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Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House

Country & Town House’s culture editor, Ed Vaizey, and associate editor, Charlotte Metcalf discuss the week’s cultural offerings with a brilliant edit of what you should be watching, reading, listening to, booking and visiting each week. Their roster of high profile guests adds illuminating insight to the current cultural landscape.

138. A Joyful Musical Christmas - with choir masters Ben England & Mark Strachan

35 mins; December 15, 2023

137. Dreamland - A new exhibition exploring fame at the Maddox Gallery with artist Russell Young and curator Maeve Doyle

20 mins; December 08, 2023

136. Gainsborough, Gillray & more - with Rebecca Salter and Tim Clayton

23 mins; December 04, 2023

135. Edward VIII Reassessed - with Jane Marguerite Tippett

30 mins; November 24, 2023

134. WOMEN IN REVOLT! Tate Britain’s new exhibition with curator Linsey Young and artist Marlene Smith

24 mins; November 17, 2023

133. Beyond Theatre - with Robert Bathurst and Trish Wadley

25 mins; November 10, 2023

132. William Boyd

36 mins; November 06, 2023

131. A Disappointing Issue - Why do black Britons feel misrepresented, side-lined and let down by our culture? With Maggie Semple and Nels Abbey

30 mins; October 27, 2023

130. ‘Hamnet’ with Maggie O’Farrell

29 mins; October 20, 2023

129. THE HYPOCHONDRIAC and THE INTERVIEW - Roger McGough and Jonathan Maitland tell us about their new plays

24 mins; October 13, 2023

128. Stone, paint and the landscape - with Emily Young and Francis Hamel

22 mins; October 06, 2023

127. The Joys of the Piano: The Eighth London Piano Festival with Katya Apekisheva and Charles Owen

29 mins; September 28, 2023

126. Scottish Renaissance - The New Scottish Galleries at the National with Sir John Leighton

26 mins; September 22, 2023

125. The Heroic Hedgehog with Sarah Sands

27 mins; September 15, 2023

124. The glories of the V&A - Coco Chanel, David Bowie & more with Nicholas Coleridge

36 mins; September 08, 2023

123. Exhibitions in Beautiful Gardens - With Pippa Shirley and Lorraine Lecourtois

29 mins; July 13, 2023

122. DEAR EARTH: Artists respond to the Climate Crisis at London’s Hayward Gallery With curator Rachel Thomas and artists Ackroyd & Harvey

25 mins; July 07, 2023

121. Summer At The RSC - With director Erica Whyman and actress Tanya Katyal

27 mins; June 30, 2023

120. Summer Festivals - with Jo Bausor, Otto English and Harry Hoblyn

24 mins; June 23, 2023

119. This is Not Fiction - with Dave Johns and Davey Nellist

25 mins; June 16, 2023

118. Summer Books - Louise Minchin and Irenosen Okojie on the Women’s Prize for Fiction

30 mins; June 09, 2023

117. The Radical Rossettis - with Carol Jacobi, Curator at Tate Britain

29 mins; June 02, 2023

116. How Design can save the world - with Victoria Broackes, Director of the London Design Biennale

30 mins; May 26, 2023

115. From Asylum Seeking to Cricket – with Hassan Akkad, Shomit Dutta and Andrew Lancel

25 mins; May 19, 2023

114. England’s Last Hurrah - with legendary photographer Dafydd Jones

24 mins; May 12, 2023

113. For 24 Hours Only - Ruth Wilson on her upcoming, epic, one-off, marathon performance

33 mins; May 07, 2023

112. The Art of Collecting with Guy Salter, Tomasz Starzewski and Nazy Vassegh

28 mins; April 30, 2023

111. Creating Superstars: Geoffrey Marsh on David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane and Dave Robinson on Bob Marley’s Legend

30 mins; April 23, 2023

110.Souls Grown Deep and Berlusconi the Musical: with Curator Raina Lampkins-Fielder and Producer Francesca Moody

28 mins; April 16, 2023

109. Why Invest In a Print? - With Helen Rosslyn, director of the London Original Print Fair

23 mins; March 25, 2023

108. Grenfell: The Play Shining a Light on the Truth - With Co-Writer and Director Nicolas Kent and Anthony Biggs of the Playground Theatre

