Podcasts about Stanley Spencer

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.Joining Tim this time is writer and soprano Suzy Robinson, who's pressing the Magic Button in the hope of conjuring up recollections of Crown Court, Now That's What I Call Music! 4, Nicol Williamson's reading of The Hobbit, Floodtide and Gus Honeybun's Magic Birthdays. Along the way we'll be finding out how Morten Harket accidentally ended up in Dorking, writing in to Stanley Spencer's Magic Birthdays, revealing when BBC Test Card F might actually be your less terrifying viewing option and debating whether J.R.R. Tolkien's prose is better enhanced by deeply ingrained record scratches or by Bernard Cribbins banging his head on the studio ceiling.You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, you can help to support the show by buying us  a coffee here. Or you could write in to Gus Honeybun, I suppose, but even though he almost certainly had his own branded mugs where the transfer came off the first time you washed them, I severely doubt he had his own Magic Birthdays Roast.

Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal: surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them—Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley—are at the centre of this extraordinary new novel, which takes its inspiration from the wartime experiences of Australians Miles Franklin and Olive King, and British painters Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer. In Jones's imagination these four lives intertwine and change, each compelled by the desire to create something meaningful in the ruins of a broken world.In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Gail Jones about the intersection of two momentous events of World War I, how four figures from history became characters in her novel by winding back the clock on their lives, and the importance of exploring stories that take a different perspective on the experience of war.

Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal: surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them—Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley—are at the centre of this extraordinary new novel, which takes its inspiration from the wartime experiences of Australians Miles Franklin and Olive King, and British painters Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer. In Jones's imagination these four lives intertwine and change, each compelled by the desire to create something meaningful in the ruins of a broken world. In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Gail Jones about the intersection of two momentous events of World War I, how four figures from history became characters in her novel by winding back the clock on their lives, and the importance of exploring stories that take a different perspective on the experience of war.

