Best L A Times Studios Podcasts (2025)

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Review: Self Esteem's album A Complicated Woman; RSC's Much Ado About Nothing; Julie Keeps Quiet tennis film 42:30

4d ago42:30

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Journalist Siân Pattenden & critic Stephanie Merritt join Tom to discuss Self Esteem's third album A Complicated Woman, which features collaborations with Nadine Shah and Moonchild Sanelly. Ahead of the release, Self Esteem AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor showcased the album by staging a five-night theatrical presentation at London's Duke of York theatre. …

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Are They Stupid? 1:00:25

4d ago1:00:25

1:00:25

Is Shannon Sharp out here strong arming pu**y? Will Big U get a fair trial? ARE THESE MF's STUPID? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

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Canham's Final Deadline, Lovin' Football, Lovely Hurling 32:52

4d ago32:52

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Welcome to our weekly World Service taster menu which this week included Ken on Canham, making football great again. Bohs beating Rovers, Paul Flynn on fabulous football, Liam Rushe and Jamie Wall on hurling's hectic draws, and we have "fun and games" coming on Friday too. Get daily shows for just a fiver a month – no contracts, no sign-up fee, no …

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The ethics of publishing posthumous diaries, Pianist Igor Levit, and Memorials to great women. 42:06

5d ago42:06

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As the journals of the American writer Joan Didion (based on conversations with her psychiatrist) are published, writer and journalist Rachel Cooke and Alan Taylor, editor of actor Alan Rickman's diaries, discuss the challenges, responsibilities and ethics of posthumously publishing the diaries of great writers, artists and actors. Acclaimed German…

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DCR768 – Drumcode Radio Live - ANII studio mix from Ibiza 1:00:15

5d ago1:00:15

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This week on Drumcode Live we have a studio mix from ANII, recorded in Ibiza, Spain.

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Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre 42:32

6d ago42:32

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Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison, on setting Dante's Inferno on the island of her birth; Journalist Joanna Moorhead on Pope Francis' relationship with the arts; Poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts on writing a form-breaking book to re-examine French composer Olivier Messiaen's form-breaking masterwork - Quartet for the End of …

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JMW Turner: 250th anniversary of Britain's greatest painter 42:24

7d ago42:24

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Mr. Turner director Mike Leigh, art historian Charlotte Mullins and senior curator at Tate Amy Concannon join Tom Sutcliffe to celebrate the life and work of JMW Turner, as we approach the 250th anniversary of his birth. Also in this edition, David Hockney on Turner's skill as an artist, Alvaro Barrington talks about his continuing influence on art…

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Ep 3228: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi - 21/04/25 54:25

7d ago54:25

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ope Francis, who died today aged 88, once told the players of Celtic FC that the essence of sport lay in 'gratuitousness', to give of yourself without expecting something in return. The idealism of his message doesn't resound widely in top-level football, where the contrasting experiences of two current stars expose the calculating self-interest th…

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Review: Alex Garland's film Warfare, Audition by Katie Kitamura, Shanghai Dolls by Amy Ng on stage 42:20

11d ago42:20

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Alex Garland's latest film Warfare, which is co-directed by US military veteran Ray Mendoza turns back the clock back nearly twenty years to reconstruct a real-life surveillance mission in Iraq. Film critic Tim Robey and journalist Zing Tsjeng give their verdict on the analysis of the theatre of war, which unfolds in real time. They've also been to…

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World Service Rory Mania (And Other Less Important Sporting Events) 28:15

11d ago28:15

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Well, that was something. Rory McIlroy's Masters win rightly managed to make it into most of our conversations this week, and we're not even done yet - Lawrence Donegan is slated to do his victory lap tomorrow on the World Service after finally seeing his pre-tournament prediction line up with reality. Ken also sat down with Sol Campbell yesterday,…

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Photographer Susan Meiselas, The Impact of Trump's Tariffs on Musical Instrument Manufacturers, Author Ewan Morrison. 42:18

