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The National Theatre is launching a new Podcast Series: That Black Theatre Podcast. Hosted by Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded PhD Student, Nadine Deller the podcast is a partnership between the National Theatre, The Royal Central School for Speech and Drama, University of London and the AHRC London Arts and Humanities Partnership. Starting on the... Continue Reading →
Lose yourself in a story of obsession, 40 years of nightlife and 4,000 years of human connection. In The Portal Martin Green, Wils Wilson, and David Greig have woven together a tale of love, music, drugs and deceit over 12 episodes available on Apple Music/Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and all good podcast platforms free of... Continue Reading →
Nationally renowned theatre company, Frozen Light, has launched a podcast in response to the truly unprecedented challenges that people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) are facing during the Covid-19 crisis. The podcast is an opportunity for people with PMLD, their carers and companions to share their experiences of shielding as well as highlighting... Continue Reading →
While The Good Enough Mums Club, a poignant and hilarious musical romp, undergoes new development in lockdown, the team have announced a new podcast series to explore the highs, lows and sleep deprivation of motherhood during this especially challenging time. What began life as a musical has evolved into a movement of mothers spreading the... Continue Reading →
July is starting off with a bang as Avant-Bard releases the first few episodes of their brand new podcast. Hosted by two queer Shakespeare-obsessed losers, Matthew Marquez and Megan Scharlau, each episode takes a piece of media inspired by the plays and poems of William Shakespeare and breaks it down for the audience. Connecting the... Continue Reading →
Girls On Film, voted No. 1 Feminist Film Podcast by Stylist Magazine, are the latest in a programme of exciting digital events to be hosted by the BFI, available for free on the BFI YouTube Channel. Podcast host, critic and broadcaster, Anna Smith will be joined by special guests in a series of free online events taking place... Continue Reading →
Director Jimmy Walters (The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, Finborough Theatre; Mrs Orwell, Southwark Playhouse) and actress Alexandra Evans (Silent Witness, BBC; Crown for Christmas, Hallmark) invite you to their virtual book club, Shakespeare in Quarantine, a new weekly podcast exploring the extensive back catalogue of the infamous William Shakespeare. For book and earworms alike, the stimulating... Continue Reading →
Let’s face it, life can be pretty tough even at the best of times, and with everything that’s going on in the world – Brexit, Trump, ISIS (I’m depressing myself just typing this) – it’s hard not to be weighed down in all of the negativity. Social media doesn’t help either. How many of us... Continue Reading →
