Tracey Emin, the Oscars and Frieze in LA
History catches up with Tracey Emin: the artist on love, loss and #MeToo. And it's the Academy Awards...who should win, who should not and who cares anyway? Plus: Frieze LA — local artist Martine Syms drives around Los Angeles, exploring the relationship between cars, culture and life through the windscreen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
16 Feb 201944min
Richard E Grant, Oscar nominee. Plus: is Netflix good for TV?
The star of Withnail and I discusses his new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?, actors, acting and why sex is key to getting into character.And we debate the startling growth of Netflix - is it remotely healthy? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2 Feb 201942min
Fiction special: Alexander Chee reads The Rosary
Our coda for 2018 is something rather different: the American writer reads a meditative personal essay from his acclaimed new collection, How To Write an Autobiographical Novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
21 Dec 201853min
Best books of 2018. Plus: Sally Rooney on sex, class and the internet
In our penultimate episode of the series, we discuss the year's best novels and non-fiction works — as well as some old favourites — with Arifa Akbar, literary critic and a judge of the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction, and Alice Fishburn, editor of FT Weekend magazine. Later, Gris chats to Sally Rooney about her award-winning novel Normal People. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
15 Dec 201850min
Christmas Food & Drink Special with Tim Hayward, Polly Russell and Chef Cyrus Todiwala
Is Christmas best for six-year-olds? And was it better in the olden days? We rediscover the joy of festive excess. The Indian British chef discusses the future of food, his own unique style of cooking and why now is the best moment in history to be an aspiring chef. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1 Dec 201848min
How to make it as a rapper in 2018. Plus: Thomas Page McBee, the first trans man to box at Madison Square Gardens
Hip-hop is now the dominant genre in pop. But how do artists get big? We ask the London beat maker and producer Mutual Soundz and the FT's pop critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney. Plus: a trans writer on 'toxic masculinity' and the beauty of being a man. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
17 Nov 201844min
‘The Big Lebowski’ at 20. Plus: John Cooper Clarke, the Baudelaire of Salford, is ‘The Luckiest Guy Alive’
As the Dude hits 20, has cult movie The Big Lebowski aged well? And, after 30-odd years, John Cooper Clarke, the ‘people’s poet’, has a new book of verse – he also has two pairs of glasses but no mobile phone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
27 Okt 201848min
Kerry James Marshall on painting African-American life
His paintings of black Americans - families and lovers, parks and hair salons - have earned Kerry James Marshall a reputation as one of our greatest living artists. Gris talks to him about representation, the western canon and who decides the value of art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
13 Okt 201831min
