Suite (212)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
EXTRA: It's a Sin [unlocked]
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Following from December 2021’s Resonance 104.4fm show on the cultural impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic with James Butler and Sarah Schulman, Juliet t...
The End: Politics, culture and criticism in the UK in the 2020s
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Suite (212)'s final edition, host Juliet Jacques talks to writer/editor Owen Hatherley (Tribune and elsewhere) and Fatema Ahmed, acting editor of ...
We: An interview with Pil & Galia Kollectiv
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm, Juliet spoke to London-based artists, writers, musicians, curators and teachers Pil and Galia Kollectiv about their...
These are the Times: An interview with Trevor Griffiths
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to playwright and screenwriter Trevor Griffiths, born in Manchester in 1935, about his life in wr...
Poetry and Politics in 21st Century Britain
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to poets Ed Luker (based in London) and Nat Raha (based in Edinburgh) about the state of poetry, ...
EXTRA: Literature about and after Corbyn's Labour [unlocked]
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now unlocked, this subscriber-only bonus episode came about because Juliet enjoyed talking so much to Sam Byers and Carl Neville about the 'state of t...
Rebellion: The life and work of Forough Farrokhzad
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to poetry, editor and academic Golnoosh Nour about the life and work of Iranian poet, writer and ...
Variations: An interview with Juliet Jacques
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month’s Resonance 104.4fm show, former co-host Tom Overton returns to interview Suite (212)’s founder, Juliet Jacques, about Variations, h...
Pilgrims of Hope: Writers and the Paris Commune of 1871
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to academics Owen Holland (University College London) and Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchest...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 19 - Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
State of the Nation: Capturing 21st Century Britain in Literature
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to writers Sam Byers and Carl Neville about how they tried to represent 21st century Britain in t...
PREVIEW: Literature about - and after - Corbyn's Labour Party
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this preview of our subscriber-only episode about how British literature might write about Corbyn's Labour, the aftermath of the 2019 General Elect...
Culture of Crisis: The Visual Arts in Greece since 2008
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to artist Eirene Efstathiou and curator/writer iLiana Fokianaki, founder of the State of Concept ...
PREVIEW: It's a Sin
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this extract from our subscriber-only show about 'It’s a Sin', Russell T. Davies’ recent mini-series for Channel 4 about the effects of the HIV...
PREVIEW: Ousmane Sembène's Camp de Thiaroye (1987)
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a preview of our Patreon-only episode about Ousmane Sembène & Thierno Faty Sow's historical drama Camp de Thiaroye (1987), about the mutiny o...
Ousmane Sembène: 'The Father of African Cinema'
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, made available a day early for our Patreon subscribers, Juliet talks to Dr Samba Gadjigo, author of a biograph...
PREVIEW: Feature Film and the Holocaust
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a preview of our Patreon-only episode about how feature films dealt with the Holocaust, following on from this month's Resonance 104.4fm progr...
Documentary Film and the Holocaust
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month’s episode, coinciding with Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021, looks at the specific role that documentary film played in recording, relaying...
Silence = Death: The Cultural Impact of the AIDS Crisis
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tying in with World AIDS Day, December 2020's Resonance 104.4fm programme is about the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in the UK and USA, first identifi...
Cultural Capital: The Greater London Council's arts policies, 1981-86
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Established in 1965, the Greater London Council hosted one of the United Kingdom’s most radical experiments in cultural policy after Ken Livingstone...
Power and Protest: An interview with the Belarus Free Theatre
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Often called “Europe’s last dictator”, Aleksandr Lukashenko has been President of Belarus since 1994, frequently holding dubious elections and r...
The Arts for All: An interview with Jeremy Corbyn
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader, much attention was part to the economic vision that the party developed for the United Kingdom, but le...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 18 - Nada Prlja
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 17 - Oreet Ashery
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 16 - Zadie Xa
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 15 - John Smith
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Covid-19 Crisis and the Art Institutions
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Covid-19 crisis has caused unprecedented challenges for the art world. The lockdown has blown a hole in the finances of large metropolitan institu...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 14 - Jeremy Deller
23 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 13 - Mark Thomas
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 12 - Deimantas Narkevičius
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 11 - Travis Alabanza
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 10 - Nathalie Olah
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
BONUS: Juliet Jacques reads two short stories
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded as a special programme to celebrate Resonance 104.4fm's 18th birthday, Suite (212) founder and host Juliet Jacques reads two texts written in...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 9 - Abbas Zahedi
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 8 - Joanna Walsh
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 7 - Lars Iyer
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 6 - McKenzie Wark
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 5 - Jasmina Cibic
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 4 - Tai Shani
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 3 - Owen Hatherley
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
Four Fights: The UCU and the Art Schools on Strike
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2020, 74 universities affiliated to the UCU (University and College Union) began 14 days of industrial action, launching ‘Four Fights’...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 2 - Erica Scourti
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 1 - Ilona Sagar
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with ...
