Audio: Musicals
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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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Chris Bush
16th November 2023
INTERVIEW: CHRIS BUSH. Chris Bush is an award-winning playwright and lyricist. Her work ranges from huge community-led pieces to musicals and politica...
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Julie Taymor
7th November 2019
INTERVIEW: JULIE TAYMOR. To mark its 20th anniversary in the West End, The Lion King‘s director joins Dominic Cavendish to look back at the show...
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Sharon D. Clarke
13th December 2018
INTERVIEW: SHARON D. CLARKE. As she storms the West End with a revelatory performance in Caroline or Change, musical stalwart Sharon D. Clarke discuss...
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Rachel Chavkin
22nd November 2018
INTERVIEW: RACHEL CHAVKIN. As Anais Mitchell’s contemporary folk opera Hadestown continues at the National Theatre ahead of its Broadway run, di...
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Vicki Mortimer
14th December 2017
INTERVIEW: VICKI MORTIMER. The Olivier Award-winning theatre designer talks to David Benedict about creating the set and costumes for the National The...
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Mark Bramble on the birth of tap-dancing mega-hit 42nd Street
15th April 2017
INTERVIEW: MARK BRAMBLE. The director of the current Theatre Royal Drury Lane revival of 42nd Street (also co-author of its book, with Michael Stewart...
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Pauline Malefane talks about A Man of Good Hope at the Young Vic
2nd November 2016
INTERVIEW: PAULINE MALEFANE. Pauline Malefane, performer and musical director with Isango Ensemble, talks about her musical play, A Man of Good Hope,...
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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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