NT Talks

Welcome to our collection of conversations recorded live from the National Theatre stages, including interviews with actors, directors and playwrights.

Michael Billington on Stage
Mar 6, 2020 – 49:42
Director Katy Rudd and Adapter Joel Horwood on The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Feb 28, 2020 – 29:17
Writer Inua Ellams and Director Nadia Fall on Three Sisters
Feb 21, 2020 – 27:26
Neil Gaiman on The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Feb 7, 2020 – 30:20
Actors Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings on Hansard
Jan 31, 2020 – 38:21
Director Rufus Norris and Adapter Helen Edmundson on Small Island
Jan 17, 2020 – 28:50
A Conversation with Peter Brook
Jan 10, 2020 – 28:50
Director Simon Godwin and Writer Simon Woods on Hansard
Dec 20, 2019 – 22:29
Creating and Performing Peter Gynt (Part Two): David Hare and Jonathan Kent
Dec 13, 2019 – 29:46
Creating and Performing Peter Gynt (Part Two)
Dec 13, 2019 –
Polly Findlay on Rutherford and Son
Dec 13, 2019 – 31:29
Creating and Performing Peter Gynt (Part One): James McArdle
Dec 13, 2019 – 32:01
Director Polly Findlay on Rutherford and Son
Dec 13, 2019 – 31:29
Roger Allam on Rutherford and Son
Dec 2, 2019 – 36:51
Director Pam MacKinnon and Writer Bruce Norris on Downstate
Apr 3, 2019 – 32:22
Writer David Hare on I'm Not Running
Jan 16, 2019 – 30:37
Director Rachel Chavkin and Writer Anaïs Mitchell on Hadestown
Jan 16, 2019 – 29:40
Playwriting Then and Now
Dec 10, 2018 – 25:12
The Influence of Lecoq on UK Theatre
Dec 10, 2018 – 1:00:16
Dramatic Exchanges: the Lives and Letters of the NT
Dec 10, 2018 – 41:09
Ten NT Plays that Would Have Been Banned
Dec 3, 2018 – 59:23
Director Simon Godwin on Antony and Cleopatra
Dec 3, 2018 – 31:51
Three Perspectives on Dying
Dec 3, 2018 – 41:22
Patrick Marber on Exit the King
Dec 3, 2018 – 28:25
Ned Bennett and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on An Octoroon
Dec 3, 2018 – 21:37
Director Ian Rickson on Translations
Jun 20, 2018 – 28:13
Actor Kate Fleetwood on Absolute Hell
Jun 20, 2018 – 43:08
Culture after Windrush
May 29, 2018 – 28:41
Performing Shakespeare
May 22, 2018 – 1:01:45
Anne-Marie Duff and Rory Kinnear on Macbeth
May 22, 2018 – 40:10
Natasha Gordon and Roy Alexander Weise on Nine Night
May 14, 2018 – 26:03
Reasons to be Graeae
May 9, 2018 – 32:51
Jo Nesbo: Macbeth
Apr 19, 2018 – 29:59
Lucian Msamati and Adam Gillen on Mozart and Salieri
Mar 29, 2018 – 39:07
Antony Sher: The Lear Diaries
Mar 27, 2018 – 29:49
National Debate: The Influence of the Media
Mar 26, 2018 – 34:24
The Future of Musical Theatre
Mar 7, 2018 – 43:42
Shakespeare's England in 1606 with James Shapiro
Mar 7, 2018 – 32:13
Dennis Kelly on Pinocchio
Mar 1, 2018 – 30:07
Chloe Lamford and James Macdonald on John
Feb 12, 2018 – 27:07
Bob Crowley and Toby Olié on Pinocchio
Jan 12, 2018 – 26:45
Josephine Barstow and Tracie Bennett on Follies
Jan 8, 2018 – 46:35
Private Eye: A Review Of 2017
Dec 19, 2017 – 1:02:55
Little Me: The A-Z of Matt Lucas
Dec 14, 2017 – 36:39
A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Dec 1, 2017 – 50:41
National Debate: Class - an unequal nation?
Nov 20, 2017 – 35:50
Polly Findlay and David Eldridge on Beginning
Nov 6, 2017 – 30:50
Dominic Cooke on Follies
Oct 26, 2017 – 23:50
Nadia Clifford and Tim Delap on Jane Eyre
Oct 25, 2017 – 44:27
London Theatres
Oct 12, 2017 – 29:38

Recent Reviews

Singingmime

Great content but occasionally poor sound quality

Absolutely every podcast episode is chock full of interesting dramaturgical information and has been a fantastic learning tool for discussing theatre critically. The sound quality can often times be very poor, which is frustrating when I want to hear every juicy tidbit. These episodes are often recorded on stage for a talk back with a live audience, so I’m not sure if that issue will ever be remedied.
NYisHard

Thank you

Ty