Podcasts about london's barbican

On the death of his father, how best to complain in a restaurant, his romantic relationship with drink, and the impact of winning The Mercury Prize. Elbow frontman and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter, Guy Garvey, joins Jay for nose to tail eating at St John in London's Barbican.A Somethin' Else / Jay Rayner Production.For more information about St John, visit: https://stjohnrestaurant.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this first episode, Mark and David look back at the recent major exhibition of Dorothea Lange's work at London's Barbican, and briefly discuss Nikon's new mirrorless cameras, whilst sampling a couple of nice beers and working on their microphone technique. We've posted up some of the images we discuss on our Pinterest page for this episode. Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing was the first UK exhibition of the pioneering American social documentary photographer Dorothea Lange (1895–1965). It presents Lange as a critical and influential voice in twentieth-century photography, an activist and early environmental campaigner and a founding figure of photojournalism. Although Lange is famous for her evocative portraits of Dust Bowl migrant workers, and the almost era-defining Migrant Mother image (one of 6 taken in 10 minutes), her work encompassed much more. The exhibition, divided into three sections (Great Depression, World War II and Postwar California), also briefly highlighted her early career as an in-demand studio photographer in San Francisco. Lange's images from WWII are just as powerful as those from the depression. Pictures of Japanese-Americans under internment are particularly moving and topical. The Lange exhibition was so large and thought-provoking that perhaps it was almost too ambitious a subject for our first podcast, and we may well return to discuss her work at a later date. Also we didn't have a chance to touch on the accompanying exhibition of contemporary photographer Vanessa Winship, whose work was fantastic. We hold regular photo meet-ups in central London, all levels welcome - see Meetup for details. For more information about us and forthcoming podcasts, visit the PhotoChilli website, or get in touch on Twitter. Music credit: DJ Quads

The production of Eugene Onegin by Moscow's Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre being staged at London's Barbican sold out for a year in Russia and the international tour sells to packed-out houses The Duke of Burgundy is Peter Strickland's latest film which looks at the love affair between 2 sub-dom lesbian lepidopterists Amanda Vickery presents BBC2's Suffragettes Forever, a three part series trying to tell "the unknown story" of "Britain's longest war, the 300 year-long campaign by women for political and sex equality" The touring exhibition "Art From Elsewhere" currently in Birmingham displays some of The Art Fund's acquisitions of works by artists from overseas Peter Swanson's novel "The Kind Worth Killing" is a twisty turny thing; a thriller full of unexpected surprises. Is it surprisingly good?

With Mark Lawson. Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas, who came to worldwide recognition with his controversial novel The Slap, discusses his follow up, Barracuda, the story of a young man with the potential to become an Olympic swimming champion and his struggle with self-acceptance. Violinist Maxim Vengerov, who is performing a series of concerts at London's Barbican this year, discusses the challenges of the more demanding elements of the repertoire, how he responds to different audiences, and how he alters his playing technique to suit the acoustics of a venue. Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, reviews a new documentary film Tim's Vermeer, in which inventor Tim Jenison attempts to understand and recreate the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer. Two American cop shows begin on TV this week. Mob City, created by Oscar-nominated writer Frank Darabont, is a neo-noir drama looking at the LAPD in the 1940s. Brooklyn Nine-Nine won two Golden Globes at this weekend's ceremony and takes a comic look at the exploits of a contemporary Brooklyn police department. Crime fiction expert Jeff Park delivers his verdict on the two shows. Producer: Jerome Weatherald.