Best Radio Kaos Podcasts (2024)

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Geektown Radio Episode 433: Rebel Ridge, Kaos, Twisters, Under Paris Reviews, Plus TV News & UK Air Dates! 58:58

3d ago58:58

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We return with episode 433 of the Geektown Radio podcast and, after an extended absence due to broken internet, Darryl from Hollywood North News finally returns to join Dave as co-host to chat TV, film and games news & reviews! It's been a long while since Darryl has been on the show, and he's returned with his usual eclectic mix of TV and film rev…

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Review: film The Substance, Art Michael Craig-Martin, Book The Empusium 42:34

1h ago42:34

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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha Mamata and Ben Luke who will be offering their verdicts on body horror film The Substance staring Demi Moore, a major new Michael Craig-Martin exhibition at the Royal Academy in London and The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Nobel prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk. Plus BBC National Short Story Award s…

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A Very Royal Scandal, Glasgow Cathedral Festival & crime writer Peter May. 42:09

26m ago42:09

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Screenwriter Jeremy Brock discusses Amazon's A Very Royal Scandal, the second dramatisation this year of Emily Maitlis' 2019 Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew, which stars Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson. Mezzo-soprano Rowan Hellier and pianist Jonathan Ware perform from the opening event of the Glasgow Cathedral Festival, an exploration of sexu…

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David Peace, new plays crisis, Booker Prize 2024 shortlist 42:56

38m ago42:56

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David Peace on his new novel, Munichs, about the plane crash that transformed Manchester United.Katie Posner, Co-Artistic Director of Paines Plough theatre company and Daniel Evans, Co-Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company discuss the new plays crisis in theatre.Matt Hemley, Deputy Editor of The Stage, reports on the cancellation of a …

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Geektown Radio Episode 434: Satisfactory, Nightsleeper, Yellowjackets, Hollyoaks Reviews, Plus TV News & UK Air Dates! 1:00:22

4h ago1:00:22

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We are back with episode 434 of the Geektown Radio podcast and Matt from Entertainment Talk joins Dave as co-host to chat TV, film and games news & reviews! It's been a few weeks since Matt has been on the show, but we begin with a discussion about some massive changes in a (nearly) 30-year-old British institution... 'Hollyoaks'... (and yes, it is …

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Edward Enninful, Lady Blackbird performs, Booker prize shortlist 42:25

18h ago42:25

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Edward Enninful, Vogue Global Creative and Cultural advisor has just made a documentary series, In Vogue: The 90s. He discusses the decade that changed fashion forever. Sue Prideaux has just written the first biography of French post impressionist artist, Gauguin, in over thirty years. She argues it is time to reappraise the way we look at the man …

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Nightsleeper | In Vogue: The 90s | The Penguin 38:26

22h ago38:26

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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Naga to talk about the Nightsleeper, In Vogue: The 90s and The Penguin.By BBC Radio 5 Live

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REVIEW: Film: The Critic, Exhibition: Van Gogh, Book: Garth Greenwell's Small Rain 42:26

4d ago42:26

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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by David Benedict and Catherine McCormack to review Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, the first exhibition the National Gallery has dedicated to the artist. They also discuss The Critic, which stars Ian McKellen as a fearsomely ruthless drama critic and Small Rain by Garth Greenwell, which focuses on the narrator's time and treatm…

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Jacqueline Wilson, JRR Tolkien poetry, BBC TV thriller Nightsleeper 42:26

6d ago42:26

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Dame Jacqueline Wilson talks about Think Again, the long-awaited adult novel which is the sequel to her much-loved Girls series of books. Actors Alexandra Roach and Joe Cole discuss their roles in BBC One's latest Sunday night drama series Nightsleeper, a thriller in which a night train from Glasgow to London is 'hackjacked'. And on the eve of the …

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Australian Front Row with Paul Kelly, Simon Armitage, Jazz Money and Shankari Chandran 41:42

3d ago41:42

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The BBC's Contains Strong Language festival has left British shores for the first time - and Australian arts and culture presenter Michael Cathcart hosts a special Front Row recorded on Gadigal land in Sydney in partnership with ABC and Red Room Poetry. Known as the Aussie Bob Dylan, singer Paul Kelly performs Going To The River With Dad from his f…

