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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.

39. Impresario Raymond Gubbay Lowers The Tone and Raises The Roof and Parham House Opens its Doors With a New Exhibition

28 mins; May 22, 2021

38. World Bee Day, Barbara Hepworth at the Hepworth Wakefield Gallery and 25 concert to celebrate London’s Wigmore Hall’s 120th birthday

33 mins; May 15, 2021

37. Sex With Mr. Hell and When Marilyn Monroe Met Dame Edith Sitwell

30 mins; May 08, 2021

36. Shakespeare’s Neighbours, The New Art Platform Taking Galleries Global and Opera in a Circus Top

32 mins; May 01, 2021

35: Psychotherapist and Podcaster Julia Samuel on Navigating Change in a Post-Covid World.

32 mins; April 24, 2021

Episode #34 - Edmund de Waal on his New Book ‘Letters to Camondo’ and his Attempts to Resolve his Feelings About his Tragic Family History

29 mins; April 17, 2021

Episode #33 - Kevin Macdonald on Directing Jodie Foster and Tahar Rahim in The Mauritanian

22 mins; April 11, 2021

Episode #32 - The Messiah and Van Gogh Reimagined, and How Fairness Could Change the World

32 mins; April 03, 2021

Episode #31 - Can The Art Museum Survive? Charles Saumarez Smith Talks About The Challenges Ahead

33 mins; March 27, 2021

Episode #30 - Gilbert & George Define the New Normal

27 mins; March 21, 2021

Episode #29 - A Grand Episode: Dan Snow at Blenheim Palace, the Duchess of Rutland on Ghosts, and Hugo Rittson Thomas on Wildflowers for the Queen

32 mins; March 14, 2021

Episode #28 - Sympathy For The Devil? John Preston on Humanising Robert Maxwell.

30 mins; March 07, 2021

Episode #27 - We Go Futuristic!

32 mins; February 27, 2021

Episode #26 - Hugh Bonneville on playing Roald Dahl, The Master of Tango, Astor Piazzolla and What YouNever Knew About Dan Brown and Lee Child

32 mins; February 21, 2021

Episode #25 - Valentines Day: Sex, Movies and Design in an Age of Crisis

35 mins; February 13, 2021

Episode #24 - Films of Hope: Director Paul Greengrass on Directing Tom Hanks in News of the World

33 mins; February 07, 2021

Episode #23 - The Big Issues

33 mins; January 30, 2021

Episode #22 - Dancing Nation: Ballet is Back with Akram Khan

34 mins; January 24, 2021

Episode #21 - How a Small Theatre in Kilburn Became Theatre of the Year

24 mins; January 16, 2021

Episode #20 - Your Favourite Songs Specially Arranged, Performed and Streamed into Your Living Rooms

28 mins; January 10, 2021

Episode #19 - A Song and Dance About Christmas: The Nutcracker, The Little Match Girl and the Self-Isolation Choir plus Pallant House Gallery

33 mins; December 12, 2020

Episode #18 - Nicole Farhi’s Hidden Loves and Dick Whittington Comes to London

31 mins; December 05, 2020

Episode #17 - At Home With The Stones: Gered Mankowitz the man behind the lens

27 mins; November 28, 2020

Episode #16 - Diving into History: Charles Spencer goes in search of the White Ship

31 mins; November 21, 2020

Episode #15 - Hallelulujah! And Matthew Parris’s Geniuses

33 mins; November 14, 2020

Episode #14 - Theatrical Gyles Brandreth

29 mins; November 07, 2020

Episode #13 - A Christmas Carol, Carnaby Street and Pioneering Women Artists

34 mins; November 01, 2020

Episode #12 - Andrew Lloyd Webber Has A Spring in His Step

30 mins; October 26, 2020

Episode #11 - Out of the Box

34 mins; October 18, 2020

Episode #10 - John Tusa’s On Board Secrets, The Tiny Theatre Making Londoners Smile and Stanley Spencer’s Tragic Love Life

27 mins; October 11, 2020

Episode #09 - How Sir Terence Conran Changed Our Homes

32 mins; October 04, 2020

Episode #08 - How Books Can Make the World a Better Place

29 mins; September 27, 2020

Episode #07 - ‘Saucy’ Loyd Grossman’s Roman Holiday

27 mins; September 20, 2020

Episode #06 - Digital Theatre, Free Culture For All and Lifting the Lid on Undiscovered London

33 mins; September 14, 2020

Episode #05 - Racism in the Capital and Blue Plaques

31 mins; September 07, 2020

Episode #04: We Can Go To The Movies!

26 mins; July 27, 2020

Episode #03 - Tony Hall on the Future of Art

26 mins; July 20, 2020

Episode #02 - June Sarpong Talks Diversity and Change at the Beeb

20 mins; July 13, 2020

Episode #01 - Desire, Death and Dutch Masters

29 mins; July 06, 2020

Episode #10 - Discover Jesus’s Secrets

32 mins; June 29, 2020

Episode #09 - Beyond Lockdown With Nicholas Coleridge

24 mins; June 22, 2020

Episode #08 - Covid Comedy in Edinburgh, Chineke Orchestras and Sitting in Limbo

25 mins; June 15, 2020

Episode #07 - Going Local

29 mins; June 08, 2020

Episode #06 - I Want To Break Free

29 mins; June 01, 2020

Episode #05 - BalletBoyZ, ArtUK and Lockdown LitFest

26 mins; May 25, 2020

Episode #04 - The Hay Festival Special

21 mins; May 18, 2020

Episode #03 - Diana Quick at the Donmar, The First Ever Drive-in Opera, Poetry for the Soul and Cocktails with a Curator at the Frick

29 mins; May 11, 2020

Episode #02 - Normal People, The How To: Academy, The Ultimate Top 100 Classical Music Hits and the Virtual Great Wall of China

21 mins; May 04, 2020

Episode #01 - Tamsin Greig, Fauda & Virtual Machu Picchu

24 mins; April 27, 2020

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