Home Chat: The Noël Coward Podcast

Over an 80-year career, Al Hirschfeld drew the great and good of Broadway, Hollywood and beyond, from Laurel and Hardy to Whoopi Goldberg and, of course, Noël Coward. James sat down with the Creative Director of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, David Leopold, to discuss the artist's life and legacy through four drawings. See the free online exhibition, Men About Town: Hirschfeld Draws Noël Coward...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward expert Julie Gambling to delve into the works of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. This week - two Coward musicals from the 1930s accidentally encompass the biggest crises of the decade. New episodes every two weeks. Subscribe now! ABOUT THE NOËL COWARD FOUNDATION ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Noël Coward Foundation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  was set up as a charitable trus...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward expert Julie Gambling to delve into the works of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. This week - Coward's most famous play(?) James and Julie avoid coming to blows in a look back at the history of one of theatre's most beloved comedies. New episodes every two weeks. Subscribe now! ABOUT THE NOËL COWARD FOUNDATION ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Noël Co...

Host James Harvey is joined by the creative team behind a new immersive production of Coward's Still Life, served with afternoon tea and live music at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane this September. A chance meeting between two married strangers blossoms into a secretive love affair in Coward's railway station drama. ⁠Get your STILL LIFE tickets here!⁠ ABOUT THE NOËL COWARD FOUNDATION ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Downton Abbey star Arty Froushan reads an extract from the first volume of Noël Coward's autobiography, Present Indicative, in a brand new audiobook recording from Bloomsbury Publishing. Plus, an update on Home Chat season 3! BUY PRESENT INDICATIVE HERE BUY FUTURE INDEFINITE HERE ABOUT THE NOËL COWARD FOUNDATION ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Noël Coward Foundation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  was set up as a charitable trust in 2000...

Host James Harvey is joined by the creative team behind a new reimagining of Coward's The Rat Trap (writer Bill Rosenfield, director Kirsty Patrick Ward and producer Ashley Cook) to talk married life, bitter arguments and rodent metaphors. "In fashionable 1920s Belgravia, Sheila, a talented novelist, and Keld, an aspiring playwright, embark on married life. Both are fiercely ambitious, bu...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward expert Julie Gambling to delve into the works of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. It's a festive special this week, as we dive into piles of correspondence from Coward over the Christmas period. It's worse news for Jamaica's mules than you might expect... New episodes coming in the new year. Subscribe now! ABOUT THE NOËL CO...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward expert Julie Gambling to delve into the works of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. Our second season is all about Coward on the big screen - from disastrous adaptations of his plays to working with the leading lights of the British film industry. This week we've come back to Coward's final collaboration with legendary director D...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward expert Julie Gambling to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. Our second season is all about Coward on the big screen - from disastrous adaptations of his plays to working with the leading lights of the British film industry. This week Coward goes to war as a stoic naval captain in his patriotic war drama, In Which...

Dame Patricia Routledge passed away earlier this month at the age of 96. A leading star of stage and screen, she was a Coward fan and a Coward performer throughout her life, and spoke to the Noël Coward Foundation in 2023 about her career and memories of The Master. New episodes of Home Chat every two weeks. Subscribe now! ABOUT THE NOËL COWARD FOUNDATION ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Noël Coward Foundation⁠⁠⁠⁠  was se...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward experts Julie Gambling and Robert Hazle to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. Our second season is all about Coward on the big screen - from disastrous adaptations of his plays to working with the leading lights of the British film industry. This week, it's the turn of the playwright's Best Picture-winning...

BONUS EPISODE! James Harvey sits down with Noël Coward himself, Arty Froushan. Arty plays Coward in the new film, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, and this episode discusses his preparation, acting technique, and why he keeps playing playwrights. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale arrives in UK cinemas from 12th September. New episodes of Home Chat every two weeks. Subscribe now! ABOUT THE NOËL COWAR...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward experts Julie Gambling and Robert Hazle to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. Our second season is all about Coward on the big screen - from disastrous adaptations of his plays to working with the leading lights of the British film industry. This week, to celebrate its appearance on the big screen in the upcoming...

Introducing Home Chat: The Noël Coward Podcast! Host James Harvey is joined by Coward experts Julie Gambling and Robert Hazle to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. Our second season is all about Coward on the big screen - from disastrous adaptations of his plays to working with the leading lights of the British film industry. New episodes every two we...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward experts Julie Gambling and Robert Hazle to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. This week: Hay Fever grips the West End as Coward looks for inspiration in America. Our first season celebrates the four shows Coward had produced on London's West End in June 1925: The Vortex, Fallen Angels, On With The Dance and Ha...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward experts Julie Gambling and Robert Hazle to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. This week: Charles Cochran is holding out for a hero and Robert attempts to get sponsored by the London Daily News. Our first season celebrates the four shows Coward had produced on London's West End in June 1925: The Vortex, Fallen...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward experts Julie Gambling and Robert Hazle to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. This week: Fallen Angels baffles the Daily Express and Tallulah Bankhead smokes more cigarettes than you'd think. Our first season celebrates the four shows Coward had produced on London's West End in June 1925: The Vortex, Fallen Angels, On...

Host James Harvey is joined by Coward experts Julie Gambling and Robert Hazle to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. This week: The Vortex launches Coward's career with a bang (and a hastily disassembled fireplace)... Our first season celebrates the four shows Coward had produced on London's West End in June 1925: The Vortex, Fallen Angels, On...

Introducing Home Chat: The Noël Coward Podcast! Host James Harvey is joined by Coward experts Julie Gambling and Robert Hazle to delve into the plays of one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific writers. Our first season celebrates the four shows Coward had produced on London's West End in June 1925: The Vortex, Fallen Angels, On With The Dance and Hay Fever. New episodes every two weeks. Subsc...