The latest novels of celebrated writers Sophie Cunningham and Gail Jones explore the lives of extraordinary artistic figures at turning points in history. Sophie's This Devastating Fever interweaves the lives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Set with modern-day climate change disasters. Gail's acclaimed Salonika Burning imagines how the stories of famous figures who served in the first world war, including author Miles Franklin and painters Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer, may have overlapped. They speak with Ashley Hay about their blending of history and fiction. This episode was recorded live at the 2023 Sydney Writers' Festival.   If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and follow our channel.  Sydney Writers' Festival podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms.  After more? Follow Sydney Writers' Festival on social media:Instagram: @sydwritersfestFacebook: @SydWritersFestTwitter: @SydWritersFestTikTok: @sydwritersfestSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Son miles de jóvenes los que, en estos días, ponen rumbo a Lisboa para participar en la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud. entre ellos se cuentan unos 29.000 jóvenes y 60 obispos estadounidenses así como decenas de miles de otras naciones entre las que se cuentan Polonia, Italia, México o Argentina. España es el país que más jóvenes lleva a esta Jornada Mundial de la Juventud con más de 75000 jóvenes inscritos, por delante incluso de Portugal, sede de este encuentro. En Omnes puedes encontrar diversos testimonios de algunos de estos jóvenes que participarán en el encuentro Una de las novedades de esta JMJ es la aplicación móvil creada para ello y que ya está disponible para dispositivos tanto Android como en iOS. Esta aplicación "Lisboa 2023" está disponible en los cinco idiomas oficiales del encuentro: portugués, inglés, francés, español e italiano. Además de ayudar a los peregrinos a orientarse sobre todo lo que ocurre y ocurrirá a lo largo de la semana, la aplicación permitirá la activación de notificaciones, para recordatorios y avisos de última hora, y el acceso a contactos útiles y de emergencia. Además, la aplicación contiene Todo el contenido espiritual de la jornada, en particular las lecturas y cantos de todos los actos centrales, así como el Himno y la Oración oficiales de la JMJ Lisboa 2023, serán accesibles desde la sección Up2Pray. La National Gallery, en Londres, acoge, estos días una exposición de más de 40 obras de arte dedicadas a san Francisco de Asís, que abarcan más de siete siglos. se trata de una muestra singular en la que se pueden ver El viaje de 800 años resumido en la exposición comienza con escenas de la vida de san Francisco bellamente narradas por los paneles de Sassetta de la colección de la National Gallery) y dos paneles tempranos llamados “vita-retablos” de Asís y Pistoia, El viaje continúa explorando al san Francisco místico y su amor por el mundo natural. dentro de este grupo, la galería ha reunido, entre otros, el cuadro “San Francisco en meditación” (1635-1639) de Zurbarán o “San Francisco abrazando a Cristo crucificado”, 1668-1669, cedida por el Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla. Otro de los elementos centrales de la muestra es el hábito de lana y cinturón de cáñamo que la tradición recoge que vistió el propio Francisco. Más actuales son las obras de arte moderno de Stanley Spencer y Andrea Büttner que reflejan la profunda conexión de san Francisco de Asís con los animales, señalándole como patrón de los animales y la ecología. Una exposición que pone de relieve la perdurable relevancia de San Francisco en el siglo actual. La figura franciscana sigue cautivando e inspirando tanto a creyentes como a no creyentes por su renuncia a la riqueza y las posesiones, su humildad, su entrega a los pobres y su profundo amor por la naturaleza y los animales. Representantes de la Curia Romana y de la Conferencia Episcopal Alemana mantuvieron, el 26 de julio, una reunión en el Vaticano con el objetivo de continuar las conversaciones sobre el desarrollo y las propuestas hechas por el llamado Camino Sinodal de Alemania. Así lo afirma la nota publicada por la Santa Sede junto a la Conferencia episcopal alemana, en la que señalan que este diálogo fue iniciado durante la visita ad Limina de los obispos alemanes en noviembre de 2022 y “allí se acordó seguir debatiendo las cuestiones teológicas y disciplinares que surgieron en particular en el ‘Camino sinodal’“. Los Cardenales Luis F. Ladaria Ferrer, SJ, Kurt Koch y Pietro Parolin y los Arzobispos Filippo Iannone, O.Carm., Robert F. Prevost, OSA, y Vittorio F. Viola, OFM., fueron los representantes de la Santa Sede en este encuentro mientras que, por parte de los obispos alemanes, acudieron a Roma Georg Bätzing, Stephan Ackermann, Michael Gerber, Bertram Meier, Franz-Josef Overbeck, respectivamente Presidente de la CET y Presidentes de las Comisiones Episcopales de Liturgia, Vocaciones y Servicios Eclesiales, Iglesia Universal y Fe, así como la Secretaria General, Dra. Beate Gilles, y el Portavoz de la Conferencia, Matthias Kopp. La nota recoge que la reunión, a la que seguirán otros encuentros, se desarrolló en “un ambiente positivo y constructivo”.

In this Masterpiece message, Pastor Chuck wishes everyone a Happy Easter and discusses the idea of celebrating Easter in July through an artwork called "The Resurrection at Cookham" by Stanley Spencer. He reflects on the painter's personal interest throughout his career on the topic of resurrection, highlighting his belief in a happy resurrection and the promise of a future physical existence in a new heaven and earth.

Dr Amy Lim speaks to us from the Stanley Spencer Gallery about the influences of the Pre-Raphaelites on Stanley Spencer's work. Concentrating on the themes of religion and nature, we discover some surprising overlaps through early Italian influences, the writings of Ruskin and a commitment to truthful depiction.  For more information and to subscribe to the Pre-Raphaelite Society, please visit www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org    All donations towards the maintenance of this podcast are gratefully received: https://gofund.me/60a58f68

Join us for worship from Seal Church. A copy of the service sheet can be found on the church website. www.sealpeterandpaul.com Preacher: Revd Canon Anne Le Bas Image: The Resurrection at Cookham, by Stanley Spencer https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/spencer-the-resurrection-cookham-n04239 Today's hymn sung by St Martins in the Fields is: Christ whose glory fills the skies --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anne-le-bas/message

