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Maeve Doyle's Private View features interviews with artist and individuals who are redefining the art world. Hosted by Art Critic Maeve Doyle, one of London's most active art commentators, the podcast offers endless insights and a deep dive into art news, developments and stirrings in visual culture. Maeve looks for answers in lively conversations with artists, curators, critics, art dealers, gallerists and auction house experts who offer surprising perspectives on the world through their wo ...
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Ambit was established in 1959 by Dr Martin Bax in London. Editors have included JG Ballard and Eduardo Paolozzi. Made infamous in 1968 for the competition for work written on drugs. Endless talent is published from William S. Burroughs to Ralph Steadman and Jenni Fagan. The show is presented by editor, author, performer, Kirsty Allison.
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Roaring 20s Radio

Nymphs & Thugs Recording Co.

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A monthly Soho Radio show for the 20s: roaring about art, culture, books, poetry and activism. Co-presented by Salena Godden, Amah-Rose Abrams and Matt Abbott 📻
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Soleful: Sneaker Stories

Soho Radio Originals

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Hosted by sneaker experts Kish Kash (@kishkash1) and Jason Coles (@madebyjase) ‘Soleful’ is a weekly deep dive into the world of sneakers and sneaker culture. In each episode Kish and Jason will reveal the amazing stories behind the world’s most loved sneakers and interview the people that created, collect and covet them. We’ll also be answering your questions about all things kicks so send them to us via @soleful_podcast on all socials or use the hashtag #SolefulPodcast. This is a Soho Radi ...
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In my new series of podcasts, I speak to various creatives in music and the arts during this period of lockdown. A new episode will be released every Monday. Subscribe for all future episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Soho House and award-winning radio personality Jason Bentley pair innovators and creators together to unlock the secrets of their creative DNA in new podcast, The Backstory. Echoing the ethos of Soho House, The Backstory is a place where guests – thinkers, artists and tastemakers – share ideas and make connections. Join Bentley every week to hear never-before-told stories about his guests’ personal histories, and the projects that shaped their careers. The Backstory is brought to you by Soho ...
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What is the Heritage Chart Show? Well, it's an outlet for two things. First of all, our lifelong love of chart rundowns and our desperation to live in a world where they still matter. It's also an outlet for our fascination with Mike Reed's heritage chart. We're not entirely sure how it’s put together. We don't know exactly what qualifies you for inclusion in the heritage chart and we're not sure we want to know. After all, we didn't really make those demands of the actual top 40 when we wer ...
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The Literary London podcast.

Nick Hennegan - Writer, Producer and Broadcaster

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The channel for the Award-Winning Maverick Theatre Company and their London Literary Pub Crawl productions and Resonance 104.4FM Radio shows. General theatre and literary news from London, England.
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The official podcast for BLCKHEARTSCLUB Join us on BHC Radio weekly as we discuss music, culture, life from a melennials perspective as well as interviews with underground artists and creatives. Get the episodes on demand via spotify, anchor, iTunes and Google Play.
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Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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TRIPLE NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025 and nominated for the Best True Crime Podcast at the British Podcast Awards. Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London-based true-crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases. Praised as one of the best London, British, English and UK True Crime podcasts, as well as 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Podcast, Podcast Magaz ...
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A podcast where two dudes in their 40s discuss a different Rancid song each week. They reflect on their lives, their (inexplicable) fandom, and why certain parts of our youth continue to hold meaning beyond simple nostalgia. Is it a midlife crisis or honest self-reflection? Join us on a journey to the end and find out... THE 11TH HOUR IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH RANCID
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The Bottom Line