BONUS: Juliet Jacques on Montez Press Radio
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CONTENT NOTE: 'The Woman in the Portrait' contains descriptions of sexual violence and transphobia. Recorded on 23 August 2019, Suite (212) co-host J...
Plastic Emotions: An interview with Shiromi Pinto
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to author Shiromi Pinto about her second novel, Plastic Emotions (https://www.influxpress.com/plastic-emot...
Trans-forming Literature: An interview with Andrea Lawlor
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Lawlor's debut novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl has a protagonist who can change his body at will, creating a narrative that explores...
Mangasia: Sixty years of Japanese comics
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Growing out of a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, manga has become one of the world's most popular and influential graphic art forms...
An interview with Xiaolu Guo
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese-British novelist, memoirist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo (b. 1973) talks to Tom Overton about her life in the UK and PR China, and her work in cin...
Another Gaze: Feminist filmmaking and the work of Chantal Akerman
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The 1970s were a fertile time for feminist film, producing not just a huge body of women's work - including Chantal Akerman's seminal 1975 film Jeanne...
EXTRA: Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell - satire and the death of political centrism
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since September 2015, when the allegation emerged that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, had performed a sex act on a dead pig as a student, Bri...
On the Silver Globe: The Zulawski family and Polish science fiction
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Lara Alonso Corona talks to Culture.PL editor and Stories from the Eastern West podcast presenter Adam Żuławski about his grandfather Jer...
'Where the novel has a nervous breakdown': Book Works' Semina series
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Suite (212), Juliet talks to legendary writer and artist Stewart Home about the nine novels - including one of his own - that he has chos...
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Modernism in the arts, and particularly literature, has often been portrayed as a middle class pursuit, with certain literary critics focusing on the ...
An interview with Brian Eno
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Eno's huge back catalogue of work as a solo musician, band member and producer goes back decades, including high-profile work with Roxy Music, T...
Lande: The contemporary archaeology of the Calais "Jungle"
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Calais "Jungle", as it became known, was a refugee camp that held 10,000 people from Syria, Somalia, Eritrea and elsewhere between January 2015 an...
Liberating the Canon: An interview with Isabel Waidner
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist who has published two works of fiction with Manchester-based independent publisher Dostoyevsky Wannab...
EXTRA: Mother Tongue: An interview with Yevgeniy Fiks
10 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Born into a Jewish family in Moscow in 1971, Yevgeniy Fiks moved to New York in 1994. His conceptual art reacts to amnesia about the USSR in the post-...
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Renaissance Man
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since his violent death in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini remains internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but less known as a poet, journalist, critic and...
Hollow Shores: An interview with Gary Budden
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Where, and how, does nature writing intersect with architectural criticism? Urban exploration? Hauntology? Nationalism and fascism? This week, Tom Ove...
Scenes from the Life of Jonas Mekas
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Best known as a poet in his native Lithuania, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) became a titan of US underground cinema after moving to New York in 1949. This w...
Politics and the English Language: The life and legacy of George Orwell
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since his untimely death in January 1950, aged 46, George Orwell has been turned into a secular saint, with his Cold War-era novels Animal Farm and Ni...
Bomb Culture: Jeff Nuttall and the Sixties counter-culture
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Nuttall's Bomb Culture (1968) was an unforgettably idiosyncratic document of Sixties counter-culture, looking at how the nuclear threat that foll...
España 1936: The cultural reaction to the Spanish Civil War
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 inspired artists, writers and filmmakers at home and abroad to make work in support of the struggle against fascism a...
Art, censorship and resistance in Erdoğan's Turkey
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since he became Prime Minister of Turkey in 2002, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rule has become increasingly authoritarian, with his treatment of journalist...
An interview with Markéta Luskačová
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer Markéta Luskačová (http://www.marketaluskacova.com) began her career in Czechoslovakia around the time of the Prague Spring, and moved...
Cultural Review of the Year 2018
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our final show of 2018, co-hosts Juliet and Tom discuss literature, films, theatre and exhibitions that made an impact on them throughout the year,...
Biodiversity for Literature: An interview with Jessica J. Lee
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nature writing has often been white and male, and at times explicitly fascist. What would it mean to diversify the genre, in terms of race and gender?...
EXTRA: Army of Lovers: Queer consciousness-raising after Stonewall
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live in Birmingham during Grand Union’s ‘Ways of Learning’ exhibition, this episode of Suite (212) Extra discusses queer consciousness-...