This Essay tells a story of political marches and everyday acts of radical care; of sledgehammers and bags of rice; of the struggles for justice waged by migrant domestic workers but it also charts the realisation of Ella Parry-Davies, that acknowledging publicly for the first time her own condition of epilepsy – or “coming out crip” – is part of the story of our blindness to inequalities in healthcare and living conditions faced by many migrant workers. Ella Parry-Davies has a post as Lecturer in Theatre, Performance and Critical Theory at King's College London. She is working on an oral history project creating sound walks by interviewing migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon. You can hear her discussing her research in a Free Thinking episode called Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000573q New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year who can turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

A short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/01/gold-frankincense-and-myrrh-or-teapot.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)

Continuing to explore the theme of Gardens, Sheila and Tom explore how painters created gardens and painted them.  The experience of the gardens, passionately created and tended, and the experience of viewing the painted gardens, now in museums, are related. Claude Monet, Stanley Spencer, and Gustave Klimt are the gardener-painters discussed, with a digression on […]

John's retelling of Jesus clearing the temple represents a total shift in understanding the centre of the universe and the experience of God. in the sermon I refer to the painting, Christ Overturning the Money Changers’ Table, 1921, by Stanley Spencer. you can find it online.

Renowned TV journalist John Tusa spills the beans on what goes on behind the doors of Britain's art institution. Anthony Biggs, Creative Director of The Playground Theatre in Notting Hill, tells us how a small community theatre can flourish and Amanda Bradley, Curator of Love, Art, Loss, tells about the complicated love life of the great artist Stanley Spencer. We're visiting: Love, Art, Loss: The Wives of Stanley Spencer at the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham The show runs till Autumn 2021 Stanleyspencer.org.uk We're reading: On Board by John Tusa We're booking the Playground Theatre www.theplaygroundtheatre.london Blue Electric : An Opera https://theplaygroundtheatre.london/events/blue-electric-an-opera/ Bowjangles – dates TBC We're registering to be part of The Playground Readers https://theplaygroundtheatre.london/events/playground-readers/ Produced and Edited by Alex Graham

The Wives of Stanley Spencer are the subject of a new exhibition Love, Art, Loss at the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham, Berkshire. Artist and illustrator Siân Pattenden reviews. The explosion in Beirut two weeks destroyed thousands of buildings in the Lebanese city, including many of the art galleries and museums. Sursock Museum Director Zeina Arida and gallery owner Saleh Barakat consider the damage done to the city's culture as well as its infrastructure. Continuing Front Row's interviews with all the authors shortlisted for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction,Angie Cruz discusses her novel Dominicana. Ana is a schoolgirl muddling through adolescence on a small farm in the Dominican Republic, but her mother marries her off to a man twice her age, whom she sees as the ticket to America for the whole family. Ana, fifteen, with no English, no money and no autonomy, arrives on a false passport to begin a new life in cold, grey New York. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Jerome Weatherald Image above: Portrait of Patricia Preece, 1933 by Stanley Spencer (C) Estate Stanley Spencer & Bridgeman Images, London Courtesy Southampton City Art Gallery

This Essay tells a story of political marches and everyday acts of radical care; of sledgehammers and bags of rice; of the struggles for justice waged by migrant domestic workers but it also charts the realisation of Ella Parry-Davies, that acknowledging publicly for the first time her own condition of epilepsy – or “coming out crip” – is part of the story of our blindness to inequalities in healthcare and living conditions faced by many migrant workers. Ella Parry-Davies is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London working on an oral history project creating sound walks by interviewing migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon. You can hear her discussing her research in a Free Thinking episode called Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000573q New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year who can turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

In this episode, Rachel Mann explore the imagery and wonder embedded in Stanley Spencer's painting, 'Resurrection, Cookham'.

