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Past Performances

The Great Big Empire Podcast Quiz

Comedy / Empire Podcast 500th Episode Celebration

This is it, folks. The first ever Empire Podcast quiz, with quizmaster Chris Hewitt pitting two teams led by James Dyer and Helen O’Hara against each other. Who will emerge victorious?

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The Empire Film Podcast

Comedy / London Podcast Festival

Good news! The award-winning-and-mainly-award-losing Empire Film Podcast is taking time out from its busy schedule of winning (but mainly losing) awards to return to the London Podcast Festival.

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The Empire Podcast 550th Episode Live

Comedy at Kings Place

The Empire Podcast is back for another landmark live show at Kings Place, London! Can it really be a year since our British Podcast Awards-winning epic celebration of our 500th episode? Apparently it can, and that means that Episode 550 is just around the corner.

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The Empire Film Podcast

Comedy / London Podcast Festival

Love film? Love podcasts about film? You’re in luck. The Empire Podcast — the podarm of the world’s biggest movie magazine — is making its triumphant return to the London Podcast Festival.

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THE EMPIRE PODCAST EPISODE 500 — LIVE!!!

Words / Empire Podcast 500th Episode Celebration

This is The Big One. Not to be confused with that rollercoaster they have up in Blackpool. Although this will be a rollercoaster ride that will make you forget what you thought you knew.

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The Empire Film Podcast

Words / London Podcast Festival 2017

The audio offshoot of the world’s biggest movie magazine bringing its unique brand of informed film chat, razor-sharp movie reviews and general nonsense to the London Podcast Festival.

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The Empire Film Podcast

Comedy / London Podcast Festival

Undeterred by public opinion, the Empire Podcast is returning to Kings Place for this year’s London Podcast Festival. Join the colleagues of such lethal cunning — Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, James Dyer and Ben Travis — for an evening of film-related fun.

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The Empire Film Podcast 650th Episode Live!

Comedy at Kings Place

Can it really be one year since the Empire Podcast celebrated another landmark episode with a rip-roaring, triumphant live show at Kings Place? Well, clearly it can, as they're about to do it again!

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The Empire Film Podcast

Comedy / London Podcast Festival

The award-winning-but-let’s-be-honest-here-mostly-award-losing Empire Podcast makes a triumphant, socially distanced return to the London Podcast Festival. Come and watch – from a safe distance, of course – as four giggling idiots talk about movies, answer your

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The Empire Film Podcast – 400th Episode

Words at Kings Place

The Empire Podcast — one of the many podcasts about film out there, but absolutely the only one from Empire magazine — is celebrating its 400th episode with a live show at Kings Place! Yes,

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The Empire Film Podcast

Words / London Podcast Festival

The award-winning-but-mostly-award-losing Empire Podcast makes its glorious return to the London Podcast Festival with a jam packed show that will feature… well, to be honest, we have no idea what it’s going to feature.

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The Empire Film Podcast – 350th Episode

Words at Kings Place

The Empire Podcast is turning 350, and they want you to help them blow out the candles on their cake. They’re recording this landmark episode of the podcast.

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The Empire Film Podcast

Words / London Podcast Festival

The Empire Podcast is the audio offshoot of the world’s biggest movie magazine. For this episode, they may even be bringing a very special guest.

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The Empire Film Podcast – 300th Episode

Words at Kings Place

This! Is! Empire! Yes, the award-winning Empire Podcast is turning 300 (though it doesn’t look a day over 298), and to celebrate they are recording their 300th podcast live at Kings Place!

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The Empire Podcast 600th Episode Live!

Comedy at Kings Place

The Empire Podcast is turning 600, and as ever we’re celebrating with a massive podparty at Kings Place — and you’re all invited!

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The Empire Film Podcast

Words / London Podcast Festival

Bangily-bang! Because you demanded it, the Empire Podcast is making its traditional triumphant return to the London Podcast Festival.

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The Empire Film Podcast – 450th Episode

Words at Kings Place

The Empire Podcast — one of the many podcasts about film out there, but absolutely the only one from Empire magazine — is celebrating its 450th episode with a live show at Kings Place.

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The Very Best Of The Empire Podcast - Live

Words / Empire Podcast 500th Episode Celebration

Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a clip show. Nor will it involve the Empire Podcast team standing around reading out highlights from past shows. Instead, this is a live jamboree of some of your favourite podcast formats, including…

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Drunk Women Empire

Comedy / London Podcast Festival

Drunk Women Solving Crime is a true crime podcast with a twist...of lime. Join writer/comedian hosts Hannah George, Catie Wilkins and Taylor Glenn for a special mash up episode with The Empire Film Podcast!

