Brighton Festival Podcast

One of the events opening the 2018 Brighton Festival, curated this year by artist David Shrigley, is "Pitch Perfect", a series of free concerts around the city by young classical performers.

On Sat…

The Boy, The Piano and The Beach is a children's show by Lewes based Slot Machine Theatre, combining puppetry, dance and classical music.

The performance, for ages six and upwards, runs at the Brig…

Composer Ed Hughes talks to Melita Dennett about his live soundtrack for film at "Cuckmere: A Portrait" on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

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Ahead of the start of the Brighton Festival, this year's Guest Director David Shrigley joins Brighton Festival Chief Executive Andrew Comben for a conversation.

Best known for his distinctive drawi…

At the end of a three week stint at the helm of the Brighton Festival Radio Show - Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandells look back at their highlights of the Festival.

To find out more about Brighton…

Belgian theatre maker Yinka Kuitenbrouwer visited over 100 people to find out what "home" means to them – from newborns to pensioners, natives to immigrants, farmers to squatters. With the help of sn…

Inspired by the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, Depart brings together acrobats, aerialists, choral singers and video artists for an outdoor circus experience which will take you on a haunting journe…

In this final episode of the series Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandells hear how a Victorian cemetery has become a setting for a spooky performance, talk to the creator of a piece that explores what …

Inspired by the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, Depart brings together acrobats, aerialists, choral singers and video artists for an outdoor circus experience which will take you on a haunting journe…

In this episode Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandells hear about a cemetery that's acting as a setting for a circus performance, meet a guilty feminist, take a boat out of the Marina to hear tales of t…

Acclaimed photographer Eddie Otchere has set up a community darkroom – an open-access space in which the people of Brighton can capture, reflect on and share their experiences, celebrating what it is…

With live accompaniment from noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association, Glasgow based performance artist FK Alexander will be singing along to the final recording made by Judy Garland of Over th…

In this episode Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandells find out about an unusual tribute to Judy Garland, look at a dance performance that puts the audience on the stage and drop into a photography dark…

Out In Brighton's Kathy Caton sits down to talk to Turkish artist Ipek Duben - creator of They/Onlar - a multi-screen video installation that looks at how people view themselves as the "other" in the…

In this episode Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandells take a nighttime adventure with the birds in the woods, find out about an army of storytellers taking to the streets of Brighton, meet the person b…

The Hum is a smartphone app that helps you see the city of Brighton in a different way ... and to a soundtrack. Melita Dennett headed to a well known bookshop by the Clocktower and watched passers by…

The Gabriels Trilogy is a trio of plays running at Brighton Festival 2017 which follows an American family during the election year of Donald Trump. Cathie Chadwick went along to see the plays and jo…

Brighton choreographer and designer Theo Clinkard joins Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandells in studio to talk about the World Premiere of This Bright Field at Brighton Festival 2017.

In Part one of…

Five Shorts Blasts sees audiences taken out on a boat from Brighton Marina to explore life on the waves. Rebecca Sandells took to the waves to find out more.

To find out more about Brighton Festiva…

In this episode Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandells meet a choreographer who brings the audience up on stage, look at a trilogy of plays that dissect the election of Donald Trump, explore an app that…