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Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House — 115 episodes
138. A Joyful Musical Christmas - with choir masters Ben England & Mark Strachan
137. Dreamland - A new exhibition exploring fame at the Maddox Gallery with artist Russell Young and curator Maeve Doyle
136. Gainsborough, Gillray & more - with Rebecca Salter and Tim Clayton
135. Edward VIII Reassessed - with Jane Marguerite Tippett
134. WOMEN IN REVOLT! Tate Britain’s new exhibition with curator Linsey Young and artist Marlene Smith
133. Beyond Theatre - with Robert Bathurst and Trish Wadley
132. William Boyd
131. A Disappointing Issue - Why do black Britons feel misrepresented, side-lined and let down by our culture? With Maggie Semple and Nels Abbey
130. ‘Hamnet’ with Maggie O’Farrell
129. THE HYPOCHONDRIAC and THE INTERVIEW - Roger McGough and Jonathan Maitland tell us about their new plays
128. Stone, paint and the landscape - with Emily Young and Francis Hamel
127. The Joys of the Piano: The Eighth London Piano Festival with Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen
126. Scottish Renaissance - The New Scottish Galleries at the National with Sir John Leighton
125. The Heroic Hedgehog with Sarah Sands
124. The glories of the V&A - Coco Chanel, David Bowie & more with Nicholas Coleridge
123. Exhibitions in Beautiful Gardens - With Pippa Shirley and Lorraine Lecourtois
122. DEAR EARTH: Artists respond to the Climate Crisis at London’s Hayward Gallery With curator Rachel Thomas and artists Ackroyd & Harvey
121. Summer At The RSC - With director Erica Whyman and actress Tanya Katyal
120. Summer Festivals - with Jo Bausor, Otto English and Harry Hoblyn
119. This is Not Fiction - with Dave Johns and Davey Nellist
118. Summer Books - Louise Minchin and Irenosen Okojie on the Women’s Prize for Fiction
117. The Radical Rossettis - with Carol Jacobi, Curator at Tate Britain
116. How Design can save the world - with Victoria Broackes, Director of the London Design Biennale
115. From Asylum Seeking to Cricket – with Hassan Akkad, Shomit Dutta and Andrew Lancel
114. England’s Last Hurrah - with legendary photographer Dafydd Jones
113. For 24 Hours Only - Ruth Wilson on her upcoming, epic, one-off, marathon performance
112. The Art of Collecting with Guy Salter, Tomasz Starzewski and Nazy Vassegh
110.Souls Grown Deep and Berlusconi the Musical: with Curator Raina Lampkins-Fielder and Producer Francesca Moody
109. Why Invest In a Print? - With Helen Rosslyn, director of the London Original Print Fair
108. Grenfell: The Play Shining a Light on the Truth - With Co-Writer and Director Nicolas Kent and Anthony Biggs of the Playground Theatre
106. Celebrating P.G. Wodehouse - and Women: with writer William Humble, actor Robert Daws and director Jude Kelly
99. WE ARE FAMILY: With psychotherapists Julia Samuel and her daughters, Emily and Sophie
97. The Art of Dining: Christina Makris on restaurants with great art collections
96. Britain’s Most Beautiful Building: With Norman Foster and Stephen Bayley
95. Picture Perfect Christmas Theatre - New plays inside The National Gallery and at The Globe: with Hannah Khalil, Clare Arouche and Francesca Reid
94. Photographs That Change the World: with Maryam Eisler, Mahaneela and Kwabena Sekyi Appiah-nti
93. NIL BY HAND, ALL BY MOUTH: THE ART OF SARAH BIFFIN with Alison Lapper, Philip Mould and Ellie Smith
92. POETRY: A FRIEND FOR LIFE With poet Pelé Cox and mental health campaigner Rachel Kelly
91. Artist in Residence: reopening LEIGHTON HOUSE with Curator Daniel Robbins and artist Shahrzad Ghaffari
90. Celebrating the glories of Cezanne with Natalia Sidlina and Michael Raymond
89. Opera and dance take on Peaky Blinders, Football and It’s a Wonderful Life With Annilese Miskimmon, Helen Shute and Steven Knight
