Best Jonathan Marsh Podcasts (2025)

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Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage 42:17

24m ago42:17

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Samira discusses the Olivier award-winning production of Fiddler on the Roof with its star Adam Dannheisser and director Jordan Fein. Sarah Dunant talks about the women in the Renaissance who became art patrons, as she publishes her novel The Marchesa, about Isabella d'Este of Mantua. Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, whose films include Far From the …

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E203: Jonathan Gould on Talking Heads + Otis Redding + Richard Manuel 1:34:40

9h ago1:34:40

1:34:40

For this episode we're joined – all the way from Brooklyn – by acclaimed author and sometime drummer Jonathan Gould. The native New Yorker recalls his early musical epiphanies, his introduction to the drums and his studying under famed jazz drummer Alan Dawson in mid-'70s Boston. He also reminisces about his years in Woodstock, N.Y., and his associ…

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Oh That's A Fact - Trailer 2:05

1d ago2:05

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Oh That’s A Fact Trailer Oh, are you really gonna tell me that you knew that the easiest way to plug leaks or pick up those tiny, little glass splinters, is with a bar of soap? But did you know that you can lower the cost of some airline flights by using a VPN to book flights as though you’re in a different country? What about some odd facts, like …

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The Tell-Tale Heart | Zzz 15:31

2d ago15:31

15:31

[Ep19] Is he a mad man, or are his actions justified? This is the story of a man who was driven to extremes. Original story by Edgar Allan Poe Editing and narration by Jonathan Marsh Tap here to text the show and say hello! Support the show Afterlight Fictions is a podcast for enjoying fables, myths and melodies from a variety of styles and genres.…

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Doctor Knowall 7:37

2d ago7:37

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[Ep18] When a peasant seeks advice on how to become a doctor, more than one person takes notice of his supposed skills as Doctor Knowall. Original story by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Editing and narration by Jonathan Marsh (Epidemic Sound Resources) Music In Disguise by The Fly Guy Five Sneaky Business by J.R. Productions Sound FX Horse Hooves, Pa…

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Doctor Knowall | Zzz 4:32

2d ago4:32

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[Ep17] When a peasant seeks advice on how to become a doctor, more than one person takes notice of his supposed skills as Doctor Knowall. Original story by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Editing and narration by Jonathan Marsh Episodes such as this, with "Zzz" in the title, are designed to be more enjoyable for anyone looking to fall asleep. There is …

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Facing the Right Direction 5:34

2d ago5:34

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[Ep16] Tired, irritated, and confused - our protagonist searches out the reason for his current ailments. Original story and narration by Jonathan Marsh (Epidemic Sound Resources) Music A Funny Soul by Martin Landstrom Sound FX Stairs, Wooden, Rattling, Creaky, Run Up, Down Human, Drinking Coffee, Male, Slurping Golden Retriever, Panting 02 Walking…

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Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession 42:25

4d ago42:25

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Samira Ahmed and writers Dreda Mitchell and Mark Ravenhill review Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, in Mrs Warren's Profession. They consider, too, theatre director Marianne Elliott's first foray into film, The Salt Path, based on a Raynor Winn's bestselling memoir of how she and her husband, after they have lost their house and farm…

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Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark. 42:13

5d ago42:13

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Paul Hartnoll of electronic music duo Orbital talks about the reissue of the band's Brown album which was originally released in 1993, with the addition of 23 extra tracks of rarities and previously unreleased material and about the intersection between dance music and politics. Frances Wilson, who has previously published acclaimed biographies of …

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Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival 42:24

5d ago42:24

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Live from the Hay Festival, Alison Steadman talks to Samira about her career, from Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey. Laura Bates and Gwyneth Lewis discuss Arthurian Legends and The Mabinogion. Hisham Matar champions the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. And transatlantic husband and wife country duo Outpost Drive perform on stage. Presente…

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Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio 42:23

6d ago42:23

42:23

Stereophonic is a play about the creative process, power dynamics and fraught personal relationships of a 1970s rock band. It won a Tony and many other awards on Broadway. Now Stereophonic has come to the West End. Playwright David Adjmi and Will Butler, sometime of Arcade Fire, who has written the music, discuss their own artistic process as they …

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124 | Hospitality is the Salt and How to Create a Unique Brand Today | Founder of Beloved Hospitality Nathan Woods 43:41

7d ago43:41

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Nathan Woods is the Founder of Beloved Hospitality, who helps businesses build trust, loyalty, and meaningful growth through leadership development, customer journey innovation, and a culture of hospitality. Nathan is an Unreasonable Hospitality Certified Consultant. -- What I learned during my conversation with Nathan. Hospitality is the simple ac…

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Disbelief with Will Gervais 1:06:41

10d ago1:06:41

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My returning guest this week is Will Gervais (@willgervais.com), a professor who studies evolutionary and cultural psychology at the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London. He recently published a book called Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species and it’s genuinely a must read for anyone who either believes …

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An Example Debrief | The secret sauce in my debriefing sandwich 30:14

