was the show’s food consultant...
2023-10-19
42 min
FX Medicine Podcast Central
Childbirth Education: Knowledge is Power with Emma Sutherland, Kerry Sutcliffe and Dr. Kate Levett
At 37 percent, the rate of Australian caesarean section procedures is already one of the highest globally, and is projected to hit 45 percent by the year 2030. Join fx medicine Ambassador Emma Sutherland and guests Dr. Kate Levitt and Kerry Sutcliffe for an evidence-based discussion on the current birthing landscape in Australia. Kerry first takes us into the fascinating history of childbirth to help us understand the drastic changes from women-led, community-based birthing to the modern medicalised and seemingly disempowered process of birthing. She discusses the main drivers leading to C-section, recognising the prevalence of trauma around birth and how clinicians can...
2023-08-28
00 min
Front Row
Corinne Bailey Rae, playwright Peter Arnott, new short story collections
Musician Corinne Bailey Rae performs live in the studio and discusses the inspiration for her new album, Black Rainbows. Writer Peter Arnott on his new play about the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, Group Portrait In A Summer Landscape, opening at Pitlochry Festival Theatre on Friday.Plus short stories: critics Stephanie Merritt and Suzi Feay on two new collections - by Kate Atkinson and by US 'flash fiction' writer Diane Williams.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Emma Wallace
2023-08-21
42 min
GG Weekend Watch
GG Weekend Watch | Saturday 22nd July 2023
Kate Tracey and Andrew Mount are joined by GG's latest recruit Matty Sutcliffe this week to preview the key races on offer this weekend. There's a good mixture of racing, with flat action at Newbury, National Hunt action at Market Rasen, plus the Group 1 Irish Oaks for the Curragh. The trio have some strong fancies, including Andrew and Matty agreeing with who to side with in the Super Sprint at Newbury. Tune in to see who the team are backing, and let us know your strongest fancy for the weekends racing in the comments!
2023-07-20
45 min
You're Booked
Lisa Jewell - You're Booked
We are delighted to invite one of our all-time favourite authors to the podcast this week. It's the sensational Lisa Jewell! Lisa is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, which have sold over 10 million copies internationally and translated into 29 languages. Her debut (and YB fave) was Ralph's Party and subsequent releases include The Family Upstairs, Then She Was Gone, Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her latest is the eagerly anticipated None of This is True. We talked to her about her shelf of joy, curating your holiday read selection, 90s/Noughties favourites, the...
2023-07-17
53 min
Front Row
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Sackler family, Iestyn Davies performs live, sustainable theatre
Patrick Radden Keefe, who has been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize of Prizes award, discusses his book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. It tells the shocking story of the Sackler family and the part their company, Purdue Pharma, played in America's opioid crisis.“The word ‘divine’,” Iestyn Davies says, ”has changed its meaning to indicate nowadays beauty as well as Divinity.” The songs countertenor Iestyn Davies has selected for his new album, Divine Music: An English Songbook, reflect this change. There are settings by Purcell, Britten and Butterworth and words by Shakespeare...
2023-04-24
42 min
Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
Serial Killers & Misogyny: Hallie Rubenhold on Betwixt the Sheets
Hallie Rubenhold joins Betwixt the Sheets host Kate Lister to discuss our culture’s fascination with serial killers. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Peter Sutcliffe, Jack the Ripper…. these violent people are famous, but we only know them for their horrific crimes. What role does misogyny play in how these serial killers are portrayed on our screens and in our newspapers? And how does it affect court cases? Hear more from Betwixt the Sheets, from our friends at History Hit, wherever you get podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2023-04-04
39 min
GP Media
Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
It’s Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism is the title of the new book by the US politician Bernie Sanders. In it he castigates a system that he argues is fuelled by uncontrolled greed and rigged against ordinary people. He tells Tom Sutcliffe it’s time to reject an economic order and a political system that continues to benefit the super-rich, and fight for a democracy that recognises that economic rights are human rights. The Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times Martin Wolf looks more closely at how and why the relationship between capitalism and demo...