BBC Radio 4

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The definitive business podcast from the BBC. Each week, the BBC's Evan Davis is joined by bosses, entrepreneurs and industry experts, to lift the lid on how their businesses work, and what it’s like to be in charge. They discuss a big issue, a big challenge, or a big question facing their industry. From managing AI to managing millennials, from supermarkets to supercharging a new product. And our guests will share their stories of success and failure along the way. Podcasts are published ev ...
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The Table Hockey Show is an online radio show (podcast) with a multimedia mission to educate, preserve, develop and promote table hockey worldwide! - One Person, One Community, One Nation at a time.
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For every horror title to hit V.O.D ... there are countless others that end up D.O.A. ... DEVELOPMENT HELL is the podcast dedicated to unearthing these cursed horror productions, to find out what went wrong, and decide if they still stand a shot at the green light. Join Dread Central's managing editor, Josh Korngut, as he digs up the dirt on the best horror movies never made. Discover dead projects like ALIEN 5, BEETLEJUICE GOES HAWAIIAN, HALLOWEEN 3D, FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH, and many more ...
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The child of immigrant parents to Australia, Erinch was taught to want a stable life. He was having a successful career at Proctor and Gamble, but one day had a realisation that this was not what he wanted to be doing with his life. Now Erinch is a business and enterprise lead at the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and designs businesses so they fol…
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On Saturday 9th of October 2021, mother-of-four Nicole Hurley was brutally attacked in her bed; only the man who murdered her wasn’t a stranger who’d stalked her or a burglar who’d broken in, but the jealous and controlling boyfriend she’d loved, lay beside, and raised a family with for half of her life. That night, he took her life, orphaned her c…
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After 14 years of having a successful career in media, Sophie found herself unemployed. She thought with her skills and experience finding a new role would be easy, but it was the opposite. After struggling with applications and repeated denials, Sophie decided she wanted to change the process of applying for a job. The employment specialist talks …
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On Friday 28th of February 1997 sometime after 7pm, at 6b Gosfield Street, a brutal and bloody attack on a lone sex-worker occurred in this first floor flat. Barely reported in the newspapers and ignored by television, the murder of ‘Robyn’ Browne is a case which was largely forgotten… yet the truth of what happened could be hidden among a scatteri…
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At a time when coding and IT was in its infancy, Sir Kenneth fortuitously took a computer class to get out of cross country running; that choice would shape the rest of his life. From an internship at IBM, he later went on to a senior position at Wang laboratories, but then was fired after an unsuccessful management buyout. He eventually struck out…
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On Friday the 7th of February 1936, 32-year-old Carmen Swann booked a twin room for one night in Clarendon Court at 33 Maida Vale, West London. Staying in Room 4 of Flat 20 on the third floor, she and her 8-year-old daughter unpacked their cases, popped on their nightdresses, ordered a pot of tea and got into bed beside the reassuring warmth of the…
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When a family member gets sick, it can mean major changes to our lives. For Chris May, it meant he needed a role that could be done entirely from home. He quit his job, and created his own enterprise doing management consulting. One of the contracts he had after that was to create a report on the standards of north London hospitals. Instead of just…
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Saturday 19th of December 1992 at 2:20pm, behind a wooden hut at White City bus depot off Caxton Road in Shepherd's Bush, the body of 32-year-old successful Peter Wickins was found, he was naked except for a pair of socks and had been stabbed 19 times. The Police assumed because he was a millionaire dressed in a tuxedo and that his Rolex watch was …
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Grief hits everyone differently. For Claire Daniels, it changed her life; she had been working as the head of marketing for a technology firm and believed she’d keep climbing the corporate ladder, but after her brother’s death she found herself needing time out and quit. Later she began working for her sister in law’s business as a stopgap measure …
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On Saturday 25th of May 1963 at 12:20am, four men were ejected from The Establishment Club on Greek Street in Soho. They left without a struggle, with no blood spilled, no damage done and nobody hurt. And yet, with accusations of corruption, violence and an attempted murder in its wake, it sparked a criminal trial and an inquiry which almost brough…
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An early passion for the high street meant Julian Metcalfe was determined to get into retail from the get-go. He and his partner Sinclair Beecham founded Pret A Manger when he was just 26. In 2008 Pret was sold to a private equity firm, and Julian no longer had a say in the company’s future. Now Julian is in charge of Itsu, an Asian-inspired fast-f…