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Richard O'Brien & Jason Donovan on 50 years of Rocky Horror, Bella Mackie 42:23

4d ago42:23

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Richard O'Brien and Jason Donovan on 50 years of the Rocky Horror Show, Bella Mackie on her new novel which follows the success her hit book How to Kill Your Family, a look at Chromatica, a new privately funded orchestra and the life and work of lyricist Will Jennings, who died last weekend. Presenter: Samira AhmedProducer: Corinna Jones…

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The Perfect Couple | Slow Horses | Grace 44:56

11d ago44:56

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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Leila Nathoo to talk about The Perfect Couple, Slow Horses and Grace.By BBC Radio 5 Live

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REVIEW: Film: Firebrand; BOOK: Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake; TV: Kaos 42:37

8d ago42:37

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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by academic and critic John Mullan and Elodie Harper, the bestselling author of The Wolf Den Trilogy for the Front Row review show. They discuss Jeff Goldblum as a modern-day Zeus in the series Kaos, Rachel Kushner’s thriller Creation Lake, which has been longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, and the historical drama Fire…

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Jeremy Denk, Scottish Arts Crisis, Harry Mould 42:18

13d ago42:18

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Members of Scotland's cultural community discuss the controversy around a cut to vital funding. Ahead of his third year performing at the Lammermuir Festival of classical music, leading American pianist Jeremy Denk talks about his passion for musical maverick Charles Ives, whose 150th birthday he is celebrating with a special concert and a new albu…

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TV: Colin from Accounts; Musical: Why Am I So Single? Hak Baker performs 42:28

10d ago42:28

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Following the international success of SIX the Musical, writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss are in the studio to discuss their new work Why Am I So Single? They discuss maintaining their creative momentum after writing a global phenomenon. We hear from the creators of the award winning Australian comedy Colin From Accounts. Harriet Dyer and Patrick B…

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Geektown Radio Episode 432: Star Wars Outlaws, That ’90s Show, Rings of Power, Only Murders Reviews, Plus TV News & UK Air Dates! 53:38

10d ago53:38

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We return with episode 432 of the Geektown Radio podcast and Robert from Entertainment Talk joins Dave as guest co-host to chat TV, film and games news & reviews! As Robert co-hosts Gaming Talk over on Entertainment Talk, chat this week is a little more gaming heavy, but given there has been a big game release with 'Star Wars Outlaws', that's no ba…

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Michael Keaton; The The play live; Tim Minchin on life, art and success 42:24

11d ago42:24

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Michael Keaton on his new film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, coming over 35 years after the original film and which reunites him with director Tim Burton. Tim Minchin, the comedian, actor, musician, and songwriter behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day, talks about how his experiences have shaped his first non-fiction book You Don’t Have To Have …

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Kaos | The Zelensky Story | Colin From Accounts 40:53

11d ago40:53

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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Naga Munchetty to talk about the return of an Aussie comedy hit, and more!By BBC Radio 5 Live

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Interview: Scoring Netflix’s ‘Exploding Kittens’ with Composers Jina An & Shirley Song 34:01

16d ago34:01

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Welcome to a new Geektown Behind The Scenes podcast. This week I’m chatting with Jina An & Shirley Song, the composers behind Netflix's brilliant adult animated series ‘Exploding Kittens’. If you haven’t yet caught ‘Exploding Kittens’, the series is inspired by the beloved card game from Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal webcomic, Elan Lee, and Shane Sm…

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Geektown Radio Episode 431: Bad Monkey, Dead City, Inside Out 2, Vikings Valhalla Reviews, Plus TV News & UK Air Dates! 1:01:38

17d ago1:01:38

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We are back with episode 431 of the Geektown Radio podcast and Dave is joined by Matt from Entertainment Talk to chat TV, film and games news & reviews! As Daryl's internet is still down (someone wake up Talk Talk's tech support!) Matt is back on the show this week, and has a couple of animated series for review. He's been working his way through '…

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Sherwood | Dating Naked | Klitschko 47:29

18d ago47:29

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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Steffan to talk about Sherwood, Dating Naked, and KlitschkoBy BBC Radio 5 Live

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Review: film: Kneecap, TV: Bad Monkey, book: Ootlin by Jenni Fagan 42:25

