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We’re tuning into:

The Unkown Churchill : Dan Snow talking to Blenheim Palace historian Antonia Keaney

Wednesday 17th March at 7.30 pm (free for Blenhaim Palace Annual Pass holders)

virtual.blenheimpalace.com/virtual-tours

We’re listening to:

Duchess: the podcast by Emma, Duchess of Rutland

https://www.duchessthepodcast.com 

We’re reading:

Wildlowers for the Queen:  A Visual Celebration of Britain’s Coronation Meadows by Hugo Rittson Thomas

We’re reading:

Fall : The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston

The Dig by John Preston

We’re watching:

The Dig with Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James on Netflix

A Very English Scandal with Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw on BBC i-Player

We’re tuning into:

Royal Opera House’s celebrations for International Women’s Day

Monday 8th March

https://www.roh.org.uk/international-womens-day-2021

FTWeekend Digital Festival Spring Edition

18th to 20th March

Listeners receive £5 discount – use code FTWeekendFestival at checkout

https://ftweekend.live.ft.com

Produced and Edited by Alex Graham

Ed and Charlotte talk with Ewan Morrison about his new blockbuster thriller set in 2025. Plus the RSC reimagining Midsummer Night’s Dream for future audiences and the Museum of the Home explores how our homes will change after the pandemic.

We’re reading:

How to survive everything When there’s no-one left to trust by Ewan Morrison

We’re visiting 

The Museum of the Home, due to open May

www.museumofthehome.org

We’re bidding at the Museum of the Home’s Behind the Door Auction to win beautiful items and experiences from leading UK designers and creatives.

https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/join-and-support/behind-the-door/auction/

We’re booking:

RSC’s production of Dream

Friday 12th March to Saturday 20th March

www.dream.online

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

We’re Watching:

'To Olivia' Starring Hugh Bonneville and Keeley Hawes - Available on Sky Cinema

We’re Browsing:

Books and supporting our local bookshop by buying books from Bookshop.org

We’re Tuning Into:

Dan Brown’s Wild Symphony project and listening to the Wild Symphony Album

https://wildsymphony.com/

https://open.spotify.com/album/5w0b7ENhoyczQIs90ROdQo

We’re checking out Lee Child’s musical talents:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/new-hampshire/article/Author-Lee-Child-Too-Comes-to-In-Portsmouth-Writers-On-A-New-England-Stage-20181002

We’re listening to the album co-produced by Bob Lord with Pete Townshend:

http://thewho.com/lawrence-balls-new-double-cd-out-now/

To enter the Piazzola Competition see here:

https://www.piazzollacompetition.com/

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

We chat to British cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins in LA about his knighthood, his Oscars and his podcast with his wife and collaborator James. Victoria Broackes, Director of the Design Biennale, talks about Design in an Age of Crisis (and David Bowie) and author Olivia Fane pleads for a return to a less dark sexuality.

We’re tuning into:

Team Deakins Podcast

https://teamdeakins.libsyn.com

We’re visiting:

How the Light Gets In Winter Revel on Saturday 20th February

Howthelightgetsin.org

We’re buying tickets to hear Olivia Fane in The Limits of Sexuality debate

https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/winter/festival-passes

We’re attending:

The online event hosted by Chatham House, Redesigning Work:  Design in an Age of Crisis

23rd February at 13.00

https://chathamhouse.zoom.us/webinar/register/7716117441904/WN_wrGSmslaTh6LwV79D4G3yg

We’re marvelling at:

All the submissions to Design in an Age of Crisis (young people can still submit ideas):

https://www.londondesignbiennale.com/opencall

We’re optimistically booking tickets to:

The London Design Biennale 2021 at Somerset House

1st to 27th June

Somersethouse.org.uk

We’re reading:

Why Sex Doesn’t Matter by Olivia Fane

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Plus we talk to Gala Gordon and Isabella Macpherson of Platform Presents on the hybrids giving a boost to the performing arts industry and meet the young film-maker celebrating Rachel Carson and Silent Spring in a new film Nevergreen.

We’re watching:

Paul Greengrass’s movie News of the World, starring Tom Hanks, on Netflix from Wednesday

Good Grief, written by Lorien Haynes, starring Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel, produced by Platform Presents

Online from Monday 15th February till 15th April

Buy tickets at https://www.platformpresents.com/good-grief

Eloïse Poulton’s film Nevergreen about Rachel Carson https://bit.ly/391dYv0

At The Living Record Festival  (till Monday 22nd February)

https://www.livingrecord.co.uk/the-living-record-festival and watching film

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Is the BBC our greatest cultural institution? Yes, and we must fight to keep it, argues social and cultural commentator Peter York. Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera discusses his new book Empireland and says we’ll never understand our complicated multi-cultural society if we don’t learn the truth about the British Empire.

We’re reading:

The War Against the BBC: How an Unprecedented Combination of Hostile Forces is

Destroying Britain’s Greatest Cultural Institution… And Why You Should Care by Patrick

Barwise and Peter York

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera

We’re watching:

It’s a Sin on Channel Four

Call My Agent on Netflix

Finding Alice on ITV

Spiral on BBC4

Cobra Kai on Netflix

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Star choreographer and dancer Akram Khan tells us about dancing with Natalia Osipova for Dancing Nation, Sadler’s Wells’ all-day event and Ian Rosenblatt, founder of Rosenblatt Recitals, regales us with the ups and downs of staging a provincial arts festival.

We’re tuning into:

Dancing Nation from Sadler’s Wells and BBC Arts

Thursday 28 January from 12 noon

Akram Khan dances with Natalia Osipova in Mud of Sorrow

bbc.co.uk/iplayer / sadlerswells.com

We’re listening to:

Rosenblatt Recitals

https://www.rrsah.com

We’re watching:

Lungs by Duncan Macmillan

starring Claire Foy and Matt Smith

on Old Vic: In Camera

https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2020/old-vic-in-camera

We’re subscribing to:

National Theatre at Home

https://www.ntathome.com

We’re browsing:

Les Aldrich Music Shop

www.lesaldrichmusic.co.uk

Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Indhu Rubasingham, Artistic Director of The Kiln in Kilburn, tells us how she and her team transformed the theatre into an award-winning community hub and runner and anthropologist Michael Crawley explains how a strong sense of community is also integral to the supremacy of Ethiopia’s top runner.

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We’re supporting The Kiln in every way we can: 

We’re watching Dear Future Generations, an original film written and performed by The Kiln’s 16-18 Young Company

We’re reading:

Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael Crawley

We’re reading Great British Brands What Next? 2021 Edition and finding out who won the first ever Great British Brands Awards

Ed and Charlotte are back from the Christmas break and plunged into another national lockdown! Don't worry, we won't be changing the name of the podcast again and will firmly remain Break Out Culture! They catch up with Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman on their online music commissioning service and share their latest TV and book recommendations.  

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Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

We’re commissioning:

A song from Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman:

PatriciaHammond.com/requests

We’re reading:

Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael Crawley

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health by Daniel Lieberman

Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed our Democracy by Tom Baldwin

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020

The Mission House by Carys Davies

The Overstory by Richard Powers :Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

We’re watching:

Bridgerton on Netflix

The Serpent on BBC iPlayer