Podcasts about london's covent garden

Steven Wickham is our guest companion this week. He talks to us about being in TV Doctor Who in The Caves of Androzani and The Twin Dilemma, in numerous Big Finish audios, hosting Doctor Who panels including some with Jon Pertwee and the rest of his acting career. All this and so much more. Recorded at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. GallifreyStands is sponsored by http://www.DottiesCharms.co.uk. Check out theDoctor Who range today. WhovianRoundUp is by http://indiemacuser.com/ GallifreyStandscan be found at on twitter @DoctorSquee, by email GallifreyStandsPodcast@gmail.com,on stitcher, iTunes, The Tangent-Bound Network & http://gallifreystandspodcast.podbean.com &on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1481026762176392/ You canbuy the GallifreyStands lipbalm @ https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/209093664/gallifrey-stands-geek-stix-inspired-by?ref=shop_home_active_12 Pleasesupportour Pod-Pals too: DisAfterDark Justgive me a few minutes AMAudioMedia TangentBoundNetwork  

This month's London Varieties podcast is a bit of a special one - we have some snippets from one of the great comedy acts that we featured on the live Leicester Square Theatre show, but most of the podcast is devoted to my interview with Eddie Izzard. In the late 80's we were both street performers at London's Covent Garden, so we chatted about the things we learned during those years that influenced what we do these days - and it's more than you might think.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Alistair Sutcliffe, Martha Fiennes, Celia Imrie and Amanda Vickery. Alistair Sutcliffe is a GP who became the first man to summit the highest mountain on each of the seven continents at the first attempt. He subsequently suffered a near fatal brain haemorrhage, and he describes his recovery as the most difficult climb of all in his book 'The Hardest Climb', published by Blue Moose. Martha Fiennes is a filmmaker, whose films include Onegin and Chromophobia. She also directs television commercials. For her latest project she has created her first digital installation, Nativity, a completely self-generating technological art-work based on the Christmas Nativity scene, on display in a specially constructed chalet in London's Covent Garden piazza. Celia Imrie plays Dotty Otley who plays Mrs Clackett, in Michael Frayn's 'Noises Off' at the Old Vic. She is perhaps best known for her regular characters in the award-winning TV series Acorn Antiques and Dinnerladies. Her many screen credits include Calendar Girls, Hilary and Jackie, and Aunt Una Alconbury in the Bridget Jones films and she will soon be seen on the big screen in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Amanda Vickery is the historian, writer and broadcaster and Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary College, University of London. She presents a BBC Two documentary 'The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen' to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first novel. She explores her enduring popularity through her plots and characters. Producer: Lucinda Montefiore.

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cook Antonio Carluccio. He's been hailed as perhaps the best Italian cook in Britain today and the flavours and methods he holds dear are the ones he learnt at his mother's knee, growing up in Northern Italy. The food he ate then was high quality, locally produced and carefully prepared - now, that's every chefs mantra, but when he arrived in Britain in the 1970s it was ground-breaking. Within a few years he'd taken over the Neal Street Restaurant in London's Covent Garden and turned it into an institution and now his highly successful cafes are scattered throughout Britain. For him preparing and cooking food is a sensual act, so perhaps it's no surprise that in his spare time he whittles wood into intricately-patterned walking sticks and tries his hand at clay modelling too. It's all part of a life that, at its best, is a tactile, sensual experience. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: The Finale to The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns Book: His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman Luxury: White truffles.