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On Friday 25th of October 2013 at 11:15am, charity workers aided by the police coordinated the escape of several followers from a flat in Brixton. Some of the women had been held for 30+ years, one for her entire life, but they didn't see themselves as hostages, as having began living life in the commune under a political belief, they didn't realis…
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On this episode of Development Hell, host Josh Korngut is joined by Dread Central's Editor-in-Chief, Mary Beth McAndrews, to dive into the sudden cancellation of SAW XI. Together, they explore the troubled development history behind the highly anticipated 11th installment, uncovering the behind-the-scenes conflicts, studio hesitations, and creative…
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Sonnaz Nooranvary thought she’d have to be a doctor or a lawyer to please her parents, but struggled academically thanks to a combination of dyslexia and ADHD. Everything changed when she spotted an advert for an upholstery apprenticeship. She dropped out of college to build yachts from scratch. The upholsterer talks to Evan Davis about how she wen…
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This is Part Two of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder. On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a simple plan with no law broken and nobody hurt, it was a gentlemanly reaction to a dastardly crime by a criminal who they felt deserved worse. Only what …
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When high street travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed in 2019, it triggered the biggest ever peacetime repatriation, with 150,000 holidaymakers needing to be brought home. Alan French was the Group Strategy and Technology director at the time and had to preside over the disaster. Despite that, he was determined to revive the company and the next year …
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This is Part One of Two of The Chalk Pit Murder. On Thursday 28th of November 1946, Australian politician Thomas Ley enlisted four good people to help him trap a bad man who terrorised women. As a simple plan with no law broken and nobody hurt, it was a gentlemanly reaction to a dastardly crime by a criminal who they felt deserved worse. Only what …
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On this inaugural IN REVIEW episode of Development Hell, horror journalist Chad Collins joins Josh Korngut to break down one of the most talked-about genre films of the year so far—The Rule of Jenny Pen. Is The Rule of Jenny Pen destined to be a new cult classic, or will it fade into horror obscurity? Tune in to find out. Subscribe to Development H…
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How would you invest £100k? Do entrepreneurs have super-human levels of optimism? How can you keep ownership of a great idea? In a first for The Bottom Line, Evan Davis puts questions like these - sent in by listeners - to a panel of business experts. Evan is joined by:Sir Kenneth Olisa - chairman, Restoration Partners, and formerly founder and CEO…
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On Tuesday 6th of September 2022, 71-year-old Susan Hawkey was last seen entering her flat on Aylesbury Street in Neasden. Nobody saw her, nobody heard her, and – although vulnerable and afraid - no-one was looking out for her. And yet, the quiet isolation of her flat aided her brutal torture and murder by a pack of brainless thugs. Date: Tuesday 6…
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Self-checkouts have become a staple in supermarkets, fast food chains and other shops, but now some companies are reconsidering their use. Evan Davis explores the technology's role in the retail landscape and asks whether we’ve reached peak self-checkout, or if they’re just a step on the way to an even more digitised shopping future. With insights …
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On 1st January 1932, in the attic room of 27 Old Compton Street in Soho, 19-year-old domestic servant Edith McQuaid gave birth to a baby boy. Whether he died of natural causes, or she took his life by infanticide will never be known. But she wasn't alone. Edith was one of 1000s of women who concealed the pregnancy, the body of the dead babies or mu…
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And... we're back! Welcome to season two of the Heritage Chart Show Show, with your hosts Pete Paphides and Siân Pattenden. This week's special guest is The Loft and Weather Prophet icon Pete Astor. Listen! As Pete navigates the choppy waters of Mike Read's Heritage Chart Show 4th anniversary "live show" special. Presented as a Top of the Pops-styl…
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After a year in which a number of big companies decided to list in New York rather than the UK, Evan Davis asks what can be done to attract firms to the London Stock Exchange. With Julia Hoggett, CEO at the London Stock Exchange, Charles Hall, Head of Research at the investment bank Peel Hunt and Conor Lawlor, Managing Director, Global Banking Mark…
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On Friday 11th of June 2021 at 6:23am, 34-year-old Jemma Mitchell left her home at 9 Brondesbury Park in Wilsden to visit her friend and fellow Christian Mee Kuen Chong known as Deborah. She was wheeling behind her an empty blue suitcase, five hours later, the suitcase was full and her friend was dead. But why? Date: Monday 26th of April 1993 at 4:…
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With the success of the BBC programme The Repair Shop, Evan Davis examines the business opportunities of companies which offer to repair things from clothes through to electronics. Is it easier to try and fix something yourself or pay for it to be done professionally? Do we still have the skills that previous generations had to do even relatively s…