22d ago42:25

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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Leila Latif and Dorian Lynskey to review Kneecap, a debut film from Rich Peppiatt about a trio of Irish language rappers from West Belfast, Ootlin, a memoir from author and poet Jenni Fagan recounting her traumatic childhood in care and Bad Monkey, a television comedy cop drama set in Florida starring Vince Vaughn. George…

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James Graham, Alexander McCall Smith, the art of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 42:11

26d ago42:11

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Sherwood writer James Graham argues that TV has a problem with working class representation, both in front of and behind the screen, as he delivers this year's MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Sherwood Series 2 starts on BBC1 on Sunday. Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, on his new stan…

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Fran Healy, affordable artists' studios, climate change storytelling 42:24

24d ago42:24

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Fran Healy, lead singer of indie-rock band Travis, on why their tenth album LA Times is the most personal since their breakthrough album, The Man Who, and why Los Angeles is a good place to be an artist. As Equity calls for better guidelines for how the video games industry treats actors and performers, Rebecca Yeo, a member of the union's Video Ga…

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Geektown Radio Episode 430: Despicable Me 4, Interview With The Vampire, Time Bandits, Slip Reviews, Plus TV News & UK Air Dates! 44:20

24d ago44:20

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We return once again with episode 430 of the Geektown Radio podcast! Our Film Reviewer Gray is back joining Dave to chat TV and film news & reviews! It's been a couple of weeks since Gray has been on, and, being our film reviewer, he has managed to bring his thoughts on a movie, this time it's 'Despicable Me 4'. He also covers a number of TV shows …

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Pat Barker, the films of Alain Delon, Proms played by memory, Orlando Weeks 42:22

25d ago42:22

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Samira Ahmed talks to Pat Barker about the final part of her Troy trilogy, The Voyage Home. Alain Delon has died at the age of 88 - President Macron called him a French monument. Film critic Ginette Vincendeau assesses his impact on French film. At the Proms two orchestras are set to play works by Beethoven and Mozart from memory - conductor Nichol…

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Merseyside Detectives | Made in Korea | Kidnapped 41:31

25d ago41:31

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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Steffan to talk about Merseyside Detectives, Made in Korea, and Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story.By BBC Radio 5 Live

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The Outrun, Gwyneth Paltrow dramas, Comedy Roundup, Rebels & Patriots 42:08

1M ago42:08

42:08

Kirsty Wark reviews highlights from the Edinburgh Festival, joined by critics Ian Rankin, Chitra Ramaswamy and Dominic Maxwell. They discuss two adaptations of Amy Liptrot's bestselling memoir about addiction, The Outrun. The film version opens the Edinburgh Film Festival tonight and stars Saoirse Ronan in the lead. The stage play The Outrun is a R…

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David Morrissey, Relaxed performances, Alien: Romulus 42:14

29d ago42:14

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David Morrissey stars as a hapless father in the new BBC comedy Daddy Issues - alongside Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood as his pregnant daughter. Samira Ahmed asks him about playing for laughs - as well as reprising his role in James Graham's Sherwood, which is about to return to BBC1, featuring local gangs in Nottinghamshire and a proposed new coa…

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Nish Kumar, Miriam Margolyes, Rose Matafeo, Teenage Fanclub 42:24

30d ago42:24

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This programme has been edited since broadcast. Kirsty Wark launches Front Row's regular Scottish editions with a live show from the Edinburgh Festival. Kirsty's guests are the comedians Rose Matafeo and Nish Kumar, Miriam Margolyes performs Dickens, and the Scottish band Teenage Fanclub play a song from their latest album. Plus Charlene Boyd perfo…

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Geektown Radio Episode 429: Umbrella Academy, Quantum Leap, How Disney Built America Reviews, Plus D23 News, TV News & UK Air Dates! 1:08:15

1M ago1:08:15

1:08:15

We return with episode 429 of the Geektown Radio podcast, and Dave is joined by Matt from Entertainment Talk to chat TV and film news & reviews, plus all the news from Disney's D23 Event! Matt returns to the show and brings with him a bunch of TV reviews. He's recently been catching up on Prime Video series 'Upload', which is due back next year for…

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Emily Tesh and the Hugo Awards; Dating shows; Kelly Jones 42:11

