Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House

Cas Ojo on African Art, the 20th Oxford Lieder Festival and Aonia, the latest cultural platform.

Cas Ojo from the Luxury Network Nigeria on The African Art Series

The African Art Series

8th and 9th October

the Bulgari Hotel, Knightsbridge

Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-african-art-series-public-viewing-tickets-167674668447

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

8th to 10th October

Somerset House, London

https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair

Founder and violinist Sholto Kynroch on the Oxford Lieder Festival

20th Oxford Lieder Festival: Nature’s Songbook

8th to 23rd October

Various Oxford locations and live-streamed

www.oxfordlieder.co.uk

John Benson Co-Founder on the new cultural platform Aonia.com

www.aonia.com

With thanks to:

Martin Miller’s Gin : https://www.martinmillersgin.com

Listeners can claim their 10% discount (up to the value of £6) by using the code breakout2021 at checkout.  This will be applied to any 70cl bottle of qualifying Martin Miller's lines - the original, Westbourne Strength, Summerful Gin, Winterful Gin, and 35cl 9 Moons Special Cask Reserve - purchased on www.masterofmalt.com website only. Valid until 31 October 2021 or while limited promotional stock lasts. Not applicable in conjunction with any other offer. 18+ and subject to Master of Malt’s standard consumer terms of business.

Edited and Produced by Audio Coast

The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts

From 22nd September till 2nd January

Book:

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2021

Browse and buy:

https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/?_ga=2.21972985.356073063.1632560505-679266684.1632221837

Also at the Royal Academy:

Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet

23rd October to 23rd January

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/helene-binet

Late Constable

30th October to 13th February

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/late-constable

Francis Bacon: Man and Beast

29th January to 17th April 2022

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/francis-bacon

Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan

26th February to 22nd May 2022

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/whistler-woman-in-white

Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection

19th March to 19th June 2022

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/kyosai

Andrew Bernardi on saving a rare Stadivarius for the Bernardi Music Group

Listen to Andrew Bernardi playing the Amici Bernardi Stradivarius in White Storks, composed by Helen Ottaway to celebrate wilding at Knepp Castle

www.bernardimusicgroup.com

Curator Darren Clarke on Duncan Grant’s solo show at Charleston

Duncan Grant: 1920

Charleston

18th September to 13th March

https://www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/duncan-grant-1920/

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones: Astral Reflections

Charleston

18th September to 13th March

https://www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/tunji-adeniyi-jones-astral-reflections/

With thanks to:

Martin Miller’s Gin : https://www.martinmillersgin.com

Listeners can claim their 10% discount (up to the value of £6) by using the code breakout2021 at checkout. This will be applied to any 70cl bottle of qualifying Martin Miller's lines - the original, Westbourne Strength, Summerful Gin, Winterful Gin, and 35cl 9 Moons Special Cask Reserve - purchased on www.masterofmalt.com website only. Valid until 31 October 2021 or while limited promotional stock lasts. Not applicable in conjunction with any other offer. 18+ and subject to Master of Malt’s standard consumer terms of business

Produced and Edited by Audio Coast

We talk Dante Gabriel Rossetti, events to stream from round the world and talk to the artist whose work is lighting up the brand new Battersea Power Station tube

Rossetti’s Portraits at The Holburne Museum, Bath

https://www.holburne.org/rossettis-portraits-coming-soon/

24th September till 9th January

Sunil Gupta:  The New Pre-Raphaelites at The Holburne Museum, Bath

https://www.holburne.org/sunil-gupta-the-new-pre-raphaelites-coming-soon/

24th September till 19th January

Marquee TV : https://welcome.marquee.tv

Listeners can claim their 50% subscription discount here https://marquee.tv/culture

Alexandre de Cunha at Battersea Power Station Tube  - see Art on the Underground https://art.tfl.gov.uk

Chelsea Flower Show

https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-chelsea-flower-show

21st to 26th September

Charlotte Smithson with YSP X The Oak Project

https://ysp.org.uk/events/ysp-x-the-oak-project-at-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-london-with-new-commission-charlotte-smithson

With thanks to:

Martin Miller’s Gin : https://www.martinmillersgin.com

Listeners can claim their 10% discount (up to the value of £6) by using the code breakout2021 at checkout.  This will be applied to any 70cl bottle of qualifying Martin Miller's lines - the original, Westbourne Strength, Summerful Gin, Winterful Gin, and 35cl 9 Moons Special Cask Reserve - purchased on www.masterofmalt.com website only. Valid until 31 October 2021 or while limited promotional stock lasts. Not applicable in conjunction with any other offer. 18+ and subject to Master of Malt’s standard consumer terms of business.

