As we move towards a kind of deregulation of Actor training we establish the relationship between the CDD and NCDT find out how they relate to the Gulbenkian Report and discover what happened to Drama UK.

In this episode we discuss new models and ideas for the training of actors with Principal Thomasina Unsworth and Head of Acting Phillip Edgerley of Brighton's new Institute for Contemporary Theatre.    

In a conversation with Ben Naylor we discuss acting Shakespeare, beyond concerns with metre and prosody, along with exploring the place and status of post graduate courses within the conservatoire. Ben Naylor is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader MA...

A conversation with Professor Ros Steen. Professor Ros Steen FRCS. MA. DSD. IPA.Ros Steen has worked as a Voice specialist for Theatre, Film and TV for over thirty five years with more than two hundred and fifty credits to her name including work for,...

A wide ranging conversation with Dr Phillipa Burt about ensemble theatre, its place in the history of British Theatre and the relationship between that story and ideas within the Drama School.Philippa Burt is a lecturer in theatre and performance theory...

In this episode we congratulate the new principal of Central Josette Bushell-Mingo on her appointment and look back on the brief and curious history of the Company of Youth also known as the Rank Charm School. And it’s principal the much mocked Molly...

In this episode Robert discusses the Meisner Technique its practise and place in the British Drama School with Dr Philippa Strandberg-Long.Philippa  has published several excellent papers on the Meisner technique : Mapping Meisner – how Stanislavski’s...

In this episode we look at the decline of the Stock System the emergence of the Long Run and what was said at the opening ceremony of 'Mr Tree's School' the Academy of Dramatic Art on April 25th 1904. The image is of His Majesty’s Theatre where he...

ABIGAIL ROKISON-WOODALL Abigail began her career as a professional actor, training at LAMDA. She completed her PhD at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in 2006 after which she became a lecturer in Drama and English in the Education Faculty in...

In this episode Stephen Macht describes how a chance meeting with Michel Saint Denis after a performance of Danton's Death at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire led him to attend the Lamda of Michael MacOwen and Norman Ayrton in the 1960's, how it was...

In this edition Robert discusses the deep roots of the British Drama School in the French avant garde and wonders does the modern drama school start under the dome of His Majesty's Theatre or on the left bank of Paris in the Theatre du Vieux Colombier...

In this special bonus episode, Alex Bingley, voice teacher, interviews Professor Nadia Kevan  about her journey and approach to integrating the Alexander Technique in to the professional training of dancers, actors and singers. Nadia Kevan  is English...

In this episode Robert talks to Ed Hicks newly appointed principal of the Oxford School of Drama. Ed was previously Head of Film at Rada and before that a professional film maker and actor.  

In this episode recorded on Christmas Day, Robert recounts the sad tale  Fanny Kelly's disastrous attempt to launch the Royalty Theatre and Dramatic School on Dean Street in Soho between 1840 and 1849. This episode includes an account of Samuel Pepys...

In this episode Robert, Angie Herzberg, Lou Saucell and Alex Bingley continue discussing the Alexander Technique within Actor Training. 

In this episode Robert discusses the place of the Alexander Technique in the British Drama School with Alexander Teachers Angie Herzberg and Lou Saucell and voice teacher from Lamda, Italia Conti and the Drama Centre, Alex Bingley.  After more than...

In this episode Robert talks to Alan Stanford, Artistic Director of PICT Pittsburgh's Classic Theatre about his training at the Guildhall, King Lear, Beckett and other things besides. Robert can be contacted at [email protected] Below are the...

In this episode Lizzie and Robert discuss the work of Trish Arnold, teaching in lockdown and the potential politics of transformation. Lizzie can be contacted at [email protected] 

In this episode we continue the conversation with David covering topics including how the Central MA in Voice Studeies evolved and developed and discuss why the Voice faculty of British Drama Schools was so white.

In the first of two episodes David discusses his  journey towards taking over the Voice teacher training course at The Central School of Speech and Drama in the 1980s.  

The second part of a conversation with James Kemp. Amongst other things we discuss how Anthony Hopkins marks up his script after reading it several hundred times.

In this episode we explore in detail one of the four pillars of the Drama Centre's pedagogy, the Yat Malmgren application of the work of Laban and Carpenter into actor training as Character Analysis, its place at the Drama Centre and Lamda and how that...

In this episode Robert reads extracts from Rosina Filippi's book Hints to Speakers and Players and discusses her relationship with the important teacher and actor Herman Vezin in order to gain some insight into teaching within the institutions of...