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Art of Persia (BBC4 June 2020, July 2021, Feb 2024) How I Found My Voice podcast s1-3 host 

On Spotify and Apple Podcasts

King Rocker film

Latest Newswatch BBC1 – via iplayer (every Friday)

Personal Vimeo channel: This is where I post on-location films about the latest programmes I’m making.

May 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Bruce Robinson on Withnail and I, Women Artists 1520-1920 Tate Britain, Alan Murrin on The Coast Road

May 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row –Maggie and Me stage play, Rome Open City and Italian neo-realism, counterfeit art online

May 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Party Games play, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at 200, Lawrence Norfolk and Alice Oswald on writers’ manuscripts and self editing

Apr 29th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Darren Henley on Arts Council England Let’s Create policy

Apr 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Pet Shop Boys, Challengers, Expressionists at Tate Modern

Apr 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Lionel Shriver Mania, Tyrell Williams Red Pitch, closing university arts/humanities courses

Apr 10th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Anna May Wong biography, Michael Simpson, John Gilhooly on ACE funding

Apr 8th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, digital film preservation

Apr 2nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm –Dev Patel on Monkey Man, Eng Lit Set texts, MGM Musicals at 100

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Apr 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – National Gallery at 200 special

Mar 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Camilla Whitehill on Big Mood, Joel Morris and Lissa Evans on Be Funny or Die, Bach’s St John Passion at 300 – Gareth Malone and Hannah French

Mar 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row –Marjane Satrapi, What is Truth?, Harlow sculpture trail

Mar 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row –Daniel Libeskind on Albert Einstein House design, Caspar David Friedrich at 250, Karl Jenkins

Mar 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row –Keir Starmer on Labour’s culture strategy, Monster film, Reading Genesis

Mar 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Nye, Copa 71, Jordan Harvey

Feb 27th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Jury:Murder Trial, Bhangra Nation, Bluestockings

Feb 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sheridan Smith, Cesars, movement directors

Feb 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row –  Sir Peter Blake, David Harewood, John Logan

Feb 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Stephen Sanchez, Gen Z viewing, Godzilla at 70

Feb 12th BBC4 Art of Persia episode 3 

Feb 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Chosen, Cymande, Tayari Jones

Feb 5th BBC4 Art of Persia episode 2

Feb 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Steve McQueen, Declan McKenna, Jez Butterworth

Jan 31st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Lily Gladstone, Great Escapes at the National Archives, Leo Vardiashvilli

Jan 29th BBC4 Art of Persia episode 1

Jan 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Colour Purple, Cute exhibition, pop concert cinema

Jan 22nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Andrew Haigh on All Of Us Strangers, Lulu Wang on Expats, Tom Hibbert’s Phew, Eh Readers?

Jan 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Emma Stone and Yorgis Lanthimos on prostitution in Poor Things, TS Eliot Poetry Prize winner, The End We Start From, RSC new ADs

Jan 10th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Jack Rooke on Big Boys S2, Eliza Carthy on Wassailling, Baku traditional music festival

Jan 8th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Poor Things, Warhammer/Amazon deal, honesty in reviews

Jan 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Dan Levy, National Poetry Library,  Clarke Peters

Jan 2nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – George Clooney & Callum Turner on The Boys In The Boat, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, Scala!!!

2024 Jan 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Rachmaninoff special

Dec 21st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Simon Farnaby on Ghosts, David Tennant’s Macbeth, Next Goal Wins

Dec 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies on Nolly, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Laura Misch

Dec 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Margaret Cavendish, Margreth Olin on Songs of the Earth, Christmas TV viewing habits

Dec 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Paul King on Wonka, Pauline Boty, non fiction

Nov 30th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – House of Bernarda Alba, Eileen, Barbara Walker

Nov 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Worst record covers, Fred D’Aguiar

Nov 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Booker Prize ceremony special

Nov 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Alehouse Boys, Sarah Bernstein, AS Byatt obit

Nov 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Todd Haynes on May December, Trevor Horn, Al Murray on IWM’s art and photography galleries

Nov 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Billy Bragg, Women in Revolt! at Tate Britain, Paul Murray

Nov 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Self Esteem on Cabaret, Judi Jackson, Ghana art scene

Oct 31st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Duran Duran, Sandra Newman on Julia