La Grande Illusion: The cultural impact of World War I in France
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Much of the Western Front fighting in World War I took place in France, yet the cultural legacy of the war in France remains under-explored in the UK....
EXTRA: Why Suite (212)?
25 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why make a political arts programme? In this episode of Suite (212) Extra, hosts Juliet Jacques and Tom Overton discuss today's arts broadcasting and ...
Masses/Man: The cultural impact of World War I in Germany
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in World War I, and the failed Communist revolution that followed the armistice in November 1918,...
Dulce et Decorum Est: The cultural impact of World War I in the United Kingdom
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A century since the Armistice, World War I looms larger than ever in the UK's cultural and historical imaginary. Known first as 'the Great War' and th...
White Screens/Black Images: A conversation about black film
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Tom Overton interviews Dr Clive James Nwonka (http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/Clive-Nwonka) about White Screen/Black Images - Nwonka'...
New Suns: Magic, myth-making, occult poetry and 21st century feminism
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Tom Overton talks to Sarah Shin (co-founder of Ignota Books) and So Mayer (author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and other b...
The Mesmerist: An interview with Bill Morrison
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Morrison's most recent feature film, 'Dawson City: Frozen Time' (2016) is an astonishing look at the history of early cinema, and of North Americ...
Peter Watkins: Filmmaking against the global media crisis
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Despite decades of censorship and neglect, Peter Watkins (http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/) has created a body of work that marks him out as one of the UK’...
John Calder - A Life in Publishing
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Calder (1927-2018) was a giant of 20th century literary publishing, and a champion of free speech. Best known for publishing Samuel Beckett's nov...
EXTRA: Against Simple Answers: Art, sexuality and society in Kyrgyzstan
07 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since becoming independent from the collapsing Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has attracted some attention in the West for its two revolutions (in 2...
Against Creativity: An interview with Oli Mould
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How does capitalism hijack the idea of creativity for profit? Why does it encourage us to be 'creative' in every move we make? Does this make the very...
A Mexican Fairy Tale: The life and work of Leonora Carrington
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was one of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement, and one of the most singular figures in English moder...
Avi Mograbi: Making films in the Middle East
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi (b. 1956) has been documenting the Israel/Palestine conflict, and other issues in Israeli politics, since 1989. He has s...
Beyond Boundaries: An interview with Mike Dibb
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the July 2018 edition of Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to Mike Dibb (http://www.mikedibb.co.uk) about a documentary filmmaking career that has spa...
EXTRA: Reimagining Utopias: Art and politics in 21st century Ukraine
08 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
'De-Communisation' has become a central plank of government policy since 'Euromaidan' - the second revolution in Ukraine after independence from the U...
EXTRA: It is Forbidden to Forbid: The liberation of desire in France after May 1968
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One of the more intriguing - and most Lacanian - slogans that appeared in Paris in May 1968 declared 'Il est interdit d'interdire' - 'It is forbidden ...
In conversation with Sheila Heti (or: How Should a Writer Be?)
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Heti's new novel 'Motherhood' (Henry Holt/Harvill Secker, 2018) is a formally inventive, deeply personal exploration of a woman's decision abou...
Be Seeing You: The May '68 uprisings and French film
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1968, demonstrations at the University of Nanterre, triggered a wave of protests across Paris and elsewhere in France, that have loomed in the ...
Race, racism and the arts in Britain
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the April 2018 edition of Suite (212), returning host Juliet Jacques talks to artist, musician and filmmaker Larry Achiampong and dancer/performer ...
Literature in Translation
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest host Tom Overton discusses the legacy of writer and translator Anya Berger (1923-2018), and issues around literary translation with Esther Lesli...
Prole Art Threat: The Fall, post-punk and popular modernism
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Juliet talks to Owen Hatherley (author of 'Militant Modernism', 'A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain', 'Landscapes of Communism' and many other ...
The Lesser in Fortune: British experimental literature 1940-1980
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the January 2018 episode, Juliet is joined by Jonathan Coe (author of 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' and many other works) and ...
Art, Artists and Gentrification
18 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is gentrification? How far are artists complicit - wittingly or not - in processes of social cleansing? What can artists do to fight it? Juliet t...
Cultural Democracy
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The General Election of June 2017, and the massive Labour surge under Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership, has provided a new sense of optimism for t...
Where Art Belongs: An interview with Chris Kraus
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
American writer, publisher and filmmaker Chris Kraus joins Juliet to talk about the difficulties of experimental filmmaking, her work with Semiotext(e...
Memories of the Future: The cultural legacy of the Russian Revolution
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the intellectual and ideological nature of the art and culture produced between October 1917 and the c...
The Uses and Limits of Criticism
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What are the uses of cultural criticism? How does it improve art and artists, and how much does it impede them? How does criticism intersect with poli...