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Producer-director Sarah Smith made her animation debut with the festive favourite, Arthur Christmas. Ten years on she鈥檚 back with Ron鈥檚 Gone Wrong, a warm-hearted romp with a robot and a critique of social media鈥檚 impact on young minds.

For this week鈥檚 audio postcard, presenter and local boy Nick Ahad is in Bradford. He dons his hard hat to check out what鈥檚 happening at the famous art deco building, known as the Bradford Odeon, as it鈥檚 turned into a new cultural centre for live music. He also visits Kala Sangam, an intercultural arts centre established by two consultant doctors that provides a place for locals to try new arts and crafts and which supports local artists and arts organisations. And he meets one of those emerging local artists, playwright and actor Kamal Kaan.

And how can theatre respond to a seismic event like the coronavirus pandemic, or the murder of George Floyd? Erica Whyman, Acting Artistic Director of The RSC and Roy Alexander Weise, joint Artistic Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, discuss the experience of returning to their respective productions of The Winter鈥檚 Tale and The Mountaintop with fresh eyes and renewed urgency.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Photo: Nick Ahad at The Bradford Odeon building site
Photo credit: Mark Nicholson