Oct 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Two Tone, Martin Shaw, Chetna Maroo, Lyonesse

Oct 24th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Patrick Stewart, Steven Isserlis, Skateboard design, Haydn Gwynne obit

Oct 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Bonnie Langford, nuns, Our River Our Sky film – Maysoon Pachachi

Oct 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Frasier, Fashion City at Museum of London Docklands

Oct 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Jhumpa Lahiri, Kathryn Tickell, Heritage Places fund, remembering Terence Davies

Oct 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Patsy Ferran, Rubens and women, Black men in urban British film

Sep 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Boiling Point, Lark Rise to Ambridge, Scottish National Galleries, US Screenwriters’ strike breakthrough

Sep 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Jane Austen’s wardrobe, Daljit Nagra, Alice Phoebe Lou

Sep 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Katherine Rundell on Impossible Creatures, Nichk Mulgrew, makers on social media

Sep 11th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – British Museum whistleblower Dr Ittai Gradel, Deborah Frances-White, NSSA nominee Cherise Saywell

Sep 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Lise Davidsen, Past Lives, Black Atlantic at Fitzwilliam Museum

Sep 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Anna Wintour, Bloomsbury group fashion, BBC Singers

Aug 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Stewart Lee on Macbeth, Sin Blache, Helen Macdonald on Prophet, Connie Converse rediscovered

Aug 22nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Louise Doughty on Bird in Winter, BSL at music festivals, Missing Madonna podcast

Aug 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Christy Lefteri The Book of Fire, Palestinian Embroidery,

Aug 8th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Bruce Lee and Enter The Dragon at 50, Reality TV, British Museum apologises to Chinese poetry translator

Aug 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Freddie Mercury fashion archive, Booker Prize longlist, Scottish theatre

Jul 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Christian Blackshaw, Rabiah Hussain, tech start up art market

Jul 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Elizabeth Fremantle on Disobedient, Felix Klieser, Twitter X and Threads logo design

Jul 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Greta Gerwig on Barbie movie, Tanika Gupta’s The Empress, Henry VIII tapestry, Jane Birkin

Jul 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Milan Kundera, Chain Gang All Stars, Northern Soul Prom, MOTY winner

Jul 10th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – PJ Harvey, Benjamin Grosvenor, Scapa Flow museum

Jul 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Beneatha’s Place, Elemental, Contemporary African Photography

Jul 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Dolly Parton

Jul 1st I Am The Eggpod Live

Jun 27th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Champion, A Strange Loop, Natural History Museum

Jun 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Wes Anderson, Bob Stanley on the Bee Gees

Jun 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Beatles at Stowe Tapes update, Nick Drake, Maggi Hambling

Jun 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Cecilia Rabess on Everything’s Fine, Pretty Red Dress

Jun 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Laline Paull on Pod, Eric Whitacre, Musicals

Jun 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Marcus Wainwright, Medusa Deluxe

Jun 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Punk, White House Plumbers, Reality film

May 30th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Chita Rivera, arts funding, Priscilla Morris

May 29th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Windrush special

May 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sparks, EM Forster, Bob Gilbert

May 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The offbeat sari, labelling in museums, Mat Osman

May 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Dennis Potter discovered TV script, Goth, Isaac Julien

May 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Tom Hanks novel, Harka film, A Thong for Europe

May 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Rachmaninoff special

Apr 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Stewart Copeland, Ryan Calais Cameron, Morris Dancing, remembering Harry Belafonte

Apr 20th Literary Leicester – university podcast on My Life In Books

Apr 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Jeanine Tesori on Blue opera, Farrell Centre for Architecture, Margaret MacMillan on Paris 1919

Apr 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sagrada Familia, Georgia Cecile, Remembering Murray Melvin

Apr 18th I Am The Eggpod ep 114 – guest on the Beatles at Stowe tape

Apr 15th Radcliffe and Maconie Breakfast 6Music – guest discussing the Beatles at Stowe tape (from 1 hour 35 min)

Apr 12th ABC Australia RN Breakfast – interviewed about Beatles at Stowe tape

Apr 11th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Rossettis as Radicals, Benbrick on AI, Wade Davis on Into the Silence

Apr 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ai Wei Wei at Design Museum, Rise of the Pink Ladies

