22nd April 2014: The women of the blues. Concluding Charles Shaar Murray's Guide to the Blues, Part 3. Guest: Sarah Gillespie. 15th April 2014: China's cultural & scientific contributions to the west. Guests: Liz Lawrence and Paul Anderson. 8th April 2014: Slam and Performance Poetry. Guests: John Paul O'Neill, John Crow and Charles Shaar Murray. Plus Kevin Shen talks about the transfer of David Henry Hwang's play Yellow Face to the National Theatre Shed. 1st April 2014: Alternative Theatre. Guests: Dr Susan Croft and Neil Hornick of The Phantom Captain. 25th March 2014: Chinese Arts round-up. Guests: Jingan Young, Aowen Jin, Daniel York and Wondermare, and Charles Shaar Murray. 18th March 2014: The Life and Crimes of Anna May Wong The story of Hollywood's first Chinese screen legend, the most famous Chinese woman on the planet in the 1920s and '30s. 11th March 2014: Charles Shaar Murray's Guide to the Blues, Part 2. The mid-1960s to the present when the white kids got it and joined in. In brief, pre- and post- Stones. With Stephen Dale Petit. 4th March 2014: Charles Shaar Murray's Guide to the Blues, Part 1. 1920s to the early sixties when the Blues was almost entirely... (read more)