88. New Perspectives on Lucian Freud With his friend and assistant David Dawson and curator Dr. Daniel Herrmann
87. Books in a Bomb Shelter: KC Philippe Sands and Sofiya Chelyak on the Lviv Book Forum
84. Summer Round-Up
83. Jake Fiennes: Land Healer
81. The Royal College of Art: A Petri Dish of Future Solutions
80. Britain vs France: Writer and Director John Morton on Tackling Call my Agent For a British Audience
79. The Historic Episode
78. An Apology from Hay Festival
77. Celebrating Women in Fiction with Mary Ann Sieghart and Dorothy Koomson
76. Stonehenge: An Enduring Mystery with Dr. Neil Wilkin from the British Museum
75. Ring Master: John Walsh on his Book Circus of Dreams About 1980’s Literary London, with Sally Emerson
73. Is the Avant Garde Dead? With Sir David Hare
72. Happy Birthday Shakespeare! With Robert McCrum
70. Let’s Go to the Movies: Celebrating the BAFTAs and the Oscars
65. Celebrating Jewish Book Week’s Platinum Anniversary with Legendary Lyricist Don Black
63. Francis Bacon: Man or Beast?
62. Artist and Designer Osman Yousefzada on His New Book and Marcelino Sambé on the Joys of Playing Romeo for the Valentine’s Day Royal Ballet Production
60. Who is Gatsby Randolph? The Mystery Man Who Infiltrated Hollywood
59. The Happy Christmas Episode
56. Barbara Taylor Bradford on still being a Woman of Substance and photographer David Yarrow on Changing Lanes
A Break Out Culture Special from StART Fair at Saatchi Gallery
53. La Traviata: The Most Performed Opera in the World
52. Challenging our Perspectives: Artist Patrick Hughes and Historian Andrew Roberts
51. Nathaniel Parker on playing Henry VIII in ‘The Mirror and the Light’
50. Ben Okri on Our Famished Forests
46. Special Bumper Issue - We Celebrate a Year in Culture!
45. Simon Russell Beale on being Johann Sebastian Bach
44. Juliet Stevenson’s Mission to Put Women’s Poetry Centre Stage
43. Kamila Shamsie on Refugee Tales and Julian Opie’s New Show
42. London Reimagined - Artist Zak Ové on Kensington & Chelsea Art Week
41. An Epic Episode: Andrew Marr’s New Paintings, Iran at the V&A and Romeo & Juliet
40. We Go Haywire: Celebrating Hay Festival With Caroline Michel, Russell Tovey, Robert Diament and Tahmima Anam
39. Impresario Raymond Gubbay Lowers The Tone and Raises The Roof and Parham House Opens its Doors With a New Exhibition
38. World Bee Day, Barbara Hepworth at the Hepworth Wakefield Gallery and 25 concert to celebrate London’s Wigmore Hall’s 120th birthday
37. Sex With Mr. Hell and When Marilyn Monroe Met Dame Edith Sitwell
36. Shakespeare’s Neighbours, The New Art Platform Taking Galleries Global and Opera in a Circus Top
35: Psychotherapist and Podcaster Julia Samuel on Navigating Change in a Post-Covid World.
Episode #33 - Kevin Macdonald on Directing Jodie Foster and Tahar Rahim in The Mauritanian
Episode #32 - The Messiah and Van Gogh Reimagined, and How Fairness Could Change the World
Episode #31 - Can The Art Museum Survive? Charles Saumarez Smith Talks About The Challenges Ahead
Episode #30 - Gilbert & George Define the New Normal
Episode #29 - A Grand Episode: Dan Snow at Blenheim Palace, the Duchess of Rutland on Ghosts, and Hugo Rittson Thomas on Wildflowers for the Queen
Episode #28 - Sympathy For The Devil? John Preston on Humanising Robert Maxwell.
Episode #25 - Valentines Day: Sex, Movies and Design in an Age of Crisis
Episode #24 - Films of Hope: Director Paul Greengrass on Directing Tom Hanks in News of the World
Episode #22 - Dancing Nation: Ballet is Back with Akram Khan
Episode #21 - How a Small Theatre in Kilburn Became Theatre of the Year
Episode #19 - A Song and Dance About Christmas: The Nutcracker, The Little Match Girl and the Self-Isolation Choir plus Pallant House Gallery
Episode #18 - Nicole Farhi’s Hidden Loves and Dick Whittington Comes to London
Episode #17 - At Home With The Stones: Gered Mankowitz the man behind the lens
Episode #16 - Diving into History: Charles Spencer goes in search of the White Ship
Episode #15 - Hallelulujah! And Matthew Parris’s Geniuses
Episode #14 - Theatrical Gyles Brandreth
Episode #13 - A Christmas Carol, Carnaby Street and Pioneering Women Artists
Episode #11 - Out of the Box
Episode #10 - John Tusa’s On Board Secrets, The Tiny Theatre Making Londoners Smile and Stanley Spencer’s Tragic Love Life
Episode #09 - How Sir Terence Conran Changed Our Homes
Episode #08 - How Books Can Make the World a Better Place
Episode #07 - ‘Saucy’ Loyd Grossman’s Roman Holiday
Episode #06 - Digital Theatre, Free Culture For All and Lifting the Lid on Undiscovered London
Episode #05 - Racism in the Capital and Blue Plaques
Episode #04: We Can Go To The Movies!
Episode #03 - Tony Hall on the Future of Art
Episode #01 - Desire, Death and Dutch Masters
Episode #10 - Discover Jesus’s Secrets
Episode #09 - Beyond Lockdown With Nicholas Coleridge
Episode #08 - Covid Comedy in Edinburgh, Chineke Orchestras and Sitting in Limbo
Episode #07 - Going Local
Episode #06 - I Want To Break Free
Episode #05 - BalletBoyZ, ArtUK and Lockdown LitFest
Episode #04 - The Hay Festival Special
Episode #03 - Diana Quick at the Donmar, The First Ever Drive-in Opera, Poetry for the Soul and Cocktails with a Curator at the Frick
Episode #02 - Normal People, The How To: Academy, The Ultimate Top 100 Classical Music Hits and the Virtual Great Wall of China
Episode #01 - Tamsin Greig, Fauda & Virtual Machu Picchu