Performance Anxiety podcast live

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Performance Anxiety is a podcast that analyses the film, television, theatre and comedy performances that everybody is talking about.

So many contemporary discussions about performance have become politicised – argumentative, overwrought, joyless and indifferent to the art itself. Hosts Alex Dale and film expert Dr Maren Thom love the art of performance, and think the most radical way to understand it is to enjoy it. In previous podcasts, they have discussed Pedro Pascal and lumbersexualism, Immanuel Kant and Guardians of the Galaxy, Barbie and the culture wars and whether it matters if an Irish actor played Oppenheimer.

Join them as they give the art of performance the love and understanding they think it really deserves. In this special live recording at the Battle of Ideas festival, Alex and Maren will be joined by writer and broadcaster Timandra Harkness to discuss the thinking behind the podcast, before analysing the performance of the moment.

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