Audio: Comedy
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Dame Patricia Routledge
7th March 2024
INTERVIEW: DAME PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE. Dame Patricia Routledge is one of the UK’s most beloved and recognisable actresses, whose career spans more ...
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Isobel McArthur
29th November 2023
INTERVIEW: ISOBEL MCARTHUR. Isobel McArthur is an Olivier award winning actor, director and playwright. In 2018 she created Pride and Prejudice *sort ...
Listen nowin Adaptation, Comedy, Feminism, Historical Drama, New Writing, Playwrights, Scottish Theatre
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Ridiculusmus
16th May 2019
INTERVIEW: RIDICULUSMUS. David Woods and John Haynes of the performance duo Ridiculusmus look back over their body of work with the critic Lyn Gardner...
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Ken Campbell
29th November 2018
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: KEN CAMPBELL. Back in 2004, the legendary eccentric of British theatre spoke to Dominic Cavendish about his life and work. In the c...
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Terence Frisby
16th November 2017
INTERVIEW: TERENCE FRISBY. Critic Dominic Cavendish meets the playwright behind one of the biggest hit plays of the 20th Century, There’s a Girl...
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Asif Khan’s debut comedy drama explores what it means to be a British Muslim
3rd July 2017
INTERVIEW: ASIF KHAN. Actor and writer Asif Khan talks to Suman Bhuchar about his debut play, Combustion, currently on a UK tour until 7 July 2017. ...
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Actor Oliver Cotton on performing in John Cleese farce
6th March 2017
INTERVIEW: OLIVER COTTON. The actor talks to Heather Neill about his early career in Olivier’s National Theatre company in the 1960s, his writin...
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Ian Hislop and Nick Newman talk about The Wipers Times
26th October 2016
 Perhaps best known for their work at Private Eye, long-term writing partners Ian Hislop and Nick Newman talk to Judi Herman about The Wipers Times,Â...
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Matthew Dunster talks about Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen
8th October 2015
INTERVIEW: MATTHEW DUNSTER The director tells Matt Trueman about working on Martin McDonagh's dark comic thriller Hangmen, a farce set on the day that...
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