Worlds of Pure Imagination

This week, David E Cooper on a mammoth history of the garden; and Larry Wolff takes in Macbeth at the Met.'The Garden: Our 4,000-year quest for paradise', by Jonathan Bate'Macbeth', by Giuseppe Verdi, Metropolitan Opera, New York, until October 20Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hoste ...  Show more

This week, Sophie Oliver on Rebecca West's struggle with her love of clothing; and Robert Poole introduces us to a dashing 19th-century radical.'A Fable for Christians', by Rebecca West'Mad Tom's Rising: The revolutionary mystic Sir William Courtenay and the last battle fought on ...  Show more

Remarkable people, Ghosts, and All Creatures Great and Small. 

AI warehouse Wonka gives us one of the stories of the year, plus despots buying crazy gifts, billionaire weddings and weirdos getting elected. Plus, what's an appropriate logo for a business?Andy is with Josie Long, Felicity Ward and Anuvab Pal. This show was recorded in Glasgow ...  Show more

Ben Elton has a new sitcom on BBC2; Upstart Crow starring David Mitchell as The Bard of Avon. Could it be a return to his golden form of Blackadder? A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first production by Emma Rice, the new Artistic Director at London's Globe Theatre. Does it auger ...  Show more

merry podmas! festive podmothers sephy & wing enter a Big Sleigh: carolling on Michael Jackson, the sex scenes in Love Actually, being poor but famous, the Grinch, The Bleachers, and (goes without saying) Matilda Djerf. ✷

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