2023-03-10
42 min
GP Media
Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
It’s Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism is the title of the new book by the US politician Bernie Sanders. In it he castigates a system that he argues is fuelled by uncontrolled greed and rigged against ordinary people. He tells Tom Sutcliffe it’s time to reject an economic order and a political system that continues to benefit the super-rich, and fight for a democracy that recognises that economic rights are human rights. The Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times Martin Wolf looks more closely at how and why the relationship between capitalism and demo...
2023-03-10
42 min
The Human Risk Podcast
Nick Chatrath on AI & Leadership
As we enter the Age of Artificial Intelligence, what role will humans play? On this episode, I'm speaking to leadership expert and coach Nick Chatrath. He's a former colleague of mine and the author of a new book called 'Threshold: Leading In The Age of AI', which explores how leadership models will need to evolve in the AI Era in order to avoid humans feeling frustrated, unmotivated, and burnt out.In our discussion, we explore how AI taking over cognitive tasks will mean leaders need to develop new skills in order to motivate their workforce. How can we...
2023-03-03
54 min
Start the Week
Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
It’s Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism is the title of the new book by the US politician Bernie Sanders. In it he castigates a system that he argues is fuelled by uncontrolled greed and rigged against ordinary people. He tells Tom Sutcliffe it’s time to reject an economic order and a political system that continues to benefit the super-rich, and fight for a democracy that recognises that economic rights are human rights.The Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times Martin Wolf looks more closely at how and why the relationship between capitalism and demo...
2023-02-27
42 min
Oblivity
How to Win Friends and Assimilate People
Welcome to the Calypso Spa, Leisure and Entertainment complex: recreation for the body; restoration for the soul (no refunds for unrestored souls). Enjoy a massage with an old friend; go bowling with new ones; share a meal with a loved one; or simply take some time for yourself. Whatever your needs, our cutting edge Abigails are here to help you connect. Mercenaries! Copyright infringement! Hot basalt stones! All in the fourth episode of Season Two of Oblivity! About us Oblivity is a full-cast independent sci fi comedy drama podcast. Find transcripts, medi...
2022-12-07
51 min
Front Row
The Crown, Jafar Panahi's No Bears, Jez Butterworth, Goldsmiths Prize
The Crown: as series five is with us, we review the next ten part instalment of Netflix's royal drama as it slips into more recent territory - the turmoil of the nineties. Plus jailed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi’s new metafiction No Bears, in which he plays himself, forced to direct online from a village near Iran’s Turkish border. With Kate Maltby and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh.Jez Butterworth: the playwright and screenwriter on his new show Mammals starring James Corden, airing on Amazon Prime.The Goldsmiths Prize: live from the ceremony, we hear from the...
2022-11-10
42 min
Feedback
01/04/2022
Radio 4’s Tom Sutcliffe responds to listener criticism of Front Row's discussion on the views of JK Rowling.The presenter of Money Box, Paul Lewis, talks about the appalling financial frauds his programme has been investigating.And is the musician Gary Barlow a good interviewer? Two listeners give their verdict.Presenter: Roger Bolton Producer: Kate Dixon Executive Producer: Samir ShahA Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4
2022-04-01
27 min
Your Manchester Stories Podcast
LGBTQ+ History Month 2022 at UoM - Politics in Art
Join Your Manchester Stories host, Hayley-Jane Sims, and a distinguished panel while they discuss the theme of this year's LGBT History Month - Politics in Art. Featuring: Rob Cookson - Deputy CEO, LGBT Foundation Dominic Bilton - Student and Youth Engagement Producer, The Whitworth Dr Monica Pearl - Lecturer in 20th Century American Literature Lynn Sutcliffe - Managing Director, Mighty Productions
2022-02-22
1h 05
Digging Deep with Mark Sutcliffe
Kate Bowler: Everything Doesn't Happen for a Reason
At 35 years of age, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, and was told she had a very small chance of surviving. She has outlived her prognosis, and now takes on mortality with wisdom, thoughtfulness, and humour. In this episode of the Digging Deep podcast, Kate shares how we can find meaning without everything being a lesson, and takes us past some of the cliches associated with life and death. She challenges a lot of assumptions, and shares her profound perspective about the fragility of life and the lack of control we have. Kate also displays her characteristic humour...
