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Publishes	Twice weekly	Episodes	1197	Founded	14 years ago
Number of Listeners		Categories	Performing ArtsArts

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The Brass Band Story with Trevor Herbert (Yale UP, 2026)

Brass bands have played a unique role in the cultural history of Britain. Amidst the industrial revolution, an increasingly urban population turned to music for mass entertainment. Brass bands became intimately associated with working men and spread ... more

14 Oct 2026 • 46 min

Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah Mala, Richard Watts and Giulia Champion

Through a postcolonial lens, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere (Liverpool, 2025) explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening th... more

4 Oct 2026 • 48 min

The Best 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century

It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and the New York Times has published its list of the best 100 television shows of the 21st Century. We react to this list, ponder what is underrated, overrated, and completely snubbed, and question the value of grand ... more

2 Oct 2026 • 1 hr 30 min

Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies with Yinghui Wu (Brill, 2025)

How was drama experienced in early modern China? It was not tied to a single medium such as the page or the stage, but operated in a media ecology—an environment in which it integrated other arts and media while being refashioned in a variety of arts... more

25 Sep 2026 • 1 hr 9 min

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Trevor Herbert

Emeritus music professor, brass-band historian and former professional trombone player

Open University

Episode: The Brass Band Story with Trevor Herbert (Yale UP, 2026)

Giulia Champion

Research fellow studying communities' engagement with the seabed through culture, science and policy

University of Southampton

Episode: Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah Mala, Richard Watts and Giulia Champion

Richard Watts

Associate professor of French and scholar of francophone postcolonial studies and environmental humanities

University of Washington

Episode: Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah Mala, Richard Watts and Giulia Champion

Nsah Mala

Poet and interdisciplinary scholar working in comparative literature and environmental humanities

University of Cologne

Episode: Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah Mala, Richard Watts and Giulia Champion

Leonhard Emmerling

Art historian and author of Idiots, The History of the Homo Nullus

Chicago University Press (publisher)

Episode: Leonhard Emmerling, "The Idiots: The History of the Homo Nullus" (Seagull Books, 2026)

Erin Craig

Author of Our Strange Duet

Penguin Random House / Crown

Episode: Erin A. Craig, "Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera" (Delacorte Press, 2026)

Nancy Yunhwa Rao

Author of Inside Chinese Theater, Community and Artistry in 19th Century California and Beyond

University of Illinois Press

Episode: Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth Century California and Beyond" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

John Trafton

Professor of cinema and media studies; author of Los Angeles in Film, A Cultural History of the 20th-Century

Occidental College, Chapman University

Episode: John Trafton, "Los Angeles and Film: A Cultural History of 20th-Century Hollywood" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Lucy Jeffery

Co-editor and author; Beckett studies scholar; co-founder of the Replaying Communism Project

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Episode: Transcending Disciplinary Confinements With(in) Beckett Studies

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Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah Mala, Richard Watts and Giulia Champion

Q: And so what do you see as eco-criticisms or eco-poetics' role when faced with such a crisis?

Richard Watts says ecocriticism must document and acknowledge environmental harm, while creative texts can also explore how people live with damage that cannot simply be avoided and imagine political responses grounded in shared experience.

Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere with Nsah Mala, Richard Watts and Giulia Champion

Q: What do you mean when you say the Postcolonial Francosphere? And why do you choose to use this term in your work?

Nsah Mala says the term refers to geographical spaces once part of the French and Belgian empires. It foregrounds postcolonial power relations and counters the field's emphasis on France, Belgium and Quebec by directing attention to the global south.

The Brass Band Story with Trevor Herbert (Yale UP, 2026)

Q: Can we talk a bit more about what has enabled the brass band to kind of stay as a going concern, even if not to the same level of mass popularity?

Herbert identifies the 1960s pitch standard change, commercial sponsorship following deindustrialization, school instrumental music education, the participatory character of pop music and new musical leadership and percussion as factors that helped brass bands adapt.

The Brass Band Story with Trevor Herbert (Yale UP, 2026)

Q: Could you start us off please by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?

Herbert describes his academic work on brass instruments and their players, his professional trombone career and childhood experience in a brass band. Yale University Press asked him to write the book.

Transcending Disciplinary Confinements With(in) Beckett Studies

Q: How does radio and sound contribute to Beckett's fluidity between absence and presence?

The guest highlights how radio works foreground absence and presence through sound, memory, and technical choices, illustrating how the medium creates a different epistemology for Beckett's ideas than print alone.

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A scholarly interview channel that pairs researchers with peers to discuss recently published work in performance, theatre, music, and related humanities. Across episodes, guests explore topics like national identity in opera, coloniality and dramaturgy, heritage law, Heian Japan performance, Yugoslav art, Yiddish and Latino-Jewish musical exchange, and mid‑century American musical theater, often tying historical inquiry to contemporary contexts. Listeners typically engage with rigorous, cross-disciplinary discussions that blend archival methods, pedagogy, public understanding of culture, and ethical considerations in scholarship. The show is notable for its breadth of international humanities topics, its emphasis on methodological insight,... more

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