12d ago42:18

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American documentary photographer and President of the Magnum Foundation Susan Meiselas speaks about her fifty-year career, as she receives the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award at the Sony World Photography Awards 2025, and as her work goes on display at Somerset House in London. We hear how President Trump's economic tariffs are affec…

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DCR767 – Drumcode Radio Live - Timmo studio mix from Sofia 59:57

12d ago59:57

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This week on Drumcode Live we have a studio mix from Timmo, recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Ryan Coogler on Sinners, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Book Bans in the US 42:24

13d ago42:24

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US director Ryan Coogler on his supernatural horror film, Sinners. Anne Sebba discusses her new book, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, about the orchestra formed in 1943 among the female prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. And as a new report looking at so-called book banning in the United States is published, we talked to au…

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Muriel's Wedding the Musical, Dr Who, Anthony Horowitz on Marble Hall Murders 42:17

14d ago42:17

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Director and Screenwriter PJ Hogan, creator of the 1994 comedy Muriel's wedding, speaks to Samira Ahmed about the new musical adaptation of his film. With lead actors leaving, and ratings down, there are questions about the future of Doctor Who. Author John Higgs, and entertainment writer Caroline Frost, talk about the past, present and future of t…

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Ep 3223: The Anti-McIlroy, Football: Better Than Ever (But Here are Some Suggestions Anyway) - 14/04/25 1:13:49

14d ago1:13:49

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After Rory McIlroy’s open heart captivated the world last night, we identify the anti-McIlroy who has become the symbol of the Premier League 24-25. We survey the gallant efforts of the sports media to spin gold out of the straw of the past weekend and inspect some of the suggestions that have been put forward to revive football as a spectacle. Jon…

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Ep 3222: The Drought Is Over, The Grand Slam Secured, Long Live Rory McIlroy - 14/04/25 1:00:57

14d ago1:00:57

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After what must surely have been one of the most amazing days of sport any of us has ever seen, Rory McIlroy did what it often seemed he never would: won at Augusta and joined the very, very short list of golfers who've won a career Grand Slam. And he did it in the most 'Rory McIlroy at The Masters' way imaginable. We're joined in studio by Malachy…

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Review: Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes in The Return, On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Holy Cow film 42:06

18d ago42:06

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Classics professor Edith Hall and writer Lawrence Norfolk join Tom to review The Return, a retelling of the end of Homer’s Odyssey, where the hero Odysseus returns to his kingdom decades after the battle of Troy to find his wife Queen Penelope fending off suitors out to take his throne. The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche talk to Tom …

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Ken's Prem, Prince William's Tactics Truck, Bottle Cork, Responsibility For Rory 28:35

18d ago28:35

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Welcome to our weekly World Service taster menu which this week includes Ken on his all-time Prem XI, Prince William's tactics masterclass before the Villa PSG game, Cork's march to an inevitable All Ireland hurling title and we ask Lawrence Donegan to take responsibility for Rory not yet winning The Masters. We also covered Munster's magic day in …

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RBX Addresses Suge Knight, Gossip and The R.I.C.O Act 1:00:30

18d ago1:00:30

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Steele & MC Eiht sit down with the homie RBX who addresses his former CEO Suge Knight's recent comments, Why the content creators who push BS do so because they don't have talent, him and Snoop Dogg's family ties and why the boy's are passing out RICO charges like free cheese in 1986.. Tap N See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Tracy Chapman, the Arthur Miller moment in UK theatres, Rock Royalty 42:03

19d ago42:03

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Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman talks about the re-release of her eponymous debut album after 35 years, about how those songs of oppression and aspiration, written so long ago, speak to us today, and about going from almost unknown to world famous in one performance. We ask two directors of productions of The Crucible (by Scottish Ballet, and at Sh…

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DCR766 – Drumcode Radio Live - Linska studio mix from Los Angeles 1:02:01

19d ago1:02:01

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This week on Drumcode Live we have a studio mix from Linska, recorded in Los Angeles, USA.

