Witch? Refugee? Tragic hero? Natalie Haynes talks Medea
The story of Medea has been popular since antiquity and continues to endure today. Not least because big names want what’s undoubtedly one of the meatiest female roles in theatre. Meatiest in its most...
9 Sep 202527min
Dr Ingrid Clayton on the fourth "F" of trauma
It took clinical psychologist, trauma therapist and complex trauma survivor Dr Ingrid Clayton years to understand how she had reacted to abuse within her home as a young person. But what she later und...
8 Sep 202527min
Flicking #65: Better Man
It’s Robbie Williams, but he’s a chimp! But is there anything more to Michael Gracey’s biopic jukebox musical drama about the British pop phenomenon? Are there any facts in it? And will you look at th...
5 Sep 202532min
The Bush Telegraph: Back from the dead?
Returning from a BT hiatus, Mickey and Hannah take a rifle through some of the daftest stories of the week, including AI failures, ball pits, watered down beer, rumours of Trump's death and odd book c...
4 Sep 202524min
Rated or Dated: Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Is there anything Meryl Streep and/or Shirley MacLaine can’t do? It's a question we return to, as we settle down with Mike Nichol’s 1990 dramedy, based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel o...
3 Sep 202526min
Here come the (incredibly divisive) girls
A century after their birth, the Mitford Sisters continue to fascinate and appal in equal measure. As a new play about them, The Party Girls, opens at The Marlowe in Canterbury, Hannah chats to playwr...
2 Sep 202527min
Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott are wild folk
Fairy tales have long been a source of life lessons and observations. Adding to that tradition and brimming with female power, Wild Folk: Tales From the Stones, by writer and illustrator Jackie Morris...
29 Aug 202524min
Rated or Dated: Top Hat (1935)
Featuring a couple of bona fide bangers by Irving Berlin, this Fred and Ginger bonanza, in which misunderstandings, misidentification and miscommunication slows true love’s flow, was the pair’s most s...
27 Aug 202525min
