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    Jared Bush, head of Walt Disney Animation Studios, on his record-breaking film Zootropolis 2

    2/03/2026 | 42 mins.
    Jared Bush, head of Walt Disney Animation Studios, on his record-breaking film Zootropolis 2.
    Alex Tadros, owner of Mars Tapes, the last cassette shop in the UK, and culture writer Sian Pattenden on the resurgence of the cassette tape.
    Oliver Royds, co-founder and joint CEO of Troubadour Theatres, on his company's plans to create London's biggest theatre venue in Greenwich.
    Debris Stevenson on her new play My Brother's a Genius, and how rap battles helped her to co-create the RSC's new production of Cyrano de Bergerac which will be heading to London's West End.
    Presenter: Nick Ahad
    Producer: Ekene Akalawu
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    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - on stage

    2/02/2026 | 42 mins.
    Author Rachel Rachel Joyce and musician Passenger discuss the new musical based on Rachel's hit book The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
    Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation has been republished after 25 years as a Penguin Classic. Samira Ahmed talks to the author about the impact of the book.
    Emily Itami and comedian Iszi Lawrence review the British Museum's new exhibition "Samurai".
    Critic Tim Robey on the work of Catherine O'Hara, following news of her death.
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    Reviewing Is This Thing On? Guess How Much I Love You? and George Saunders

    1/29/2026 | 42 mins.
    Tom Sutcliffe and guests Viv Groskop and Dorian Lynskey, review Bradley Cooper's film Is This Thing On? - about a marriage in crisis and a comedian on the rise.
    Guess How Much I Love You? is the new play by Luke Norris at London's Royal Court Theatre, which deals with starting a family, enduring love and impossible choices
    And George Saunders' new book, Vigil, set in the living world and the world of the dead and the in-between.
    Also how successful is British soft power in China?
    Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
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    John Carter Cash on his musical production The Ballad of Johnny & June

    1/28/2026 | 42 mins.
    John Carter Cash on how the lives of his famous parents - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - have inspired a stage musical which tells the story of the couple's long love story but also tackles addiction head on.
    As a long-lost portrait of poet Robert Burns by the acclaimed artist Henry Raeburn goes on display, art historian Bendor Grosvenor and art journalist Melanie Gerlis discuss how experts go about attributing a painting to a great artist. While technology can show us detail far beyond the paint on the canvas, will human expertise and discernment always be necessary in cases such as this?
    And author Benjamin Wood talks about his atmospheric novel Seascraper, which centres the story of a young shrimper in a coastal town in the north of England who dreams of becoming a folk singer, and which has won the Nero prize for fiction.
    Presenter: Kate Molleson
    Producer: Mark Crossan
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    Michael Sheen, Laurel & Hardy, writer Patrick Charnley

    1/27/2026 | 42 mins.
    Michael Sheen on the first production of his newly-formed Welsh National Theatre, Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town seen through a Welsh lens.
    Film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reacts to the Bafta nominations announced today and how they compare with last week's Oscar's list.
    100 years since Laurel and Hardy united for their first film, Neil Brand discusses the comedy duo with film historian Pamela Hutchinson.
    And writer Patrick Charnley discusses his Cornwall-set novel This My Second Life, which came out of his experience being clinically dead for forty minutes, and his subsequent recovery from a life changing brain injury.
    Presenter: Samira Ahmed
    Producer: Lucy Collingwood

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