Theatre related TV and Radio Jan 23 - 29
22/01/2012
Compiled by @polyg
Monday January 23rd
9am on BBC Radio 4: Start the Week playwright Simon Stephens talking about The Trial of Ubu at the Hampstead Theatre
8:10pm on BBC Radio 3: A History of the Interval, broadcaster Paul Allen explores the interval itself, talking to a conductor, a director, performers, a bar person and audience members (repeat of a programme broadcast in May 2011)
Thursday January 26th
10pm on BBC Radio 3: Night Waves reviews Almeida Theatre's production of The House of Bernarda Alba, set in Iran.
Friday January 27th
10pm on BBC Radio 2: The Arts show interviews Horrible Histories creator Terry Deary about his new live show, Leslie Ash on starring in a new play All The Single Ladies, and Michael Billington reviews the latest stage productions.
Catch up on the iplayer
Front Row has a feature on the play The Two Worlds of Charlie F, written by the poet Owen Sheers and starring soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Iraq
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h3q0
Loose Ends interviews Ardal O'Hanlon about starring in the play Port Authority at the Southwark Playhouse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019qbwj
Saturday review on Travelling Light at the National Theatre, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Antony Sher
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019qbwn
Patrick Stewart is interviewed at the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast show about Edward Bond's Bingo at the Young Vic theatre (1hour 44mins into the programme)