Calling all Sex Education fans! For the return of 'Get With The Programme', we're joined by writer, theatremaker, comedian and performance artist Krishna Istha.Krishna has written an episode of the fourth series of Sex Education, is a writer at Die Gute Fabrik, a games studio in Denmark, and has even toured their stand-up show ‘Beast’. They’ve work…

The Narrator plays clips from recordings that they’ve made, interviews with older trans and non-binary people. The interviews start by exploring when people first saw possibility models – trans people in the media. The Narrator asks them about when they found the words to describe themselves. The interviewees share their experiences of navigating t…

http://adventuresintimeandgender.org/ Suitcase and the The Narrator meet Ulrichs, who explains his theory that labelling and categorising are the route to queer liberation. He says that scientists of the 19th century were giving names to everything in nature so to name something was to recognise it as part of nature and therefore not something you …

http://adventuresintimeandgender.org/ A young genderfluid person called The Narrator and a talking, time travelling suitcase go off on an adventure to explore the history of science and gender in the West, specifically the ideas formulated by the sexologists of the late 19th century that still affect trans people living today. They begin their ques…

http://adventuresintimeandgender.org/Teaser trailer for Adventures in Time and Gender, the upcoming time travelling trans history drama podcast series. Performed by a trans and non-binary cast, developed with a group of trans and non-binary young people, written by Jason Barker and directed by Krishna Istha.…

FK Alexander and I met in 2018 to discuss her recent show VIOLENCE and (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow, a 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe breakout hit. FK is a Glasgow-based live artist whose shows are often durational, ritualistic, and experiential for audiences, foregrounding violent actions and noise but rooted in tender intimacy. Confro…

Krishna Istha and I discuss their stand-up comedy show about trans experience, Beast, directed by Zoë Coombs Marr. Krishna is a London-based performer, writer, live artist, and theatre maker whose work explores gender politics and queer culture. They created performance persona Bambi Sexsmith during Duckie’s Homosexualist Summer School, trained wit…

Abby talks to MultiStory Media's Chief Creative Officer Ana De Moraes about moving to the UK from Brazil, how to stand out when applying for a job and what she thinks needs to change about the commissioning process.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The…

Abby talks to Youngest Media founder David Flynn about what he looks for in an intern, the meritocracy of TV and crafting the perfect game show.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open now! Deadline is 10am…

Abby talks to development producer Lucy Smith about how she generates ideas, why she hates the term 'nations and regions' and using Yorkshire Tea to win over a team. Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open…

This episode is a live recording of our special writer's panel discussion at the New Voice Awards 2020. Hosted by Brit List head and Development Executive Alexandra Arlango, panellists include Fraser Ayres, Lauren Sequiera, Archie Maddocks and David Macpherson. You can find our more about the New Voice Awards at www.newvoiceawards.com.Get With The …

Campbell talks to comedy producer Nick Coupe about the benefits of running, finding your own career path and the future of podcasting. Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open now! Deadline is 10am, 1 May 2…

In this episode Campbell talks to BBC News' Senior Editor Ravin Sampat about storytelling, the BBC, wrestling, the digital future of news and what he learned from his time living in India.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch.…

Breach Theatre co-directors Ellice Stevens and Billy Barrett met me to discuss It’s True, It’s True, It’s True. The show restages the seventeenth-century trial of artist Agostino Tassi for the rape of teenage Artemisia Gentileschi, who would become one of the most famous painters of her era. Combining courtroom drama, stagings of some of Gentilesch…

Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill joined me in April 2019 to discuss their collaboratively devised show MOOT MOOT, which appears in the 2019 Showcases of Made in Scotland and the British Council at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the absurd parallel universe of MOOT MOOT, Cade and MacAskill play doppelganger radio talk show hosts Barry and Barry, st…

The first episode in series 2, this is a special panel recorded live at the Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Awards 2019. Hartswood West Executive Producer Brian Minchin spoke to Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Sophie Petzal and Shivani Thussu about starting and sustaining a career as a TV writer. Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV…

Screenwriter Chris Lindsay chats to Holly about the importance of storytelling; soaps; Stranger Things and making his first pancakes.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open now! Deadline is 10am, 1 May 202…

Kate Collier, Creative Director at The Garden Productions, chats to Holly about Big Brother, documentaries as empathy machines; Exodus, Gogglebox and working on the first episode of The One Show.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to…

Writer Sophie Petzal talks to Campbell about Life on Mars; getting an agent; the BBC Production Trainee Scheme, Wolfblood, The Last Kingdom and advice on starting out as a writer.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applicat…

Karl Warner, Managing Director at Electric Ray, talks to Holly about The Big Breakfast, Big Brother and creativity.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open now! Deadline is 10am, 1 May 2020. Find out more a…

Suzy Grant, Comedy Producer at BBC Studios chats to Campbell about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Saturday Night Live, Gavin and Stacey and being a weekly caller to MTV Select.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open…

Charlie Coombes, Scripted Development Producer at CPL Productions, talks to Campbell about Dorset, The Good Place, the Bechdel Test and working on Doctor Who.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open now! De…

Comedy Central Development Producer Emerald Paston talks to Holly about The Young Ones, Nathan For You, signature popcorns and the similarites between Curb Your Enthusiasm and Made in Chelsea.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Wa…

Neale Simpson, Creative Director at Fizz, chats to Campbell about He-Man, student comedy nights, Graham Norton and bringing back The Crystal Maze.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open now! Deadline is 10…

Script-writer and editor Yero Timi-Biu talks to Campbell about 90's Nickelodeon; working on Holby City; making animation and the importance of script editors.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open now! De…

Recorded live at Belfast Media Festival in November 2017, Peter Fincham looks back on his career, and ahead to the future of his new indie, Expectation. He chats to Campbell about executive producing shows like I'm Alan Partridge, and his time as Controller of BBC One and Director of Television at ITV.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The…

Ed Crick, Head of Non-Live Content (Global) at Red Bull Media House chats to Campbell about growing up without a television; journalism, global audiences and the changing ways we consume TV.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watc…

Rubina Pabani, Series Producer of hit BBC3 series Things Not To Say, joins Campbell to discuss Gladiators, Bruce Parry, feminism, mental health and Free Speech.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch. Applications are open now! …

Executive Producer/Entertainment Commissioner Sohail Shah chats to Campbell about breaking into TV via letter-writing; watching Dynasty; trying to book Destiny's Child, and why he's glad parlour games are making a comeback on TV, thanks to Richard Osman. A bumper episode - expect more to come...Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinbu…

BBC3 Short Form Commissioner Nasfim Haque joins Campbell to nostalgically discuss Floella Benjamin, the Def II block, Neighbours,The Big Breakfast and learning the language of the industry.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, The Network and Ones to Watch…

In our very first episode, Holly chats to writer Hannah George about her love of American sitcoms; going viral; making webseries S-Band; autograph collecting and working on shows including Wolfblood and The News Quiz.Get With The Programme is brought to you by The Edinburgh TV Festival and The TV Foundation, who run two television talent schemes, T…

I met the Reverend Billy – also known as Bill Talen – at Artsadmin’s Toynbee Studios in east London near the end of his Trump Depression Hotline Tour across England in October 2017. Based in New York since the 1990s, the Reverend Billy and his secular-political Church of Stop Shopping use public preaching and singing to protest against rampant cons…