Out In Brighton With Kathy Caton

It’s a packed programme of LGBTQ theatre this week as Brighton Fringe continues - - The House of Bakewell say they can make us happy - Peter Darney on the award-winning 5 Guys Chilling at the Warren - John Arthur Sweet is fresh from the Dublin Gay Theatre festival with his piece Erect But Unstable And we’ve got the very naughty Captain Kidd from Briefs too!

- Sarah Hutchings on The Good Son, this year’s City Reads novel - Lesbian knife-throwing rock opera comes to the Fringe - we’ll hear from the magnificently monikered Daggers MacKenzie - The fabulous acrobatics of the very naughty Head First Acrobats and their Elixir show are back in town - and you’ve the chance to win tickets for their cracking show - And more fringing with the International Man of Leather John Pendal

Feature-length Heather Peace special as she talks about parenthood, life on the road and the story telling new EP - and new sound - of Come Home.

- the 2016 Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringes launch this week - the Marlborough Theatre will once again be leading the way with the Fringe’s LGBTQ offerings - Tarik Elmoutawakil will be be in with the run down on this year’s queer offerings - Edit Profile, a piece looking at the chem sex scene and hook-up apps - at the Rialto Theatre - Martin Chatfield talks about HIV Happy Hour - And the Stonewall equality walk is back and RadioReverb will be hosting - we’ve got the details on that

- Authors Deb Price and Kath Taylor talk about their joint work together on LGBT Diversity and Inclusion in Early Years Education - The activist and campaigner Katie Cornhill talks about her work with the Fire Service, Stonewall and new book In Different Shoes: Stories of Trans Lives - And with the 2016 Brighton Festival and Fringe upon us, Jo Merriman is in to talk about new devised theatre piece Hetty The King, on at The Warren

We’re continuing our look ahead to the 2016 Brighton Fringe - this week we hear about plans at The Blue Man; Lisa Honan, the founder of the Gender Free World clothing range; and Jessica Cheetham from Spun Glass Theatre on new shows Stamp and Operation Love Story

Neil Bartlett - author, performer, playwright and exponent of queer arts - talks exclusively to Out In Brighton about his life, work, activism, and Stella, his new work premiering in the 50th Brighton Festival.

- We’re a month away from the 2016 Brighton Fringe and The Warren is going from strength to strength with it’s LGBTQ fringe offerings - programmer Nicky Haydn has all the details - We’ll be raising hell as Brighton’s Dykes on Bikes join us in the studio - There's the full low-down on this year’s Brighton Bear Weekend as the programme launches And we’ve an exclusive for you too, with the very first Brighton airplay of Heather Peace’s new single, Lightbulb

- Simon Dowe, chief executive of the Sussex Beacon & Jason Warrener, lead nurse, are in with the grand reveal of the host of their Halloween Ball fundraiser - and the half-marathon launches too - Jacob Engelberg, programmer of queer film strand Eyes Wide Open Cinema, is in with news of their forthcoming screenings - And we’ve an extended interview with Nicky Mitchell - she’ll not only be playing us a couple of session tracks ahead of her gig at Jane Bom-Bane’s, but she’ll also be talking in detail about her first-hand experience working with refugees on Lesvos - and what we can do to help.

- Camden LGBT forum have appointed the UK’s first LGBT poet laureate - Trudy Howson is in to talk about her experiences so far and to share some of her poetry - The Bedford Tavern’s Easter Sunday Drag Races have become a Brighton institution - the Bedford’s own Easter bunny Adam Brooks has the full run-down of what to expect from one of the campest - and most competitve - events in town - And we’ve the run down of all the events you need over the long weekend to keep you out of - or get you in to - trouble

- Brighton Pride planning is in full swing and they’ve started announcing the first acts - Pride's Jane Babb & Paul Kemp are in - We say happy St Patrick’s Day as Sharon Barr joins us in the studio - she’s raising the bar with the relaunch of The Zone on St James’ Street - MindOut are rattling the buckets for their swimathon - And Gender Free World - a brand new clothing concept launches - we hear from founder Lisa Honan

It's a queer arts and culture bonanza for you this week - there’s a huge amount of stuff going on to mark this year’s International Woman’s Day - the frankly inspirational Jess Woodfall is in with details of the events at the Corn Exchange and Dome, we hear from Sarah Johnson too about the details of Women’s Week at the Dukebox Theatre. A brand new festival of local new writing launches - Alison Child & Rosie Wakely tell us about Hovegrown and their Fringe shows. And the ever-brilliant Tarik Elmoutawakil of the Pink Fringe and the Marlborough Theatre gives us their look ahead to the Fringe too. And brand new music from Miri to boot!

- The irrepressible, unstopppable and all round generally fabulous Julian Caddy, director of the Brighton Fringe, joins us as England’s biggest arts festival, Fringe 2016 launches - Jamie Wyld on the new oral history Giddy app, recording LGBTQ stories of Brighton - Reverb’s very own Queen Josephine and Kate Wildblood of Home Service will be in with news of their new residency at Patterns - And we’re be rattling the buckets for our annual fund-raising Reverbathon - station manager Maco will be in with details of what’s on when - and how you can keep us on air and advert-free with a donation