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Tommy Flowers’ Blue Plaque & Stories You Haven’t Heard: Savitri and Satyavan

Welcome to The Big Smoke Variety Show! This week, we throw open the doors to Variety Week and journey from the secrets hiding behind London’s blue plaques to an ancient tale of love, fate and devotion from the forests of India. First, comedian and blue plaque tour guide Kate Sharp returns with an…

More Balls Than Hands: The Art of Juggling with Sean Gandini

Welcome to The Big Smoke Variety Show! This week, we step into the fascinating world of juggling — from ancient Egypt and Covent Garden street performance to opera houses, ballet studios, flying apples and the strange beauty of objects in motion. Kevin is joined by Sean Gandini, co-founder of the…

Behind the Nugget: Neuroaesthetics with Archie McAlpine

Welcome to The Big Smoke Variety Show! This week, we take a peek behind the nugget and explore one of your favourite recurring segments: Archie’s Neuro Nuggets. Kevin is joined by Archie McAlpine, whose quick, actionable insights have taken us through the fascinating ways our brains respond to th…

Beneath the Muddy Waters with London’s Mudlarking Community

Welcome to The Big Smoke Variety Show! This week, we take another peek behind one of your favourite recurring segments and venture down to the foreshore with Sean Clark the Mudlark's Latest Find. Kevin is joined by Sean Clark, Sam Caetoven and Angela Bridge — a true muddle of mudlarks — for a con…

Silly Season: A Double Bill of The Strange Brothers

Welcome to The Big Smoke Variety Show! Back in 1861, the phrase “silly season” was coined to describe that sleepy stretch of summer when there wasn’t much real news to report, and newspapers filled their pages with wonderfully oddball stories instead. So, we’ve done the same—bringing you a double …

Silly Season: A Double Bill of Stories You Haven’t Heard

Welcome to The Big Smoke Variety Show! Back in 1861, the phrase “silly season” was coined to describe that sleepy stretch of summer when there wasn’t much real news to report, and newspapers filled their pages with wonderfully oddball stories instead. So, we’ve done the same—bringing you another d…

Mind the Gap: The Big Smoke Variety Show Update

Hello friends! Whether you’ve been along for the ride these past two years or have just stumbled across our show now, welcome and thanks for tuning in. This is just a quick note to let you know that The Big Smoke Variety Show is taking a little hiatus. We’ve decided to recharge our creative batter…

THE MEANING OF ZONG - OUT OF 100 REVIEW

Today Nana & Akua reviewed Giles Terera's play The Meaning of Zong which showed for a few days at the Barbican. The Meaning of Zong is written & co-directed by Olivier Award-winning Giles Terera who also takes the lead as renowned author & abolitionist Olaudah Equiano. Based on true events, The M…

Giles Terera Talks ... The Meaning of Zong

In this episode of TBB Talks, Nana Evans interviews Giles Terera, playwright, actor and co-director of "The Meaning of Zong". The play is based on the true story of the massacre that took place on board a British slave ship in the 1780s. Giles was inspired to create the play after learning about t…

Massacre on the Slave Ship Zong

Please note, this episode contains descriptions of racial violence that some listeners may find disturbing.In November 1781, a British slave ship carrying hundreds of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic began to run out of water. The ship was called the Zong, and her crew decided to save their ow…