Tsitsi Dangarembga: Writing Zimbabwe’s Women

We celebrate the female writers, artists and performers making their voices heard

• 26 mins

Songhoy Blues: Mali’s Musical Optimists

Aliou Touré, lead singer of rock revolutionaries Songhoy Blues, discusses their new album

• 26 mins

Covid-19 and China’s changing club scene

How coronavirus is changing China’s underground electronic music scene.

• 26 mins

Board games: The politics of play

How do board games encourage players to explore ideas, politics and morals?

• 26 mins

Canine couture: Inside dog fashion

Four-legged fashion – we go inside the exclusive world of designer clothes for dogs

• 26 mins

Bulgaria’s art on the edge

Three extraordinary artists blur the lines between cabaret, theatre and real-life

• 26 mins

BTS ARMY: Inside the Fandom

How BTS ARMY is changing the music industry and pop culture

• 26 mins

Douglas Stuart and fashion for change

Author Douglas Stuart on the transformative power of clothes in life and literature

• 26 mins

Writing America’s new chapter

Novelists Michael Farris Smith and Zaina Arafat on how they write the American story

• 26 mins

Olafur Eliasson: Public art made virtual

Download the imagination of artist Olafur Eliasson on to a street near you

• 26 mins

Bisa Butler: Crafting African American stories

We meet the craft makers telling new stories through traditional techniques

• 26 mins

Hao Wu: Wuhan under lockdown on film

We go behind the camera with some of the world’s leading documentary filmmakers

• 26 mins

Animation: Art, activism and anime

We meet artists redrawing the future of animation

• 26 mins

Amitav Ghosh and new writing from India and Pakistan

Indian author Amitav Ghosh discusses using verse and folklore in his new book Jungle Nama

• 26 mins

Waad al-Kateab and fearless female storytellers

Ahead of International Women’s Day, we speak to Oscar-nominated filmmaker Waad al-Kateab

• 26 mins

Fatoumata Diawara: music, Mali and migration

We hear from musicians using their music to fight injustice and spark debate

• 26 mins

The art that changed me during the pandemic

Tumi Morake speaks to global stars about the art that’s inspired them during lockdown

• 26 mins

JaQuel Knight: The man behind Beyoncé’s Single Ladies dance

JaQuel Knight, Tishani Doshi and Quang Dang on driving change through dance

• 23 mins

Emilia Clarke: My lockdown discovery

Actor Emilia Clarke on how the work of the writer Jenny Diski inspired her in lockdown

• 26 mins

After Hu Bo

What is next for the Chinese film industry after the death of talented director Hu Bo?

• 26 mins

Nikita Gill and creative renewal

How poet Nikita Gill rebuilt hope through a daily ritual of writing and sharing

• 26 mins

Alexander Nanau: My Oscar nominated film

We speak to Oscar nominees ahead of the 2021 Academy Awards

• 26 mins

Experimental theatre in Tokyo

Immersive performances in a pandemic, but can theatre change us and how we see the world?

• 26 mins

Opera singer Joshua Hopkins: Remembering my sister in song

We speak to Joshua Hopkins, a singer using his voice to call out violence against women.

• 26 mins

Emel Mathlouthi and artists of the Arab Spring

Emel Mathlouthi shares how her song became an anthem for change during the Arab Spring

• 26 mins

Studio Ghibli: The next generation

Studio Ghibli’s Goro Miyazaki on his new film Earwig and the Witch

• 26 mins

Black Lives Matter: Art after George Floyd

A year since the death of George Floyd, writers and artists reflect upon its impact

• 26 mins

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: How music inspired my writing

Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Kanya D’Almeida, Art of Change and Joeboy on how home shapes their art

• 26 mins

Beatie Wolfe: Art against climate change

Beatie Wolfe on making protest art using 800,000 years of historic NASA climate data

• 26 mins

Syria’s Top Goon: Art and the Arab Spring

Artists share their reflections ten years after the Arab Spring.

• 26 mins