Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House

This week: Neelay Patel on how Digital Theatre is transforming young people’s lives and revitalising the theatre world, Phil Edgar-Jones on how and why we’re all going to be watching Sky Arts for free and Hafsa Adan on exploring hidden, uncelebrated parts of London at this weekend’s Open House Festival. We’re tuning into Sky Arts for free on Freeview from midday Thursday 17th September We’re loggi...

Vogue photographer Misan Harriman on combatting racism in the capital and Kate Mavor from English Heritage chooses her favourite sites and blue plaques to visit For our cultural nutrition, we’re logging onto What We Seee www.whatweseee.com We’re visiting sites cared for by English Heritage. To book please visit www.english-heritage.org.uk We’re downloading the Blue Plaques of London app and watchi...

Can we go out to watch a film this summer? Ben Roberts, CEO of the British Film Institute tells us what’s happening with British cinema and Rob Adediran from London Music Masters tells us about the positive changes happening in the music industry We’re breaking out to: Recently opened National Trust Properties For all details of how to book: www.nationaltrust.org.uk Petworth House in Sussex Barrin...

Tony Hall in his new role as Chair of the National Gallery shares his vision for the gallery’s future and the Marquis of Cholmondeley talks about working with Anish Kapoor to mount his exhibition, now open to the public at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. We’re breaking out to: Titian : Love Desire Death at the National Gallery till 17 th January 2021 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/titian...

Breaking out from lockdown – what’s opening up from art galleries to the office Cabaret duo Kit and McConnel on the future of cabaret and pantomime, Martin Waller of Andrew Martin on the new-look office and Spirit and Endeavour, the opening of a new art exhibition to celebrate 800 years of Salisbury Cathedral. This week we’re breaking out and visiting: Spirit and Endeavour at Salisbury Cathedral h...

Matthew Burrows explains how his Artists’ Support Pledge has saved thousands of artists’ incomes during lockdown and Jesus Adorno, London’s favourite maître d shares his secrets and tells us if London’s iconic and much-loved restaurant Le Caprice has a post-lockdown future. As we start to leave lockdown, the philanthropist Sir Lloyd Dorfman encourages everyone who’s lost a loved one to Coronavirus...

An exclusive podcast interview with Sir Nicholas Coleridge, Chairman of the V&A, Condé Nast supremo and author of The Glossy Years, on life beyond lockdown. What’s going to happen to our museums, to the fashion industry and to magazines? We’re Reading: The Glossy Years by Nicholas Coleridge (published in paperback 16th July) And we’re…. Getting ready to go back out again. Next week will be our...

Ready for a laugh?  As we start easing up on lockdown are we ready to laugh about it yet?  We ask comedy producer Emma Brunjes, producer of Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards about comedians’ take on Coronavirus and how they’ll survive without the Edinburgh Festival.  And we talk to Founder of the Chineke Orchestras, Chi-chi Nwanoku about the Junior Orchestra’s triumph on Britain’s Got...

We go Local: Hastings Contemporary – the local gallery using a robot to take Sir Quentin Blake’s Guernica global, Sir Nicholas Kenyon on the Barbican’s Radio Local and Bettany Hughes seeps us off on her epic Greek Island Odyssey from the comfort of our armchairs. We’re listening to: Barbican Radio Local with Hunt and Darton https://www.culturemile.london/radio-local Till Friday between 1 and 2 eve...

Song, movies, good news and sex to cheer us up: the national singalong  of 'I Want to Break Free', Gabriel Jagger and his good news channel, the first virtual global film festival We Are One and Lindsay Duncan and Hilton McRae on sex and storytelling during the Black Death. We’re reading: Kevin Child’s new translation of The Decameron Walter Rebhorn's translation for Norton Critical Editions...

This week Lockdown Culture explores the nation’s quarter of a million hidden art treasures with Andrew Ellis of ArtUK. We meet Michael Nunn OBE, one of the duo behind the contemporary dance troupe BalletBoyZ, celebrating 20 extraordinary award-winning years and we point you in the direction of Lockdown Litfest, specially created for our screens. We’re visiting Lockdownlitfest.com Artuk.org We’re w...

This week Lockdown Culture brings you Hay-on-Wifi,  as Boris Johnson has christened the Hay Festival. Founder Peter Florence tells us about the challenges of taking a literary festival digital and we talk to film-maker and author Hannah Rothschild about her new Cornish caper The House of Trelawney and celebrate Shakespeare with poetry fanatic Allie Esiri with an exclusive Sonnet reading from...

This week Ed and Charlotte welcome their first guests – they hear from actress Diana Quick, chat to Stuart Murphy, Chief Executive of English National Opera and talk to the William Sieghart who tells them how Poetry Pharmacy is providing thousands of people – including the actress Emilia Clarke – with solace. We’re Reading: Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart Becoming by Michelle Obama We’re Watch...

Our Culture Editor Ed Vaizey is finally taking to the airwaves, recording from his bedroom, to give you his tips for staying in touch with all things cultural, highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between. He’ll be telling us what he’s been reading, what he’s been glued to on TV and Netflix and guiding us through what the home offerings are from the world of theatre, art and music. This week he rav...

Our Culture Editor Ed Vaizey is finally taking to the airwaves, recording from his bedroom, to give you his tips for staying in touch with all things cultural, highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between. He’ll be telling us what he’s been reading, what he’s been glued to on TV and Netflix and guiding us through what the home offerings are from the world of theatre, art and music. This week he rev...