Brighton Festival Podcast

Melita and Rebecca reflect on their favourites from this year's programme, including Silence, Backbone, Flight and Iron Men.

Melita, Rebecca and Mark discuss what they'd like to see at next year's festival.

Two dancers from Boys, the dance piece exploring masculinity by the Pappy Show, join Melita.

In the final episode of the Brighton Festival Podcast, Melita and Rebecca are joined by: members of Vietnam's Tijmur Dance Theatre on Varhung; Kwame and Komron from the Pappy Show on their performance Boys; Dan Canham from free outdoor dance piece Session; and our hosts present their highlights from the festival.

Peter Stickney from theatre company The Lord Chamberlain's Men joins Melita and Rebecca to talk about this year's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Bart Baele discusses the performance piece True Copy, the story of art forgery by Belgian company Berlin.

Director David Gilbert discusses his storytelling project Another Star to Steer By.

Gautam Malkani, author of Distortion, explains his work on the unreported carers in the UK. 

Melita and Rebecca take you behind the scenes. Interviews with author Gautam Malkani; Bart Baele of Berlin's True Copy; David Gilbert, director of Another Star To Steer By; and Peter Stickney from theatre company The Lord Chamberlain's Men on A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Nadine is a Syrian writer and illustrator. Her show Tomorrow tells the story of a brave young boy called Yazan from her book Tomorrow.