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Charles reports on this year’s York River Art Market and Graham on Wakefield’s bold but, obviously wholly correct, declaration of achieving its UK sculpture capital status by 2029.

Paul McCartney has been nominated for the Mercury Prize at the age of 84 for his latest album The Boys From Dungeon Lane.

How three cult films of the late 1990s show that times were different before the onset of the new puritanism. Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting and Buffalo Soldiers.

Why Simon Reynolds new book Still In A Dream is more of a disguised personal memoir than a sequel to his classic Rip It Up & Start Again.

Graham reports that Harrogate gallery, Red House Originals is involved with The Kinks in a new art project in London. 

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How did Sleaford Mods go down with the family audience at Deer Shed Festival in North Yorkshire?

Big names turn up at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate.

The Odyssey has had critics and audiences wowed

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What sci fi writer Isaac Asimov's 1951 novel Foundation says about now and about Star Wars.

Reviving the past at Harrogate's Royal Hall with the brilliant young Cuore Chamber  Orchestra.

Reviews: 

Yard Act's new album, You're Gonna Need a Little Music

Rolling Stones' new album Foreign Tongues

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A Yorkshire culture podcast covering live music, film and books.

Charles Hutchinson and Graham Chalmers discuss summer gigs by Wet Leg, Super Furry Animals and OMD, review the new Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde film
The Invite, and preview the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate.

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02:08 Summer gigs

21:50 The Invite

30:00 Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival

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Charles and Graham interview the legendary Francis Rossi as he prepares for a UK tour of his show Quo Songbook: Past, Present, Future.

Francis will be playing Harrogate's Royal Hall on 4, October 2026.

Please note: Strong language content warning

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Interview Special: Grant McPhee, Scottish film director, cinematographer and writer is back in the car to talk about his latest project, Something For The Longing - Scottish Independent Pop 1985-1999, 3CD Box Set on Cherry Red Records.

About Grant McPhee

Books: 

Two oral histories of Scottish indie music history - Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984), published by White Rabbit Books in 2022, and Postcards From Scotland: Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995 published by Omnibus Books in 2024.

The latter was 2024's Book of the Year on Two Big Egos in a Small Car.

Films: 

Grant has made two successful music documentaries on Scottish indie music history - Big Gold Dream (2015 - focusing on Scottish indie record labels Fast Product and Postcard Records), Teenage Superstars (2017 - focusing on the Glasgow independent music scene between 1982 and 1992).

He won the prestigious audience choice award in 2015 for his film Big Gold Dream at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

He was Second Assistant Camera on the Hollywood movie World War Z and Digital Imaging Technician on Under The Skin, among many other film jobs.

Grant also served as 2nd Unit Director on two episodes of hit TV series Outlander.

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Graham and Charles discuss the Lemon Twigs and their enduring appeal. Though are they great pop but just not quite achieving the greatness they promise?

Graham is delighted that Bradford’s cultural resurgence continues, especially the gigs at Bradford Live.

Graham has been reading The Guardian foreign correspondent, Jason Burke's new book, The Revolutionists - The Story of the Extremists who Hijacked the 1970s.

Charles reports on his recent visit to the Summer Season displays at York’s Castle Museum.

Charles has been to both the Elvis Costello and Belle and Sebastian gigs in York and Halifax respectively as the two bands go on a nostalgia trip. But only one comes out on top.

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This week Charles and Graham celebrate the extraordinary life and achievements of Bradford born artist, David Hockney.

Graham salutes the quality of the latest album, Inferno - and first in 14 years - by Boards of Canada.

Where does Disclosure Day sit in the pantheon of Spielberg films? Graham  expands on why it's good but not amongst the best of Spielberg's long career.

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Graham has been listening to Paul McCartney's new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane and it shows he is still firing on all cylinders, nearly - at the age of 83.

Two new cinema releases, Tuner  (starring Leo Woodhall with a cameo from Dustin Hofmann) and The Christophers come under Charles and Graham’s restless gaze.

Graham reports on Lence, the Harrogate rapper  - who doesn't swear - and is now a legend on the Leeds spoken word scene.

Graham talks up South London's monstrous indie dance rockers Fat Dog, whose new single may show an alarming mellowing of their fearsomely unhinged style.

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Graham reports on the occasion when rock royalty met tearoom royalty: what he learned by chatting to Richard Hawley & Chris Difford at Bettys in Harrogate.

Graham has also found a new way of seeing The Beatles in Ian Leslie's book John and Paul and maybe a new way of destroying them.

Charles reviews John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers The Play: a good conversion from screen to stage?

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