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Kym Marsh on Abigail's Party, Severance creator Dan Erickson, film franchises in flux 42:38

20d ago42:38

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Kym Marsh on stepping into the iconic role of Beverly in theatre classic Abigail's Party as the play opens at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Film critic Hannah Strong and George Pundek, co-host of the Pulp Kitchen film podcast, on why so many of the big film franchises are facing difficulties. Severance creator Dan Erickson on making a t…

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Manhunt play by Robert Icke, new Edwardians exhibition, film director Waris Hussein 42:44

21d ago42:44

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Theatre director Robert Icke's production of Oedipus won best revival and a best actress award for Lesley Manville at last night's Olivier Awards - but his new play Manhunt is now demanding his attention at the Royal Court Theatre in London. The drama focuses on the story of Raoul Moat who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her new boyfriend bef…

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Ep 3217: A Red Weekend, Crowley Does A ROG, The Coombes Block, Bonkers In Bordeaux - 07/04/25 51:44

21d ago51:44

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If you felt some almost imperceptible shift in the world this weekend, the minutest tilting of the Earth on its axis, perhaps, there can only be one coherent explanation: it was the county of Cork and the province of Munster reclaiming their positions at the centre of the sporting universe. The first righting of the celestial wrong came in the Stad…

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Ep 3216: Damp Manchester, Kevin de Baller, Reynolds Is Cooking - 07/04/25 1:05:29

21d ago1:05:29

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Ken, Branno and Mark went to Dalymount Park in search of vitriol - and they found it - but also nearly all of the other emotions on an evening that veered wildly between blind rage and helpless laughter. If everyone can agree the LOI is in a good place the same is not universally said of the Premier League where most of the teams are giving the imp…

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The Man Who Caught Fat Joe Stealing 1:11:57

24d ago1:11:57

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We sit down with royalty recovery specialist Gongu Roach. Gongu has recovered millions of dollars in stolen publishing & royalties for several recording artist, most notably the late Big Pun's estate for his wife and children who were homeless when Fat Joe refused to pay. Press play to hear this crazy sh** See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in…

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Reviews of Mobland, The Most Precious of Cargoes and Giuseppe Penone exhibition 42:27

25d ago42:27

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Nancy Durrant and Jason Solomons join Tom to review:The new offering from Guy Ritchie, Mobland, with familiar themes of drug gangs and violence and starring Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy, amongst others.Giuseppe Penone's Thoughts in the Roots exhibition which is in and outside the Serpentine gallery, expanding on the significance of trees…

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Ref Squid Games, Making Art, GAA Football Championship Preview 47:59

25d ago47:59

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Welcome to our weekly World Service taster menu. Join in the fun for just a fiver a month – no contracts, no sign-up fee, no minimum stay, no hidden charges, and no ads. Head to secondcaptains.com/join for more details. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Tilda Swinton, Michael Sheen on the new Welsh National Theatre, Richard Burton's influential teacher 42:13

26d ago42:13

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Tilda Swinton talks about her role in Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical film The End, and about her intention to take a break from acting, Actor and artistic director of the new Welsh National Theatre Michael Sheen, and screenwriter Russell T Davies reveal plans for the company's first season. Plus we discuss the influence of schoolmast…

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DCR765 – Drumcode Radio Live - Adam Beyer live from Studio Club, Malaga 2:57:10

26d ago2:57:10

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This week on Drumcode Live we have a live mix from Adam Beyer recorded at Studio Club in Malaga, Spain

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Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker, Design Council at 80, The Women of Llanrumney 42:23

27d ago42:23

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Charlie Brooker talks about the return of his wildly popular tech and sci-fi dystopian drama Black Mirror. This new six-part series includes Paul Giamatti as a man using AI to reconnect to a lost love who has died, Emma Corrin as a digitally recreated 40s screen star and, for the first time, follow-up episodes of two of the show's most popular epis…