Nicola Upson talks to Leigh Chambers about her latest novel, Stanley and Elsie, based on the complicated love-life of the artist Stanley Spencer. Dennis Grube discusses his new book Megaphone […]

Nicola Upson talks to Leigh Chambers about her latest novel, Stanley and Elsie, based on the complicated love-life of the artist Stanley Spencer. Dennis Grube discusses his new book Megaphone Democracy, an examination of the increasing role civil servants are playing in political public life. And Kate Fleet and Angela Cogo chat about their bestselling […]

The art of Cindy Sherman; art critic Laura Cumming on finding out the history behind the days her mother disappeared as a child on a Lincolnshire beach, New Generation Thinker Susan Greaney on local history museums. Naomi Paxton presents and joining her to talk about Cindy Sherman are Laura Cumming, the actor Adjoa Andoh, photographer Juno Calypso and New Generation Thinker Joe Moshenska from the University of Oxford. Laura Cumming's memoir is called On Chapel Sands and it is being read as the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk Cindy Sherman runs at the National Portrait Gallery in London from Thu, 27 Jun 2019 – Sun, 15 Sep 2019. The retrospective will explore the development of Sherman’s work from the mid-1970s to the present day, and will feature around 150 works from international public and private collections, Susan Greaney works part-time for English Heritage and researches at Cardiff University. She is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio. You can find more about Juno Calypso here https://www.junocalypso.com/ In our archives you can hear Laura Cumming and Joe Moshenska on Velasquez https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dx7tw Novelist Nicola Upson on imagining the life of artist Stanley Spencer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000573q Scrumbly Koldewyn and the politics of fashion and drag https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zcjch Producer: Fiona McLean

This week I spoke with Bishop Stephen Cottrell. I wanted to speak to him because I read his book of analyses on the paintings of British artist Stanley Spencer, famous for painting Christ in every day situations. We discuss faith and spirituality, what a modern church should look like, his role as a Bishop and what it really means to follow the Christian faith. I thought it would be interesting, and it was interesting to talk to someone who has a doctrinaire committed faith in one particular aspect of religion.

Author Nicola Upson has imagined the life of Stanley Spencer from the viewpoint of his maidservant. Ella Parry-Davies researches the lives of women from the Philippines who work as domestic and care workers. The novel The Farm by Joanne Ramos imagines a surrogacy service provided by Filippina women for wealthy American clients. Gulzaar Barn researches the ethics of surrogacy. Naomi Paxton presents. Nicola Upson has turned from novels featuring Josephine Tey as a detective to write a potrait of the British artist Stanley Spencer, his relationships with his wives Hilda Carline and Patricia Preece and her partner Dorothy Hepworth in her novel called Stanley and Elsie. Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. The Farm, her first novel, imagines the lives of Hosts at a surrogacy service. New Generation Thinker Gulzaar Barn is at King's College London working on the ethics of surrogacy. You can hear her Free Thinking Festival Essay https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003t1w New Generation Thinker Ella Parry-Davies has just returned from a research trip in Lebanon. Hear more from the 2019 New Generation Thinkers in this broadcast from the Free Thinking Festival https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p036y2hb/members/all Producer: Robyn Read

Luke 13:22-35 Christ in the Wilderness - The Hen by Stanley Spencer

In the first episode of the second series Dr Laura-Jane Foley meets the award-winning broadcaster and sports journalist Jim Rosenthal. Jim chooses 'View from Cookham Bridge' (1936) - an oil painting by the English painter Stanley Spencer (1891-1959). Jim reveals a keen interest and knowledge about Spencer which has developed over the past thirty years living in the same town as the late painter.To comment on the show please write to @laurajanefoley on Twitter and use the hashtag #MyFavouriteWorkOfArtPresented and produced by Dr Laura-Jane FoleyRecorded and edited at Wisebuddah, LondonTitle Music - 'Blue' from Colours by Dimitri Scarlato See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In what can only be described as a ‘low-key’ episode, our heroes meet in a hotel in the countryside somewhere to discuss the future of the podcast, whether Hitler can be forgiven, Stanley Spencer and Joe’s new found fame on another podcast. Also listener Shane gives us some great guidelines on using social media. Plus a brief special… Read More »Episode 41.5: Bonus episode – Back to the future

(Photo: Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky) Matthew Bannister on The Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, known for playing leading operatic roles - and for his silver hair and matinee idol looks. Unity Spencer who overcame a dysfunctional upbringing as the daughter of the painter Stanley Spencer to be recognised as an accomplished artist in her own right. Lewis Golden, the war veteran who set up the successful Everest Double Glazing business. John Butler - piano tuner to stars like Oscar Peterson, Sammy Davis Junior and Frank Sinatra. And Joy Lofthouse, one of the last surviving female pilots who delivered Spitfires to their airbases during the war.

