Brighton Festival 2017 Podcast

Introducing the all female BAME theatre company who perform as part of the annual Our Place programme.

Melita meets the writer and members of the cast of Eye to Eye, the Glyndebourne collaboration that tells the story of a mother and child with a 100-voice choir.

Rebecca Sandles and Mark Johnson bring you the inside track of the Brighton Festival. Today, an interview with City Reads author SK Perry; a look at Without Walls with Justice in Motion's On Edge and Initiative.dkf's Scalped; Our Place with the Banyan Tree Theatre Company; Unseen Mentor with Jacob Sam-La Rose; and Melita meets the director and crew of Eye to Eye.

Melita & Rebecca talk to Stef O’Driscoll, the artistic director at Nabakov, the company which first created the Storytelling Army two years ago.

An interview with Sarah Hutchings of City Reads, the annual event where the whole of Brighton and Hove becomes one big book group, reading the same novel. This year's choice is Let Me Be Like Water, SK Perry's debut novel.

Kneehigh's Dead Dog is a story of corruption, betrayal, murder, and greed – all shot through with dark humour. Melita talks to cast members Dominic Marsh and Angela Hardy.

A preview of Eye to Eye, commissioned in partnership with Glyndebourne. Created by writer and theatre maker Sheila Hill, the piece features a voiced text, jazz interludes and a 100 voice choir.

Guitarist Anthony Forcione of the AKA Trio ahead of their show on Saturday 11th May.

Melita & Rebecca give you the inside track of the Brighton Festival. In the chair today: AKA Trio's Antonio Forcione; Sarah Hutchings on this year's City Reads book choice; the cast of Kneehigh's Dead Dog in a Suitcase; the Glyndebourne collaboration Eye to Eye; and an interview with Stef O'Driscoll, the artistic director who brought us the Storytelling Army.

Brighton's own Spymonkey discuss the show which made them an international comedy sensation.

Sam Sweeney discusses 'The Unfinished Violin', his live show of instrumental music inspired by the Great War.

Melita and Rebecca run down some of the best free events at the Brighton Festival.

Melita interviews Nwando Ebizie, the creator of the exhibition which stimulates the little-known neurological condition 'Snow Vision'.

Melita and Rebecca find out more about the Alice In Wonderland inspired Curiouser, a multi-arts collaboration between UK-based Flexer & Sandiland and Norwegian company Dybwikdans.

Melita interviews the producer of literary events for young people, Hilary Cook.

Melita talks to members of the Brighton Youth Orchestra about their event 'Fiesta of Music from around the World'.

Melita & Rebecca take you on the inside track of the Brighton Festival. Today, the Distorted Constellations exhibition; Sam Sweeney's 'The Unfinished Violin'; the Brighton Youth Orchestra; a look at the children's events programme; Spymonkey's comedy theatre show, 'Cooped'.

The 2019 Festival's film season is under the microscope with the local authority on film, Tim Brown from Cinecity and the Duke of York.

Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey explains his exhibition at Fabrica gallery.

Sarod player Soumik Datta discusses King Of Ghosts, the classical Indian films with original score in association with City of London Sinfonia.