Apr 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – newly discovered Beatles tape of concert at Stowe School April 1963, Hugh Laurie on Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Mar 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Natalie Merchant, Library levelling up fund, Victoria Adukwei Bulley – Poetry prize winner Folio Prize

Mar 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Lisa O’Neill, National Theatre of Norway, The Cure gig ticket fees, FESPACO African Film Festival

Mar 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sir Richard Eyre on Allelujah, Extrapolations, Black Artists from the American South at the Royal Academy

Mar 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Percival Everett on Dr No, Little English film, Yeats

Mar 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Daniel Mays on Guys and Dolls, Closure of BBC Singers, accessibility on film sets

Mar 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Steven Moffat on the Large Hadron Collider, Subject, Family Tree play

Mar 3rd BBC Radio 4 The News Quiz – panellist

Feb 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Tracy-Ann Oberman on The Merchant of Venice 1936, Michael B Jordan (Creed III), Oldham Coliseum

Feb 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Hugh Jackman, future of opera, Kevin Jared Hosein

Feb 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Al Murray on Spitting Image Live, Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Raquel Welch, Hanover critic assault

Feb 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sylvia Musical, Lucy Pardee on street casting, Brit set design

Feb 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Les Dennis & Mina Anwar, Tania Branigan, Yentl

Feb 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sonia Boyce, Oldham Coliseum, The Quiet Girl

Jan 30th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sarah Polley on Women Talking, Ann Helen Laestadius, deep fakes

Jan 24th BBC Radio 4 Extra Jake Yapp’s Unwinding – studio guest

Jan 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Laura Poitras, Rasha Nahas, Mel C

Jan 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons,Alice Farnham, An Irish Goodbye

Jan 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Art fron the Hispanic World, Holy Spider, Clarke Reynolds

Jan 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Witch Lit, The Swimmers director Sally El Hosaini, TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph

Jan 13th I Am The Eggpod – 5th anniversary special interviewing host Chris Shaw

Jan 12th Comfort Blanket pod – guest discussing Sheila Ferguson’s Soul Food

Jan 6th BBC Radio 4 The News Quiz 630pm/Sat 1230pm/Mon Radio 4Extra 11pm – panellist

Jan 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – remembering Fay Weldon, William Byrd 400, The Rig

Jan 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Tom Hanks, Deepti Kapoor, London ticket bank

Dec 22nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Happy Valley S3, The Pale Blue Eye, Alexander Cresswell

Dec 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Terry Hall remembered, Board Games, Uk Theatre

Dec 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Alex Scheffler and Lauren Child on Quentin Blake at 90, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Avatar 2

Dec 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Johnny Borrell, Kim Moore, Turner Prize winner

Dec 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Antoine Fuqua on Emancipation, casting NDAs, April De Angelis on Kerry Jackson

Nov 29th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Clint Dyer on Othello, Ingrid Pollard, Wellcome Collection’s Medicine Man gallery closure

Nov 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Lady Chatterley’s Lover, It’s A Wonderful Life opera, Ukrainian actors and casting

Nov 22nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Matthew Warchus on Matilda, Kapil Seshasayee, climate protests in art galleries

Nov 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Wonder, Making Modernism, Opera and elitism

Nov 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – BBC at 100: Joy Whitby, art of radio, climate fiction

In conversation with Greta Thunberg (October 30th 2022)

In conversation with Nazanin Zarghari Ratcliffe (October 22nd 2022)

Adam Buxton podcast – episode 189 (October 4th 2022) – Adam talks with journalist, writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed about conkers, Mary Whitehouse, white noise makers, Star Trek and much else. This conversation was recorded face to face in London on October 4th, 2022

Visible Women podcast (October 2022) – Waiting for the Ladies

Standard Issue podcast – Trust the science (fiction) (October 2022)

Nov 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Arts Council England funding Nicholas Serota, Stuart Murphy of ENO, Sarah Crompton, When We Talk film, art of the infographic

Oct 31st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – portrait painter Sarah Biffin, Ric Renton, Plastic Exhibition at V&A Dundee

Oct 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Brutalist architecture, Eliza Carthy, Ruben Ostlund on Triangle Of Sadness

Oct 20th BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking – guest on Oliver Postgate

Oct 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Booker Prize Award Ceremony 2022

