Taylor Swift returns with The Tortured Poets Department, a surprise double album that features 31 tracks that fans are saying is her most intimate and lyrically revealing yet. Joining Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the work are Times music writer Lisa Vericco and Satu Hameenho-Fox, whose new book Into The Taylor-Verse is out next month.
The Intercity 125 train, the Kenwood mixer, the Morphy Richards iron, the Wilkinson triple razor, bus shelters, the black cab, and the Parker 25 pen all have one thing in common – they were designed by Sir Kenneth Grange. As a new book about his life and work comes out, we went to his house to meet him.
Hettie Judah joins us fresh from the famous international cultural exhibition, the Venice Biennale, now in it’s 60th year. She’ll be reviewing the highs and lows.
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Julian May
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Jeremy Deller, Scarborough Spa Orchestra
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,
Spirited Away at London Coliseum, Eurovision build-up, terminal diagnosis films
Michelangelo exhibition at British Museum, Jembaa Groove perform, Inside Number 9
Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Arts Council funding
Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition
The Legend of Ned Ludd, Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, Mohammad Barrangi
Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, Black British music exhibition
London Tide with music by PJ Harvey, Salman Rushdie's story of survival: Knife and tenor Ian Bostridge
Lionel Shriver's new book Mania, Tyrell Williams on Red Pitch
Sir John Akomfrah, bicentenary of Byron's death and sped-up music
The Book of Clarence, Liberation Squares, Northern Ireland's filming boom
Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and Percival Everett's James reviewed
Folk musician Martin Simpson, movie icon Anna May Wong, and classical music leaders criticise Arts Council England
Nathan Hill, Maggie Rogers, International Booker shortlist
Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, cinema and digital decay
Beyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter, Netflix drama Ripley, Io Capitano movie reviewed
50 years of ABBA’s Waterloo, Harewood House exhibition, Trevor Griffiths remembered, the rise of eco fiction and drama
Dev Patel on Monkey Man, which books are on the curriculum?
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