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Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

Hieroglyphs at the British Museum, Emily Brontë biopic, Shehan Karunatilaka

42 mins; October 13, 2022

Live from Belfast with Ruth McGinley, Conor Mitchell, Claire Keegan

42 mins; October 13, 2022

Camilla George, Elizabeth Strout and Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari

41 mins; October 11, 2022

Alan Garner Booker Shortlisted, Orfeo Reimagined, Baz Luhrmann on Peter Brook

42 mins; October 10, 2022

Booker-nominated author Percival Everett, The Lost King reviewed

42 mins; October 06, 2022

Björk, NoViolet Bulawayo, James Bond at 60

41 mins; October 05, 2022

BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers' Award winners

42 mins; October 04, 2022

Viola Davis in The Woman King, playwright Rona Munro and artist Amy Sherald

42 mins; October 03, 2022

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare North Playhouse and artist Samson Kambalu

42 mins; September 29, 2022

The Blackwater Lightship, Filmmaker Kirsty Bell, Black Art

42 mins; September 29, 2022

Anthony Roth Costanzo, Unboxed's See Monster, and the cost of living crisis

42 mins; September 27, 2022

Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered

42 mins; September 26, 2022

Blonde and Inside Man reviewed, Anna Bailey interview

42 mins; September 22, 2022

Beth Orton, Jodi Picoult, South Korean Art

43 mins; September 21, 2022

Ralph Vaughan Williams

41 mins; September 21, 2022

Louise Doughty on her BBC drama Crossfire, singer-songwriter Miki Berenyi from Lush, author Jenn Ashworth

41 mins; September 20, 2022

Ticket to Paradise film, Winslow Homer exhibition, National Short Story Award shortlist announcement

42 mins; September 15, 2022

Cellist Abel Selaocoe, Art & History, Curlews In Music

42 mins; September 14, 2022

Richard Eyre's The Snail House; Sylvia Anderson and women in TV; the late Jean-Luc Godard

42 mins; September 13, 2022

Eileen Cooper, Northern Ireland Opera, Basic Income For The Arts In Ireland, Roger McGough

42 mins; September 12, 2022

Trumpet player Alison Balsom and the campaign to revive the works of author Jack Hilton

41 mins; September 07, 2022

Loudon Wainwright III performs live, the Booker Prize shortlist, studying English Literature

42 mins; September 06, 2022

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Venice Film Festival, Booker Longlisted Shehan Karunatilaka, Tom Chaplin

42 mins; September 05, 2022

Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power; Three Thousand Years of Longing; Nick Drnaso; the Edinburgh Festivals

42 mins; September 01, 2022

Joyce Carol Oates, The comeback of Jungle, RIOPY

42 mins; August 31, 2022

Best-selling book charts, author Ann Cleeves and Composer James B.Wilson on the last night of the Proms

42 mins; August 30, 2022

Shelea, Reviewing Official Competition and Red Rose, Gus Casely-Hayford

42 mins; August 18, 2022

Gregory Doran and the RSC, WASWASA – Whispers in Prayer performance, Taiwan's new cultural landmark

42 mins; August 17, 2022

Anne-Marie Duff on Bad Sisters, Returning the Benin Bronzes, Public Service Broadcasting's Prom

42 mins; August 16, 2022

Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine, Abdul Shayek and Ishy Din, Threats to writers

42 mins; August 15, 2022

Edinburgh Festival: Burn, Counting & Cracking, Aftersun, Festival picks

42 mins; August 11, 2022

Immy Humes and Aindrea Emelife, Charlotte Higgins and David Greig, Stefan Golaszewski

42 mins; August 10, 2022

Live from the Edinburgh Festival: Matt Forde, Anne Sofie von Otter, Exodus

42 mins; August 09, 2022

Jordan Peele on Nope, trombonist Peter Moore, Where Is Anne Frank film review, Edinburgh Art Festival

42 mins; August 08, 2022

Bullet Train & Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man reviewed, conductor Semyon Bychkov

42 mins; August 04, 2022

The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Ted Gioia on Duke Ellington, musician Carolina Eyck performs

42 mins; August 04, 2022

Disabled-access ticket booking, Writer Will Ashon, Artists Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs

42 mins; August 02, 2022

Beyoncé's album Renaissance, poet Don Paterson, the New Diorama Theatre, Free-for-All exhibition, Nichelle Nichols remembered

42 mins; August 01, 2022

Hit the Road & Mercury Pictures Presents reviewed, Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Bernard Cribbins remembered

42 mins; July 28, 2022

Sister Act, Dramatising the Ugandan Asian exodus, David Olusoga

42 mins; July 27, 2022

Mercury Music and Booker Prize longlists; museums’ funding; new LGBTQ+ museum

42 mins; July 26, 2022

Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival

42 mins; July 25, 2022

Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered

42 mins; July 21, 2022

Where The Crawdads Sing; On Sonorous Seas; Maison Margiela's Cinema Inferno

42 mins; July 20, 2022

Jean Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Tours

42 mins; July 19, 2022

Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

42 mins; July 18, 2022

Persuasion & Patriots reviewed, Durham Brass Festival, Museum of the Year winner

41 mins; July 14, 2022

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, The Railway Children Return

42 mins; July 13, 2022

Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

42 mins; July 12, 2022

Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan / Druet

42 mins; July 11, 2022

The Story Museum, The Waste Land and Brian and Charles reviewed, Grand Theft Hamlet

