Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House

An exclusive podcast interview with Sir Nicholas Coleridge, Chairman of the V&A, Condé Nast supremo and author of The Glossy Years, on life beyond lockdown. What’s going to happen to our museums, to the fashion industry and to magazines?

We’re Reading:

The Glossy Years by Nicholas Coleridge

(published in paperback 16th July)

And we’re….

Getting ready to go back out again.

Next week will be our last week as Lockdown Culture – but we’ll be back with a new focus on breaking out of lockdown and going out again.

For any suggestions, recommendations and comments, email [email protected]

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Ready for a laugh?  As we start easing up on lockdown are we ready to laugh about it yet?  We ask comedy producer Emma Brunjes, producer of Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards about comedians’ take on Coronavirus and how they’ll survive without the Edinburgh Festival.  And we talk to Founder of the Chineke Orchestras, Chi-chi Nwanoku about the Junior Orchestra’s triumph on Britain’s Got Talent, the Black Lives Matter movement and the future for classical musicians of colour.  Plus we discuss all latest exciting offerings on television  from Sitting in Limbo and Little Fires Everywhere to Filthy Rich and Steve Coogan in Greed.

We’re laughing at:

Comedy at the Covid Arms

www.comedyathecovid.co.uk

Chortle

www.chortle.co.uk

The British Comedy Guide

www.comedy.co.uk

Beyond the Joke

www.beyondthejoke.co.uk

Michael Spicer

@mrmichaelspicer on Twitter

Sarah Cooper

@sarahcpr on Twitter 

We’re listening to:

Deep River by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a tribute to George Floyd and other victims of racism performed by The Chineke Orhcestra

www.chineke.org

We’re watching:

Sitting in Limbo : BBC iPlayer

Little Fires Everywhere:  Amazon Prime

Filthy Rich:  Netflix

Greed:  Amazon Prime

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We go Local: Hastings Contemporary – the local gallery using a robot to take Sir Quentin

Blake’s Guernica global, Sir Nicholas Kenyon on the Barbican’s Radio Local and Bettany

Hughes seeps us off on her epic Greek Island Odyssey from the comfort of our armchairs.

We’re listening to:

Barbican Radio Local with Hunt and Darton

https://www.culturemile.london/radio-local

Till Friday between 1 and 2 every day on Resonance DAB or on

Resonance DAB between 1 and 2 till Friday or at 10 am on Resonance 104.4 FM

We’re watching:

Everything at The Barbican

https://www.barbican.org.uk/read-watch-listen

Secrets of Pompeii’s Greatest Treasures with Bettany Hughes on My5.TV – 

https://www.channel5.com/show/secrets-of-pompeii-greatest-treasures

The Bush Theatre Monday Monologues

https://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/event/monday-monologues/

We’re visiting:

Hastings Contemporary

ww.hastingscontemporary.org

Quentin Blake’s ‘We Live in Worrying Times’

https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/quentin-blake-we-live-in-worrying-

times/

Taking a Robot Tour

https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/robot-tours/

We’re reading our children:

Tad by Benji Davies, Winner of the 2020 Oscar Award

We’re wearing:

A Contemporary Art Society mask (£35 or £120 for a set of four)

http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/news/cas-news/facemasks-for-crowdfunding-

campaign/

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Song, movies, good news and sex to cheer us up: the national singalong  of 'I Want to Break Free', Gabriel Jagger and his good news channel, the first virtual global film festival We Are One and Lindsay Duncan and Hilton McRae on sex and storytelling during the Black Death.

We’re reading:

Kevin Child’s new translation of The Decameron

Walter Rebhorn's translation for Norton Critical Editions

Abridged translation by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa also from Norton

Whynow.co.uk

We’re listening to:

A new podcast bringing stories from The Decameron, Passion and the Plague https://play.acast.com/s/passion-and-the-plague

We’re watching:

All the new movies from round the world on the global virtual film festival We Are One.

Streaming live on YouTube till Sunday 7th June

We’re singing along to:

Queen’s I Want to Break Free – join the virtual choir on https://musicinoffices.com/i-want-to-break-free-virtual-choir/

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week Lockdown Culture explores the nation’s quarter of a million hidden art treasures with Andrew Ellis of ArtUK. We meet Michael Nunn OBE, one of the duo behind the contemporary dance troupe BalletBoyZ, celebrating 20 extraordinary award-winning years and we point you in the direction of Lockdown Litfest, specially created for our screens.