Oct 11th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Soheila Sokhanvari, Camilla George

Oct 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Bjork, Barbara Broccoli on James Bond at 60, NoViolet Bulawayo

Oct 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Viola Davis, Amy Sherald, Rona Munro

Sep 21st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Beth Orton, Korean Wave at V&A, Jodi Picoult The Book Thief

Sep 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Louise Doughty, Miki Berenyi, Jess Ashworth

Sep 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Abel Selaocoe, 20thC British Art, curlews

Sep 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sylvia Anderson, Richard Eyre, Jean-Luc Godard

Sep 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Loudon Wainwright III, Booker shortlist, Eng Lit A-Level

Sep 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Nick Drnaso, Three Thousand Years of Longing

Aug 30th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ann Cleeves, James B Wilson, book charts

Aug 29th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ralph Vaughn Williams special

Aug 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Anne Marie Duff on Bad Sisters, Benin Bronzes, Public Service Broadcasting Prom

Aug 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Jacob Collier, Silence play on Partition, Salman Rushdie

Aug 10th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Only Woman, Marriage, Under Another Sky, Raymond Briggs

Jul 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Booker and Mercury Music Prize Longlists, National Lottery heritage fund museum endowment funding, Queer Britain museum

Jul 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Jean-Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, APPR EU music touring report

Jul 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Karl Bartos/Kraftwerk, Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland, Spooky Men’s Chorale

Jul 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Shakespeare North Playhouse, The Railway Children Return, Ty Pawb MOTY

Jul 11th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan/Druet

Jul 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Lucian Freud at Freud Museum, National Poet of Wales, The Blue Woman, Royal Cornwall Museum

Jun 30th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Laura Veirs, Natalia Ginzberg, Sun and Sea

Jun 27th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Southbury Child, Hive concerto, James Graham, Peter Kosminsky

Jun 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Dean Atta, Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Will Page on streaming

Jun 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – George Ezra, Sherwood, Norway’s National Museum

Jun 8th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Paul Rego remembered, Cressida Cowell, Stones In His Pockets, Elif Shafak

Jun 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ayanna Witter Johnson, Clement Ishmael on Playboy of the West Indies, digital theatre

Jun 2nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – 1952 Platinum Jubilee special: Joan Bakewell, Barbara Pym, The Goon Show, Aaan, post-Festival of Britain design and architecture

May 31st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Rory Kinnear, UK City of Culture, Lord Parkinson, Blood Sisters

May 24th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Abba Arena show, Terence Davies on Benediction

May 18th BBC Radio 4 Generation Change 3/3 – Poverty then and poverty now

May 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Louise Erdrich, Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Wright of Derby, Kingsway Tramway Tunnel

May 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Oklahoma! Florence Nightingale Museum, Conversations With Friends, Bob Dylan Archive

May 11th BBC Radio 4 Generation Change 8pm (2/3) – From Reclaim the Streets to the Sarah Everard vigil

May 7th BBC Radio 4 Generation Change 1015pm (1/3) – From Black Power to Black Lives Matter

May 4th BBC Radio 4 Generation Change – Episode 1/3 From Black Power to Black Lives Matter

Apr 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Walter Sickert, The Corn Is Green, Cherylee Houston

Apr 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Tim Foley on Electric Rosary, viola player Lawrence Power, Heartstopper

Apr 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Robert Eggers on The Northman, remembering Sir Harrison Birtwistle, David Benedict on reforming The Olivier Awards

Apr 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Big Jubilee Read special from Library of Birmingham, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kit de Waal, Casey Bailey

Apr 11th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sooty, Sweep and Richard Cadell, ENO artistic director Annelise Miskimmon, Liz Carr, gender free country dance calling

Apr 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ocean Vuong, Secrets of Dumbledore

Mar 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sonia Boyce, Oscars, cellist Laura Van Der Heijden

Mar 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Mark Rylance, Julian Knight MP on DCMS culture festival spending, David Hockney’s Eye, The Drop Out/We Crahed

Mar 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Rufus Norris, smoking on screen,Alison Brackenbury

Mar 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Margate special, Larry Achiampong, Thomas Sanderling, Lizzie Harris, Ernest Shackleton’s banjo

Mar 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sean Baker on Red Rocket, The Shires, Kaveh Akbar

