Elijah Wood tells Tom Sutcliffe about his new film No Man of God. Elijah Wood plays criminal profiler Bill Hagmaier in a story based on interview transcripts. Hagmaier is sent by the FBI to visit the serial killer Ted Bundy on death row. A fascinating, troubling relationship develops which becomes all the more intense when the date of Bundy's execution is announced. It's just a week away; Bundy agrees to talk, and he has much to confess.
As lockdown and the pandemic brought concerts to a standstill, many musicians and comedians turned to online live streaming to perform, entertain and connect with audiences. According to YouTube, 78% of British people watched a live stream over the last 12 months. But now as live events return, and with concerns still over safety, have live streams proven they can coexist alongside in-person concerts as a way to feel part of an experience? Musician Paul Smith from Maximo Park and director and filmmaker Oscar Sansom discuss
It’s often said that we’re living in a podcast ‘boom,’ with increased investment from technology giants and big name celebrity signings. But how diverse is the industry itself? The Equality in Audio Pact, launched in 2020, aims to tackle some of the systemic barriers to entry in radio and podcasting for people from under-represented backgrounds. Imriel Morgan is the Founder and CEO of podcast marketing agency Content is Queen- a signatory to the pact- and she’s also an award-winning host of the Wanna Be Podcast. She joins us to give her assessment of diversity and inclusion in the audio industry today.
Hit the Road & Mercury Pictures Presents reviewed, Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Bernard Cribbins remembered
Sister Act, Dramatising the Ugandan Asian exodus, David Olusoga
Mercury Music and Booker Prize longlists; museums’ funding; new LGBTQ+ museum
Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival
Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered
Where The Crawdads Sing; On Sonorous Seas; Maison Margiela's Cinema Inferno
Jean Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Tours
Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood
Persuasion & Patriots reviewed, Durham Brass Festival, Museum of the Year winner
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, The Railway Children Return
Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan / Druet
The Story Museum, The Waste Land and Brian and Charles reviewed, Grand Theft Hamlet
New national poet of Wales, Lucian Freud show, The Royal Cornwall Museum, The Blue Woman opera
Claudia Rankine, Derby's Museum of Making, Streamer Fatigue
Peter Brook; Gone With The Wind; new children’s laureate Joseph Coelho
All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs
In the Black Fantastic exhibition; Maya Youssef performs live; visual artist Colin Davidson's exhibition
Arthur Hughes as Richard III, Literary Prizes, Dadaist Interventions
Stephen Beresford, A harp concerto about bees, James Graham, Peter Kosminsky
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