Dark Unicorn in Conversation
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Join Paddy Cooper - Artistic Director of ethically-based theatre company Dark Unicorn Productions - as he speaks to a wide variety of interesting and insightful figures from all areas and tiers of the world of the arts. From film producers, musicians and casting directors, through screenwriters, novelists and theatre moguls, all the way to actors, cabaret entertainers, painters and burlesque performers, they give the story of their lives, their careers, their passions, their interests and their hopes for the future, as well as a sprinkling of gossip along the way!
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Festive Special - Jools Holland
December 27, 2020 12:00 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBWith our very best wishes for a less plaguey 2021, we offer you a little festive treat in the form of an interview with the King of New Year himself, Mr. Jools Holland OBE DL! A fixture on the UK music scene for almost half a century, first as the keyboardist for Squeeze, then as a broadcaster with iconic (and iconoclastic) Channel 4 music programme The Tube alongside the late Paula Yates, he has also continued as a recording artist, the director of the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orches...
Paul Freeman
October 15, 2020 23:01 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBIn this last episode of the current series of Dark Unicorn in Conversation, DU's Artistic Director Paddy Cooper talks to veteran actor Paul Freeman, whose career, spanning half a century, has taken in iconic roles such as the villainous Dr. René Belloq in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", arch-villain Ivan Ooze in the 1995 Power Rangers movie and the ambitious but principled Foreign Secretary Tom Makepeace in the final part of the original UK "House of Cards" Trilogy. In a wide-ranging interview ...
Richard Strange
October 11, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 121 MBRichard Strange first exploded into the public eye in 1975 as "Kid" Strange, lead singer and guitarist of the proto-punk band Doctors of Madness. Following time as a solo artist following the band's break-up, a period most notable for his concept album/rock opera The Phenomenal Rise of Richard Strange, he turned to cabaret curation, founding the Cabaret Futura strand. He is also an actor and has appeared on stage and screen in a vast variety of roles. He has just re-released the Doctors' LP ...
Timothy J. Howe
October 08, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 101 MBMae Timothy J. Howe yn gyfarwyddwr, dramodydd, addasydd gwaith ar gyfer y llwyfan ac yn arbenigwr theatr ieuenctid sy'n gweithio fel Rheolwr Ymgysylltu Creadigol yn Theatr y Sherman yng Nghaerdydd. Yn y cyfweliad hwn â Chyfarwyddwr Artistig Cynyrchiadau Unicorn Tywyll (a'i gyn-ddarlithydd) Paddy Cooper, mae'n trafod ei fywyd, ei yrfa a'i athroniaeth wrth greu perfformiadau gyda phobl ifanc ac ar eu cyfer. Timothy J. Howe is a director, facilitator, stage adaptationist and youth theatre exp...
Pete Malicki
October 04, 2020 23:01 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBPete Malicki is an Australian writer, educator and trainer, based in Sydney, with a particular penchant for the art of the monologue, having written hundreds which have been performed thousands of times in dozens of countries and which, along with his short plays and full-length works, make up a multi-award-winning oeuvre. He has been five times director of Short + Sweet Sydney - the world's largest short play festival, and is also the head of the Arts Business Academy, providing training a...
Edward Stourton
October 01, 2020 23:01 - 48 minutes - 31.4 MBEdward Stourton has been one of the most recognisable faces and voices in UK broadcast journalism over his 40-year career. From time spent with ITN as a trainee, then Washington Correspondent and Diplomatic Editor, he is perhaps most associated with the BBC, first as Paris Correspondent, then the anchor for the One O'Clock News on BBC1 from 1993-1999 followed by a decade as one of the core hosts of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, and now, also on R4, a regular host of The World at One an...
Deb Olin Unferth
September 27, 2020 23:01 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBDeb Olin Unferth is a Chicago-born, Texas-based author who has been impressing readers for some years now with her mixture of short stories, novels and memoirs, which have appeared everywhere from The New York Times and Harper's to literary heavyweight journal Granta. She is a three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, a finalist for a National Book Critics' Circle Award (for her memoir 'Revolution', about the period in her late teens when she dropped out of university and rushed to Nicaragua...
Elizabeth Webster
September 24, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBElizabeth Webster has, in a decade-long career, acted in some of our best loved series and opposite some of our most lauded actors. She is perhaps best known to international audiences as Lady Walda Bolton (née Frey), who met a rather sticky canine end after three seasons in HBO classic Game of Thrones, but has also appeared in a variety of TV, Film and stage hits. She talks to Dark Unicorn Artistic Director Paddy Cooper about her life and career as an actress, director, producer and lover ...
