The Bido Lito! Arts + Culture Podcast

The Bido Lito! Arts + Culture Podcast focuses on some of the more interesting stories that lurk just below the surface of Liverpool's vibrant art, music and culture scene. Hosted by writer and critic Laura Brown and Bido Lito! Editor-in-Chief Christopher Torpey, the monthly show will use mini-features to unpick some narratives that maybe haven’t been widely heard, and offer some alternative viewpoints from invited guests.

Episodes

Episode 2: Queer The City

December 2, 2021 • 42 mins

Imagine if a city was planned and designed in a way that it represented each of the communities and peoples that lived within it. What would it look like? How would it change our behaviours, our sense of self and our safety if a city was designed for women, designed for the LGBTQIA+ community or for people living with a disability? We often think the way we live is the way it always has to be. The way cities are planned ...

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Episode 1: Field Notes

October 15, 2021 • 53 mins

Back for a third season and in a slightly different format, the Bido Lito! Arts + Culture Podcast is back telling stories from across Merseyside to a different theme each episode. Andrew PM Hunt began his musical journey with pop provocateurs Outfit and has since become a stalwart of Liverpool's avant garde scene via his Dialect project and latterly, Land Trance. He discusses how field recordings have influenced his sou...

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Digging The Archives #1

May 4, 2020 • 46 mins

Lockdown has prevented us from going to galleries and museums in person - but it hasn't stopped us from accessing culture online. In a new series, Laura and Christopher pick out some forms of digital culture archives that have been keeping them entertained while remaining socially distanced. The first episode in this series features queer zine archive QZAP, and the University of Liverpool's interactive Viking Age In The No...

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BONUS: What Is Activism?

May 3, 2020 • 30 mins

Following on from our previous podcast on community media with Dr Paddy Hoey, we have an extra bonus episode for you. This is based on a conversation Laura had in 2019 with Paddy about activism in the digital age, based around the book he'd just written about Irish republican media activism.

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What Is Community Media?

April 21, 2020 • 3 mins

For the third episode of Season 2, we speak with Dr Paddy Hoey, journalist and senior lecturer in Media, Film and Television at Edge Hill University. On the table is a discussion about the role that community media plays today, when digital means have caused our communities to become divergent and moved away from the mass public spheres we have long been accustomed to.

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Inspecting Morse

April 6, 2020 • 2 mins

You know that feeling when you discover a fictional world and it just feels like you've always known it? And the characters, plots and setting fit perfectly, like your favourite jacket, one that you never tire of wearing. That's what this episode is about, as Laura persuades Neil Atkinson to turn his attention away from The Anfield Wrap, and talk about their shared love of the world of Inspector Morse: both the novels of ...

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What's In A Biennial?

March 25, 2020 • 38 mins

For the first episode of Season 2, we speak with Liverpool Biennial's new Artistic Director, Fatoş Üstek, about how an art biennial relates to its location.

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God Save The Florrie

February 9, 2019 • 35 mins

The Florrie in Liverpool 8 celebrates its 130th birthday in 2019. We tell the story of how the building was saved, and how its bricks and mortar weren't the only thing restored.

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A Walk Through The City

January 8, 2019 • 50 mins

Musician and songwriter Nick Ellis takes us on a psychogeographic walk through the city, focusing on places that have particular resonance with his music. Ellis shows us how oral histories and layers of stories and tied into the fabric of our surroundings, and how we often ignore them as we traverse the city.

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The Bluecoat and Perestroika

November 30, 2018 • 39 mins

Jayne Casey and Bryan Biggs take us on a tour through the archive of The Bluecoat, the UK's oldest arts centre. In doing so, they chart the building's history as a repository of culture for Liverpool - and unearth a story from 1989, when a show they put on proved the existence of perestroika to Ronald Reagan.

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