NT Talks

In this platform podcast, the National’s Head of Voice Jeannette Nelson is joined by actors Adjoa Andoh, Lesley Manville, Hattie Morahan and director Lyndsey Turner to discuss the social, political and artistic perceptions of the female voice and how it has been represented in theatre.

To mark her centenary, actors Stella Duffy and Murray Melvin, and biographer Peter Rankin celebrate the theatre maverick’s life. This is a recording of a live Platform event from September 2014, chaired by Sue MacGregor.

From the remnants of monarchy to Communism, democracy, war and the EU: Croatia 1945–2011. The Kos family argue, adapt, fall in and out of love. Tena Štivičić talks to Susannah Tresilian about 3 Winters, her new play for the National Theatre directed by Howard Davies. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/3-winters #3Winters

Helen McCrory talks to Genista McIntosh about her acting career and her experience preparing for the role of Medea in Ben Power's new version.

The film and stage director talks talks to Mark Leipacher about his acclaimed production of King Lear, working with Simon Russell Beale and his career. This is a recording of a live Platform event from May 2014.

Michael Palin talks to Edith Bowman about his new book Monty Python at Work, sharing his experiences with the comedy group. This is a recording of a live Platform event from June 2014.

Adam Penford talks to Mark Shenton about his revival of Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business, working with Nicholas Hytner on One Man, Two Guvnors and his ambitions for the future. This is a recording of a live Platform event from April 2014.

Alan Ayckbourn talks to Angus MacKechnie about his career, focusing on his work at the National Theatre whilst Peter Hall was Artistic Director and his recently revived play A Small Family Business.

Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty International; they explain why, in words as moving as the poems themselves. With Melvyn Bragg, Richard Dawkins, Richard Eyre, Mike Leigh, Simon McBurney, Ian McEwan, Ben Okri, Simon Russell Beale and Simon Schama, and Kate Allen (Amnesty International UK).

Tony award-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang talks to Mark Shenton about Yellow Face, which questions what race really means in our society. Yellow Face plays until 24 May: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/yellow-face This is a recording of a live Platform event from May 2014.

Murray Melvin reflects on his acting career in the original productions of A Taste of Honey and Oh What A Lovely War and working with people such as Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick. This is a recording of a live Platform event from March 2014.

Psychoanalyst, Mike Brearley, and academic, Laurie Maguire, discuss Shakespeare’s understanding of the complexities of the human mind, as seen in King Lear. This event was chaired by Michael Billington. This is a recording of a live Platform event from March 2014.

Adrian Scarborough and Stanley Townsend talk to Fiona Mountford about Sam Mendes' 2014 production of King Lear. This is a recording of a live Platform event from March 2014.

Robert Gordon (Professor of Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London) discusses the role of society and politics in musical theatre in Britain and America from The Beggar's Opera to the TEAM's production Mission Drift.

Daniel Rosenthal talks to Genista McIntosh about The National Theatre Story, his new history of the NT, from its origins in the 1840s and false dawns in the early 1900s, through to the Old Vic and South Bank productions of the last 50 years.