Richard Dempsey
September 20, 2020 23:01 - 40 minutes - 25.8 MBRichard Dempsey first burst on to the UK's television screens at the age of 14, when he played Peter Pevensie in the iconic 1988 BBC adaptation of "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe". And the icons kept coming as he was the original Jack in the UK production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" and Ugly, the lead in Stiles and Drewe's Olivier Award-winning original production of their hit "Honk!". Since then he has appeared with almost every major theatre company in the UK and in a sl...
Josephine Lloyd-Welcome
September 17, 2020 23:01 - 33 minutes - 22.2 MBJosephine Lloyd-Welcome has been a familiar face on our screens for over forty years, appearing in character roles in a wide variety of UK TV staples, from her powerful role as camp administrator Miss Hassan in 1980s prisoner-of-war drama "Tenko" through a memorable role as Del Boy Trotter's largely unflappable doctor in "Only Fools and Horses" to regular appearances on pretty much any major TV franchise you care to name, as well a bulging theatre CV in shows all over the UK and Europe. In ...
Robin Wiener
September 13, 2020 23:12 - 52 minutes - 32.4 MBRobin Wiener has been a journalist for 45 years, most of it with ABC News (US), as a senior news producer and bureau chief, leading work in Washington DC, Hong Kong, Rome, South Africa, Los Angeles and London in a career which has seen her produce ABC's authoritative content on everything from US politics and the Vatican to the first democratic elections in post-apartheid South Africa, the OJ Simpson trial, the Hong Kong handover and the death of Princess Diana. She now works freelance, cove...
Tom Palmer
September 10, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBActor, writer and producer Tom Palmer (EastEnders, Live at the Electric, Totally Tom) talks to Dark Unicorn Artistic Director Paddy Cooper about his life, career, his forthcoming feature film and how to get your shot-list right before approaching soap royalty. To find out about Access All Areas Theatre, which works with people with learning disabilities, and how you can support their work, please visit: http://www.accessallareastheatre.org/ To find out about Bare Face Theatre, the AAA seed...
Denholm Spurr
September 06, 2020 23:01 - 35 minutes - 20.9 MBLondon-based actor and LGBT+ activist Denholm Spurr talks to Dark Unicorn Artistic Director Paddy Cooper about his life, career, work within queer theatre and how he moved from homelessness into being one of the most recognisable faces in the capital's LGBT+ arts scene. Happily Ever Poofter has now been re-scheduled and is playing The Two Brewers, Clapham on Sept 24/25, 2020. For more information and to book, please visit: http://www.happilyeverpoofter.com To find out more about Denholm's ...
Elliot Chapman
September 03, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBActor, audiobook narrator and former Doctor Who companion for Big Finish Productions Elliot Chapman talks to friend and Dark Unicorn Productions' Artistic Director Paddy Cooper about life, work, sci-fi conventions, how retirement is a state of mind and the Shakespearean sights his whippet has seen in a warm, friendly, insightful interview with some questions from the public included for good measure. To purchase Elliot's contributions to the Doctor Who audio universe, please visit: https://...
Chloe Gale (Cadbury Parfait)
August 30, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBLincolnshire-born Chloe Gale, better known as Berlin burlesque sensation Cadbury Parfait, talks to Dark Unicorn Productions' Artistic Director Paddy Cooper about her life, her path into and through performance, her commitment to daring, inclusive, body-positive and diverse burlesque and her passion for vintage fashion, even in the face of Berlin's low-key style. You can follow her work via Facebook and Instagram: http://www.facebook.com/cadburyparfait http://www.instagram/cadburyparfait ...
Tom Stourton
August 27, 2020 23:01 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBActor, writer, comedian and star of both Horrible Histories and Thomas the Tank Engine, Tom Stourton, talks to Dark Unicorn Productions Artistic Director Paddy Cooper about his life and work, coming onto a long-running series with a very established audience and his love of painting. You can follow Tom on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/tomstourton Follow Dark Unicorn Productions on all good podcast providers for the latest content, and also follow us on: YouTube: http://tiny.cc/DUTub...
