The National Theatre Podcast

We’ve all failed at something, but rarely on stage in front of hundreds of people. We ask our favourite guests to share ... Read more

It’s the 70th anniversary of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year, so we go on the road to Scotland to ask people fro... Read more

How does culture shape the character of a neighbourhood, a city, a country? We speak to visual artist Jeremy Deller, DJ ... Read more

Does our vote matter? We follow the development of our new interactive show The Majority, which lets the audience cast v... Read more

Cush Jumbo explains how writing a play changed the fortunes of her acting career, and we talk to dramaturgs, directors a... Read more

‘Moonlight’ writer Tarell Alvin McCraney tells us how growing up in Liberty City, and discovering the drag ball scene, s... Read more

Simon Russell Beale and Don Warrington talk to us about playing one of the greatest roles of all time, to help us unpick... Read more

Dame Harriet Walter has performed some of Shakespeare’s most iconic male roles – she tells us what it taught her about g... Read more

‘Denmark’s a prison’, says Hamlet – but how does Hamlet go down in an actual prison? Chukwudi Iwuji tells us about playi... Read more

Ed Miliband talks to us about politics and performance, and gives us his reaction to My Country: A Work in Progress, a v... Read more