2021-11-26
1h 06
Abi of Pellinor
All 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...
2021-11-07
09 min
Start the Week
Contested histories
Europeans and Africans have been encountering one another since as early as the 3rd century, according to the historian Olivette Otele. In her new book, African Europeans: An Untold History, she traces those meetings through the lives of individuals, both ordinary and extraordinary. She tells Tom Sutcliffe that exploring a past long overlooked raises prescient questions about racism, identity, citizenship and power. Toussaint Louverture – the subject of Sudhir Hazareesingh’s biography, Black Spartacus – was no ordinary figure. A former slave, he became the leader of a revolution in the 1790s that transformed Haiti, the former French Caribbean colony...
2020-10-05
41 min
Saturday Review
Misbehaviour, On Blueberry Hill, Abi Dare, Warhol, Breeders and Kate+Koji
Misbehaviour 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...
2020-03-14
49 min
Making a Musical: The Future of British Musical Theatre
S2, Ep1 All That Scratch: New Year, New Musicals
The All That Scratch Podcast is a curated hour of promising new British musical theatre recorded live at The Other Palace. Handpicked from open submissions, each episode features a line-up of talented writers sharing their work and taking part in exclusive interviews.Join our live studio audience for an intimate evening of original writing. It’s a chance to hear your future favourite musicals before anybody else!Visit www.allthatproductions.co.uk for more information, submission details and future episode recording dates.SEASON 2, EPISODE 1Recorded: 27 January 2020
2020-02-05
57 min
PharmaTalkRadio
UCB and Parkinson's UK Collaboration Improve a Trial through Patient Involvement
In this podcast, hear a case study from the 2019 Patients as Partners EU conference on UCB and Parkinson's UK Working Together to Improve a Phase 2 Trial through Patient Involvement. In 2018, UCB and Parkinson’s UK co-developed a workshop to enable the UCB research team to work together with people affected by Parkinson’s to discuss and develop a potential phase 2 clinical trial. The aim of the workshop was to better understand people’s thoughts on clinical trials and get feedback on key features of the potential trial to maximise appropriateness, acceptability and success. In this session, attendees hear a multi-stakeholder perspec...
2019-10-29
32 min
It's Christmastown
064 - Are You Afraid of the Badge?
SARA KATE WILKINSON meets THE CONVENIENT GROOM (2016) only to fall in love with: Our best friend Phylis ... THEME ... Dave is off tanning ... Fake spouses, a favorite thing ... Shakespeare tropes ... The Expositional Challenge ... Stone b*tch fake mother-in-law ... First-act cheater ... Confessing during technical difficulties ... Twentysomething with teen hairstyle love ... Mr. Lorelai Gilmore ... When we started liking it ... Vanessa Marcil Appreciation Station ... David Sutcliffe, delightfully in his sweet spot ... Rounding out the other characters ... Phylis, and a family of Canadian flashback TV show guests ... Larissa Albuquerque ... BREAK ... Spot the Angel: Zero ... Journalismism: Vlogger, not blogger; tripod videographer; this is not how b...
