In the third and final episode of Making Middlemarch, the cast and crew reflect on their experience of The Great Middlemarch Mystery.

The second episode of Making Middlemarch brings you conversations straight from the rehearsal room.

Discover how the idea of The Great Middlemarch Mystery was conceived and why the source text’s author, George Eliot, continues to enchant us today.

In the first episode of our Protest Songs series, we explore the history of 'The Internationale' and how it continues to inspire social change.

In this podcast episode, the three artists involved and its director reflect on this climactic performance, and the emotional and creative journey it took to get there.

Hear about how director Josephine Burton, playwright Hattie Naylor and composer Marouf Majidi crossed paths and came to collaborate on this project.

This podcast episode reveals the story of the making of the show, its vision and the creative journey we have experienced as we explore how to commemorate atrocity through the medium of performance.

Discover the myth of Aeneas and its significance in society today. Delve into the inspirations behind the production itself, its origin story and its theatrical vision.

Our investigation into what happens to identity during moments of great national change brings our attention to Brexit and its impact on our own national identities in the UK. What does Europe mean today? What do we want from Europe, post-Brexit? 

In this third episode of The Identity Series, we investigate the collapse of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars that ripped across the former country.

In this second episode of The Identity Series, we delve into the fraught and complex topic of empire.

In this first episode of The Identity Series, we explore the meaning and power of identity through the fascinating case of Polish-Lithuanian Nobel Prize-winning writer Czesław Miłosz.

In this episode recorded from our online Dash Café in May, we return to the iconic 2009 Estonian documentary Disco and Atomic War and the topic of borders, propaganda and censorship.

The fourth and final episode of Breaking Silence, explores issues of censorship, self-censorship and cancel culture in the creation of art.

The third episode of Breaking Silence, looks at the silencing of cultural identity across national, ethnic and religious borders and ways in which international artists are unearthing these issues in their work.

The second episode of our podcast mini-series, Breaking Silence, features writers and practitioners who are addressing the silencing of women and giving voice to female experience through artistic mediums.

In the first episode of Breaking Silence, we examine Pacto del Olvido, Spain's 'pact of forgetting' - a collective decision to forget the thousands of crimes against humanity under Franco's 40-year dictatorship.

In this episode, we delve into the remarkable history of 59 Brick Lane in London’s East End. A spiritual and communal home to thousands over the centuries; 59 Brick Lane was born as a Huguenot church, later becoming a Methodist church, then a synagogue, and is now home to the Brick Lane Mosque.

In October 2020 we hosted our first ever Digital Dash Café EUROPEANS: ARVO PÄRT to celebrate Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s 85th birthday. Due to popular demand, we turned the event into a podcast, with some new, bonus content for our listeners.

As we release our final podcast of 2020, we're still muddling through Brexit in the UK, with the nation holding its breath to see what this momentous change will mean for us all. In timely fashion, we're revisiting our live event Art on the Brink of Brexit, recorded in 2018, which hosted a panel of first and second generation migrant artists working in the UK, to discuss what Brexit would mean for them, and what it would mean for the future of the arts in Britain.