1M ago42:11

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This year’s WorldCon - the World Science Fiction Convention - took place in Glasgow and pop culture critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports on the international gathering where the winners of the Hugo Awards 2024 were announced last night. Emily Tesh on winning the Best Novel prize at this year’s Hugo Awards with her debut novel, Some Desperate Glory. …

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Love is Blind UK | The Body Next Door | Daddy Issues 50:08

1M ago50:08

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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Rima to talk about Love is Blind UK, The Body Next Door and Daddy Issues.By BBC Radio 5 Live

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Pericles, Babes, Michael Longley 42:27

1M ago42:27

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Critics Susannah Clapp and Tim Robey join Tom to review a new RSC production at Stratford of one Shakespeare’s less performed plays Pericles, the pregnancy comedy film Babes directed by Pamela Adlon and Michael Longley’s retrospective collection of poems, The Ash Keys.Presenter: Tom SutcliffeProducers: Harry Parker and Natasha Mardikar…

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Sky Peals film, documentary Doom Scroll, & could a book written 100 years ago be the ultimate millennial read? 42:29

1M ago42:29

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Ex-Wife, a 1929 novel by Ursula Parrott, about the failure of a young couple’s marriage and the subsequent promiscuous partying of the wife in New York, was a huge bestseller when it came out. For many years it was out of print but has now been re-issued. Novelist and screenwriter Monica Heisey and American literature professor Sarah Churchwell jud…

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Joan Baez, Shakespeare in British Sign Language, Charlotte Mendelson 42:26

1M ago42:26

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Joan Baez on her poetry collection inspired by her diagnosis of multiple personality disorder, called When You See My Mother Ask Her to Dance. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London has a new bilingual production of Antony and Cleopatra in English and British Sign Language. Tom talks to Blanche McIntyre, the director and Charlotte Arrowsmith, actor …

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Geektown Radio Episode 428: Deadpool & Wolverine, Exploding Kittens, Brats, Batman: Caped Crusader Reviews, Plus TV News & UK Air Dates! 59:18

1M ago59:18

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It's been a while, but we are finally back with episode 428 of the Geektown Radio podcast! Our Film Reviewer Gray, who's also been on an extended break, joins Dave to chat TV and film news & reviews! Since Dave has been away on his Summer break, and Gray has been buried under piles of school grading (plus holidays), they have lots to discuss on thi…

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Kensuke Kingdom, best Young Adult Fiction reads, do film trailers reveal too much? 42:22

1M ago42:22

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Directors Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry on Kinsuke's Kingdom, their hand-drawn animated film which features a shipwrecked boy who learns about the natural world from a Japanese soldier who's been living secretly on an island since the end of World War II. How closely do we watch trailers when deciding which film to watch next? Film critic Larushka Iva…

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Didi and Echoes by Evie Wyld reviewed; Benjamin Grosvenor performs Busoni 42:28

1M ago42:28

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Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Rhianna Dhillon and Viv Groskop to review novel Echoes by Evie Wyld, which focuses on Max, a ghost who, stuck in the flat they had shared, watches his girlfriend grieving and discovers secrets about her. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor talks about his upcoming performance of the longest concerto ever written, the Piano Concert…

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Dramatizing MPs, Jon Savage on LGBTQ and music, Stirling Prize shortlist, Screenwriters v AI 42:33

1M ago42:33

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Labour MPs are having a moment on the stage with Jennie Lee, the UK's first Arts Minister, the subject of Lindsay Rodden's eponymous new play for Mikron Theatre, and Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson the focus of Paul Unwin's new play, The Promise, about the 1945 Labour Government. Lindsay and Paul join Front Row to discuss dramatizing parliamenta…

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Deadpool v Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla 42:23

1M ago42:23

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A new production of The Grapes of Wrath opens at the National Theatre with Cherry Jones taking on the role of matriarch Ma Joad. She joins Samira to talk about Steinbeck's tale of poverty and the hostility the poor face in America - plus her thoughts on art, violence and America today. Deadpool & Wolverine is the new Marvel film, its director Shawn…

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Deadpool & Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla 42:23

1M ago42:23

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A new production of The Grapes of Wrath opens at the National Theatre with Cherry Jones taking on the role of matriarch Ma Joad. She joins Samira to talk about Steinbeck's tale of poverty and the hostility the poor face in America - plus her thoughts on art, violence and America today. Deadpool & Wolverine is the new Marvel film, its director Shawn…

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