The remarkable English painter Stanley Spencer produced a series of works entitled Christ in the Wilderness, portraying the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness. Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Chelmsford, reflects on some of Spencer’s Christ in the Wilderness paintings, inviting us to slow down and enter into the stillness of Stanley Spencer’s vision as a rich source of spiritual wisdom and nourishment. Recorded Feb 2013.

Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter.[Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a World War One memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during World War Two. As his career progressed Spencer often produced landscapes for commercial necessity and the intensity of his early visionary years diminished somewhat while elements of eccentricity came more to the fore. Although his compositions became more claustrophobic and his use... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Painter and writer Timothy Hyman RA and curator Roger Malbert discuss the artists who have chosen to pursue figurative painting over the last century. With the arrival of abstraction and movements such as Abstract Expressionism in the 20th century, people began to see figurative painting as outdated and at odds with the very concept of modern art. Discussing Hyman's new book 'The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century', Hyman and Malbert highlight a range of Modernists who, despite their awareness of abstraction, chose to work in narrative and confessional modes. Works by often-marginalised artists such as Max Beckmann and Stanley Spencer, Marsden Hartley and Alice Neel, Charlotte Salomon and Henry Darger, express the possibility of a new kind of figuration, as well as a foundation for our questioning of formalist readings of 20th-century art.

In 1926 Stanley Spencer, one of the most admired British painters of the twentieth century, began work on an ambitious project in the village of Burghclere near London. He'd been commissioned to fill a new chapel with images of his experiences in the First World War, at home and abroad. Vincent Dowd speaks to Spencer's daughters, Shirin and Unity Spencer, about their father and his work.Photo: Stanley Spencer in 1958.(AP)

In 1926 Stanley Spencer, one of the most admired British painters of the twentieth century, began work on an ambitious project in the village of Burghclere near London. He'd been commissioned to fill a new chapel with images of his experiences in the First World War, at home and abroad. Vincent Dowd speaks to Spencer's daughters, Shirin and Unity Spencer, about their father and his work. Photo: Stanley Spencer in 1958.(AP)

One of the world's worst nuclear disasters, the most notorious prison riot in America, Second World War internment in Australia, resistance in apartheid South Africa, and one of Britain's most celebrated artists, Stanley Spencer, through the eyes of his daughters. Photo: The Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in 2010. Credit: European Pressphoto Agency

After the success of The Miniaturist, author Jessie Burton discusses her second novel, The Muse, which is set between 1930s Spain, at the beginning of the civil war, and 1960s London, and explores the idea of the artist's muse.The painter Stanley Spencer is the subject of a new exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield. Curator Eleanor Clayton discusses why writing about his painting was as important to Spencer as painting itself.The York Art Gallery is one of five museums and galleries in the UK to make the shortlist for this year's Museum of the Year Award. In the fourth of our reports from the shortlisted venues, Samira visits the gallery which has recently undergone a multi-million-pound refurbishment of its Grade II listed building, creating a space for the new Centre of Ceramic Art in the Victorian roof void, which had been hidden from public view for more than 50 years. Set in Caracas, From Afar explores the shifting relationship between an older man and the young working-class teenage boy he picks up in a tense, homophobic society. The film won a Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival last year. Briony Hanson, Director of Film at the British Council, reviews. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Ella-mai Robey.

