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Meet the contemporary classical and folk music quintet who take inspiration from a bawdy 19th century pub.

Gillian Moore and Linton Stephens discuss classical music’s tendency to borrow from its own past in our classical music podcast’s fourth episode.

If you’re yet to discover what’s considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, we’ve put together a helpful summary.

Hosts Gillian Moore and Linton Stephens contemplate classical music as a form of protest in the third episode of our classical music podcast.

In the second episode of our classical music podcast hosts Gillian Moore and Linton Stephens explore the boundary between inspiration and appropriation.

Hayward Gallery publisher Mary Richards helps explain the process behind the gallery’s eye-catching exhibition catalogues.

Listen to the first episode of the Southbank Centre’s classical music podcast, as hosts Gillian Moore and Linton Stephens explore humour in music.

An in-depth interview with celebrated Danish writer Olga Ravn on her new book The Wax Child and how ‘all language holds a view of the world’.

The award-winning singer-songwriter looks ahead to her co-curation of our 2025 London Literature Festival.

How are awards for books and poems decided? We spoke to three literary prize organisations to find out.

The Poet Laureate finally shares his appreciation and admiration for ‘maverick’ guitarist, musician and fellow Yorkshireman Bill Nelson.

Ahead of their Hayward Gallery exhibition, 21ST CENTURY PICTURES, the artists led us on a rare video tour of their studio.