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British Theatre Guide podcast

Interviews and more from the world of professional theatre right across the UK.

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Susannah Flood talks about playing Sylvia in Nina Raine's Tribes in New York

Susannah Flood talks about playing Sylvia in Nina Raine's Tribes in New York

Susannah Flood stars in Nina Raine’s Tribes—originally produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2010—at Barrow S... Read more

6 Jan 2013

21mins

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New Octagon Artistic Director launches her first season

New Octagon Artistic Director launches her first season

Lotte Wakeham, who took over as Artistic Director of Bolton's Octagon Theatre in February 2019, spoke to us after three ... Read more

19 May 2019

37mins

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Three years of actors' honesty with Jonathan Harden

Three years of actors' honesty with Jonathan Harden

The Honest Actors’ Podcast was founded by Belfast-born actor Jonathan Harden in 2015 and is currently launching its thir... Read more

23 Dec 2018

51mins

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Jodie Prenger on returning to Blackpool in One Man Two Guvnors

Jodie Prenger on returning to Blackpool in One Man Two Guvnors

Jodie Prenger, who won the part of Nancy in Oliver! in TV reality show I'd Do Anything, is currently starring as Dolly i... Read more

12 Nov 2012

10mins

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Stella Duffy: bringing Joan Littlewood's idea of fun to a palace near to you

Stella Duffy: bringing Joan Littlewood's idea of fun to a palace near to you

The Fun Palace was an idea conceived originally by influential theatre maker Joan Littlewood with architect Cedric Price... Read more

12 Aug 2018

57mins

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Director Lily Sykes on bringing Genet's Maids to Manchester Home

Director Lily Sykes on bringing Genet's Maids to Manchester Home

The first in-house production in HOME Manchester’s autumn and winter season for 2018 is a new production of French write... Read more

3 Nov 2018

35mins

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From Shore To Shore: migrant stories come to your local Chinese restaurant

From Shore To Shore: migrant stories come to your local Chinese restaurant

From Shore to Shore is a play written by British playwright Mary Cooper in collaboration with M W Sun based on real migr... Read more

26 Feb 2019

41mins

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Hansel and Gretel follow the trail to Derby for Christmas

Hansel and Gretel follow the trail to Derby for Christmas

Derby Theatre's Christmas show for 2018 is Mike Kenny's adaptation of Hansel and Gretel from the tales collected by the ... Read more

24 Nov 2018

16mins

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"Follow your dream"—to the Marlowe's Cinderella

"Follow your dream"—to the Marlowe's Cinderella

2018 marks the second time Evolution Productions has produced Cinderella at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury after the ve... Read more

2 Dec 2018

14mins

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MIF launch 2019

MIF launch 2019

Highlights of the launch event for the Manchester International Festival 2019, held in Manchester on 7 March 2019. Intro... Read more

9 Mar 2019

35mins

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Anya Reiss on the Library Theatre revival of her adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull

Anya Reiss on the Library Theatre revival of her adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull

Playwright Anya Reiss, whose first play was produced by London's Royal Court Theatre less than four years ago, talks abo... Read more

30 Jan 2014

24mins

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Much Ado About Benedick at Northern Broadsides

Much Ado About Benedick at Northern Broadsides

Conrad Nelson’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing for Northern Broadsides Theatre Company had a ... Read more

1 Feb 2019

23mins

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Christmas Crimes in Lichfield

Christmas Crimes in Lichfield

Lichfield Garrick is presenting an alternative show as well as its panto this Christmas as New Old Friends will be stagi... Read more

8 Dec 2018

15mins

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Jude Christian directs othellomacbeth at HOME Manchester

Jude Christian directs othellomacbeth at HOME Manchester

For its first production of the autumn 2018 season, HOME in Manchester has again teamed up with Lyric Hammersmith for a ... Read more

7 Sep 2018

27mins

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Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road runs from Edinburgh to Manchester

Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road runs from Edinburgh to Manchester

Jackie Kay is the current Makar, the Scottish national poet, whose 2010 memoir, Red Dust Road, is to be adapted for the ... Read more

10 May 2019

32mins

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RashDash on what we may find in their (and our) Future Bodies

RashDash on what we may find in their (and our) Future Bodies

The latest production from acclaimed theatre company RashDash, Future Bodies, has been produced in collaboration with Un... Read more

26 Sep 2018

23mins

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David Chadderton talks to the principal cast members of The Lion King tour in Manchester

David Chadderton talks to the principal cast members of The Lion King tour in Manchester

On the day of its opening at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, David Chadderton speaks to some of the principal cast mem... Read more

5 Dec 2012

17mins

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Kevin Shaw on the long panto tradition at Oldham Coliseum

Kevin Shaw on the long panto tradition at Oldham Coliseum

Kevin Shaw, artistic director of the Coliseum Theatre in Oldham, talks about the long tradition of acclaimed panto at th... Read more

1 Dec 2012

18mins

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James Graham - The National Theatre's latest "Big Discovery"

James Graham - The National Theatre's latest "Big Discovery"

Philip Fisher interviews James Graham ahead of the transfer of his Evening Standard nominated political drama This House... Read more

28 Nov 2012

18mins

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Octagon founder Robin Pemberton Billing: a tribute from David Thacker and recollections from Robert Powell

Octagon founder Robin Pemberton Billing: a tribute from David Thacker and recollections from Robert Powell

Bolton Octagon artistic director David Thacker pays tribute to the theatre's founder Robin Pemberton-Billing, who died o... Read more

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