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Podcast and Internet Radio previews: The National Gallery Podcast, Rankin: Meet the Photographer
Pete Naughton previews the week's best podcasts and internet radio, including The National Gallery Podcast
PODCAST CHOICES
If you’re like me and regularly miss the big exhibitions at the National Gallery out of sheer absent-mindedness, then this friendly podcast will come as a welcome aide-mémoire. Released once a month by the Gallery, each episode features a preview of a new exhibition and a quirky profile of a painting from their permanent collection. The latest instalment spotlights both their forthcoming Vermeer exhibition (which opens on June 26) and a wonderful Gainsborough portrait of a roguish 18th-century doctor.
Billing themselves as the creators of “short films without pictures”, the producers behind this award-winning series of audio dramas record their work on location, improvise much of the dialogue and make a point of trying things that others wouldn’t dream of. Plenty of room for disaster, then – but by some alchemical magic, they almost always pull it off. To give a few recent examples, they’ve written a play (Falling) about a man and a woman who become romantically involved after a near-fatal accident on a train platform; a dark satire (The Modern Prometheus) about a corporation that becomes a sentient being; and, in The Death of Poe, a brilliant reimagining of what Edgar Allan Poe’s final hours might have been like.
Available as both a video and an audio-only podcast, this interview with the photographer Rankin is a must for anyone with an interest in his work. Recorded to mark the opening of his mortality-themed exhibition in Liverpool, it’s a candid affair, covering everything from his working-class upbringing to photographing the Queen.
INTERNET RADIO CHOICE
Soma FM
Based in a converted warehouse in San Francisco, Soma FM is funded by its listeners and therefore maintains a completely ad-free schedule. It broadcasts over 20 wonderfully varied channels, covering everything from folk to ambient music inspired by the Nasa space programme.
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