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Freedom of Expression in the Arts 42:24

28d ago42:24

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Front Row looks at freedom of expression in the arts. From rows about cancel culture to allegations of censorship and the charge that the arts has become 'woke', we explore what is happening. Samira is joined by art curator, Ekow Eshun, novelist Philip Hensher, poet and author of Hounded, Jenny Lindsay and theatre critic Kate Maltby, who sits on th…

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Ep 3211: Geordie JFK, Stadium Perverts, Dark Dalyer, Anna Livia - 31/03/25 45:49

28d ago45:49

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The most cinematic moment in world football this weekend happened at Dalymount Park as Moses Dyer hammered in a killer second goal for Galway United to plunge Branno, among many others, into a world of pain. Today he takes us behind the veil of darkness as we try to reckon with Bohemians' 5 defeats in their last 6 games. We also discuss Newcastle's…

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Ep 3210: Crowley's Class, Connacht In Castlebar, Leinster Bite Sharks, Ireland Hammer Italy - 31/03/25 52:21

28d ago52:21

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It was a positive weekend for Irish rugby with the women's team getting a near flawless 8 try victory in Italy, Leinster's B / C team taking down Siya Kolisi's star studded Sharks in Durban, Ulster showing further signs of life against the Stormers, and Munster's halfbacks steering them to a win over Connacht. And even Connacht, as bad as they were…

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Review: The Studio, Grayson Perry, La Cocina 42:26

1M ago42:26

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For our review programme Tom Sutcliffe is joined by critics Dorian Lynskey and Briony Hanson. They are looking at: New comedy series The Studio, set in Hollywood and starring Seth Rogan and Catherine O’Hara. Delusions of Grandeur, Grayson Perry’s new exhibition where he selects items from the Wallace Collection, adds 40 new works and a new alter eg…

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A Honest Conversation About Clown's Online w/ Curtiss King 1:24:12

1M ago1:24:12

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In this episode the homie Curtiss King tap's in, and the Lynch Mobb's Dazzie Dee co-pilot's this episode as MC Eiht tour's Europe. Did you know that most of these idiot's who snitch on themselves were Rappers? Well we didn't either. We discuss that and a lot more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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David And Chantal Sneyd On The Failure Of The Irish Healthcare System To Provide For Their Son - 26/03/25 1:07:17

1M ago1:07:17

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We have a special edition of the show for you today; we’re putting yesterday’s conversation with David and Chantal Sneyd about their son Dylan, out free to all. There was a phenomenal reaction from our members and we felt this one should be shared as widely as possible. When Dylan was two David and Chantal grew concerned that he hadn't yet started …

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Peter Capaldi's new album, the great Ossian myth, Brian Friel's short stories 42:09

1M ago42:09

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Peter Capaldi talks about his latest album – Sweet Illusions – a nod to the thriving 80s music scene in Glasgow where Peter made his musical debut fronting The Dreamboys. Through the Shortbread Tin is a new National Theatre of Scotland production about the supposed third century Scottish bard Ossian. Its writer – poet Martin O’Connor – and director…

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DCR764 – Drumcode Radio Live - HNTR studio mix from Toronto 1:00:34

1M ago1:00:34

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This week on Drumcode Live we have a studio mix from HNTR recorded in Toronto, Canada

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Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly, 100 years of Art Deco, Jonathan Pie 42:57

1M ago42:57

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The actor and director Peter Mullan talks about taking on the role of Bill Shankly in the new theatre production in Liverpool, Red or Dead, about the much-loved Liverpool football club manager. In April 1925 the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a seven-month exhibition of contemporary design, opened in Paris. A…

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Bryan Ferry, Disney's Snow White, the impact of cash prizes on creativity 42:21

1M ago42:21

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Bryan Ferry discusses his latest album, Loose Talk and reflects on his long career in music. Disney's new live action version of Snow White has just opened and has attracted criticism from those who felt it departed too far from the original film. Film critics Larushka Ivan Zadeh and Al Horner explore why Disney's reinterpretation of its own canon …

