Seat B1

It's a film special for October 2019. Our resident reviewers, Steve Archer, Judy Green and Jeremy Walker discuss the Judy Garland biopic, Judy, the iconic comedy Blackadder (the final episode of which is being shown at Square Chapel Arts Centre as part of the Halifax Great War Weekend), Dawn, a film from the 1920s about the life of Edith Cavell, the Chinese-American film Farewell, Mark Jenkin's Bait, filmed on 16mm film and the new Chris Morris film, The Day Shall Come.

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Hot on the heels of part one, part two of the September 2019 episode of The Halifax Arts Podcast takes a look at three of the town's choirs; the Orange Box Choir, The Halifax Choral Society and The Cube Choir.

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To launch Series 2 of Seat B1: The Halifax Arts Podcast, we have a special two-part podcast to help keep you informed on the cultural comings and goings of Halifax in West Yorkshire. In the second part of episode 007 - available from mid September - we will be looking at some local choirs including The Halifax Choral Society, the world's oldest regularly performing choir. This first part of the podcast, however, is devoted to six films being shown in Halifax during September. Our regular film previewers, Judy Green, Jeremy Walker and Steve Archer discuss the documentary For Sama, The Souvenir, Mrs Lowry & Son, The Big Meeting, Downton Abbey and Brad Pitt's latest blockbuster, Ad Astra.

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In this episode of the podcast we meet the stars of the new Sally Wainwright drama Gentleman Jack at its red carpet premier in Halifax, we interview the acclaimed children's illustrator Nick Sharratt who was recently in town and we chat to Ellie Telford, the upcoming singer-songwriter who is making waves across Yorkshire. In addition, our resident trio of film reviewers - Jeremy, Judy and Steve - discuss the Elton John biopic 'Rocketman', 'Sometimes, Always, Never' starring Bill Nighy, the Beatles summer blockbuster 'Yesterday', the Aretha Franklin film 'Amazing Grace', 'Gwen' starring Maxine Peake and the acclaimed documentary 'Irene's Ghost'. The music is provided by Ellie Telford and O'Hooley & Tidow.

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On Thursday 9th May, the new BBC/HBO TV series 'Gentleman Jack' that chronicles the life of Halifax's very own Anne Lister was premiered at Square Chapel Arts Centre. Seat B1 was on the red carpet and talked to the writer Sally Wainwright, the stars of the show including Suranne Jones, Natalie Gavin and flower girl Hattie as well as O'Hooley & Tidow's Heidi and Belinda who created the theme song. We also hear from the BBC's Johnny I'Anson who reflects upon the potential impact of the series on Halifax as well as to some of the lucky ticket holders who were able to see episode 1 of Gentleman Jack in advance of its first showing on BBC One on Sunday 19th May at 9pm.

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In this special episode of the podcast, we focus on film and TV to tie in with the Up North Film & TV Festival taking place at Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax throughout May.

We chat to the festival's curator, Dave Garratt and our film reviewers discuss some of the films being shown at the festival; A Taste of Honey (1961), Eaten By Lions (2018), Sightseers (2012), Looking for Eric (2009), Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (1960) and Pond Life (2017).

We visit Shibden Hall, former home of Anne Lister, to chat to the staff about their experiences of working with the production team behind the BBC's Gentleman Jack, to the location manager of Channel 4's Ackley Bridge which is filmed in Halifax and to the tourism team at Calderdale Council about how they encourage and exploit local film and television production.

Finally, we ask local filmmaker Christian Wilkinson to tell us about his new documentary film Halilapse which is being premiered at the Up North Festival.

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The Up North Film & TV Festival is coming to Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax in May 2019.

The next episode of Seat B1: The Halifax Arts Podcast will be entirely dedicated to the festival and in this teaser extract from the podcast, Dave Garratt, Square Chapel's film programmer and the main man behind the festival talks to Jeremy Walker about what he's got planned.

Listen to the full podcast as from the end of April 2019. The festival itself runs from the 3rd to the 29th May.

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Record Store Saturday at Revo Records and The Piece Hall's Loafers, film (Wild Rose, White Crow, At Eternity's Gate, Out of Blue and Happy as Lazzaro) and the upcoming 'Up North' festival of film and television.

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The Halifax Writing Room, IOU's Rear View 360 and film (Capernaum, The Aftermath, Fisherman's Friends, Ray & Liz, Border)

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In episode 002 of Seat B1: The Halifax Arts Podcast we heard from Vic Allen, executive director of the Arts Charity at Dean Clough. To mark the opening of the new exhibitions at Dean Clough on February 9th, this 'extra' podcast allows you to listen to the full tour that Vic gave the podcast. You'll hear not only about those new exhibitions but also about the history of the gallery spaces, the philosophy of Vic and his team and his plans for the future. You'll also meet the artist Doug Binder - one of Dean Clough's resident artists - who talks about his life and work. Vic is a man who is not short for words so sit back and enjoy an hour in his entertaining company...

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