Edited and Produced by Audio Coast

We're taking a break for the summer but have compiled this 'best of' episode from some of our favourite interviews from the last year. Featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber, Nicholas Hytner, Gyles Brandreth, Hugh Bonneville, Paul Greengrass, Kevin McDonald, Nicole Farhi, Gilbert & George, Andrew Marr, Russell Tovey and Rob Diament, Misan Harriman, Gered Mankowitz, Sathnam Sanghera, Peter York, Elif Shafak, Charles Spencer, Loyd Grossman, Edmund de Waal, Matthew Parris, Joh Preston, Ben England, Akram Khan and Julia Samuel.

We’ll be back on Sunday 19th September

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Follow Country & Town House on Twitter

Follow Country & Town House on Instagram

Edited and Produced by Audio Coast

Plus Iwona Blazwick on Whitechapel Gallery’s one-night-only art festival and Lewis Biggs on the Folkestone Triennial

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Follow Country & Town House on Twitter

Follow Country & Town House on Instagram

We’re going to:

Bach and Sons at the Bridge Theatre, Till September 11th

https://bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/bach-and-sons/

Nocturnal Creatures at Whitechapel Gallery and around the East End, Saturday 17th July

[email protected]

The Folkestone Triennial Festival, 22nd July till 2nd November

https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/folkestone-triennial/

Produced and Edited by Audio Coast

Juliet Stevenson on her film on Stevie Smith and the Ledbury Poetry Festival, Camilla King on the Cheltenham Music Festival and digital artist Philip Colbert on launching Lobsteropolis in Decentraland with Simon de Pury auctioning his NFT work with DEVO

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Follow Country & Town House on Twitter

Follow Country & Town House on Instagram

We’re going to:

The Ledbury Poetry Festival

2nd to 11th July

https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk

We’re buying tickets to:

Watch Juliet Stevenson present Dead Poets Live’s film on Stevie Smith

7 pm on Sunday 11th July

https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/events/juliet-stevenson-presents-stevie-smith/

We’re going to hear:

Dog Poems! With Matt Black

11 am to 12 noon, Sunday 11th July

Cheltenham Music Festival

We’re going to:

Cheltenham Music Festival

2nd to 11th July

https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/music/

We’re logging into:

Decentraland to see Simon de Pury auction the NFT art work by DEVO and Philip Colbert at the Lobster Land Museum to celebrate the opening of Lobsteropolis

https://decentraland.org

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Follow Country & Town House on Twitter

Follow Country & Town House on Instagram

Plus historian James Holland on the Chalke Valley History Festival.

We’re reading: Refugee Tales Volumes 1 to 3, Available from Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group

https://www.gdwg.org.uk

https://www.refugeetales.org/books

We’re walking: In support of detainees 3rd and 4th July

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

We’re visiting: 

Chalke Valley History Festival, 23rd to 27th June

Julian Opie at Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, 25th June to 24th October

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Follow Country & Town House on Twitter

Follow Country & Town House on Instagram

We’re going to:

Kensington + Chelsea Art Week,A World of Culture in West London, 21st June to 4th July

The Other Art Fair, West Handyside Canopy, King’s Cross, 1st to 4th July

We’re visiting:

Our local bookshop to celebrate Independent Bookshop Week, 19th to 26th June, Indie Book Awards announced 25th June on Scala Radio

www.bookshop.org

We’re reading:

The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff

Shortlisted for Award for Best Children’s Fiction in Indie Book Awards

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Andrew Marr on painting and why the government needs to do more to support the arts, Ina Sarikhani Sandmann on redefining Iran at the V&A and Isabel Adomakoh Young on playing Juliet at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Follow Country & Town House on Twitter

Follow Country & Town House on Instagram

We’re visiting:

Town & Country

New paintings by Andrew Marr, Eames Fine Art Gallery 9th June till 4th July

https://www.eamesfineart.com/viewing-room/56-andrew-marr-town-country/

Epic Iran

Gallery 39 and North Court, V&A Museum, 29th May till 12th September

https://vam.ac.uk/epiciran

We’re booking:

Romeo and Juliet

Regents Park Open Air Theatre, 17th June till 24th July

https://openairtheatre.com/production/romeo-juliet

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Follow Country & Town House on Twitter

Follow Country & Town House on Instagram

We’re visiting:

Hay Festival till Sunday 6th June - https://www.hayfestival.com/home

We’re reading:

Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask by Russell Tovey & Robert Diament

The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam

We’re tuning into:

Russell Diament and Robert Diament in conversation with Olivia Laing at 1 pm on the Baillie Gifford Digital Stage

Tahmima Anam talks to Georgina Godwin at 3 pm on Baillie Gifford Digital Stage

‘Your Culture Needs!’ YouNeil Mendoza, Nina Plowman, Emma Rickett and Iwona Blazwick talk to Ed Vaziey at 5pm on Baillie Gifford Digital Stage