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Ep 3205: The National Fun League, Faltering Dubs, Flynn's Shins, Meeting George Foreman - 24/03/25 50:48

1M ago50:48

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Mayo and Kerry both spent time yesterday in the relegation zone, but they’ll spend this week looking ahead to a Division 1 final in Croke Park after a daft last day of the National Football League. Paul Flynn and Conor McManus look at this strange, fun, league campaign in full, with some flowers for newly-promoted Monaghan, and we go down through t…

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Ep 3204: Ireland Are Back - 24/03/25 1:15:57

1M ago1:15:57

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Two comeback wins in four days, new options announcing themselves all over the pitch - just a couple of months on from getting wiped out 5-0 by England, it feels as though things are going... well? Damien Delaney and Richie Sadlier join us to talk about the playoff victory against Bulgaria and where the Irish team is at, eight matches into Heimir H…

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Heimir Can't Stop Winning, 5,000 Throw-ins And The Truth, Moose's Caboose, The Nienaber Variable - 21/03/25 39:59

1M ago39:59

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Let us take you by the hand and guide you through another week of independent, member-led broadcasting on the Second Captains World Service. This week we had Ken on victory in Plovdiv, Murph and Branno on The Moose's caboose, we discussed the ultimate "conesman" Anthony Barry and his 5,000 throw-ins, and with Ireland's recent slide in standards we …

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Derrick Grace Talks Staying Strapped 1:04:10

1M ago1:04:10

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On this EP we sit down with the homie best selling Author, Entrepreneur Derrick Grace to talk about staying strapped in a mad world and why you need to go cop his family bible to survive all the BS going on. www.derrickgracetwo.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

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Review: Clueless the Musical, Oscar winning animated film Flow, Robert de Niro in The Alto Knights. Plus poetry from Seán Hewitt 42:32

1M ago42:32

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Critics Hanna Flint and Boyd Hilton join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Clueless, a new musical based on the 1995 film staring Alicia Silverstone. They also discuss Flow, Oscar-winning, dialogue-free, animated film based around the story of a cat who must find safety after its home is devastated by a flood. Plus Robert de Niro playing two gangsters in th…

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Francois Ozon's new film When Autumn Falls, Pierre Boulez Centenary, Shona McCarthy on leaving Edinburgh Festival's Fringe 42:00

1M ago42:00

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French auteur Francois Ozon, whose previous films include 8 Women, Swimming Pool and Potiche, talks about his latest, When Autumn Falls, a bittersweet story of age, youth and breaking the rules, set in a picturesque Burgundy village. As the centenary of his birth approaches, leading pianist Tamara Stefanovich and musicologist Jonathan Cross discuss…

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DCR763 – Drumcode Radio Live - Adam Beyer live from ASOT, Rotterdam 1:02:02

1M ago1:02:02

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This week on Drumcode Live we have a live mix from Adam Beyer recorded at A State of Trance Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Julian Barnes's new book Changing My Mind, Victor Hugo's artwork, Emma Donoghue's novel The Paris Express 42:25

1M ago42:25

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Sculptor Antony Gormley and Professor of French literature, Catriona Seth discuss Victor Hugo's visual art with Tom Sutcliffe. Victor Hugo was a 19th century cultural colossus, known for monumental works such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables as well as his poems, plays and political writings. It's not so well known that throughout …

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Vikingur Olafsson's lockdown piano performance, how the pandemic changed The Arts, Liz Pichon's interactive world of The Mubbles 42:21

1M ago42:21

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Front Row's artist in residence, acclaimed Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson, reflects on five years since lockdown and we have another listen to his Front Row lockdown performance of the Adagio from Bach's Organ Sonata Number 4. How were the arts affected when the country locked down five years ago? Matthew Hemley of The Stage and Louisa Buck of…

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