Mar 5th BBC Radio 4 Archive on Four – Disgussted: The Mary Whitehouse diaries 8pm

Mar 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Tears For Fears, English Heritage, Unboxed festival

Feb 21st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Kit Harington on Henry V, Remembering Jan Pieńkowski, Jamal Edwards, Surrealism Without Borders

Feb 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Richard Bean on Hull Truck Theatre, Sheila Heti, autism on screen

Feb 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, Shakespeare’s problematic plays

Feb 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Yard Act, Esi Edugyan, Jason Katims on As We See It

Feb 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Michael Cumming on Brass Eye, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, They

Feb 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Bastille, Costa Bk of the Year winner Hannah Lowe

Jan 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Isabel Allende, Bloody Sunday, Facade

Jan 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Martin Freeman on The Responder, Cultural Levelling Up

Jan 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Tilda Swinton, NDAs in casting, Stoke museums

Jan 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Adrian Lester, Heal and Harrow, Northern writing

Jan 11th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Joelle Taylor TS Eliot Prize, Folk, Unboxed Festival

Jan 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Andrea Arnold on Cow, Costa Novel winner Clare Fuller, Afghanistan National Institute of Music

2022 Jan 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Julia Ducournau on Titane, Disability Arts Ambassador

Dec 24th Perfect Night in Podcast – audio

Dec 21st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Anything Goes, Live music venues under Omicron, Princess Bride radio adaptation

Dec 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kehinde Wiley, Michael Rosen, Kit De Waal

Dec 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sarah Phelps on A Very British Scandal, Cabaret, animal puppetry on stage

Dec 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Cat Power, And Just Like That, C’mon C’mon

Dec 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Steven Spielberg on West Side Story, Working Class heritage, Landscapers

Dec 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row / BBC Newschannel – Turner Prize Award ceremony live from Coventry Cathedral

Nov 29th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Kelly Lee Owens, Rowan Williams, Black Obsidian Sound System, Remembering Stephen Sondheim

Nov 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Andrew Lloyd Webber, Costa Book Awards shortlists

Nov 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Moira Buffini, King Richard, The Wife of Willesden, The Wheel of Time

Nov 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Lin Manuel Miranda on Tick Tick Boom! climate change sf, In My Skin creator Kayleigh Llewellyn

Nov 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Dean Stockwell, Venice, Dostoevsky

Nov 5th Royal Festival Hall – live interview Paul McCartney and Paul Muldoon The Lyrics – recording available to watch via link till Nov 12th

Nov 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row (radio) – Booker Prize winner ceremony (on TV)

Nov 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Armando Iannucci, Daniel Clark, Maggie Shipstead, Paul McCartney on Penny Lane

Oct 27th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Hall for Cornwall, Nadifa Mohamed, Paul McCartney on Eleanor Rigby

Oct 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Science Museum director on fossil fuel sponsorhip, Culture Unstained, Patricia Lockwood, Paul McCartney on Yesterday

Oct 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Arinze Kene Bob Marley musical, John Dowland, Working Class Writers’ Festival

Oct 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ridley Scott, The Border Game, Ulster American Folk Park

Oct 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Suzan-Lori Parks’ White Noise, The Trick, day of the scientist

Oct 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Wole Soyinka, Michael Winterbottom, post pandemic theatre

Oct 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley’s The Enemy at National Theatre of Scotland

Sep 27th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Arthur C Clarke Award winner, BTS, The Man Who Sold His Skin

Sep 22nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Spiers and Boden, music streaming economics, Calvin Kasulke, Danny Rhodes

Sep 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Peaceophobia, Kurt Elling, Help, Georgina Harding

Sep 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Mick Fleetwood, Cathy Brady, Jean Paul Belmondo

Sep 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ian Rankin, Covid pilot events, Janine Jansen 12 Stradivarius, Neal Cooper on stepping into Tristan at the Proms

Aug 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Jack Thorne, Kalena Bovell, Bob Stanley on Don Everly, Afghan Writers’ Union

Aug 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Moses Sumney, Pig director, The White Lotus

Aug 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Phil Wang, Abi Palmer, Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Aug 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Elif Shafak, conductor Jonathon Heyward, Stillwater

Aug 2nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sutton Foster on Anything Goes, Tim Renkow, Scarlett Johansson sues Disney

