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The National Theatre Podcast

Emma Reidy

If all the world’s a stage, we’re the programme notes. The National Theatre Podcast explores how theatre connects to the big issues of our time: sex, death, politics, and everything in betwe...

The National Theatre Podcast Podcast Guide

Listen to The National Theatre Podcast, a Arts podcast by Emma Reidy. Stream 10 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

10 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

10 episodes

10. Epic Fail

We’ve all failed at something, but rarely on stage in front of hundreds of people. We ask our favourite guests to share their hilarious stor...

42:30Sep 29, 2017

9. Edinburgh

It’s the 70th anniversary of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year, so we go on the road to Scotland to ask people from all over the count...

39:29Sep 7, 2017

8. In Public

How does culture shape the character of a neighbourhood, a city, a country? We speak to visual artist Jeremy Deller, DJ Dave Haslam and cele...

37:59Aug 24, 2017

7. The Majority

Does our vote matter? We follow the development of our new interactive show The Majority, which lets the audience cast votes to change the o...

35:59Aug 15, 2017

6. New Work

Cush Jumbo explains how writing a play changed the fortunes of her acting career, and we talk to dramaturgs, directors and a 17-year-old pla...

41:16Jul 28, 2017

5. Masculinity

‘Moonlight’ writer Tarell Alvin McCraney tells us how growing up in Liberty City, and discovering the drag ball scene, shaped his understand...

43:02Jul 13, 2017

4. Old Lear

Simon Russell Beale and Don Warrington talk to us about playing one of the greatest roles of all time, to help us unpick the complex relatio...

37:03Jun 29, 2017

3. Performing Gender

Dame Harriet Walter has performed some of Shakespeare’s most iconic male roles – she tells us what it taught her about gender and power, and...

40:38Jun 15, 2017

2. Prisons

‘Denmark’s a prison’, says Hamlet – but how does Hamlet go down in an actual prison? Chukwudi Iwuji tells us about playing the Dane for inma...

41:47Jun 2, 2017

1. Brexit

Ed Miliband talks to us about politics and performance, and gives us his reaction to My Country: A Work in Progress, a verbatim theatre piec...

39:20May 22, 2017

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