Refigure

Chris and Rifa look back over their year in arts and culture. Thank you for listening and supporting the show in 2025, we've had a blast, you've made it all feel worthwhile.

Chris and Rifa do their final art trip of the year, to Tate Britain for the Turner and Constable exhibition and the Lee Miller show.

Rifa is reading Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Chris is reading a book-length essay called Pirate Care from the Vagabonds series of small radical books, published by Pluto Press.

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Chris and Rifa's adventures in culture and the arts. We scooted up to Wembley to see the seminal cult shoegaze / noise-rock band My Bloody Valentine on their arena tour, before checking out former reggae singer-turned-stage actor Lorna Gee's powerful one-woman (autobiographical) music theatre show The Legends Of Them on tour at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange. Two contrasting ways for artistry to offer a direct access to spiritual nourishment.

Rifa is reading the play script of The Legends Of Them, while Chris is reading John Higgs' new exploration of David Lynch, Lynchian.

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Rifa and Chris watch the premier of Dr David Bramwell's film The Haunted Moustache at the Duke Of York's Cinema, fail to resist watching The Celebrity Traitors and check out young Irish singer-songwriter George Houston on his first UK tour.

Chris is reading a book about pop music and Rifa is reading a book about art.

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Chris and Rifa watch the new PT Andersen film One Battle After Another and Netflix animated series Long Story Short, from the team behind Bojack Horseman.

Rifa is re-reading Iain Banks' classic thriller Complicity, while Chris is reading Beans On Toast's collection Wild Folk People.

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A shorter than usual episode. Chris and Rifa chat about their last couple of weeks, which were partly spent separately, as Chris drove up to Scotland for Frank Turner's Lost Evenings, on the way catching the William Kentridge exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, while Rifa went out for a cocktail pub crawl, though they both went to SeptemberSong festival in Oxfordshire.

Rifa is re-reading Jake Arnott's genre-defining queer gangster classic The Long Firm, while Chris is reading Ash Sarkar's Minority Rule.

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A packed episode of Chris and Rifa's bitesize arts review show, we watched US emergency room drama series The Pitt, saw Tim Key's comedy film The Ballad Of Wallis Island and checked out Paul Foot's transformative new stand-up show Dissolve.

Chris is reading Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Message and Rifa is reading John Higgs' book about the KLF.

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Chris and Rifa's bitesize adventures in arts and culture get messy as the plucky pair regret watching The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix, so then watch the most different film possible, Hot Milk on MUBI.

Chris is reading Emily Herring's biography of Henri Bergson, Herald Of A Restless World, while Rifa is reading Ursula Le Guin's 1971 scifi classic The Lathe Of Heaven.

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Bitesize adventures in arts and culture with Rifa and Chris. We watched the opening few episodes of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Disney+ and went to Tate Modern to see the major retrospective of Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray.

Rifa is reading another bell hooks book, this time on art, while Chris has just started Ian Leslie's John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs.

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Chris and Rifa's bitesize adventures in arts and culture. We went to Tate Britain for the retrospective of 20th century British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun, and taped that segment in the café. Then Rifa reports back from poet Akila Richards' performance piece Mango Ritual at Brighton Dome.

Rifa is reading Poor Artists by Zarina Muhammed & Gabrielle De La Puente (aka the White Pube), while Chris is reading Boff Whalley's book But. Thanks for listening! Find us on Insta @refigureUK.