27 mins; March 19, 2023

107. David Hockney: Full Immersion - with Richard Slaney of Lightroom

24 mins; March 11, 2023

106. Celebrating P.G. Wodehouse - and Women: with writer William Humble, actor Robert Daws and director Jude Kelly

32 mins; March 04, 2023

105. Standing at the Sky’s Edge - with Artistic Director Rob Hastie

26 mins; February 26, 2023

104. This Year’s Best Movies - with Krish Majumdar, Chair of BAFTA

28 mins; February 19, 2023

103. CONFESSIONS OF A POSH BROADCASTER - with ED STOURTON

27 mins; February 11, 2023

102. TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES: Director Dominic Cooke on his production of ‘Medea’ starring Sophie Okonedo – and a tribute to Kit Hesketh-Harvey

28 mins; February 04, 2023

101. WHAT ARE MUSEUMS FOR? - Esme Ward, Director of the transformed Manchester Museum, has the answers.

25 mins; January 28, 2023

100. THE DALAI LAMA AND HOPE FOR 2023 - With Josef O’Connor

25 mins; January 21, 2023

99. WE ARE FAMILY: With psychotherapists Julia Samuel and her daughters, Emily and Sophie

30 mins; January 15, 2023

98. Mandela the Musical: With Kwame Kwei-Armah

28 mins; December 10, 2022

97. The Art of Dining: Christina Makris on restaurants with great art collections

29 mins; December 04, 2022

96. Britain’s Most Beautiful Building: With Norman Foster and Stephen Bayley

25 mins; November 27, 2022

95. Picture Perfect Christmas Theatre - New plays inside The National Gallery and at The Globe: with Hannah Khalil, Clare Arouche and Francesca Reid

22 mins; November 19, 2022

94. Photographs That Change the World: with Maryam Eisler, Mahaneela and Kwabena Sekyi Appiah-nti

29 mins; November 13, 2022

93. NIL BY HAND, ALL BY MOUTH: THE ART OF SARAH BIFFIN with Alison Lapper, Philip Mould and Ellie Smith

27 mins; November 06, 2022

92. POETRY: A FRIEND FOR LIFE With poet Pelé Cox and mental health campaigner Rachel Kelly

27 mins; October 30, 2022

91. Artist in Residence: reopening LEIGHTON HOUSE with Curator Daniel Robbins and artist Shahrzad Ghaffari

23 mins; October 22, 2022

90. Celebrating the glories of Cezanne with Natalia Sidlina and Michael Raymond

27 mins; October 15, 2022

89. Opera and dance take on Peaky Blinders, Football and It’s a Wonderful Life With Annilese Miskimmon, Helen Shute and Steven Knight

26 mins; October 08, 2022

88. New Perspectives on Lucian Freud With his friend and assistant David Dawson and curator Dr. Daniel Herrmann

27 mins; October 02, 2022

87. Books in a Bomb Shelter: KC Philippe Sands and Sofiya Chelyak on the Lviv Book Forum

30 mins; September 24, 2022

86. Dr. Nick Merriman on how a community museum bagged the biggest museum prize in the world

24 mins; September 17, 2022

85. Tristram Hunt: Champion of Creativity at the V&A

25 mins; September 10, 2022

84. Summer Round-Up

51 mins; July 16, 2022

83. Jake Fiennes: Land Healer

29 mins; July 09, 2022

82. From Puppies to Greek Tragedy at Regents Park Open Air Theatre with Timothy Sheader and actress Kate Fleetwood

24 mins; July 02, 2022

81. The Royal College of Art: A Petri Dish of Future Solutions

29 mins; June 25, 2022

80. Britain vs France: Writer and Director John Morton on Tackling Call my Agent For a British Audience

30 mins; June 18, 2022

79. The Historic Episode

30 mins; June 12, 2022

78. An Apology from Hay Festival

2 mins; June 05, 2022

77. Celebrating Women in Fiction with Mary Ann Sieghart and Dorothy Koomson

23 mins; May 28, 2022

76. Stonehenge: An Enduring Mystery with Dr. Neil Wilkin from the British Museum

31 mins; May 21, 2022

75. Ring Master: John Walsh on his Book Circus of Dreams About 1980’s Literary London, with Sally Emerson

31 mins; May 14, 2022

74. The Crafty Episode with Guy Salter, founder of London Craft Week, and Rosalind McKever, co-curator of Fashioning Masculinities at the V&A