2019-08-16
1h 08
Saturday Review
At the Edinburgh Festivals, including The Secret River and the Pet Shop Boys Musical, Musik
We're at the Edinburgh Festivals, including the Pet Shop Boys/Jonathan Harvey musical starring Frances Barber: Musik. Also the stage adaptation of Kate Grenville's best-selling novel about the collision between settlers and Indigenous Australians, The Secret River. As well as the Bridget Riley retrospective at The National Gallery of Scotland and Blinded By The Light - the film of Safraz Mansoor's story about growing up in Luton and his love for the music of Bruce Springsteen. Also we find out what wonders members of our audience have come across. Tom Sutcliffe's guests Denise Mina, Louise Welsh and...
2019-08-12
50 min
Saturday Review
Sweet Charity, Machines Like Me, Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic, Loro
Josie Rourke returns to the work of Cy Coleman, who wrote the music for City of Angels; with the Broadway classic Sweet Charity. With choreography from the world-renowned Wayne McGregor, Rourke reunites with Anne-Marie Duff as Charity, and Arthur Darvill makes his Donmar debut as Oscar, for her farewell production as Donmar Artistic Director. During Sweet Charity, multiple guest actors will play the role of Daddy Brubeck including Shaq Taylor, Adrian Lester, Le Gateau Chocolat, Beverley Knight and Clive Rowe.Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel Machines Like Me poses fundamental questions: what makes us hu...
2019-04-20
49 min
Saturday Review
Wild Rose, Mary Quant, Intra Muros, The Parisian - Isabella Hammad, Life After Lock-Up and Back To Life
In her new film Wild Rose, rising star Jessie Buckley plays a Glaswegian country singer with dreams of making it big in Nashville. The trouble is that she has two small kids and is just out of jail. The Mary Quant exhibition at London's V&A shows a wide selection of her vibrant daring designs, made to be worn by real women and girls in the 60s and 70s A new play by one of France's brightest new names has just opened at London's Park Theatre; Intra Muros by Alexis Michalik is set in a drama workshop in a...
2019-04-13
48 min
Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later
Son of Saul, Mark Haddon, Kings of War, Love Nina, Pablo Bronstein at Tate
Podcast: Saturday Review (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Son of Saul, Mark Haddon, Kings of War, Love Nina, Pablo Bronstein at TatePub date: 2016-04-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSon 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...
2019-04-13
41 min
Saturday Review
Pose on BBC Two; Us; Jews, Money, Myth; Pepperland; The Parade
Jordan Peele’s debut feature film, Get Out, won him an Oscar for best original screenplay. His new film Us is also a horror film, features a score by Michael Abels and stars Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson whose childhood obsession with the Hands Across America commercial reverberates through the film.American tv drama Pose on BBC 2 features the largest transgender cast of any commercial, scripted TV show and trans writers Janet Mock and Our Lady J worked on the script alongside the show’s creators, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals. Ryan Murphy’s previous TV cre...
2019-03-23
54 min
Saturday Review
Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Hadestown, Chris Kraus, Leger at Tate Liverpool, Death and Nightingales
The Coen Brothers take on the Western movie in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Made with money from Netflix, is it REALLY a cinema release? Hadestown is a musical that's stopping off at London's National Theatre on its way from Off-Broadway to Broadway. It sets the Greek myth of story of Orpheus and Eurydice in modern New Orleans (and the underworld of course!) and reimagines the sweeping ancient tale as a timeless allegory for today's world. Chris Kraus wrote the bestseller I Love Dick and now follows it with Social Practices, a particular mix of biography, autobiography, fiction, criticism...
2018-11-24
53 min
Saturday Review
Copenhagen, The Children Act, All Among The Barley, Extraordinary Rituals, Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage
A revival of Michael Frayn's multi award-winning 1998 play Copenhagen at The Chichester Minerva Theatre. 20 years on from the original production how does it stand up and what does it say to the new audiences? Ian McEwan's novel The Children Act has been adapted for the big screen by Richard Eyre, starring Emma Thompson, Fion Whitehead and Stanley Tucci All Among The Barley is Melissa Harrison's new novel. The Costa and Bailey's nominee explores the rhythms of rural life between The Wars and how it affects the locals in a village in Suffolk Two new series are starting on TV...
