Sat 30 Sept - KOESTLER AWARDS with artist Lee Edwards

Lee Edwards, one of the judges of the Koestler Trust Awards for arts by offenders, secure patients and detainees, discusses the scheme, his impressions of this year's work and the current exhibition curated by Anthony Gormley at the Southbank. Lee also discusses aspects of his own work which takes a long hard look at everyday detritus.

Listen Again - Koestler Art Trust with Lee Edwards

Sat 23 Sept - ALARME ROSSO, Art in the Apennines - Chris Simpson, Poppy Whatmore, Lauren Cannell and Clio Thomas

Experiments in news and arts with Jude Cowan Montague. This week: Alarme Rosso, Art in the Apennines. Poppy Whatmore, Lauren Cannell and Clio Thomas join curator Chris Simpson to discuss intervention, installation and making art in the ancient towns of central Italy. How to channel diverse inspiration including sheep-farming and painting the town red. Plus, what happens when a mountain art installation goes wrong and the emergency rescue is called to the scene.

Listen Again - Atina Residency 2017

Sat 16 Sept - SHABSI MANN - Nomads, music and sleeping rough

Artist/musician Shabsi Mann discusses news stories of homelessness and refugees. Talking about music including folk, pop, rop, nomadic sounds, Qawwali and Bollywood. With live improvisation. www.shabsimann.com


Listen Again - Shabsi Mann

Sat 29 July - MITCH FRIEDMAN on the popular art of America, comedy and commercials

The writer and musician speaks from his home town of New York about the state of the nation, his memoir about wearing a hairpiece for a year, Hell Toupee. Much of Mitch's work is a commentary on American commercialism and how it feels to be an avid consumer of pop art. With tracks from Mitch's albums including his latest release 'Breaking Muse'.

Listen Again - Mitch Friedman - New York, Music and Hair 

Sat 22 July - Atina, Lazio: CHRIS SIMPSON on Cloth, Statues and the Italian Art Residency

Listen Again - Chris Simpson - Atina, Lazio residency

The Association of Atina Art is hosting an residency for London based artists this August/September. We look back on previous work created in response to the town's unique environment, including visual poetry, interventions and photography and look forward to this year's residency which will feature a performance devised on site in its 14th century ducal castle.

Sat 15 July - HANNAH LOWE: Chan, Family, Migration and Playing Dice in the East End

A poet in conversation.
Hannah discusses her second collection of poetry published by Bloodaxe, her Chinese-Jamaican father and his milieu between the 1950s and the 1970s. Chan is the nickname of one of the many nicknames of her Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the Polish émigré card magician Chan Canasta. It is also a name from China, where her grandfather’s story begins. Plus a live composition celebrating the work of Charles Mingus.

 Listen Again - Hannah Lowe - Chan, poetry, fathers, race, London

Sat 8 July - ANNA LAURINI - The joy of painting and street art in Milan, East London and New York

Anna Laurini's 'faces' series of street painting is bold, spontaneous and instantly recognisable. She works outdoors, on walls, doors, an urban opportunist, yet her style is loved by top designers. Plus a piano and vocal improvised homage to the work of artist Piero Fornasetti and his variations on the face of a woman, the singer and monologist Lina Cavalieri. 

Listen Again - Anna Laurini - Street Art