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Empire Podcast Avengers: Endgame LIVE Spoiler Special

Comedy at Kings Place

We’re in the Endgame now. And how. Because you demanded it, the Empire Podcast team is descending upon Kings Place for a one-off live event in which they will discuss the ins and outs, ups

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Murder in Constantinople

Words / Jewish Book Week

Praised as “a rip-roaring adventure” by the Daily Mail and “unputdownable” in The Sun’s 5-star review, A.E. Goldin’s debut novel is an immersive historical mystery.

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Cinema King

Words / Book Week

Jennifer King on her grandfather’s remarkable journey from impoverished Jewish family escaping pogroms to silent movie violinist to entertainment empire.

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Trump 2.0: What’s Next?

Words / Jewish Book Week

With Donald Trump back in the White House, how might his second presidency shape America’s domestic and foreign policy? What’s next for the US? David Aaronovitch moderates a dynamic panel.

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Is Geography Destiny?

Words / Jewish Book Week

Stanford Historian Ian Morris explores the mutual influences between geography and civilisations, and the way they have shaped our interconnected world.

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Songs We Carry: Saied Silbak & Ana Silvera

Contemporary at Kings Place

Acclaimed singer and multi-instrumentalist Ana Silvera and Palestinian composer, Oud virtuoso and singer Saied Silbak join creative forces in their debut EP ‘Songs We Carry’, a new collaboration exploring the common ground between their heritages - the emotive, melancholy of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) music and the rich Maqams and intricate melodies of Arabic song.

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Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

Folk / Folk Weekend: State Of The Nations

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people. Songs range from themes of freedom, nature and venturing out into the world after times of darkness.

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Eric Cantona

Contemporary at Kings Place

Eric Cantona makes his Kings Place debut as part of his April 2024 Tour to present his most recent album 'Cantona Sings Eric'.

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The Singing Revolution

Words / Sounds of Estonia

An inspiring documentary of one nation’s dramatic rebirth. It is the story of humankind’s irrepressible drive for freedom and self-determination. Plus a Q&A with Dr Mart Kuldkepp and Tõnu Kaljuste, chaired by Elisabeth Braw.

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The Lost Café Schindler

Words / Jewish Book Week

An extraordinary story of Austro-Hungarian Jews with Meriel Schindler.

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Pilot TV LIVE - Part 1

The Pilot TV Podcast Live – 200th Episode Celebration at Kings Place

Join us for an entire afternoon celebrating the wonders of Peak TV! We have a packed roster for you, with Pilot TV podcast regulars, special panels on upcoming shows and exclusive footage.

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Yulia Chaplina and Thomas Gould: Behind the Iron Curtain

Classical at Kings Place

Versatile violinist Thomas Gould joins forces with ‘quintessentially Russian’ pianist Yulia Chaplina for a programme that dives into the music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Weinberg, written at the height of the Soviet Empire.

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Pilot TV Podcast

Comedy / London Podcast Festival

Too tired to sift through endless listings? Bamboozled by Netflix’s erratic release schedule? Well, fear no longer because Pilot TV has you covered.

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Returning from Silence

Words / Jewish Book Week

Michèle Sarde’s lively saga mingles creative writing with family memories. It evokes the prickly, centuries-long life of the Jews in Salonica, with their nostalgia for the Spain they left behind.

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The Ottomans

Words / Jewish Book Week

Marc David Baer & Katherine Pangonis on the remarkable rise from frontier principality to multi-ethnic, multi-religious world empire

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Anatomy of a Nation

Words / Jewish Book Week

Dominic Selwood on national identity & the position of British Jews.

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There’s No Business Like Show Business

Words / Jewish Book Week

Critically-acclaimed singers Caroline Kennedy and Simon Wallfisch are joined by music director Iain Farrington in a unique performance celebrating Irving Berlin’s life in music and words.

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The Crick Crack Club presents... The Son of the Buffalo Women

Words / Venus Unwrapped

Storyteller Jan Blake and drummer John Predare take us on an inspiring tale – The Birth of Sundiata Keita –from its origins in 13th-century Africa to the conflicts in our own time where its telling has been forbidden.

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Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Words / Jewish Book Week

Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th century British history. Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts draws on new sources to lay bare Churchill’s faults and virtues.

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A History of Judaism

Words / Jewish Book Week 2018

In this authoritative and fascinating study, Professor Martin Goodman outlines a global history of Judaism.

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Ligeti Quartet

Classical at Kings Place

The Ligeti Quartet is dedicated to presenting exciting and innovative programmes, performing and commissioning new music, and promoting the string quartet in the UK and abroad. This concert showcases the expansion of the string quartet

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Muppets in Moscow

Words / Politics

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights…or is it? After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing seemed perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children in across the former empire, with Jim Henson’s Muppet creations envisioned as ideal ambassadors for Western values, an idea championed in Congress by then-senator Joe Biden.

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Sathnam Sanghera in conversation with Amelia Gentleman

Words / Jewish Book Week

Described as ‘terrific and very important’ by Simon Schama and ‘an amazing education’ by David Baddiel, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera is already one of 2021’s most-talked-about books.

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