Brighton Festival Podcast

The Big Song is a glorious celebration of singing that sweeps from science to spirituality, prehistory to protest, and reminds us of the central role of song in our identity and civilisation. Melita …

Rebecca Sandells and Alan Wares look ahead to Brighton Festival events across the weekend of 20th and 21st May including a concert celebrating Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi.

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Melita Dennett goes along to Lighthouse to experience Collisions - a virtual reality film set in the Australian Outback focusing on the aftermath of a British nuclear experiment in the 1950s on the i…

In this episode Rebecca Sandells looks ahead to the weekend's Festival events including the UK Premiere of The Gabriels Trilogy, finds out more about Collisions - a virtual reality film set in the A…

In this episode we bring you a recording of the Furrow Collective performing live at the Brighton Dome on Monday 15th May 2017 as part of the Brighton Festival.

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Half cinema, half reality, The Hum weaves together visuals of your locations and a specially composed soundtrack on your smartphone, overlaid with observations from four artists who work with dance a…

Spoken word artist Luke Wright performs his show The Toll at The Spire this weekend. The poems in The Toll tour the flat-roofed pubs and half-bought couches of Brexit Britain - Melita Dennett meets u…

Brighton Festival 2017 Guest Director Kate Tempest has made it clear that one of her aims is to see this year's Festival play out across all of the city's varied communities.

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Melita Dennett describes her experience of Collisions - a virtual reality film set in the Australian Outback and focusing on the aftermath of a British nuclear experiment.

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Melita Dennett delves into Classical music offerings at this year's Brighton Festival. She caught up with Gill Kay who curates the Festival's Classical Programme.

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Brighton Festival Radio Show Episode 8 - airdate Wednesday May 17th 2017

In this episode Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandells meet a group of dancers with a difference, take a look at some classical…

Rebecca Sandells and Alan Wares look ahead to whats coming up at the Brighton Festival on Wednesday and Thursday 17th and 18th May.

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The Storytelling Army are a Nabokov theatre assembled collection of people from all walks of life including those who are homeless or vulnerable housed who will be bringing their pop up performances …

Half cinema, half reality, The Hum weaves together visuals of your locations and a specially composed soundtrack on your smartphone, overlaid with observations from four artists who work with dance a…

Brighton Festival Radio Show Episode 7 - airdate Tuesday May 16th 2017

On today's show Rebecca Sandells finds out about an app called The Hum which brings Brighton to life, looks at the Storytellin…

We hear from the team behind the Brighton Festival installation "For The Birds" which is a nighttime light and sound event based in a secret woodland location above Brighton.

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We hear from Brighton choreographer and designer Theo Clinkard who brings the World Premiere of This Bright Field to Brighton Festival 2017.

In Part one of the work audience members go on stage i…

Songs for the End of the World is a musical theatre show centred around an astronaut with asthma who gets shot off in rocket on the Day of the Apocalypse. Melita Dennett talks to its creator Dom Coyo…

At the weekend Melita Dennett went along to see Driftwood, a silent circus by Australian circus group Casus, and Sussex folk music legend Shirley Collins perform at Brighton Dome. She fills Rebecca S…

Rebecca Sandells and Alisha Theobald visited SPECTRA: CAST - an event created by artist duo Walter & Zoniel in an attempt to turn Brighton Beach into the biggest canvas in the city by inviting visito…