Jul 27th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Little Amal, Booker longlist, Livingstone Birthplace Museum

Jul 22nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ian McKellen’s Hamlet, Alex von Tunzelmann on Fallen Idols

Jul 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Anna Meredith on bumps per minute

Jul 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Nowhere Special film, George Monbiot on Rivercide

Jul 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Paula Rego, Black Widow, Nicholas Serota on Culture REcovery Fund one year on

Jun 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Simon Russell Beale, Lisa Taddeo

June 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Tanika Gupta, Cherie Jones, Indian Parliament

Jun 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Hilary Mantel, Juliet Stevenson, Lisa Dwan

Jun 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Lin Manuel Miranda on In The Heights

Jun 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Danny Elfman, Emily Davison statue

May 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Cruella, Pauline Black on Two Tone

May 24th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Brit Bennett

May 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Julie Hesmondhalgh, Christina McMaster, James Barnor

May 10th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – David Hockney, Three Women, Ronan Hession on Panenka

May 6th-12th Channel 4 2.10pm Countdown

May 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Cowboys, Liverpool mass events, Sunjeev Sahota on China Room

Apr 29th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Raoul Peck, Camilla Greenwell, tufting

Apr 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Nicola Benedetti and Mark Simpson, Intergalactic, Being Mr Wickham

Apr 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – London Grammar, Frank of Ireland, Sony World Photographer of the Year

Apr 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row –  Ammonite, Cruise play, Voices from the Peak

Apr 6th BBC Radio 4 Front Row Riz Ahmed, Paul Ritter remembered

Mar 31st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Future of disabled theatre

Mar 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Promising Young Woman, Benin Bronzes

Mar 24th BBC Radio 4 Extra – Sisters In Satire part 3

Mar 23rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Orlando Bloom, Elizabeth Knox, Liverpool biennial

Mar 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Theatre special one year on

Mar 7th BBC Radio 4 Something Understood (When Certainties are Shaken)6am, 1130pm – presenter

Mar 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – MC Grammar, Bookshop.org, V&A proposed restructuring

Feb 24th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Martina Cole, Museums Assoc, Sam Lee

Feb 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Bloodlands, The Ring Cycle, Victor Ambrus

Feb 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Lolita Chakrabarti, The Silence Of The Lambs at 30

Feb 10th BBC Radio 4 Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar – guest

Feb 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – News of the World, Remembering Mary Wilson and Jean-Claude Carriere, Roger Cook on Lionel Bart’s Golda Meir musical

A Word In Your Attic video podcast (Jan 20th) – guest

Jan 25th Looks Unfamiliar podcast – guest

Jan 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – TS Eliot Prize winner Bhanu Kapil, Dancing Nation

Jan 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – EU work permits, Winterreise, Olivia Sudjic, Jo Biden

How I Found My Voice – Graham Norton S3 Ep1 (Nov 18th 2020)

Dec 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – poetry special with Simon Armitage, Anthony Anaxagorou, Daphne Astor, Vanessa Kisuule, Em Power, Anna Selby

Bergcast – Nigel Kneale and Woodfall films (guest) (Dec 14th 2020)

I Am The Eggpod – Beatles Live at the BBC Vol 1 (Nov 16th 2020)

I Am The Eggpod – Yellow Submarine song track (May 17th 2020)

Smershpod Royale: The Living Daylights Part 1 , Part 2 (April 2020)

Dec 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – John Le Carre, The Comeback, Aliza Nisenbaum

Dec 12th BBC Radio 4 Extra Floating in Space  – presenter

Dec 9th BBC 6Music Steve Lamacq show 6pm – guest (Listen from 2 hours 0 min) 

Dec 8th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – I’m Your Woman, Owen Wingrave, Unearthed at Dulwich Picture Gallery

Nov 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Fela Kuti, writing trauma, The Queen’s Gambit

Nov 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Julian Lloyd Webber on Sir Malcolm Arnold, Brandon Taylor, Nick Park

Nov 10th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Eduardo Ponti on Sophia Loren, Billie Holliday,, Abel Selaocoe

Oct 29th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Dawn French special interview

Oct 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row  – Booker shortlisted Tsitsi Dangarembga, His House director Remi Weekes

Oct 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Anais Mitchell on Hadestown, Martin Parr on Chris Killip, South London Gallery