Julie Hesmondalgh

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  1. Julie Hesmondhalgh, Sam Ryder and Alfred Enoch

    21/11/2022

    Julie Hesmondhalgh, Sam Ryder and Alfred Enoch

    Happy Monday! This weekend on The Graham Norton Radio Show with Waitrose... Julie Hesmondhalgh speaks to us about her brand new book, An Actor’s Alphabet.   Sam Ryder is live from the Top of The Tower with our second Sunday Session.    And Alfred Enoch is in the building to tell us all about his starring role in As You Like It and his upcoming festive film This Is Christmas!   Show Chef Martha kicks off Christmas with her Martha Class which included Christmas pudding and a no bake chocolate cake. And Graham and Maria solve a couple Graham's Guide dilemmas. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @VirginRadioUK for all the action! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 h 1 min
  2. Julie Hesmondhalgh

    12/01/2019

    Julie Hesmondhalgh

    Cobbles, Courage and Coronation Street

    38 min
  3. Working-class actors, Class and classical music

    27/12/2017

    Working-class actors, Class and classical music

    Working class actors: Laurie Taylor asks if acting is becoming an increasingly exclusive and elite profession. He talks to the actor Julie Hesmondhalgh and to Dave O'Brien, Chancellor's Fellow, Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh, and author of a new study which suggests that working class actors face increasing economic, as well as cultural obstacles, comparable to skydiving without a parachute. Also, class and classical music. Anna Bull, lecturer in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth, considers why this musical genre is seen as such a middle class preserve. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

    28 min
  4. Football Inspired Art, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner, Chornobyldorf opera

    16/11/2022

    Football Inspired Art, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner, Chornobyldorf opera

    Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street, on writing a survival guide for new actors- An Actor’s Alphabet. What happens when football is taken from the pitch and put on the canvas? Nick Ahad is joined by the curators of three football-inspired exhibitions: Art of the Terraces at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, plus The Art of the Football Scarf and It's The Hope That Keeps Us Here at OOF Gallery in Tottenham Hotspur's stadium. Chornoblydorf, a new opera that looks at a post-apocalyptic world, opens this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Co-composer Illia Razumeiko joins Front Row to talk about the optimism behind this dark production. The Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner, Nathan Queeley-Dennis, on getting the top prize with his debut play, Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz, about a young Black man on a journey of self-discovery with the help of his barber and Beyoncé's lyrics. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu Image: Square Gogh by Ross Muir, on display in the exhibition Art of the Terraces at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool

    42 min
  5. Julie Hesmondhalgh: How good telly and theatre can change the world

    10/05/2024

    Julie Hesmondhalgh: How good telly and theatre can change the world

    Lancaster legend Julie Hesmondhalgh is an actor, writer and activist. She's best known for playing Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street in what started as a short-term punchline and turned into a 16 year career. Since leaving the cobbles, Julie has gone on to star multiple dramas including Broadchurch, Happy Valley and more recently, Mr Bates vs The Post Office. She’s recently joined the cast of the world premiere of James Graham’s new play Punch, about the power of forgiveness. Tickets for Punch are available at nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events

    1 h 4 min
  6. Julie Hesmondhalgh, Christina McMaster, James Barnor

    18/05/2021

    Julie Hesmondhalgh, Christina McMaster, James Barnor

    The actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, best known for Coronation Street and Broadchurch on TV, returns to the theatre for the opening night of her new play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. Modestly titled The Greatest Play in the History of the World… it is not only the first night of the tour but the first night the theatre has been open since last year. Julie takes a break from rehearsals to talk to Samira about how she is looking forward to being onstage again and the importance of theatre to regional towns. Lie Down and Listen is the idea behind a new series of classical music concerts being led by the pianist Christina McMaster. She talks to Samira about how lying down helps both the mind and body listen to music. A new photographic exhibition opening at The Serpentine Gallery in London shows the work of 91-year-old photographer James Barnor. He’s been working for 6 decades, first in his native Ghana where he captured the country’s move to independence, before coming to the UK in the 60s where he worked for Drum magazine, taking photos of the African diaspora. In the 70s he returned to Ghana as a pioneer of colour photography. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Simon Richardson

    28 min