2018-08-25
53 min
DJ MITSU??????
Show Love Podcast 8 - Prince
Kate Thornton and Jamie Sutcliffe talk about working on the Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 3 months ago and how you go about finding your own prince. Hosted by Bronwen Murphy. @showloveuk
2018-08-25
38 min
Show Love Podcast
Show Love Podcast 8 - Prince
Kate Thornton and Jamie Sutcliffe talk about working on the Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 3 months ago and how you go about finding your own prince. Hosted by Bronwen Murphy. @showloveuk
2018-08-25
38 min
Saturday Review
Apostasy, Exit The King, Olivia Laing, Memory Palace, Pride and Prejudice box set
Apostasy is a British film about disfellowship in Jehovah's Witness congregations. How do families cope when their religious beliefs come into conflict with contemporary social mores. London's National Theatre is staging its first production of a play by Eugene Ionesco. Adapted and directed by Patrick Marber, Exit The King stars Rhys Ifans as a monarch who knows he will die before the end of the play. Olivia Laing's first novel Crudo was written in real time in 7 weeks during 2017, recording her thoughts on the news of the day, "to get an imprint of the moment while it is still...
2018-07-28
49 min
And Then What?
Our Very First Live Episode
It's our first ever LIVE episode! With an audience and everything! Hear us try to zjuzj up health and safety announcements, teach the audience complicated podcast secrets like clapping, and try our best not to burp into the microphones despite being plied with prossecco. We returned to The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green and were joined by brilliant storytelling guests; listener Chris Sutcliffe, fellow #ladypodsquad Kate and Georgie from Nothing Rhymes With Murder, and actual author of The Friendship Cure, Kate Leaver. Settle in for a mother-in-law horror story, an unsolved murder from Wales, a heartwarming tale of hope...
2018-03-25
1h 17
Saturday Review
Dark River, The B*easts, BBC TV's Civilisations, Fire Sermon, Pop! Art in Chichester
Ruth Wilson stars in British film Dark River; a tragedy about a family coping with death on a rundown farm in Yorkshire, The B*easts at London's Bush Theatre is an exploration of the pornification of culture and the sexualisation of children. Kenneth Clark's landmark 1969 BBC TV series Civilisation explored the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. It's now been remade as Civilisations. Fire Sermon is a novel by Jamie Quatro about a mother devoted to her family who begins an affair, throwing all her moral certainties into a spiral. Pop! Art in a...
2018-02-24
50 min
Saturday Review
Kate Grenville, God's Own Country, Folkestone Triennial, Yerma NT Live, Mitchell and Webb
How do you write about scent and smells? We're looking at Kate Grenville's new book The Case Against Fragrance which looks at the potentially poisonous fumes with which we voluntarily surround ourselves. British film God's Own Country has been described as Breakback Yorkshire. It's set on a farm on the moors with love developing among the livestock. It's time for Folkestone's third Triennial, inviting artists to engage with the rich cultural history and built environment of the locality, and to exhibit newly commissioned work in public spaces around the town. Since it began in 2009, NT Live has been seen...
2017-09-02
46 min
Saturday Review
Committee, Terrence Malick, Neel Mukherjee, Frieze Sculpture, Gay Britannia radio drama
Committee is a new musical that's opened at London's Donmar Warehouse. Based on the parliamentary investigation into Kids Company. It might seem like an unorthodox source of inspiration , but so were London Road and Jerry Springer Terrence Malick's latest film Song To Song has polarised critics; will our reviewers s be beguiled or bewildered? State of Freedom by award winning author Neel Mukherjee is a novel which explores the interweaving of five stories and five lives via an initially invisible thread. There's a free outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Regents Park with 23 works from contemporary artists. The BBC's Gay...
