Rated or Dated: Psycho (1960)
What’s a young man to do when he can’t stop murdering women he fancies? Blame his mum, obviously. The malign power of mothers is just one of several themes raised by the genre-defining Hitchcock clas...
17 Sep 202534min
Kate Bryan wants you to art
Art historian, curator and broadcaster Kate Bryan is on a mission to wrest control of the art world from asymmetric haircuts and aloofness, and put it firmly back in the hands of us all. In her new bo...
16 Sep 202529min
Harriet Dyer asks you to please turn down your puffer jacket
It’s silly turned up to 11, as Mick catches up with brilliantly bonkers comedian Harriet Dyer, who describes her standup as a fizzy blancmange of whimsy. Delicious. Harriet’s currently on her bigges...
15 Sep 202525min
Maia Novi and Invasive Species
After a much-lauded off Broadway run, Maia Novi's play about the time she was involuntarily held in a mental health facility has arrived in the UK. The Argentine writer and actor speaks to Hannah abou...
12 Sep 202526min
The Bush Telegraph: A man’s best froggy hypocrite
Mick and Jen are on Bush Telegraph duties this week and, unlike it does for Sabrina Carpenter, the idea of men doing more housework is not getting them going. In other news, can you kill someone with ...
11 Sep 202529min
Rated or Dated: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The "gay cowboy movie" certainly opened the door for a lot of other films, but how does it fare 20 years later? Hankies at the ready as we take another look at the small story, big landscape romance ...
10 Sep 202534min
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
