In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Jackie Wylie, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of National Theatre of Scotland. The National Theatre of Scotland is a theatre without walls set up 15 years ago to make exceptional,

Passing down and diallng up with Sydney Festival Director Wesley Enoch

Sep 5th, 2020 52m 12s

In this episode, Claire Doherty talks with Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival. A proud Noonuccal Nuugi man, Wesley Enoch has been responsible for some of Australia’s best-known indigenous theatre productions. He was appointe

Seeking revenge from the heart of the apocalypse with Tania El Khoury

Aug 30th, 2020 30m 52s

In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Tania El Khoury. Tania is a live artist based in London and Beirut. Over 15 years she has created a body of interactive installations and performances in which the audience is an activ

Talking cash, the hustle and the urgency of reinvention with Nato Thompson

Aug 23rd, 2020 48m 46s

Philadelphia-based curator and author, Nato Thompson was chief curator at Creative Time 2007-2017 and recently has been developing ideas for a civically engaged contemporary museum in Philadelphia. His Instagram Live series - Let's Talk Alterna

Beautiful things happen when different worlds meet with Farooq Chaudhry

Aug 16th, 2020 35m 16s

In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Farooq Chaudhry – co-founder of the world-renowned Akram Khan dance company and one of the UK’s leading producers. Through a 20 year collaboration, Farooq has built a company that has p

Unlearning and remaking with Nina Simon

Aug 9th, 2020 42m 54s

In this episode, Claire Doherty talks to Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum and the Art of Relevance, and formerly transformational Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and now CEO of OF/BY/FOR ALL -

Changing the world with Olivia Lee (age 20)

Aug 2nd, 2020 34m 51s

In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Olivia Lee – Project Manager of Contact’s The Agency, creative activist, DJ, dancer and all round force for good. Olivia talks passionately about the complexities of life as a young mix

Changing the story with Sharmaine Lovegrove

Jul 26th, 2020 43m 57s

Whose stories are you reading? What's going to change that?Publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, Head of Dialogue Books and co-founder of Black Writers Guild, talks to Claire Doherty about her work to reform the publishing industry. They talk about th

Everything has to change, with Bryony Kimmings

Jul 18th, 2020 31m 17s

Performance artist Bryony Kimmings talks with writer and producer David Micklem about what might tempt her back into making theatre again. In this podcast she pleads with those that hold the power in theatres to better respond to the needs and

Reimagining theatre with Marc Rees and Adele Thomas

Jul 17th, 2020 43m 36s

Opera and theatre director Adele Thomas and artist and director Marc Rees reimagine the future of Welsh arts and theatre – calling for a radical reinvention of how and where theatre takes place. They talk about the rising voice of freelance art

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