The Guardian UK Culture Podcast

By The Guardian

What's The Guardian UK Culture Podcast about?

The Guardian's UK Culture podcast features the best of our original writing, drama, reviews and news. Our latest series is Adulting, the Guardian's first foray into original podcast content

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The Guardian UK Culture Podcast episodes:

04.01.2022
Weekend: episode two of a new podcast
Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In this episode, Marina Hyde looks at the new additions to Downing Street (2m00s), Hadley...
02.05.2022
Weekend: episode one of a new podcast
Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In our first episode, Marina Hyde reflects on another less than stellar week for Boris...
07.01.2021
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast
Have you ever wondered what famous people actually eat? In our new podcast, Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent does just that, asking well-known guests to lift the lid on the food they turn to when they’re at home alone –...
02.08.2021
Reverberate: episode 1 of our new series
The Guardian has launched a new series called Reverberate that we think you’ll like. Each week, Chris Michael will explore incredible stories from around the world about when music shook history. In the first episode, we hear from Kashy Keegan,...
08.03.2020
Innermost: another episode of our new series
We wanted to bring you another episode from our Innermost series. In the last episode of our first season, two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with criminal consequences Subscribe wherever you get...
06.25.2020
Innermost: episode 1 of a new series
The Guardian has launched a new series called Innermost that we think you will like. Each week, callers will tell Leah Green what’s going on behind closed doors. In the first episode, we hear how an uncle’s funeral and meals...
05.18.2018
The best of the rest - the British Podcast awards 2018
Rhianna Dhillon reveals the final nominees in this year’s British Podcast awards. With the winners announced on Saturday, sample shows from Russell Brand, Penguin Books and more
05.17.2018
The British Podcast Awards: the best culture and sport podcasts of the year
All this week Rhianna Dhillon is playing the hits from the British Podcast Award 2018 nominees. Today, it’s the best culture, sports and interview podcasts
05.16.2018
Podcasts for the soul - The British Podcast Awards
Rhianna Dhillon explores this year’s nominees for the best family, fiction and most original podcast
05.15.2018
Podcasts that thrill and make you laugh - the British Podcast Awards
Rhianna Dhillon reveals the nominees for best comedy and true crime podcasts at this year’s British Podcast Awards
05.14.2018
Podcasts to make you think - The British Podcast Awards
Sample the choice cuts all this week from this year’s nominees in this Guardian taster series. Today: the best new and current affairs shows.
05.01.2018
Ten years of Cafe Oto – The Story podcast
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the world-renowned experimental music venue, musicians, staff and volunteers tell the story of how an abandoned Dalston paint factory was transformed into a vibrant international hub of creativity. Featuring Thurston Moore, David Toop, and more
05.01.2018
The music of Cafe Oto – The Story podcast
Cafe Oto co-founder Hamish Dunbar guides us through some of his favourite recordings from the renowned east London experimental music venue
01.25.2018
Sofia Coppola on the film that launched her – The Start podcast
Our new culture podcast, The Start, brings major artists to the mic to reveal how they began their careers. In this first episode, Sofia Coppola talks about the fear and the thrill of directing her debut film, The Virgin Suicides
11.24.2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep6
Events come to a head in the final episode of our audio drama series. Will the wedding even take place?
11.24.2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep5
A series of answerphone messages reveal what really happened in 2007
11.24.2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep4
Can Daniel discover the truth before it’s too late?
11.24.2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep3
Charlotte uncovers a decade of deceit in the third episode of our audio drama podcast
11.24.2017
Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep2
Charlotte arrives at the wedding venue, and makes an unexpected discovery
11.24.2017
Adulting: the Guardian's first original podcast drama - ep1
Ten years after university, a group of friends gather for a wedding in the Lake District. But all is not as it seems...
10.02.2017
Let's eat … date night. The changing face of British mealtimes
Gnocchi or nookie? For our last meal in this series about British mealtimes, it’s a romantic dinner for two as host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating...
09.27.2017
Let's eat … comfort food. The changing face of British mealtimes
In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years. This week, it’s time to find the perfect recipe for a duvet day
09.22.2017
Let's eat … Dinner parties. The changing face of British mealtimes
In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week it’s time to have friends and family round for a dinner...
09.15.2017
Let's eat … TV dinners. The changing face of British mealtimes
In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week speed and comfort rule with TV dinners
09.08.2017
Let's eat … Sunday lunch. The changing face of British mealtimes
In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. First up, the traditional Sunday lunch
04.27.2017
British Podcast Awards sampler - the smartest podcasts
Get inspired with this pick of the smartest series made in Britain, as chosen by the judges of the British Podcast Awards 2017.
04.26.2017
The British Podcast Awards sampler - arts, reviews and sport podcasts
Looking to lose yourself in a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon explores the best entertainment, sport and review podcasts of the past year, according to the British Podcast Awards
04.25.2017
The British Podcast Awards sampler - interviews & current affairs podcasts
Looking for a podcast that can make sense of our world? Rhianna Dhillon showcases the British Podcast Award nominees for Best Interview and Current Affairs series, plus the Represent award for reaching new audiences
04.24.2017
The British Podcast awards sampler – original formats and new podcasts
Rhianna Dhillon shares the best new podcasts – and the most original formats – as chosen by judges of the British Podcast awards 2017
04.23.2017
The British Podcast Awards sampler - comedy podcasts
Looking for a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon shares the best moments in Comedy, Fiction and True Crime from the nominees for the British Podcast Awards 2017.
11.10.2016
Urban explorer and geographer Dr Bradley Garrett – audio interview
Dr Bradley Garrett has been exploring the forbidden parts of cities since he was a teenager. He talks to Stephen Moss about scaling skyscrapers, sneaking into sewers and the two-year court trial that almost ended it all • Find out...
11.06.2015
Chanterelles by Evie Wyld – Forest fables podcast
In our fourth exclusive sound story celebrating Britain’s forests, the Granta young British novelist Evie Wyld reads her unsettling tale of marital tension at the end of times
11.05.2015
The Princess Forest by Alec Finlay - Forest fables podcast
In the third of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, the Scottish poet and artist Alec Finlay reads his tale of a mythical submerged woodland
11.04.2015
The Common Dean by Alan Garner - Forest Fables podcast
In the second of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, Alan Garner reads his own tale of a newcomer who finds ‘ancient noise’ beneath the choked underlife of of Cheshire’s woodlands• Listen to The Green Stuff by...
11.03.2015
The Green Stuff by Ali Smith - Forest Fables podcast
In the first of a series of exclusive sound stories inspired by the UK’s woodlands, the award-winning writer weaves a spellbinding tale from an encounter between a boy and a strange green child
06.11.2015
Lampedusa by Anders Lustgarten - audio drama
In an audio play specially commissioned for the Guardian by Soho Theatre, a fisherman confronts the tide of refugees sweeping across the Mediterranean
05.23.2013
James Salter reads Break it Down by Lydia Davis
James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize
01.04.2013
Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’
01.03.2013
Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel
Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’
01.02.2013
Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce
Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline
01.01.2013
Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai
12.31.2012
Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says Jon McGregor
12.30.2012
Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William Trevor
Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’
12.29.2012
AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt
12.28.2012
Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi
12.27.2012
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata Aidoo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’
12.26.2012
Nadine Gordimer reads 'The Centaur' by José Saramago
José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer
12.25.2012
Simon Callow reads 'The Christmas Tree' by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story ‘A Christmas Tree’ is ‘almost Proustian’, says Simon Callow
12.24.2012
Ruth Rendell reads 'Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook' by MR James
Ruth Rendell doesn’t believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James’s stories, like ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’, frighten her nonetheless
12.23.2012
Richard Ford reads 'The Student's Wife' by Raymond Carver
Despite their restraint, Raymond Carver’s ‘early-period’ stories, such as The Student’s Wife, are full to the brim, says Richard Ford

