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Suite (212)

Suite (212) is a radio programme, broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm, and podcast that explores the arts in their social, political, cultural and historical contexts, hosted by Juliet Jacques.

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Sep 19, 2026
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Jul 11, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 19, 2026

    No Justice, No PiS: The arts and politics in Poland since 2015 (opens the original)

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    This month, Juliet talks to authors Ewa Majewska and Kuba Szreder about how Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) intervened in art and culture following their election victory in December 2015, and what’s changed since Donald Tusk became Prime Minister on a pro-EU, centrist platform in 2023. They discuss PiS’s takeover of state television, appointment of numerous sympathisers within institutions such as Warsaw’s influential Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, and their manipulation of

  2. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    Ways of Being: The Life of John Berger (opens the original)

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    In this edition of Suite (212), Juliet talks to former co-host Tom Overton about his long-awaited biography John Berger: From Life, published by Penguin. They discussed Tom’s encounter with the art critic, novelist, painter and poet Berger at the British Library, where he worked on Berger’s archives, and his approach to writing Berger’s biography. They also talked about how much Berger’s reputation rests on his seminal BBC television series Ways of Seeing (1972); Berger’s Booker Prize-winning no

  3. Episode · Aug 7, 2026

    The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 24 - Keith Ridgway (opens the original)

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    In our latest Session, Juliet talks to London-based Irish writer Keith Ridgway about his three most recent novels, Hawthorn & Child (2012), A Shock (2021) and Dooneen (2026), recently published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. They discussed the differences between novels and short story collections, and how much they matter; Keith’s fragmentary plots and open-ended use of the ‘detective’ genre; the way Irish ‘experimental’ writers are often read with a national lineage that begins with Joyce, Beckett

  4. Episode · Jul 14, 2026

    The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 23 - Oleksiy Radynski (opens the original)

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    In our latest session, Juliet talks to Kyiv-based filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski about four of his works – his feature-length documentary Infinity According to Florian (202x), his two works about the Russian occupation of Ukraine’s infamous nuclear plant, Chornobyl 22 (2023) and the longer Special Operation (2025), and his docu-fiction Where Russia Ends (2024), using found footage from the Science Film Studio in Kyiv. They discussed the project to save modernist buildings in Kyiv and the

  5. Episode · Jul 11, 2026

    The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 22 - Imran Perretta (opens the original)

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    In our latest Session, Juliet talks to film director, visual artist and composer Imran Perretta about his new feature film Ish (2025), due to be released in the UK and Ireland on 31 July, as well as his short film the destructors (2020) and his installation A Riot in Three Acts, first exhibited at Somerset House in 2024. They talked about how the works were shaped by Thatcherism and neoliberalism, the War on Terror and the genocide in Gaza, institutional racism and police profiling, as well as h

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