Ranked #1
Liana Finck, New Yorker cartoonist, on finding confidence and creativity in quarantine
Liana Finck, New Yorker cartoonist, on finding confidence and creativity in quarantine
This week, Lilah talks to Liana Finck, a graphic novelist and New Yorker cartoonist with a fan base on Instagram that’s ... Read more
29 May 2020
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47mins
Ranked #2
Noah Baumbach on his film Marriage Story. Plus: everything you need to know before the Oscars
Noah Baumbach on his film Marriage Story. Plus: everything you need to know before the Oscars
We're back with a brand new season! In our pre-Oscars special, Gris talks to Noah Baumbach, director of the nominated fi... Read more
6 Feb 2020
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58mins
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Ranked #3
Novelist Ben Lerner on angry white men and the origins of Trump
Novelist Ben Lerner on angry white men and the origins of Trump
Ben Lerner is one of the most acclaimed American writers working today. Gris meets him to discuss good parenting, male r... Read more
21 Nov 2019
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49mins
Ranked #4
Unpacking the internet with Jia Tolentino
Unpacking the internet with Jia Tolentino
As The New Yorker magazine's go-to millennial, Jia Tolentino writes cultural criticism about the internet and how it aff... Read more
10 Sep 2019
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46mins
Ranked #5
Best films of 2017. Plus: Hayley Atwell on Weinstein culture
Best films of 2017. Plus: Hayley Atwell on Weinstein culture
In our season finale we reveal our favourite films of the year, from The Florida Project to Call Me By Your Name. And as... Read more
25 Nov 2017
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52mins
Ranked #6
Slave Play author Jeremy O Harris on the future of theatre
Slave Play author Jeremy O Harris on the future of theatre
This week, Gris talks to the brilliant 30-year-old playwright Jeremy O Harris about his Broadway sensation Slave Play an... Read more
15 May 2020
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59mins
Ranked #7
Simon Schama on Civilisations. Plus: artist Eddie Peake
Simon Schama on Civilisations. Plus: artist Eddie Peake
Art historian Simon Schama on why he's updating Kenneth Clark's landmark TV series from 1969 and what 'civilisation' mea... Read more
24 Feb 2018
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44mins
Ranked #8
Bonus: Esther Perel's advice for coping in a pandemic
Bonus: Esther Perel's advice for coping in a pandemic
This week, we turn to Esther Perel, psychotherapist and host of the hit podcast Where Should We Begin?, to help put our ... Read more
22 Apr 2020
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38mins
Ranked #9
Chef Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese: "we're living in a post-authentic world"
Chef Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese: "we're living in a post-authentic world"
Award-winning chef Danny Bowien has never fully fit in. Adopted from Korea, Bowien was raised by a white, Christian fami... Read more
24 Oct 2019
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41mins
Ranked #10
How is culture adapting to quarantine? Plus: our film critic on what to watch now
How is culture adapting to quarantine? Plus: our film critic on what to watch now
This week, we discuss the future of movies with FT film critic Danny Leigh. Will we see a wave of apocalypse dramas once... Read more
1 May 2020
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48mins
Ranked #11
Genius versus mediocrity. Plus: The Wire's Clarke Peters
Genius versus mediocrity. Plus: The Wire's Clarke Peters
We're back! First up: we talk to Lucian Msamati, star of the National Theatre's Amadeus, and journalist Peter Aspden abo... Read more
10 Feb 2018
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37mins
Ranked #12
Kristen Roupenian on 'Cat Person', dating and overnight success. Plus: we discuss consent
Kristen Roupenian on 'Cat Person', dating and overnight success. Plus: we discuss consent
When Kristen Roupenian's short story 'Cat Person' was published in December 2017, it became a viral sensation — and a fo... Read more
16 Mar 2019
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44mins
Ranked #13
Love, lust and workplace burnout: Three Women’s Lisa Taddeo
Love, lust and workplace burnout: Three Women’s Lisa Taddeo
Three Women is one of the most talked-about books of the summer: a true story of female desire that took eight years to ... Read more
12 Jul 2019
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48mins
Ranked #14
Jon Ronson on free porn, anxiety and empathy
Jon Ronson on free porn, anxiety and empathy
Gris meets the author and podcaster Jon Ronson (The Butterfly Effect, The Psychopath Test, So You've Been Publicly Shame... Read more
17 May 2019
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34mins
Ranked #15
Ways of Seeing: Sheila Heti on Pierre Bonnard
Ways of Seeing: Sheila Heti on Pierre Bonnard
This week, Gris meets the Canadian writer Sheila Heti at Tate Modern's Pierre Bonnard retrospective to discuss the unlik... Read more
19 Apr 2019
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33mins
Ranked #16
Chef Samin Nosrat on home cooking in trying times
Chef Samin Nosrat on home cooking in trying times
We can't stop thinking about food: how to cook it, where to buy it, how many meals are too many meals and why everyone's... Read more
16 Apr 2020
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58mins
Ranked #17
Peter Carey on Australia's original sin. Plus: a new short story by JM Coetzee
Peter Carey on Australia's original sin. Plus: a new short story by JM Coetzee
This week: two titans of literature with four Booker Prizes between them. First up, Peter Carey on tackling the relation... Read more
17 Mar 2018
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26mins
Ranked #18
A new short story by Ali Smith, read by Olivia Williams
A new short story by Ali Smith, read by Olivia Williams
In a festive special episode, the actor Olivia Williams reads 'I Heard it on Classic FN', a new short story by Ali Smith... Read more
29 Dec 2017
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28mins
Ranked #19
Talking fame, trauma and fiction with Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Talking fame, trauma and fiction with Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Gris and Lilah return with a revamped show: welcome to Culture Call! Lilah visits New York Times feature writer Taffy Br... Read more
13 Aug 2019
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46mins
Ranked #20
Richard E Grant, Oscar nominee. Plus: is Netflix good for TV?
Richard E Grant, Oscar nominee. Plus: is Netflix good for TV?
The star of Withnail and I discusses his new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?, actors, acting and why sex is key to gettin... Read more
2 Feb 2019
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42mins