What's The Guardian UK Culture Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Guardian UK Culture Podcast episodes:

Weekend: episode two of a new podcast

Weekend: episode one of a new podcast

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast

Reverberate: episode 1 of our new series

Innermost: another episode of our new series

Innermost: episode 1 of a new series

The best of the rest - the British Podcast awards 2018

The British Podcast Awards: the best culture and sport podcasts of the year

Podcasts for the soul - The British Podcast Awards

Podcasts that thrill and make you laugh - the British Podcast Awards

Podcasts to make you think - The British Podcast Awards

Ten years of Cafe Oto – The Story podcast

The music of Cafe Oto – The Story podcast

Sofia Coppola on the film that launched her – The Start podcast

Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep6

Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep5

Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep4

Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep3

Adulting: the Guardian's original podcast drama - ep2

Adulting: the Guardian's first original podcast drama - ep1

Let's eat … date night. The changing face of British mealtimes

Let's eat … comfort food. The changing face of British mealtimes

Let's eat … Dinner parties. The changing face of British mealtimes

Let's eat … TV dinners. The changing face of British mealtimes

Let's eat … Sunday lunch. The changing face of British mealtimes

British Podcast Awards sampler - the smartest podcasts

The British Podcast Awards sampler - arts, reviews and sport podcasts

The British Podcast Awards sampler - interviews & current affairs podcasts

The British Podcast awards sampler – original formats and new podcasts

The British Podcast Awards sampler - comedy podcasts

Urban explorer and geographer Dr Bradley Garrett – audio interview

Chanterelles by Evie Wyld – Forest fables podcast

The Princess Forest by Alec Finlay - Forest fables podcast

The Common Dean by Alan Garner - Forest Fables podcast

The Green Stuff by Ali Smith - Forest Fables podcast

Lampedusa by Anders Lustgarten - audio drama

James Salter reads Break it Down by Lydia Davis

Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges

Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel

Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce

Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore

Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy Wood

Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William Trevor

AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald

Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata Aidoo

Nadine Gordimer reads 'The Centaur' by José Saramago

Simon Callow reads 'The Christmas Tree' by Charles Dickens

Ruth Rendell reads 'Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook' by MR James

Richard Ford reads 'The Student's Wife' by Raymond Carver