Podcast Recommendations
Inspiring stories brought to you in a different form? Podcasts!
Our curators have put together an exciting list of podcasts that you can listen to online – feel free to look around!
Sismo Stories & Performances
Our creative director Joachim Fleury chats with Theater Bellevue’s Podcasts team about what inspired Sismo Stories. Listen to this podcast here via Soundcloud!
For more Theatre Bellevue podcasts visit their website!
Romantics Anonymous
By Wise Children
In this episode, a croaky voiced Emma arms herself with her fluffy mic and goes in search of answers about making a musical, Orchestrators and Sitzprobes. Featuring interviews with the Romantics writing team and exclusive clips straight from the sound desk on press night.
For more Wise Children podcasts visit their website!
Art on the Brink of Brexit
By Dash Arts Podcast
As we release our final podcast of 2020, we’re still muddling through Brexit in the UK, with the nation holding its breath to see what this momentous change will mean for us all In timely fashion, we’re revisiting our live event Art on the Brink of Brexit, recorded in 2018,
For more Dash Arts podcasts visit their website!
Lem ‘N’ Ginge: The Princess of Kakos
By 45North
Two down-and-out actresses are on the hunt for some stage work. Failing that, they’ll take up a lucrative quest to find the local princess’ stolen voice. In this chaotic tale, Lem N Ginge encounter queer frogs, woke baes, and their first actual deadline.
Written and performed by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter, starring Sharon D. Clarke.
MoreFor more 45North podcasts visit their website!
Judas and the Black Messiah
By 99% Invisible
Chairman Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party until his life was cut short on December 4, 1969, when more than a dozen law enforcement officers busted in his West Chicago apartment in a pre-dawn raid. Hampton was shot to death in his bed. He was 21 years old.
The Amelia Project
Coproduced by Open House Theatre
The Amelia Project is a dark comedy podcast about a secret agency offering a very special service: Faking its clients’ deaths and bringing them back with a new identity! Its eccentric clientele includes cult leaders, scientists, politicians and even an AI, all desperate to disappear and start over… But how long can the secrecy last?
For more Amelia Project podcasts visit their website!
The School of HighTide
by HighTide Theatre
The School of HighTide podcast supported by Nick Hern Books, is a six-part series expanding on the content of the School of HighTide, our free workshop programme for emerging writers of colour. Its aim is to help artists expand their craft, including practical writing skills, navigating the industry, the future of theatre, politics and artist wellbeing.
For more HighTide Theatre visit their website!
Breaking Silence: The Pact of Forgetting
by Dash Arts
In the first episode of our four-part podcast series Breaking Silence, we examine Pacto del Olvido, Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ – a collective decision to forget the thousands of crimes against humanity under Franco’s 40-year dictatorship. Many of those who committed atrocities have still not been prosecuted and held to account, and Franco’s victims continue to seek justice to this day.
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It is Easy to be Dead
AVAILABLE SOON It is Easy to be DeadFinborough Theatre Breón Rydell with the Finborough Theatre presents Born in Aberdeen, Charles Sorley was studying in Germany when the First World War broke out and was briefly imprisoned as an enemy alien. He was one of the first to join the army in 1914. Killed in action […]
Community transmission
Community TransmissionChris Thorpe Community Transmission is just a story I wanted to tell you. It’s not really about Covid, as much as a new version of an old and dangerous virus that existed before Covid and will outlast it. Also, while the incident and location of the story I’m telling has been adapted, the conversation I’m […]
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True
AVAILABLE SOON It’s True, It’s True, It’s TrueBreach Theatre Based on the original court transcripts, this dramatisation blends history, myth and contemporary commentary to ask: how much has really changed in the last four centuries? The story centres on an unwelcome visit from artist Tassi to Artemisia’s home while her father is away. What happens […]
