The Guardian UK Culture Podcast

Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In this episode, Marina Hyde looks at the new add...

Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In our first episode, Marina Hyde reflects on ano...

Have you ever wondered what famous people actually eat? In our new podcast, Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent does just that, asking well-known guests to lift the lid on the food they turn to when...

The Guardian has launched a new series called Reverberate that we think you’ll like. Each week, Chris Michael will explore incredible stories from around the world about when music shook history. In t...

We wanted to bring you another episode from our Innermost series. In the last episode of our first season, two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with...

The Guardian has launched a new series called Innermost that we think you will like. Each week, callers will tell Leah Green what’s going on behind closed doors. In the first episode, we hear how an u...

Rhianna Dhillon reveals the final nominees in this year’s British Podcast awards. With the winners announced on Saturday, sample shows from Russell Brand, Penguin Books and more...

All this week Rhianna Dhillon is playing the hits from the British Podcast Award 2018 nominees. Today, it’s the best culture, sports and interview podcasts...

Rhianna Dhillon explores this year’s nominees for the best family, fiction and most original podcast...

Rhianna Dhillon reveals the nominees for best comedy and true crime podcasts at this year’s British Podcast Awards...

Sample the choice cuts all this week from this year’s nominees in this Guardian taster series. Today: the best new and current affairs shows....

Cafe Oto co-founder Hamish Dunbar guides us through some of his favourite recordings from the renowned east London experimental music venue...

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the world-renowned experimental music venue, musicians, staff and volunteers tell the story of how an abandoned Dalston paint factory was transformed into a vibrant...

Our new culture podcast, The Start, brings major artists to the mic to reveal how they began their careers. In this first episode, Sofia Coppola talks about the fear and the thrill of directing her de...

Events come to a head in the final episode of our audio drama series. Will the wedding even take place?...

A series of answerphone messages reveal what really happened in 2007...

Can Daniel discover the truth before it’s too late?...

Charlotte uncovers a decade of deceit in the third episode of our audio drama podcast...

Charlotte arrives at the wedding venue, and makes an unexpected discovery...

Ten years after university, a group of friends gather for a wedding in the Lake District. But all is not as it seems......

Gnocchi or nookie? For our last meal in this series about British mealtimes, it’s a romantic dinner for two as host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrat...

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years. This week, it’s time to find the perfect recipe for a duvet day...

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week it’s time to have friends and ...

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week speed and comfort rule with TV...

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. First up, the traditional Sunday lunch...

Get inspired with this pick of the smartest series made in Britain, as chosen by the judges of the British Podcast Awards 2017....

Looking to lose yourself in a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon explores the best entertainment, sport and review podcasts of the past year, according to the British Podcast Awards...

Looking for a podcast that can make sense of our world? Rhianna Dhillon showcases the British Podcast Award nominees for Best Interview and Current Affairs series, plus the Represent award for reachin...

Rhianna Dhillon shares the best new podcasts – and the most original formats – as chosen by judges of the British Podcast awards 2017...

Looking for a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon shares the best moments in Comedy, Fiction and True Crime from the nominees for the British Podcast Awards 2017....

Dr Bradley Garrett has been exploring the forbidden parts of cities since he was a teenager. He talks to Stephen Moss about scaling skyscrapers, sneaking into sewers and the two-year court trial that ...

In our fourth exclusive sound story celebrating Britain’s forests, the Granta young British novelist Evie Wyld reads her unsettling tale of marital tension at the end of times...

In the third of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, the Scottish poet and artist Alec Finlay reads his tale of a mythical submerged woodland...

In the second of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, Alan Garner reads his own tale of a newcomer who finds ‘ancient noise’ beneath the choked underlife of of Cheshire...

In the first of a series of exclusive sound stories inspired by the UK’s woodlands, the award-winning writer weaves a spellbinding tale from an encounter between a boy and a strange green child...

In an audio play specially commissioned for the Guardian by Soho Theatre, a fisherman confronts the tide of refugees sweeping across the Mediterranean...

James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize...

Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’...

Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’...

Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline...

Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai...

Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says Jon McGregor...

Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’...

Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt...

Franz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’...

José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer...

Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story ‘A Christmas Tree’ is ‘almost Proustian’, says Simon Callow...

Ruth Rendell doesn’t believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James’s stories, like ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’, frighten her nonetheless...

Despite their restraint, Raymond Carver’s ‘early-period’ stories, such as The Student’s Wife, are full to the brim, says Richard Ford...