CultureCast
CultureCast is a magazine podcast produced by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Episodes contain features on exhibitions and interviews with artists. We’ll also go behind the scenes to give you an inside view on life in our museums.
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Episode 19
This special episode of CultureCast celebrates 'Takeover Day', a national event led by the Children's Commissioner for England offering young people the chance to work alongside adults and get involved in decision making.
This episode was planned, written and recorded by a group of young people from the Dawdon 2nd Seaham Air Scouts, who met Lucy Bemrose, Learning Officer at Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne to find out more about World War One and rememberance.
Episode 18
Lucy Bemrose meets Newcastle artist John Coatsworth and Rob McIver goes in search of faeries in Sunderland.
Episode 17
Gill Scott meets Andrew Parkin, TWAM's Keeper of Archaeology, to discuss Great North Museum: Hancock's blockbuster summer exhibition, 'Pharaoh'. Rob Airey speaks to Newcastle University's Dr. Keith Brewster about revolutionary Mexican art, and fearless Katie Crowther goes head to head with legendary Roman gladiator, Maximus...and survives!
Episode 16
Katie Crowther meets Emily Allen, Exhibitions Officer for Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, to take a look at the Taylor-Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition and find out more about Emily's job, and Martin Myrone, Curator at Tate Britain visits 'John Martin: Heaven and Hell' at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle to take a look at the first major exhibition of this important north eastern painter for more than thirty years.
Episode 15
Artist Ben Cook tells us about his new 'Littoral Drifter' exhibition at the Hatton Gallery, an alternative examination of coastal landscapes as seen through surf culture. Keeper of Social History, Kylea Little, takes a fascinating look at the Punch and Judy dolls in our collections. And we hear the story of Newcastle's bloody siege during the English civil war, the subject of the new 'Siege and Storm' exhibition at the Discovery Museum.
Episode 14
As South Shields Museum and Art Gallery celebrates its 150th anniversary, visitors and former staff members share their memories. Artists and scientists come togethet at Great North Museum: Hancock to explore different aspects of human ageing, and 'Christmas Present', the Shipley Art Gallery's annual selling craft exhibition.
Episode 13
A woollen cover for a garden bench is one of the exhibits at the Shipley Art Gallery's 'Craftivism: objects to Change the World' exhibition. Suzanne Prak traces its creation, starting with the sheep! Louise Britton meets The Singh Twins as a retrospective of their work opens at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. And Martin Routledge explains the story behind a small rocking horse which has been selected as one of the North East's objects in the BBC's 'A History of the World' project.
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Episode 12
In this episode of CultureCast, we talk to Brendan Foster about the Great North Run and In the Long Run, the exhibition which celebrates the Run's 30th anniversary. We also meet Graham Dury, a cartoonist from Viz magazine, and people from all around the world who have travelled to Arbeia Roman Fort to take part in the Earthwatch programme of excavations.
Episode 11
We learn about the treasures currently on display at the Shipley Art Gallery, as well as some interesting details of the gallery's history. An archive of important film and television footage relating to the North East becomes available to the public to access for free at Discovery Museum, and children's author Eleanor Updale tells us about her work as she tours Great North Museum: Hancock.
Episode 10
In this CultureCast Scottish artist Paul Furneaux tells us about Japanese woodblock printing, Olivia Ahmad meets fashion photographer James Stroud, and we take a journey back in time as two of the North East's scientific giants go head to head to find out which one has made the greatest impact on our lives today.
Episode 9
We hear about a major new exhibition of 60's pop icons and ask who is shaping today's pop culture. The Great North Museum's Len Pole tells us about objects from their World Cultures Gallery, and ceramic artist Barnaby Barford tells us about his unique style of work and his take on contemporary society.
Episode 8
Jeff Sarmiento shows us some 'Collected Fragments', Gill Scott discovers the human stories behind a couple of objects at South Shields Museum and art Gallery, and we look into the 'Long Dark' at the Hatton gallery.
Episode 7
Dr. Robert Connolly provides an insight in to the mysteries of the enigmatic Lindow Man and radio presenters Stuart Maconie, Mark Radcliffe and poet Simon Armitage reflect on their walk along the length of Hadrian's Wall...after a couple of celebratory ales!
Episode 6
Paul Merton reflects on 70 years of British comedy, Slampt records co-founder Pete Dale talks DIY punk rock, and Steve Legget explains his freight train art installation. All in episode 6 of CultureCast.
Episode 5
Gay sailors, stuffed animals and the origins of the famous rivalry between Newcastle and Sunderland. All this in the latest episode of CultureCast.
Episode 4
In this episode, we'll be opening Christmas presents at the Shipley Art Gallery, discussing Tracey Emin, speaking to one of the USA's top landscape artists (and Sting), and finding out why the world's greatest ever triple jumper wants us to Be Part of It.
Episode 3
In this episode we'll be meeting the author of a book investigating the North East's involvement with the slave trade, finding out about the life of Sunderland's controversial railway king, and hearing about a unique exhibition exploring the history of mental health in the North East.
Episode 2
In this second episode, we mark the end of a world famous shipyard, find out why a wiki should be sending us wild, hear from 'the nation's favourite agony aunt' and ask...what are you doing on Friday night?
Episode 1
We discuss design with Wayne Hemingway, look for love at the Laing Art Gallery, get into the kitchen with a Peruvian Geordie and hear from British Museum curator Ralph Jackson about the Emperor Hadrian’s return to the North East after a 2000 year absence.