11d ago30:14

30:14

[Ep61] We've talked about debriefing on past episodes but now let's go through an actual example of what I say during a mock code debrief. If you still find yourself confused on how a debrief can sound, this episode should help pull all those prior pieces of the puzzle together. Chapter Markers 00:27 - Intro 01:50 - An Example Debrief 10:02 - The B…

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Mission Impossible & Benicio Del Toro 42:35

11d ago42:35

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Benicio Del Toro talks about playing a business tycoon in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme. This aesthetically stylised film, by the director who also made The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, is reviewed by Tom and critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Rachel Cooke. They also give their verdict on Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckon…

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Shirley Manson of Garbage 42:18

12d ago42:18

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Frontwoman of Garbage, Shirley Manson talks about the band's latest album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, which is inspired by contemporary events including the killing of George Floyd in Los Angeles, but which presents an optimistic perspective on a dystopian world. We hear from the winner of the International Booker Prize, which was announc…

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Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé 42:26

13d ago42:26

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Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé. As a huge retrospective of the work of the artist Helen Chadwick opens at The Hepworth Wakefield, art critic Louisa Buck and the exhibition's curator, Laura Smith, discuss why Chadwick should be viewed as the godmother for a golden generation of British c…

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123 | Transforming Your Life When Will Power Isn't Enough | Author John Ortberg 55:07

14d ago55:07

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John Ortberg, a well-known author and pastor, joined Lantz Howard on the Whole Hearted Leadership podcast to discuss personal growth, spiritual journeys, and the importance of meaningful relationships. They explored topics such as mentorship, character formation, and the significance of the 12-step program in personal transformation and spiritual g…

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Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat 42:21

14d ago42:21

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25 years after Joanne Harris introduced readers to the soothing delights of Chocolat, she's released her new book Vianne. It’s the prequel that explains how her heroine found her way into the world of high end French confectionery. A new exhibition at the British Museum sheds light on the provenance of popular images of the Hindu god Ganesha, the B…

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E202: Paul Gambaccini on the radio + Rolling Stone + Beyoncé audio 1:05:08

14d ago1:05:08

1:05:08

In this episode we welcome the great Paul Gambaccini into RBP's world and ask him about his 50+ years as one of Britain's best-loved broadcasters. "The Great Gambo" tells us about his early radio days at Dartmouth College's WDCR station and explains how he slipped his foot in the door at Rolling Stone in 1970. He then recounts his first meeting wit…

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Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director 42:31

18d ago42:31

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David Benedict and Viv Groskop review Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are, a surreal story of brunch and existential dread; French film about about grassroots music, The Marching Band and Daniel Kehlmann’s new novel, The Director, about a real life German filmmaker navigating the Third Reich. Presenter: Tom SutcliffeProducer: Simon Richar…

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Trans Activism in Atheism/Secularism with Arden Hart 1:05:41

18d ago1:05:41

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My guest this week is Arden Hart (@theardenhart.bsky.social), host, producer, and editor of The Line on YouTube, a call-in show that focuses on issues around atheism and social justice. She recently gave an excellent talk about transphobia in atheism and skepticism at the American Atheist Conference which we discuss along with her broader work. Ard…

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Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera 42:43

19d ago42:43

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Colin Bulfield, Executive Producer of the new film Ocean With Attenborough, talks about working with the celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker Sir David Attenborough on his latest project, an exploration of the vital importance of healthy oceans to our planet which is in cinemas around the country now. Current exhibitions at V&A Dundee and the Briti…

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Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary 42:22

20d ago42:22

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Novelist Elif Shafak, artist and writer Edmund de Waal and Professor Rachel Bowlby join Samira to discuss the centenary of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. As the Semi Finals of Eurovision start tonight in Basel, Switzerland, Paddy O'Connell talks about this year's contest. Four hundred leading British Artists such as Paul McCartney and Kate Bush hav…

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122 | Making Sense of Your Leadership Story | Author and Therapist Adam Young 37:04

21d ago37:04

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Lantz Howard and Adam Young, counselor and author of Making Sense of Your Story: Why Engaging Your Past with Kindness Changes Everything, dive into the power of personal reflection, storytelling, and play in leadership, marriage, and life. Adam shares how understanding our past, especially through the lens of neuroscience, frees us to lead with cre…

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Suzanne Vega sings in the studio, P Diddy trial, Mother Courage in County Durham 42:22

21d ago42:22

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Suzanne Vega has just released her first album of all-new material for nearly a decade. "Flying With Angels" continues her folk-influenced sound and introduces influences of soul as well as a song in tribute to Bob Dylan's "I Want You". She performs in the studio with guitarist Gerry Leonard. Sean Combs aka P Diddy is on trial in New York, charged …

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Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air 42:34

25d ago42:34

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Authors Matt Cain and Eimear McBride join Tom Sutcliffe to review a new remake of Ang Lee's 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet. They also discuss Isabel Allende's new novel My Name is Emilia del Valle and the play The Brightening Air, on at the Old Vic theatre in London. And the National Gallery is having a re-hang, we speak to Head of the Curatorial…