Barry & Sian
August 23, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBSketch comedy duo Barry Glennon and Sian Hutchinson - long-time favourites at the Brighton Fringe and national finalists in the UK-wide SketchOff competition, sat down in their separate homes to talk to Dark Unicorn Artistic Director (and their show pianist) Paddy Cooper about what makes them laugh, their love of live comedy and bringing their work to life with an all-LGBT+ company. Subscribe to their YouTube Channel for their latest output: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCRfua9jq9WtRnz...
Kit Hesketh-Harvey
August 20, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 111 MBKit Hesketh-Harvey has been a fixture on the cabaret circuit for nigh on 40 years, and is also a screenwriter, librettist, broadcaster, veteran panto villain and social dynamo, among much else besides. Famous for 30 years as one half of "Kit and the Widow", and subsequently as 50% of "Kit and McConnel", his skewering, blithely acidic and sometimes heartrending cabaret chansons have tackled every subject under the sun from fans of Stephen Sondheim and the perils of eating at Nando's to the (...
Danny Rogers
August 16, 2020 23:01 - 43 minutes - 33.5 MBDanny Rogers was the child who had it all - a great home with a loving family and a Dad who had made millions as one of the UK's most recognisable light entertainers. But by the time Danny was 11, the money had gone, his Dad was dead and he was in care. Finding a way of embracing the spectre of his father - singer, comedian and host of 1980s Saturday night classic gameshow 3-2-1, Danny has forged a career as an actor, presenter and entertainer in his own way, and has also turned the tumultu...
Dan John Witherall and Colin Adams-Toomey
August 13, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 129 MBAward-winning indie screenwriting partnership Dan John Witherall and Colin Adams-Toomey - the creative force behind the festival-wowing 2016 indie horror feature "Lost Creek" - discuss working between continents, their separate achievements, and reminisce on their meeting at university with the man who introduced them - Dark Unicorn Productions' artistic director Paddy Cooper. They are represented by LA agents Schemers Entertainment - http://www.schemers-ent.com Follow Dark Unicorn Product...
Ashley Shiers
August 09, 2020 23:01 - 45 minutes - 61.8 MBStill in the midst of his project to record all Shakespeare's sonnets with his own improvised modern translations, Ashley Shiers - Actor, Wrestler, winner of Dark Unicorn Productions' Viewers' Choice Award as part of our lockdown Monologues and Musicals Marathon - discusses his path through the arts with DU Artistic Director Paddy Cooper Follow Dark Unicorn Productions on all good podcast providers for the latest content, and also follow us on: YouTube: http://tiny.cc/DUTube Twitter: http...
Marc Zayat
August 06, 2020 23:01 - 43 minutes - 59.1 MBFollowing a childhood which included civil war, homelessness and uncertainty, Marc Zayat went on to be educated at the prestigious BRIT School for the Arts (which produced Adele, Amy Winehouse and Tom Holland among countless others) and, following time at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Arts Educational Schools, he has launched forth not only as an actor, but as the artistic director of Ethereal Theatre, which helped lead the way on transferring theatre content to Zoom during th...
Danielle Tarento
August 02, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBDanielle Tarento (www.tarento.net) has been a fixture on London's vibrant off-West End musical theatre scene for two decades, first as a co-founder of the Menier Chocolate Factory theatre in London Bridge - one of the most important theatres in the UK for the development of new work and chamber versions of revived shows - then as a producer and casting director in her own right with a company in her own name. Notable successes included "Titanic: The Musical" (Charing Cross Theatre and natio...
Jill Greenacre
July 30, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 49.9 MBDark Unicorn Productions Artistic Director Paddy Cooper talks to actor and shiatsu therapist Jill Greenacre about her life and career, including her six years in classic UK sitcom of the 1990s "The Brittas Empire", her relocation to Cornwall and how one teacher's belief helped to forge her career. Jill is appearing in a live-streamed performance on July 31 at 7pm BST as part of London venue The Space's 2.0 Festival. For more information, please visit: http://www.space.org.uk/event/2-0-fest/...
Sadie Frost & Ben Charles Edwards
July 29, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBPaddy Cooper talks to actor/producer/designer Sadie Frost and her long-time collaborator, photographer/director Ben Charles Edwards about their lives and work, and Sadie's work with homelessness charity Centre Point. For more information about Centre Point, visit http://www.centrepoint.org.uk CREDITS: Written, presented and edited by Paddy Cooper Guests: Sadie Frost, Ben Charles Edwards Title Music: Curtis Batson (http://www.curtbmusic.com0 Executive Producer: Eleanor Stourton Hosted...
Dark Unicorn in Conversation - Trailer
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