32 mins; May 07, 2022

73. Is the Avant Garde Dead? With Sir David Hare

29 mins; April 30, 2022

72. Happy Birthday Shakespeare! With Robert McCrum

30 mins; April 24, 2022

71. Red-Blooded Circus, Clover Stroud on Giffords Circus and its founder, her late sister, Nell Gifford

24 mins; April 02, 2022

70. Let’s Go to the Movies: Celebrating the BAFTAs and the Oscars

34 mins; March 26, 2022

69. Celebrating Sculpture in the Wild

32 mins; March 20, 2022

68. The Indomitable Tracey Emin on Her Exhibition ‘My Journey to Death’ And Her New School

31 mins; March 12, 2022

67. The Godfather of Swing Ray Gelato on Jazz in Today’s World

26 mins; March 05, 2022

66. Behind The Scenes of Our Great West End Theatres with Nick Allott

32 mins; February 26, 2022

65. Celebrating Jewish Book Week’s Platinum Anniversary with Legendary Lyricist Don Black

29 mins; February 19, 2022

64. Dylan Jones on Bowie, Paul Weller, the 90’s, The Future of Magazines and Curating an Exhibition with Social Photographer Dave Benett.

26 mins; February 12, 2022

63. Francis Bacon: Man or Beast?

29 mins; February 05, 2022

62. Artist and Designer Osman Yousefzada on His New Book and Marcelino Sambé on the Joys of Playing Romeo for the Valentine’s Day Royal Ballet Production

31 mins; January 30, 2022

61. Bernardine Evaristo Introduces us to Five Forgotten Black Writers

26 mins; January 22, 2022

60. Who is Gatsby Randolph? The Mystery Man Who Infiltrated Hollywood

38 mins; January 15, 2022

59. The Happy Christmas Episode

29 mins; December 11, 2021

58. Julia Peyton-Jones on Princess Diana, life after the Serpentine and motherhood

34 mins; December 05, 2021

57. Artist Chris Levine on how his light and sound beams are transforming Houghton Hall

31 mins; November 28, 2021

56. Barbara Taylor Bradford on still being a Woman of Substance and photographer David Yarrow on Changing Lanes

27 mins; November 21, 2021

55. Rose Tremain on Her New Novel Lily

38 mins; November 13, 2021

54. A.N. Wilson on the story of the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree

27 mins; November 07, 2021

A Break Out Culture Special from StART Fair at Saatchi Gallery

32 mins; November 01, 2021

53. La Traviata: The Most Performed Opera in the World

22 mins; October 31, 2021

52. Challenging our Perspectives: Artist Patrick Hughes and Historian Andrew Roberts

31 mins; October 23, 2021

51. Nathaniel Parker on playing Henry VIII in ‘The Mirror and the Light’

30 mins; October 17, 2021

50. Ben Okri on Our Famished Forests

36 mins; October 09, 2021

49. The Glories of African Art and the Joys of Song

27 mins; October 03, 2021

48. Axel Rüger on the Summer Exhibition Bringing Joy to Autumn

31 mins; September 25, 2021

47. We're back!

35 mins; September 18, 2021

46. Special Bumper Issue - We Celebrate a Year in Culture!

57 mins; July 10, 2021

45. Simon Russell Beale on being Johann Sebastian Bach

29 mins; July 03, 2021

44. Juliet Stevenson’s Mission to Put Women’s Poetry Centre Stage

34 mins; June 26, 2021

43. Kamila Shamsie on Refugee Tales and Julian Opie’s New Show

30 mins; June 19, 2021

42. London Reimagined - Artist Zak Ové on Kensington & Chelsea Art Week

29 mins; June 12, 2021

41. An Epic Episode: Andrew Marr’s New Paintings, Iran at the V&A and Romeo & Juliet

26 mins; June 04, 2021

40. We Go Haywire: Celebrating Hay Festival With Caroline Michel, Russell Tovey, Robert Diament and Tahmima Anam

34 mins; May 29, 2021

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