Critical Mash
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Troublesome women
Rebellious heroines and unscrupulous heroes
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war