Stage and screen Archives - Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:52:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-RP-Sq-Logo-32x32.jpg Stage and screen Archives - Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/ 32 32 What happened to Local TV? https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/what-happened-to-local-tv/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:52:12 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47760 Local TV promised to platform grassroots politics and marginal voices, but weak regulation saw the sector thin out. Andy Brain surveys the survivors and asks: can communities reclaim the airways?

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]]> Jude awakening https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/jude-awakening/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:46:47 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47765 Juliet Jaques celebrates the work of Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, whose incisive social commentary prioritises laughter, substance and style

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]]> Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/sinners-sinks-teeth-into-irish-settler-colonialsim/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47518 Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler's thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

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]]> The Red Radio Times: what to watch this Christmas https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/the-red-radio-times-what-to-watch-this-christmas/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47008 As we wrap up for the winter break, Cameron Baillie and Red Pepper editors pick out the best films for readers to enjoy over the holiday

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]]> Puppetry thrives amid war in Ukraine https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/puppetry-thrives-amid-war-in-ukraine/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:53:16 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=43253 The Odesa Puppet Theatre plays a vital role for Ukrainians facing the violence and trauma of war, explain Nataliia Borodina and Matt Smith

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]]> Art in atrocity: Palestine and the destruction of culture https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/art-and-museums/art-in-atrocity-palestine-and-the-destruction-of-culture/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=41975 Palestinian artists are being silenced in Gaza and all around the world. Their work must continue speaking volumes, says Siobhán McGuirk

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]]> Cinema for liberation: new visions from Palestine https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/cinema-for-liberation-visions-from-palestine/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:04:52 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=41854 Farrah Koutteineh surveys the work of women Palestinian filmmakers resisting Israeli efforts to bury the past and present of colonial violence

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]]> Working class films and social change: An interview with Ken Loach https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/working-class-films-and-social-change-an-interview-with-ken-loach/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:00:57 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=41851 Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people

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]]> Anchors for hope: The uses of nostalgia https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/history/anchors-for-hope-the-benefits-of-left-nostalgia/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:00:43 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=35043 Nostalgia can inspire action towards a more just society, says Siobhan McGuirk, if we remember without romanticising socialist victories past

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]]> Ram Rajya 2.0: Nostalgia, cinema and Indian nationalism https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/stage-screen/ram-rajya-2-0-india-hindu-nationalism-bjp-modi-hindutva-adipurush-cinema/ Sun, 06 Aug 2023 07:00:47 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=35143 Priya Chacko and Maggie Paul explore how historic and religious popular culture uses nostalgia to further Hindu nationalist agendas – a process known as ‘saffronisation’

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