42 mins; July 07, 2022

New national poet of Wales, Lucian Freud show, The Royal Cornwall Museum, The Blue Woman opera

42 mins; July 06, 2022

Claudia Rankine, Derby's Museum of Making, Streamer Fatigue

42 mins; July 05, 2022

Peter Brook; Gone With The Wind; new children’s laureate Joseph Coelho

42 mins; July 04, 2022

All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs

42 mins; June 30, 2022

In the Black Fantastic exhibition; Maya Youssef performs live; visual artist Colin Davidson's exhibition

43 mins; June 29, 2022

Arthur Hughes as Richard III, Literary Prizes, Dadaist Interventions

42 mins; June 28, 2022

Stephen Beresford, A harp concerto about bees, James Graham, Peter Kosminsky

42 mins; June 27, 2022

Reviews of the plays Rock, Paper, Scissors and documentary Studio Electrophonique, The People's History Museum, Michael Rosen

42 mins; June 23, 2022

Rowan Atkinson, Windrush Sculptures, Susanne Bier

42 mins; June 22, 2022

Live music festivals; Roy Williams' play The Fellowship; The Horniman Museum

42 mins; June 21, 2022

Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry

42 mins; June 20, 2022

Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project

42 mins; June 16, 2022

Freddie De Tommaso, Women’s Prize For Fiction Winner, John Byrne, Ukrainian Antiquities

42 mins; June 15, 2022

Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

42 mins; June 14, 2022

George Ezra performs, TV drama Sherwood reviewed, Norway's National Museum opens

42 mins; June 13, 2022

Reviews of the film All My Friends Hate Me and the play Cancelling Socrates; the Women's Prize for Fiction nominee Ruth Ozeki

42 mins; June 09, 2022

Paula Rego Remembered, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak, Stones In His Pockets

42 mins; June 08, 2022

Ayanna Witter Johnson performs, Clement Ishmael, digital theatre

42 mins; June 07, 2022

Africa Oyé, Queer Poetry, Maggie Shipstead

42 mins; June 06, 2022

Front Row reviews 1952

42 mins; June 02, 2022

Tracey Emin, Anthony Joseph, Bergman Island

41 mins; June 01, 2022

Rory Kinnear on the film Men, Lord Parkinson on the new UK City of Culture, The Duchess of Cornwall, Mo Abudu on Blood Sisters

42 mins; May 31, 2022

Refik Anadol, Jasdeep Singh Degun, The British Art Show

41 mins; May 30, 2022

Reviews of The Midwich Cuckoos, Pistol and Edvard Munch, Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss

42 mins; May 26, 2022

The Art of Burning Man, dementia on stage, dogs on screen at Cannes

41 mins; May 25, 2022

ABBA Voyage, Terence Davies, Zaffar Kunial's poem for George Floyd

42 mins; May 24, 2022

The Cannes Film Festival, John Godber's Teechers, the winner of the British Book Awards

42 mins; May 23, 2022

Cornelia Parker and Emergency reviewed, The Wreckers, Ivor Novello Awards

42 mins; May 19, 2022

Joanna Scanlan; director Indu Rubasingham; the Norfolk and Norwich Festival

42 mins; May 18, 2022

Kay Mellor remembered

42 mins; May 17, 2022

Top Gun Maverick, Joseph Wright of Derby Painting, Kingsway Tram Subway, Louise Erdrich

42 mins; May 16, 2022

Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; The Bob Dylan Centre; The Florence Nightingale Museum reopens

42 mins; May 12, 2022

The directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once

42 mins; May 11, 2022

Eurovision; BookTok and young adult publishing; Waldemar Januszczak on art in Ukraine

42 mins; May 10, 2022

Clio Barnard, Belle and Sebastian, Lisa Allen-Agostini

41 mins; May 09, 2022

PJ Harvey, Radical Landscapes exhibition and TV show The Terror-Infamy reviewed

42 mins; May 05, 2022

Deesha Philyaw, Tristan Sharps, County Durham bid for City of Culture

42 mins; May 04, 2022

Nathaniel Price, Alex Heffes, Actors and AI

42 mins; May 03, 2022

Caryl Lewis, Gwenno, Anthony and Kel Matsena

42 mins; May 02, 2022

The Corn is Green play and Walter Sickert exhibition reviewed, Cherylee Houston

42 mins; April 28, 2022

Raphael exhibition; The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist; poet Valzhyna Mort

42 mins; April 27, 2022

Tim Foley, Heartstopper, The Proms, Lawrence Power performs

42 mins; April 26, 2022

Punchdrunk's The Burnt City, John Morton on Ten Percent, musician Jack Savoretti

42 mins; April 25, 2022

Atlantis and The Young Pretender reviewed, Martin Green, Venice Biennale

42 mins; April 21, 2022

Sarah Solemani on TV's Chivalry; male soprano Samuel Marino performs; Bradford's bid for UK City of Culture

42 mins; April 20, 2022

Robert Eggers on The Northman, Oliver Jeffers, the late Sir Harrison Birtwistle

42 mins; April 19, 2022

Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Big Jubilee Read from the Library of Birmingham

42 mins; April 18, 2022

Benedetta film and Let the Song Hold Us exhibition reviewed; Slung Low Theatre

42 mins; April 14, 2022

Jude Owusu, Operation Mincemeat, Wrexham's bid for UK City of Culture 2025

42 mins; April 13, 2022

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