The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!

ART. QUEER. CULTURE. The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS Podcast A finalist in the Independent Podcast Awards 2025 for Best Arts Show. Bringing the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! universe to life through conversations with queer photographers, cultural icons and creative innovators. Explore the intersections of art, queer, culture. Hosted by radio presenter and multi award winning LGBTQ+ podcaster Graeme Smith. For all things BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! head to boysboysboys.org Executive Producer: Graeme Smith Editorial Director: Ghislain Pascal Producers: Olivia Jones & Paris Munro Contributors: Jorge Garriz & Alastair James Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. FEB 3

    Carl Cashman: How a Straight Politician Won the Queer Crowd

    This episode of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! features a genuine political outlier: Carl Cashman, the 34-year-old leader of Liverpool City Council’s Liberal Democrats in the North West of England, a straight politician who has built influence by putting LGBTQ+ people at the centre of his politics. Carl represents a new generation of progressive politician: culturally fluent, visibly present, and entirely at ease in queer spaces. He’s as comfortable sharing the occasional gym selfie and taking the attention that follows as he is being clear and values-led on trans rights, European Union membership, and civil liberties. Often to the left of his own party, Carl has joked that at Liberal Democrats conference it can feel like 80% of the room is LGBTQ+, and he’s clear that queer members and voters are central to the party’s progressive energy. The Liberal Democrats are the party that delivered equal marriage and the party still reckoning with the cost of the 2010 coalition. Yet in a landscape dominated by caution and culture wars, they remain one of the few national parties openly pro-EU and committed to individual rights. During a week of TV appearances in London, Carl joined Graeme Smith — equally Liverpudlian, equally direct — in front of a sell-out crowd at the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London. Over a drink, in a queer space, he answered tough questions about trust after 2010, immigration, the arts, trans rights, Trump, and whether Westminster is next. Brought to you by BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! boysboysboys.org  @boysfineart @boysgallerycafelondon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    54 min
  2. 11/25/2025

    Two Choreographers Changing Everything: Arthur Pita & Jonathan Watkins

    Two groundbreaking choreographers join us live from The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in Fitzrovia, London. Arthur Pita talks craft, career, and the queer imagination behind his work. Jonathan Watkins discusses launching Ballet Queer, the UK’s first LGBTQ+ ballet company. We begin with Arthur Pita, the South African-born dancer turned award-winning choreographer whose career spans contemporary dance, opera, theatre, film and television. Known for his bold theatricality and emotionally charged storytelling, Arthur speaks with Jorge Gariz about the evolution of his work, from his early training to major international commissions and how queer identity threads itself through both his creative instincts and his process. He reflects on collaboration, risk-taking, and the unapologetically dramatic movement language that has made him one of the most distinctive choreographic voices working today. Later in the episode, we’re joined by choreographer & director Jonathan Watkins, whose recent adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man, starring Edward Watson and with singer John Grant, has been hailed as one of the year’s most inventive crossovers of literature, dance and live music. Jonathan introduces us to his new company Ballet Queer, the UK’s first dedicated LGBTQ+ ballet company, sharing his vision for reshaping the form with stories and bodies that have long existed backstage but rarely at the centre of the stage. Brought to you by BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! boysboysboys.org  @boysfineart @boysgallerycafelondon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  3. 11/13/2025

    From 90s Pop Stars, to the George Clooney of hotel hospitality, to Perfect Interiors

    On this episode we bring you live conversations recorded at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London, in front of an audience at our weekly BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS - featuring artists, designers, pop icons and tastemakers who are shaping queer culture right now. First up, Michael Bonsor, dubbed “the George Clooney of hotel hospitality,” reveals what it takes to create the most talked-about new hotel in London. As Managing Director of The Chancery Rosewood, the ultra-luxury transformation of the former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square, he shares insights from inside one of the city’s most ambitious design projects. Then, Adam Nathaniel Furman, award-winning artist, designer, writer and academic behind Queer Spaces. His book published by RIBA and named Architectural Book of the Year, celebrates the radical, joyful, and deeply human architecture that defines queer life. Next, former 90s pop star Anthony Kavanagh, known to millions as Kavana, opens up about fame, addiction, loss and recovery. His memoir Pop Scars has been praised for its honesty and dark humour and in this conversation, he reflects on what it really takes to rebuild a life after the spotlight fades. Finally, we hear from Jordan Cluroe & Russell Whitehead, the creative duo behind 2LG Studio and familiar faces from TV's The Great Interior Design Challenge and Changing Rooms. They discuss their book Making Living Lovely, exploring how design can be bold, emotional and unapologetically queer. Brought to you by BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! boysboysboys.org  @boysfineart @boysgallerycafelondon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min

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ART. QUEER. CULTURE. The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS Podcast A finalist in the Independent Podcast Awards 2025 for Best Arts Show. Bringing the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! universe to life through conversations with queer photographers, cultural icons and creative innovators. Explore the intersections of art, queer, culture. Hosted by radio presenter and multi award winning LGBTQ+ podcaster Graeme Smith. For all things BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! head to boysboysboys.org Executive Producer: Graeme Smith Editorial Director: Ghislain Pascal Producers: Olivia Jones & Paris Munro Contributors: Jorge Garriz & Alastair James Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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