This month’s Metropolitan has included more than the usual amounts of comedy, so this podcast is
reading his piece from 2022 on two artists, a real one, the painter Philip Guston, and a fictional one, Tony Hancock’s The Rebel.‘Ooh, you poor man.’
This is the story of two artists from the 1960s – one real, one made up. In September 2020, four major international galleries – the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and London’s Tate Modern – collectively announced that a touring exh…
Our theme music is Otra vez by friend of the show S F Gallardo, who you can find on Spotify and Bandcamp
Related essays from April 2024 include:
Adam Buxton is not my friend
Adam Buxton is not my friend. He feels like he is, but he is not. I’ve never met him, spoken to him or corresponded with him. I’ve never texted the nation (as the 6Music show used to insist) or given him a little pat while his bum’s up (as his podcast theme suggests). I don’t even know him, not in any real sense. I know the ‘him’ he plays on screen or i…
Ripping Yarns
Radio might be the most intimate medium but TV is the most sociable; a convivial presence in every living room we’ve ever known, ready with gossip, information, comfort or distraction. In The Friend in the Corner we return to significant TV shows to find out what they did for us, and how they pulled it off.
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