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**NT Talks**

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

Latest Episodes:

Alexander Zeldin on LOVE Jan 11, 2017

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The writer-director Alexander Zeldin talks to Samira Ahmed about his new play, LOVE.

Private Eye: A Review of 2016 Dec 20, 2016

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In his 30th year as Editor of the satirical magazine, Ian Hislop looks back on 2016 with regular guests Craig Brown, Lewis Macleod, Jan Ravens and John Sessions.

Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On Dec 15, 2016

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The writer reads from Keeping On Keeping On, his new collection of prose, following Writing Home and Untold Stories. It includes reflections on his collaboration with Nicholas Hytner, a comic radio play, and his diaries of 2005-2015, a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (including The Habit of Art), a double bill in the West End, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van.

A Poem For Every Night Of The Year Dec 08, 2016

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The live recording of readings from A Poem For Every Night of the Year, including joyous, magical, dramatic and humorous poems in the journey through history and human experience.

Allie Esiri’s new anthology is a journey through a calendar year, highlighting key moments and dates with a poem for every night, by writers such as Maya Angelou, Robert Burns and Benjamin Zephaniah.

With guest readers Kate Duchêne, Hattie Morahan, Giles Terera and Samuel West.

Michael Longhurst on Amadeus Dec 01, 2016

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Director Michael Longhurst discusses his new production of Peter Shaffer’s play, Amadeus, with Kate Mosse.

David Hare and John Simenon on The Red Barn Nov 28, 2016

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Playwright David Hare discusses his new play, The Red Barn, adapted from Georges Simenon’s novel La Main, with John Simenon, who reflects on his father’s literary legacy.

La Main is published as The Hand by Penguin Classics on 6 October, part of its long-term project to bring the Belgian writer to a British audience.

A Pacifist's Guide To The War On Cancer: Bryony Kimmings Nov 10, 2016

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Bryony Kimmings, director of this Complicite co-production, A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer, talks to comedian Jenny Eclair about the new musical as it arrives at the National.

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/a-pacifists-guide-to-the-war-on-cancer

NT: 40 Years as a Space for Plays Oct 28, 2016

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On this date in 1976, the National Theatre’s new building on the South Bank was officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen.

Paule Constable (lighting designer and NT Associate), Richard Pilbrow (Laurence Olivier’s lighting director and theatre consultant), and Steve Tompkins (co-founder of Haworth Tompkins Ltd, architects on the NT Future project) explore the process of the architectural design of the three NT theatre spaces, and celebrate the creativity of the theatre designer over the last 40 years with the practical experiences of working onstage.

Chaired by Gavin Henderson, Principal of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Alexander Technique in the Theatre Oct 17, 2016

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As her memoir, Touching Lives, is published, Sue Laurie reflects on thirty years of learning, training and teaching the Alexander Technique – an integral part of the inner workings of the National Theatre and RSC.

She talks about the huge impact that Alexander Technique has on voice, body and mind for actors, directors and puppeteers, and her own indomitable passion for theatre with actor Michelle Terry (NT: Cleansed, London Assurance) and director Ian Rickson (NT: Evening at the Talk House, The Red Lion), who calls her work ‘invaluable during rehearsal… almost imperceptible yet with palpable results’.

Sean O'Casey by his Daughter Sep 29, 2016

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Director Shivaun O’Casey, the playwright’s daughter, reflects on his life and work, including his play, The Plough and the Stars, in a conversation with Fergal Keane, award-winning journalist and Special Correspondent with BBC News.

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