2017-07-08
46 min
Saturday Review
La La Land, Manchester By The Sea, Michael Chabon, Wish List at The Royal Court, Charles Avery
We can help you to decide between two films touted for Oscars glory: La La Land revives The Hollywood musical and Manchester By The Sea starring Casey Affleck- If you have to choose, which one deserves your custom? Michael Chabon's latest novel Moonglow is sort-of autobiographical - the lies, deception, rumours, legends, confessions and confusions that all families create are explored through a life lived in The American Century. Katherine Soper (a 24-year-old former perfume seller) won The UK's biggest playwriting competition with Wish List; a play informed by what she calls the government's "systematic assault" on disabled and...
2017-01-14
42 min
Saturday Review
V+A Revolution, Hell or High Water, Jonathan Safran Foer, Inn At Lydda, BBC TV comedy pilots
Jeff Bridges stars as a Texas Ranger on the hunt for a couple of bank robber brothers in a modern day western Hell or High Water Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am combines a domestic breakdown with an international world-shattering incident. London's V+A Museum's new exhibition You Say You Want A Revolution looks at global changes between 1966 -1970 when the world seemed to be be in a state of political upheaval The Globe Theatre's new production, The Inn At Lydda is an imagining of Tiberius Caesar's journey to meet Jesus. But he arrives just after the crucifixion The...
2016-09-10
42 min
Saturday Review
Son of Saul, Mark Haddon, Kings of War, Love Nina, Pablo Bronstein at Tate
Son 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...
2016-04-30
41 min
Saturday Review
Hamlet, Paul Strand, Hot Milk, Court, Undercover
Paapa Essiedu is the first black actor to play Hamlet for the RSC in a new production opening in Stratford directed by Simon Godwin. Booker short listed writer Deborah Levy explores the complex emotional dynamics of the mother / daughter relationship in her new novel Hot Milk. Court is Mumbai born Chaitanya Tamhane's feature film debut - an Indian courtroom drama film which explores the limitations of Indian legal system through the trial of an elderly folk singer at a Sessions Court in Mumbai. Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century at the V&A in London shows...
2016-03-26
41 min
Sky Finger Podcast
10. Needing Apu
We've been promising it for a long time, but now its really here... We have a special guest! Fellow comedian and Tapped Head Mr Danny Sutcliffe joins Kate and Rich for this weeks episode. A new player, Danny discusses what he likes, what he hates and his unending love of Tap Ball. WE hope you enjoy listening to the views of a very recent player as much as we enjoyed talking to him. THIS WEEKS FEATURE: OUR TOWN: This week Kate and Rich check in with how their mutual Springfield is doing. Find them on Origin at: SkyFingerPod CREDITS: ...
2015-08-20
36 min
Saturday Review
Men Women and Children, Hope, William Blake, Olive Kitteridge, End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Jason Reitman's latest film Men Women and Children is a lighthearted look at the way the internet has become woven into everyone's existence for good or bad; the pitfalls, the temptations and the endless possibilities. Hope is a new play by Jack Thorne at London's Royal Court Theatre. It's a dark comedy about a cash-strapped Labour council trying to balance its books and do the least harm in the face of cuts. William Blake is the subject of a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford. He was a printmaker, painter and revolutionary poet of the prophetic books, and...
2014-12-06
42 min
Saturday Review
Malevich at Tate Modern, Importance of Being Earnest, Norte, Silicon Valley, Flusfeder: John the Pupil
A new exhibition of work by Russian painter Kasimir Malevich at London's Tate Modern follows his career from early representational work through his cubo-futurist phase, to his creation of the concept of supremacism and back to figurative art. It is grand in its scale and vision and ambition, but will it be packing in the visitors this summer?There's another revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest, with an all-star cast including Nigel Havers and Martin Jarvis. What devices can make this 120 year old much-venerated comedy funny to a modern audience?Filipino film...