Ian McKellan takes on the legendary role of Detective Sherlock Holmes in Mr Holmes, alongside a stellar cast including Laura Linney, Frances de La Tour and Roger Allam. A cantankerous 93 year old who has retired to the Sussex countryside with only his housekeeper and her ten year old son for company, Holmes becomes obsessed with his last unsolved case. How will McKellan's elderly Holmes appeal to cinema audiences so familiar with one of British literature's most iconic characters? The Mother...With The Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis opens at London's National Theatre and tells the story of Jackie, out of jail and staying clean thanks to his sponsor. He might even have found a job. And of course there's Veronica, who he's loved since 8th grade. Nothing could come between them - except a hat. The Mother...With The Hat received six Tony nominations on Broadway - how will it appeal to British audiences? The Household Spirit is the follow up novel from American writer Todd Wodicka. Like his debut "All Shall be Well; And All Shall Be Well:And All Manner Things Shall Be Well," this book uses dark humour to provide insight into the human condition. Another dark comedy in a new HBO tv series "The Brink," that focuses on a geopolitical crisis and its effect on three disparate and desperate men: Walter Larson (Tim Robbins), the U.S. Secretary of State; Alex Talbott (Jack Black), a Foreign Service officer stationed in Islamabad; and Zeke "Z-Pak" Tilson (Pablo Schreiber), a Navy fighter pilot with a side business dealing prescription drugs. And Fighting History at Tate Britain in London explores 250 years of British history painting including work by artists as various as Winifred Knights and Stanley Spencer, and Rita Donagh and Jeremey Deller. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Tiffany Jenkins, Kevin Jackson and Jamila Gavin. The producer is Hilary Dunn.

With Kirsty Lang Kirsty talks to actors Matthew Macfadyen and Stephen Mangan as they play the roles of Jeeves and Wooster in a new stage version of one of P G Wodehouse's much-loved books. The architect Frank Gehry, whose Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles feature the undulating metallic curves for which he has become known, opens a new exhibition of his work this week. Frank Gehry discusses his new sculptures, a series of artworks based on fish, a recurrent motif in his art and architecture, as well as his designs for the new development at Battersea Power station in London. Stanley Spencer's masterpiece is a series of murals he painted in a small chapel in the Hampshire countryside. The paintings depict his life on the Salonika front during World War I, but concentrate on the domestic rather than the combat, on doing the laundry and eating jam sandwiches. The murals have now been removed while the chapel is undergoing restoration and is on show in London and then Chichester. The artist's biographer, Fiona MacCarthy, tells Kirsty about the story behind the paintings. This week a Swedish cinema announced that it was going to rate movies according to the Bechdel Test, in which movies get an A rating for gender equality if they have at least two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man. Melissa Silverstein, the founder of the influential Women And Hollywood website, tells Kirsty why she thinks this is just the start of a conversation we need to have about in women in film. Producer Stephen Hughes.

As at the end of the 18th century William Blake developed a highly individual style that did not fit easily into the categories of the age, so in our time artists like Marc Chagall, Stanley Spencer and Cecil Collins, in their very different ways, have sought to express an intense...

The reputation of Stanley Spencer continues to grow. All his life he painted Christian themes with his fresh and distinctive vision. For him art was the product not so much of talent as love, and this love enables us...

In this second podcast, presented by the Bristol Festival of Ideas, George Miller looks back at some of the highlights of the 2008 Festival of Ideas. Historian, Adrian Tinniswood, presents the second Museum of Bristol Lecture: 'The Historian and the City'. As regional chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Adrian has been involved in many Bristol heritage projects, and now, in the lead-up to the opening of the Museum of Bristol in 2010, he reflects on his own work as a historian, looks at ways in which historians have defined the city in the past, and outlines the vital role that history has in shaping Bristol's future. Jean Moorcroft Wilson talks about the life and work of Bristol-born war poet, Isaac Rosenberg. Author of the first biography of Rosenberg for 30 years, she looks back at his childhood in Bristol and the Jewish East End of London, his time at the Slade School of Art where he met David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Stanley Spencer, and his harrowing life as a private in the British Army. Sebastian Peake, son of Mervyn Peake, speaks about his father's life and work with reference to drawings, paintings and designs presented in his new book: 'Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art'. This podcast is 30 minutes long (26MB), and is the second in a series that will be issued each month from now until autumn. If you would like to hear more interviews with selected speakers from this year's Festival, please visit our website at: www.ideasfestival.co.uk/audio.html. Presented by George Miller for the Bristol Festival of Ideas (www.ideasfestival.co.uk).