Episode 35: Beltane Fire Festival, Part 4
In this final episode on Beltane Fire Festival I talk to Angus Farquhar and Margaret Bennett, participants in the first revivals in the 1980s. We talk...
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Episode 34: Beltane Fire Festival, Part 3
In this third episode on the Beltane Fire Festival I speak to Dr Neil Rhind about poetry, faeries, situationism, severed heads and tiny coffins. I als...
Episode 33: Beltane Fire Festival, Part 2
This episode of Stage Blether continues our four part series on the annual Beltane Fire Festival held in Edinburgh at the end of April. We speak to Al...
Episode 32: Beltane Fire Festival, Part 1
The first of a four-part series featuring interviews, stories, poems and songs from members of the Beltane Fire Society (BFS). Beltane Fire Festival, ...
Episode 31: Ordinary Violence and The Last Of Us videogames
In a departure from my usual subjects, this episode analyses two video games - "The Last of Us" and "The Last of Us 2", both by Naughty Dog. The analy...
Episode 30: A Brief History of Emergencies
This episode of Stage Blether offers a brief history of the phenomenon of the 'emergency'. It is recorded at the beginning of UK responses to the glob...
Episode 29: Precarious Spectatorship
This episode discusses my forthcoming book "Precarious Spectatorship: Theatre and image in an age of emergencies" (Manchester University Press, 2019)....
Episode 28: Oedipus in the age of Post Truth
This episode reviews Robert Icke's Dutch Language production of "Oedipus" at the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh, part of the Edinburgh International Festi...