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Monday 31st of October 1960, at 5:30pm, the body of 53-year-old William Davies was found inside the top-floor flat of 5 Westbourne Park Road in Bayswater, London, W2. There was no sign of a break-in, no struggle and no obvious robbery. He was found on his knees, with a knife in his chest, and even though all the evidence pointed to this being a sui…
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Major US businesses have begun ditching or scaling back their diversity initiatives. Will UK firms be next? Evan Davis is joined by three guests who specialise on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes, as well as environmental and sustainability issues. Do they see signs of UK companies shifting their stance? And to what extent is the DEI i…
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This is Part Three of Three of The Vice Girl Killer. On the weekend of the 24th and 25th of January 1987, two sex-workers vanished from two street (Sussex Gardens and Cleveland Terrace) near to Paddington Station. With their beaten, strangled and mutilated bodies found barely 24 hours apart in places where they didn't belong. The police quickly con…
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The Development Hell podcast discusses some of the scariest and wildest horror movies premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. On this episode, we are joined by Dread Central staff writer Chad Collins to discuss THE UGLY STEPSISTER, OBEX, DEAD LOVER, and THE VIRGIN OF THE QUARRY LAKE. Follow guest Chad Collins and check out his reviews here. …
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Evan Davis talks to the Estonian Ahti Heinla, co-founder of robot delivery firm Starship Technologies, which is hoping to expand across the UK. Evan hears about Ahti's early life in Estonia, how he competed in a Nasa competition, the start of the delivery system in Milton Keynes and how he thinks robot deliveries will grow in the future in Britain …
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This is Part Two of Three of The Vice Girl Killer. On the weekend of the 24th and 25th of January 1987, two sex-workers vanished from two street (Sussex Gardens and Cleveland Terrace) near to Paddington Station. With their beaten, strangled and mutilated bodies found barely 24 hours apart in places where they didn't belong. The police quickly confi…
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Sorry, Jack, but space is sacked. We return to the cosmos on the latest TO HELL AND BACK with everyone’s favorite Good Guy for CHUCKY IN SPACE. While it was likely never more than an idea, 'Child's Play' franchise creator Don Mancini has discussed his idea of how to make 'Chucky in Space' on more than one occasion. We're joined by returning guest j…
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Can businesses operate without managers? It's an idea Amazon, Meta and Citigroup are exploring. Evan hears from the leaders of three companies who've already tried working that way, but with varying degrees of success. Guests:Chris May: Founder of MaydenHazel Brown: CEO of CornerstoneLuke Kyte: Operations Director of Reddico Presenter: Evan DavisPr…
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This is Part One of Three of The Vice Girl Killer. On the weekend of the 24th and 25th of January 1987, two sex-workers vanished from two street (Sussex Gardens and Cleveland Terrace) near to Paddington Station. With their beaten, strangled and mutilated bodies found barely 24 hours apart in places where they didn't belong. The police quickly confi…
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To Hell & Back is when Development Hell revisits classic episodes with iconic guests. First up: Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Movie In 2019, Nickelodeon announced a feature film version of their classic 90s series 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?' Horror mainstay Gary Dauberman was reportedly attached to write, yet nothing has made it to the screen. …
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The advertising exec behind some of the most successful adverts of recent decades shares some of the decisions that have influenced his career, including an early decision to accept a lower salary and instead pursue and opportunity that would bring him more opportunities. Sir John would go out to co-found successful agencies Bartle Bogle Hegarty, a…
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Evan Davis gets up-to-date tips on finding a new job and hears how the process of making yourself stand out to an employer has changed over the years. Episode guests:Sophie O'Brien: CEO and Founder of Pollen CareersDepesh Nathwani: CEO of The Consumer Helpline GroupShan Saba: Director of Brightwork Staffline Presenter: Evan DavisProducers: Bob Howa…
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George Holmes is a normal boy who lives on a council estate in Birmingham with his younger sister, Libby, his older brother, Andy and his Mom and Dad. Or at least he did! After the White Light and all the adults disappear, a strange voice directs them to Billesley Common in Birmingham. Where they end up by the River Thames in London, meet a strange…
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Career clarity can be hard to find in the middle of a demanding 9 to 5, but sometimes getting away from it all for a while can make you realise what you really want from work. For Dana Denis-Smith, the world's highest mountain range did the trick. She tells Evan Davis how it inspired her to turn her back on an unfulfilling legal career, and later t…
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On this rerun of a Development Hell classic, we uncover JASON NEVER DIES, a still unmade follow-up to JASON LIVES by writer-director Tom McLoughlin. Following a group of misfit Catholic school girls, this snowy Jason sequel would pit the icon against an all-woman ensemble. With special guest, author, and journalist Jinx! Follow Jinx: Twitter - @Jin…
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