Stories in Colour
Hosted by Beks Leary · The National Gallery
5.0from 3 ratings
- 22
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 3
- Ratings
- 2025
- First episode
- 34M
- YouTube views
About Stories in Colour
These are the stories of how colour has changed the world. 'Stories in Colour’ is a vibrant new podcast from the National Gallery in London. In each episode, we uncover the hidden mysteries woven into colour from antiquity to the present day. Along the way, you'll hear from curators, scientists, historians, artists, and more experts, looking at humanity’s efforts to make colour and make meaning with it. And amongst these stories, you will see - and hear - the National Gallery’s paintings in a whole new spectrum of light. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcast
- Publisher
- The National Gallery
- Category
- arts · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 May 2025
- Latest episode
- 8 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 22 episodes have a transcript.
8 Jul 2026
Pink is for girls, blue is for boys
1 Jul 2026
The hunt for the blackest black
24 Jun 2026
Rediscovering history’s women colour theorists
Inside a recent episode
Decoding paintings through colour
Published 17 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think that's a thing that yellow... I'm sure I've heard and read somewhere that, you know, when a house is being staged, if you put yellow cushions in, it makes people feel happy when they wander in. But yeah, it's another really brilliant example of an artist, you know, really focusing on one colour. […]
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- Vien Cheung
- Ed Dickenson
- Stuart Semple
- Alexandra Loske
- Zeynep Sagir
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- YouTube views
- 34,036,297
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100
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- Quality
- 32
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 0
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