Brighton Festival Podcast

From Stopgap Dance Company - the story of a father and daughter gradually coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother. Combining exquisite detail in movement with evocative text and design…

A former church in Kemptown, The Spire is one of the festival's more unusual venues.

Faith Dodkins and David Sheppeard join Melita Dennett in studio to give the history of the venue and look ahead …

Problem in Brighton is an alt-rock/pop pantomime written and directed by Guest Director David Shrigley exclusively for Brighton Festival.

Shrigley's artwork is brought to life by the Problem Band (…

In this episode : Melita Dennett and Jack Claramunt hear about invented instruments that just might be impossible to play; meet a British jazz legend coming to the festival; learn about a journey acr…

British saxophonist John Surman last year scooped the Ivor Novello Jazz Award in recognition of his huge contribution to jazz over the last five decades. Part of a richly talented generation to emerg…

After releasing their massive break-out single Busy Earning, London-based soul/funk outfit Jungle flew right onto the radar in 2014 with this instant classic. Their joyous menagerie of past and futur…

Apples is a show aimed at 1-5 year olds. The audience enter a cosy yurt to discover an unusual apple tree and three crates that burst open with energetic kitchen tools and all kinds of wacky implemen…

Wot? No Fish!! is the tale of a love story in London's East End told through a series of doddles and cartoons.

The creator of the show, Danny Braverman was inspired when he discovered Ab Solomons t…

Pippa Smith from Brighton Festival joins Melita Dennett and Megan Clifton in studio to talk about some of the upcoming events for younger people at this year's Brighton Festival.

To find out more a…

In the second daily show of our 2018 series : Melita Dennett and Megan Clifton take you behind the scenes of this year's Festival and look at events for young festival goers; dive into some of the la…

Transforming Fabrica into a classroom, Life Model II plays on the age-old tradition of life drawing classes by replacing the live model with Festival Guest Director David Shrigley's caricatured sculp…

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

Melita Dennett went along and met Pivot's co-creator Madeline Flynn. 

Ev…

The work of innovatory theatre company IOU, Rear View tells the story of a woman's life in an unforgettable journey through Brighton on board a unique open-top bus which begins with a life drawing cl…

More than 200 people volunteered to help out at this year's Brighton Festival. Rebecca Sandles went along to the volunteers' launch party where she collected her own volunteer t-shirt and caught up w…

Internationally renowned company NoFit State Circus bring their show Lexicon to the Brighton Festival following many successful runs at the Brighton Fringe.

Their show combines traditional circus w…

Rebecca Sandles meets up with this year's Festival Guest Director, David Shrigley and asks him about the theme of this year's Festival - Strive For Excellence - and finds out what he's looking forwar…

In the first daily show of our 2018 series : Melita Dennett and Rebecca Sandles look back at the opening event of Brighton Festival 2018 - the Children's Parade, they visit talking see-saws on the se…

Hilary Cooke from Brighton Festival talks to Melita Dennett about the busy events programme curated for children at this year's Festival. 

Such events include the Children's Parade, Adopt an Author…

Brighton Festival 2018 has officially got underway with the annual opening event - The Children's Parade.

Some 5000 young people from across Brighton and Hove dressed up and took to the streets of …

San Franciso-based artist Brett Goodroad is showing a series of 44 A4 paintings created in sumi ink, a chinese watercolour ink as part of the Brighton Festival.

"Toe Buoy" runs throughout May at th…