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Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli 42:26

26d ago42:26

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Acclaimed German journalist and film producer Sandra Maischberger talks about her new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, which re-examines the life and career of the filmmaker and Nazi propagandist who was one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Art historian and curator Sandy Nairne, a member of the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Commi…

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Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis 42:23

27d ago42:23

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In the wake of President Trump's proposed film tariffs, Jake Kanter, International Investigations Editor at Deadline, discusses what the impact could be for the British film industry. Last week Moorcroft became the latest heritage ceramic company to close its doors in Stoke-On-Trent. Emma Bridgewater, founder of the eponymous ceramics company, and …

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121 | Everything is Never Enough: Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness | Author Bobby Jamieson 41:12

28d ago41:12

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Lantz Howard and Bobby Jamieson author of Everything is Never Enough: Surprising Path to Resilent Happiness, explore how leaders can cultivate a healthier work-life balance and deeper relationships by embracing receptivity and contentment. Bobby shares practical habits like intentional date nights and reflects on how the Book of Ecclesiastes has sh…

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A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945 42:08

28d ago42:08

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To mark the 80th anniversary this week, we explore British culture around VE Day in 1945, reflecting on the music, books, films and theatre that defined the moment and the complex emotional landscape that followed the war’s end. Songwriter and pianist Kate Garner joins us at the piano. Guests: Michael Billington, theatre critic; Ian Christie, film …

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E201: Bob Merlis on Warner Bros. + Little Feat + Neil Young audio 1:19:52

28d ago1:19:52

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For this episode we're joined – all the way from L.A. – by special guest Bob Merlis. The former head of publicity at Warner-Reprise Records in Burbank talks us through his musical odyssey from his Brooklyn childhood to his continuing PR work for the likes of ZZ Top and Carlene Carter. We hear about Bob's start at Record World in late '60s New York …

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Ryan Coogler on Sinners, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Book Bans in the US 42:23

1M ago42:23

42:23

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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Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical 41:51

1M ago41:51

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Critic Kate Maltby and Beatles author Ian Leslie join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss two documentaries about John Lennon remaking his life in New York - Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade and One to One: John & Yoko. They also discuss Tina Fey’s new series The Four Seasons, based on the 1981 film of the same name, which explores the relationships of thr…

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King James VI & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower 41:59

1M ago41:59

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Jeff Pope on his new series Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent man who was killed by police on a London tube in 2005, which launches tonight on Disney+. James VI of Scotland & I of England is the subject of a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. We’re joined by the historical writers Lucy Hu…

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Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir 41:53

1M ago41:53

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In 1975, at the height of their fame, British band Slade made a feature film, Slade in Flame. The film was a critical and commercial failure at the time, but has built up a cult following over the years. Now it's being re-released in cinemas and on DVD. Frontman Noddy Holder and film director Richard Loncraine spoke to Samira Ahmed in studio. With …

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120 | Integrated Faith as an Entrepreneur and True Identity | Founder Andrew Clark of the Jeremiah Fund 53:49

1M ago53:49

53:49

Andrew Clark shares insights on faith, marriage, and business, highlighting the importance of integrating Christian values into entrepreneurship. He reflects on 21 years of an intentional marriage, the origin of the Lion’s Den investor network, and his journey from ministry to marketplace. Andrew discusses his investment philosophy through the Jere…

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Universal Theme Park, Olivier award-winning play Giant, Two to One 42:18

1M ago42:18

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Mark Rosenblatt on Giant, his Olivier award-winning play starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl. As Universal Studios announce plans for a major new theme park in Bedfordshire, what does this mean for the UK entertainment industry? Samira is joined by entertainment journalist Ella Baskerville and Gareth Smy from Framestore to discuss its signficance a…

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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

1M ago42:30

42:30

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

1M 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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Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre 42:32

1M ago42:32

42:32

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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E200: Celebrating 200 episodes of the Rock's Backpages podcast 1:21:27

1M ago1:21:27

1:21:27

In this special episode we celebrate the last four years with clips from twelve of the best 100 shows we've recorded in that time. Following an intro from Spandau Ballet mainmain Gary Kemp speaking in January 2023, we reflect on what we have (or haven't) learned over those four years, then play and discuss clips from these episodes: Record Mirror l…

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119 | Restoring Marriages and Small Communities | Founder John Marsh with Marsh Collective 51:14

1M ago51:14

51:14

In this powerful episode of the Wholehearted Leadership podcast, host Lantz Howard sits down with John Marsh, co-founder of Marsh Collective and a seasoned real estate investor whose work has stewarded over $2 billion in assets. But behind the business success is a remarkable story of personal transformation, resilience, and redemption. John opens …

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

1M ago42:24

42:24

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

2M 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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Photographer Susan Meiselas, The Impact of Trump's Tariffs on Musical Instrument Manufacturers, Author Ewan Morrison. 42:18

2M ago42:18

42:18

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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