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Latest Episodes
Helen Frankenthaler, Zürich Film Festival and ‘Picture Post’
We visit Dulwich Picture Gallery to learn about ‘Radical Beauty’, a new exhibition of woodcut prints by abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler. We also chat to Christian Jungen, artistic director of the Zürich Film Festival, and Rob West, the director of a new documentary about ‘Picture Post’ magazine.
Saint Etienne and Alasdair McLellan
British band Saint Etienne have just released their 10th album, ‘I’ve Been Trying to Tell You’. Accompanying the music is a film by Alasdair McLellan, a series of vignettes set on a road trip across the UK. McLellan and Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell join Robert Bound to discuss the project.
Penny Martin
Robert Bound chats to Penny Martin, editor in chief of ‘The Gentlewoman’, about a new anthology of essays called ‘Modern Manners’. The book is a primer for contemporary life from the elegant and amusing female perspective to which readers of the magazine will already be happily attuned.
Autumn on screen
TV critics Scott Bryan and Inkoo Kang join Robert Bound to round up the best programmes hitting televisions this season in the US and UK.
Reopening the dance floor
As nightlife tries to find its feet again we speak to club owner Ray Ng in Hong Kong about his decision to launch a new venue. Plus, Simon Taffe, director of the UK’s End of the Road festival, on the toll of the pandemic on his industry.
‘Zola’
Robert Bound is joined by the film critics Simran Hans and Caspar Salmon to review the film ‘Zola’ – a dark comedy based on a viral twitter thread about two strippers in Florida on a wild weekend gone wrong.
‘The Witches of the Orient’
Robert Bound chats to French film director Julien Faraut about his new documentary ‘The Witches of the Orient’, about Japan’s 1964 Olympic women’s volleyball team.
Alan Whicker
In the year that legendary British broadcaster Alan Whicker would have turned 100, the BFI is celebrating this pioneer of journalism and documentary. Robert Bound discusses his colourful career with Jane Ray, artistic director of The Whicker awards, and the BFI’s archive TV programmer, Dick Fiddy.
Lump: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay
Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay together make up musical duo Lump. As they release their second album, ‘Animal’, they chat to Robert Bound about making their record in Margate and channelling their music through the character of Lump, whoever that might be.
Review: Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was an artist at the forefront of the 20th-century avant-garde. She was also a craftswoman, a graphic designer, a poet, an interior designer and a performer. Such a variation of disciplines has made it hard to define her as an artist. But does that mean she has been…
