The British Empire and Us: a civilised disagreement with Nigel Biggar and James Heartfield Over the last five to ten years, factious arguments about the British empire, about toppling the monuments that mark it, about making reparations for it,

The Museum of Other People - an interview with anthropologist Adam Kuper

Feb 20th, 2023 34m 28s

Tiffany Jenkins interviews the anthropologist Adam Kuper about his new book, The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Exhibitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions. Adam talks about the history of anthropology museums and the crisis in which they fi

A Conversation with Sir Peter Bazalgette

Feb 26th, 2020 37m 30s

Sir Peter Bazalgette has had a long and productive career in the arts. He is currently non-executive chairman of ITV, where we meet for a wide-ranging conversation. He has been Chairman of English National Opera and Chair of Arts Council Englan

Cancelled! Censorship and self-censorship in the arts

Jan 23rd, 2020 57m 17s

Censorship of the arts is on the increase: both that imposed from above, by the state, but also from below, with artists calling for works to be taken down from display. This episode of Behind the Scenes of the Museum brings together three ex

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." New York's Tenement Museum

Nov 27th, 2019 35m 56s

Tiffany visits the Tenement Museum in New York with its President, Kevin Jennings. Located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the museum is formed from two historical tenement buildings, which were home to an es

How to solve a problem like Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia: rehanging paintings in the age of #MeToo

Nov 6th, 2019 53m 49s

Tiffany Jenkins goes to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to talk to its director Luke Syson, art historian Jill Burke and Michael Savage (aka Grumpy Art Historian) about Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia, and rehanging paintings in the age of #

Vera Worth's Schiaparelli

Jul 10th, 2019 28m 41s

Vera Worth was a good looking shop girl from Bristol, who followed fashion with a passion. In the 1930s, after marrying John, she scrimped and saved to buy a glamorous gown fit for a film star, and wore it to an important company dinner danc

The Last Colonial Museum

Jun 7th, 2019 35m 42s

The Africa Museum in Brussels reopened at the end of 2018 after a 5 year renovation. Tiffany Jenkins and Fiammetta Rocco, culture correspondent at The Economist, tour the museum with its Director-General, Guido Gryseels, and assess its attemp

Sackler sponsorship: should art be on the side of the angels?

Apr 25th, 2019 42m 19s

Tiffany is joined by the art critic and TV documentary maker, Waldemar Januszczak, the writer Michael Savage (Grumpy Art Historian), and the ex-museum director, Tom Freudenheim (Old Fart Thoughts On Museums) to discuss whether arts sponsorship

Everything you didn't know about the Renaissance Nude, with Jill Burke

Apr 9th, 2019 42m 59s

Tiffany Jenkins talks to Jill Burke, a prize-winning researcher in Italian Renaissance art history, senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and associate editor of Renaissance Studies, about the Renaissance Nude. They discuss the hidde

The Maqdala treasures and the Sarr-Savoy report on repatriation

Mar 22nd, 2019 27m 18s

Tiffany Jenkins talks to the director of the V&A in London, Tristram Hunt, about who owns culture, and what to do with looted objects. They take a close look at a stunning gold crown, seized by the British Army during the 1868 Abyssinian Exped

Introducing...Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Mar 16th, 2019 1m 49s

Introducing 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum'. A new podcast in which the writer, Tiffany Jenkins, talks to key figures about the big ideas rocking the cultural world, charting the trends and dissecting the controversies. Hosted by Tiffany Jen

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