2014-07-19
41 min
Saturday Review
Angela Lansbury in the West End; Kate Winslet in Labor Day; Sebastian Barry's new novel
At the age of 88, Dame Angela Lansbury returns to the West End theatre playing Madam Arcati in a revival of Noel Coward's wartime comedy Blithe Spirit. On Broadway it was widely acclaimed - how will a UK audience, traditionally less adulatory - receive her exuberant performance?Kate Winslet is an actress who can open and carry a movie; nobody denies her pull at the box office and skill on the screen. Her latest film 'Labor Day' is about an escaped prisoner (Josh Brolin) who ends up spending time on the run in her home. Can one of...
2014-03-22
41 min
Saturday Review
37 Days; The Book Thief; Bark
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Linda Grant, Tom Holland and Kate Williams to review the cinematic adaptation of The Book Thief. The young adult novel narrated by Death about growing up in Nazi Germany has sold eight million copies worldwide. How appealing will its screen incarnation be to audiences?37 Days is the BBC's dramatic contribution to its season examining the causes of the First World War. With an impressive cast, including Ian McDiarmid as the Home Secretary Sir Edward Grey, does it make effective television from the exchanges of international diplomacy?Peter Gill's new play...
2014-03-01
41 min
Saturday Review
Helen Mirren in new stage play The Audience; Steven Soderbergh's new film Side Effects
The dramatically unexpected arrival of David Bowie's album The Next Day has made grown men and women weep with excitement, following 10 years of recording silence. Is it the classic his fans would all like it to be?Helen Mirren plays the Queen again - this time on stage, following her Oscar-rewarded performance in Stephen Frears' film - in The Audience, directed by Stephen Daldry, which dramatises her weekly sessions with the Prime Minister of the day. Steven Soderbergh's film Side Effects is said to be his last: a psychological thriller about the unexpected results of...
2013-03-09
42 min
Saturday Review
28/01/2012
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Ekow Eshun, creative director of the Royal Opera House Deborah Bull and literary critic John Carey review the week's cultural highlights including Alexander Payne's film The Descendants.The Descendants - directed and written by Alexander Payne - stars George Clooney as a Honolulu lawyer and land-owner forced to take a more hands-on role parental role when a power-boat accident leaves his wife in a coma.Gillian Slovo's novel An Honourable Man is set in Khartoum in 1884 where General Gordon is trying to organise the defence of the besieged city...
2012-01-28
42 min
Saturday Review
19/11/2011
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Francis Spufford and Miranda Sawyer and musician Pat Kane review the week's cultural highlights including Reasons To Be Pretty.Neil LaBute's play Reasons To Be Pretty at the Almeida Theatre in London concerns the fallout from a casual remark that Greg (Tom Burke) makes to his friend Kent (Kieran Bew) about his girlfriend Steph (Sian Brooke). He says that prettiness isn''t everything - although Steph has a 'regular' face, he wouldn't swap her for a million dollars. Kent's wife Carly (Billie Piper) overhears this and reports back to Steph who does...
2011-11-19
41 min
Saturday Review
18/06/2011
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Rowan Pelling, poet Paul Farley and novelist Deborah Moggach review the week's cultural highlights.Harold Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal tells the story of a love affair, starting two years after it has ended and travelling back to the moment when it began. In Ian Rickson's production at the Comedy Theatre in London Kristin Scott Thomas plays Emma, Ben Miles is her husband and Douglas Henshall her lover. The visit of a young undergraduate poet to a suburban house in Middlesex in 1913 sets in motion the events of Alan Hollinghurst's novel...
2011-06-18
41 min
Saturday Review
16/04/2011
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Dreda Say Mitchell and Liz Jensen and art critic Bill Feaver review the cultural highlights of the week.The murder of five women in Ipswich in December 2006 forms the background to Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork's play London Road at the National Theatre. It deals with the media attention that the residents of the street where the murderer lived had to endure. The words are taken verbatim from interviews conducted by Blythe and set to music by Cork.When David Foster Wallace died in 2008 he left behind a vast...
2011-04-16
42 min