A very special episode, live from the Battle of Ideas, discussing the meaning of performance and "cultural cosplay"!

In this first ever live episode of Performance Anxiety, Maren and Alex are delighted to welcome their first ever guest host and interlocutor, writer and broadcaster Timandra Harkness.

Timandra helps the team explain why they started the podcast and why they chose to analyse performance in particular.

The team then use their particular set of skills to analyse the Bradley Cooper film Maestro, looking especially at whether or not Cooper's prosthetic nose is "cultural cosplay".

This episode contains one reference to the sitcom Larry Sanders. A special prize awaits the listener who spots it!