Podcasts
The Exploding Appendix Podcast is a series of interviews and discussions exploring ideas, culture and current affairs.
March 4, 2026
Art Critic, Poet and Feminist, Carla Lonzi was born in 1931 and worked in art criticism from the late 1950s. Throughout the 1960s, Carla Lonzi wrote […]
January 28, 2026
In 2018, Bradley Tuck (Exploding Appendix) began a twelve-part interview series with Daniel & Clara, the moving image artists who have been creating an extensive body […]
January 14, 2026
“Surrealism means revolution, not spectator sports.” — protest slogan used outside the Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage show in 1968. Surrealism was a radical art movement […]
December 31, 2025
In May 2024, as part of the Brighton Festival, sound artist Simon James collaborated with young artists in Whitehawk to produce an installation in the Lighthouse’s […]
December 17, 2025
In this session, we will be joined by Lucy Jefferies (Quiet Down there), Susie Deadman (Sew Fabulous), Jenny Staff (artist at the Phoenix), Kasia Zermon (The […]
November 19, 2025
When Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex was published in 1970 it caused controversy. Arguing that the oppression of women lay in women’s biological capacity to […]
November 5, 2025
Exploding Appendix Podcast 46 – Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure
“Solidarity means changing the way the world works with those in crisis.” – Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina, The Guardian, 19 August 2025. Despite the deliberate devastation […]
August 27, 2025
In January 2021, Exploding Appendix published the first volume of the Exploding Appendix Dossier. The volume focused on the triad of themes REVOLUTION*ART*MANIFESTO and was comprised of manifestos, […]
August 13, 2025
It is assumed that genre films lack artistic merit, unoriginal in concept and lacking the vision of the auteur director but whether it is a gangster […]
July 30, 2025
The Facing Autonomy collective take their name from both the 1956 book Facing Reality, co-authored by, amongst others, C.L.R. James and Cornelius Castoriadis, which brought together […]
July 9, 2025
On August 9th 1969, Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian broke into the gated home of the actress Sharon Tate, which she […]
June 25, 2025
Podcast 41: Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Interactive Conversation with Tom Bunyard
The Situationist International (S.I.) was a political and social movement that ran from 1957 to 1972 that attempted to synthesise elements of Marxism and anarchist themes […]
June 11, 2025
We are joined by poet and scholar Keston Sutherland to discuss the poetic language used in the works of Marx. In an essay entitled ‘The poetics […]
June 26, 2023
The City of Brighton and Hove is renowned for its breathtaking contributions to art and culture. The many artistic and cultural groups, events and their interplay […]
October 25, 2022
Poster illustration by Helmi Tourni In her writings on both 1960s post-colonial Lebanon and the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) Zeina Maasri has produced numerous fascinating books […]
September 6, 2022
Christopher Lasch was a writer and cultural critic, who is best known for his 1979 best-seller, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of […]
May 22, 2022
In this podcast, we wander alongside Daniel Kahn, a Yiddish musician, playwright, poet and translator. His music is entangled with his heritage in a myriad of […]
May 17, 2022
The Bloomsbury Group was a loose network of artists, writers, and intellectuals who lived, worked or studied in Bloomsbury in London. Comprised of Thoby Stephen, Adrian […]
January 13, 2022
The Russian Revolution was not only a political revolution but a cultural one. The struggle for a new culture was one that directly animated the workers […]
December 14, 2021
According to Leon Trotsky, “even a successful solution of the elementary problems of food, clothing, shelter, and even of literacy, would in no way signify a […]