Bloomsbury Radio chat to Robert Finegan & Tara Viscardi. The Finegan Viscardi Duo launch their Debut EP ‘Uncovered Roots’ at the 2023 Bloomsbury Festival, coinciding with this year’s festival theme ‘Grow’.

Bloomsbury Radio chat to Bex Hughes about Bookshop Crawls - a fun way to explore second-hand, specialist, indie and chain bookshops across Bloomsbury and Kings Cross. 

Come along, meet fellow book lovers, swap book recommendations and explore bookshops together, with nobody asking if you’re really sure you need any more books. You can book here: https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/2023-festival-events/

Photograph by Emma Aveston.

Bloomsbury Radio chat to Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi, Lead Nurse for Research at Moorfields Eye Hospital and patient Ron Marks. You can find out how UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre are growing new eye cells to help people with sight loss at the Discovery Hub here: https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/discovery-hub-grow/

Bloomsbury Radio chat to deaf photographer, Stephen Iliffe’s about Deaf Mosaic. Deaf Mosaic has a vital message to share: with the right support, deaf people can do anything.

Bloomsbury Radio chat to Darren Clarke, Head of Collections, Research & Exhibitions at Charleston Trust about different aspects of the Bloomsbury Set of a century ago, their lives, writing, art and changing attitudes towards gender and sexuality in the 1920s.

A whirlwind of spoken word poetry, movement and music that takes audiences on a journey to explore healing, transformation and connection.

At a time when the speed and demands of life are increasing each day, is there a way we can navigate change with more grace and less fear? How can we allow ourselves to let go of who we’ve been so that we might step into who we’re ready to now become? And what’s more costly, changing or staying the same? With humour, vulnerability and a fair bit of cheekiness, Phoenix investigates these questions and asks how we might live more fully and move more authentically through the world.

Written & performed by Helen Percival – an actor, poet and singer who graduated from RADA in 2023, where she completed an MA in Laboratory Theatre. She has performed in a number of theatre productions, was nominated for The Spotlight Prize and was described by The British Theatre Guide as ‘an impressive character actor.’ She worked for many years as a broadcast journalist before retraining as an actor.

Bloomsbury Radio chat to Anthony D Padgett about a walk and talk marking the moment of the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, introducing Picasso’s relationships to literary, political and scientific figures in Bloomsbury.

Bloomsbury Radio chat to Dr Alison Ohta, Director, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Royal Asiatic Society and Brunei Gallery, SAOS, present an exhibition celebrating the Society’s bicentenary and studies of science, literature, religion and the arts of Asia since 1823.

Bloomsbury Radio chat to Ghost & John about an exhibition of 50 avocado sculptures grown in the artists’ home, witnessing every laugh and tear of the couple. Exploring alternative ways to measure growth and new models of creative presentation that focus on community building, love and kindness, and personal life satisfaction.

Bloomsbury Radio chat to Tania Coke, live from Japan. tarinainanika was formed in 2010 by Kentaro Suyama and Tania Coke. Kentaro and Tania trained for many years with Steven Wasson and Corinne Soum (last assistants of the founder of Corporeal Mime, Etienne Decroux) and are former members of Wasson and Soum’s Théâtre de l’Ange Fou. Now based at the Flying Carpet Factory in Osaka, Kentaro and Tania run the Corporeal Mime School of Performing Arts where they are busy nurturing the next generation of actor-creator through full-time professional training.