Brighton Festival Podcast

Senegal meets Wales in a collaboration between Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita and Welsh harpist Catrin Finch at this year's festival. They perform music from their long-awaited second album Soar…

Dance the NELKEN Line is a community/dance performance created by German choreographer Pina Bausch and celebrates the four seasons. 

Two of the performers from Three Score Dance join Melita and Reb…

Now in it's second year, Your Place is a community initiative at Brighton Festival which takes the festival out of the city centre and into outlying parts of the city.

This year events will take pl…

In this episode : we find out how some of Brighton's seniors will be dancing in harmony on the seafront; looking forward to weekend of community events taking in spoken word, dance, arts and more; an…

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, who remains eternally youthful at a terrible cost to his soul, British - German arts collective Gob Squad are premiering Creation (Pictures for Dorian) in the U…

Brighton and Britain's Got Talent's Lorraine Bowen went along to see some shows at this year's Festival.

She joins Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandles in studio to give her thoughts on Attractor and…

The award winning Irish four piece Lankum bring their own brand of folk with a dark edge to Brighton for this year's festival.

Mixing music hall, drone and Americana they play St Georges Church on …

Scottish artist Robbie Thomson harnesses the power of the Tesla coil, the 19th century invention that first let us see electricity dance in his Brighton Festival show.  

With a pulsing soundtrack r…

Regular host Rebecca Sandle's nephew Tim is in town and has been along to some of the events at this year's Festival. He joins Rebecca and Melita in studio to talk about the Gilbert and George exhibi…

The Humours of Bandon is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of an Irish dancing championship.

RadioReverb's Anthony Martin met up with writer and performer Margaret McAuliffe ahead of t…

In this episode : we hear about a coming of age show set against the backdrop of an Irish dancing championship; visit a show where science and music collide and meet a folk band with a dark side.

T…

Gilbert & George are a Turner Prize-winning artist partnership, who have worked and shared their lives together for fifty years.

The playful and ambiguous works on display at Brighton Museum explor…

Winner of Best Circus awards at both Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals 2017, Fauna combines circus and dance and sees performers transform themselves into spiders, frogs, birds of paradise and …

Nakhane is one of South Africa's brightest stars. He’s won awards for his work as a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, as well as for his writing and acting. Citing Malian musician Ali Farka Tou…

Les Kapsbergirls, a French quartet, perform at Brighton Festival as part of the lunchtime classical series. They recreate songs based on courtly love from 17th and 18th century baroque era.

The qua…

In this episode : we learn about a circus piece where the performers turn themselves into animals; hear French music of Courtney Love; preview a remarkable South African singer and find out if Gilber…

Cushioned by soil and surrounded by leaf litter and new growth in Stamner Park, Woodland is a meditative and deeply affecting audio work. Using spoken narrative with insights from forensic anthropolo…

Attractor is a dance piece which combines high energy performance with live accompaniment from Indonesian experimental group Senyawa.

It’s on at the Dome on Tuesday and Wednesday and promises a phe…

They may look like three see-saws on the seafront but Pivot uses AI to respond to questions or comments from its riders.

Rebecca Sandles visited the installation and attempted an interview with Piv…

Belonging’ is award winning contemporary designer Morag Myerscough's first ever mobile installation: a bright, bold, touring bandstand programmed in conjunction with communities across Sussex, inviti…