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...
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The National Theatre Podcast
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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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10 episodes9. 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...
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...
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...
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...
5. Masculinity
‘Moonlight’ writer Tarell Alvin McCraney tells us how growing up in Liberty City, and discovering the drag ball scene, shaped his understand...
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...
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...
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...
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...