We’re visiting

Lockdownlitfest.com

Artuk.org

We’re watching

Gillian Anderson in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire

This House by James Graham on The National Theatre’s YouTube page from Thursday

Deluxe by BalletBoyz on BBC4 on Wednesday 27 May at 10.30 pm (available for 28 days)

We’re Loving

Niio.com

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week Lockdown Culture brings you Hay-on-Wifi,  as Boris Johnson has christened the Hay Festival. Founder Peter Florence tells us about the challenges of taking a literary festival digital and we talk to film-maker and author Hannah Rothschild about her new Cornish caper The House of Trelawney and celebrate Shakespeare with poetry fanatic Allie Esiri with an exclusive Sonnet reading from Actor, Dominic West.

This week’s recommendations

Hay on Way Digital – 18-31 May

The House of Trelawney, Hannah Rothchild’s new novel

Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week Ed and Charlotte welcome their first guests – they hear from actress Diana Quick, chat to Stuart Murphy, Chief Executive of English National Opera and talk to the William Sieghart who tells them how Poetry Pharmacy is providing thousands of people – including the actress Emilia Clarke – with solace.

We’re Reading:

Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart

Becoming by Michelle Obama

We’re Watching:

Midnight Your Time starring Diana Quick from Wednesday 13th May for a week

https://www.youtube.com/user/DonmarWarehouse

Caliphate on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80240005

Call my Agent on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80133335

Becoming on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/81122487

Art We’re Loving:

Cocktails with a Curator: Happy Hour https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNVeJpU2DHHR_0y_Zvgn3MgZQQFcFx2eI

London Original Print Fair Online runs from 1st to 31st May

https://londonoriginalprintfair.com/lopf-online/

For more information on English National Opera’s drive in:

https://eno.org/news/eno-is-launching-eno-drive-live-a-series-of-live-opera-performances-that-audiences-can-safely-drive-to-and-stay-in-their-cars-for-the-experience/

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Our Culture Editor Ed Vaizey is finally taking to the airwaves, recording from his bedroom, to give you his tips for staying in touch with all things cultural, highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between.

He’ll be telling us what he’s been reading, what he’s been glued to on TV and Netflix and guiding us through what the home offerings are from the world of theatre, art and music.

This week he raves about BBC’s Normal People, discovers Classic FM’s 100 top pieces of music going back 1000 years and tells us where to look out for artists’ work in response to Covid-19

We’re Reading

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

House of Glass by Hadley Freeman

East West Street and The Ratline by Philippe Sands

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

We’re watching & Listening

The How To: Academy  www.howtoacademy.com

Normal People BBC i-player https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g8rs/normal-people

Sex Education, Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80197526

Classical 100:  www.classicfm.com

Virtual Tour of The Great Wall of China https://www.thechinaguide.com/destination/great-wall-of-china

Limited Edition Art Posters and prints from www.countereditions.com

The Hermitage in St. Petersburg https://www.hermitagemuseum.org

Riverside Studios Book Club weekly online events https://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/community/digital-dive-in

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Our Culture Editor Ed Vaizey is finally taking to the airwaves, recording from

his bedroom, to give you his tips for staying in touch with all things cultural,

highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between.

He’ll be telling us what he’s been reading, what he’s been glued to on TV and

Netflix and guiding us through what the home offerings are from the world of

theatre, art and music.

This week he reveals his crush on Tamsin Greig – in Twelfth Night, Belgravia

and Friday Night Dinner, tell us which galleries are worth following on Social

Media, where to find the best concerts and tell us what books he's reading.

Ed’s Reading

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child

The Walker’s Guide to Outside Clues and Signs by Tristan Gooley

Ed’s watching & Listening

Fauda: Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80113612

Twelfth Night (till Thursday evening) and Frankenstein (from Thursday):

National Theatre Home, YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDq1XzCY0NIOYVJvEMQjqw

Friday Night Dinner, Friday, 10pm: Channel Four

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/friday-night-dinner

The Last Dance: Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80203144

Berlin Philharmonic https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home

Olafur Eliasson’s Earth perspective

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/back-earth

The Virtual Tour of Machu Picchu: https://www.youvisit.com/tour/machupicchu

Podcast Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

Introduction Music:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/