Writing America’s new chapter

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

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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

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Hao Wu: Wuhan under lockdown on film

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

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Animation: Art, activism and anime

We meet artists redrawing the future of animation

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Amitav Ghosh and new writing from India and Pakistan

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

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Waad al-Kateab and fearless female storytellers

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

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Fatoumata Diawara: music, Mali and migration

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

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The art that changed me during the pandemic

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

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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

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After Hu Bo

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

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Nikita Gill and creative renewal

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

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Alexander Nanau: My Oscar nominated film

We speak to Oscar nominees ahead of the 2021 Academy Awards

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Experimental theatre in Tokyo

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

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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.

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Emel Mathlouthi and artists of the Arab Spring

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

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Studio Ghibli: The next generation

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

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Black Lives Matter: Art after George Floyd

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

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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

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Beatie Wolfe: Art against climate change

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

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Syria’s Top Goon: Art and the Arab Spring

Artists share their reflections ten years after the Arab Spring.

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Film-maker Salomé Jashi and the art of trees

Escape to a forest of arboreal art that looks, listens and even protests with trees

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Seth Rogen: The book that inspired my comedy

Hollywood star Seth Rogen and the rise of stand-up comedy in China

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NFTs: The booming world of digital art

We hear how NFT artworks are selling for big money and shaking up the art world.

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Water: Malian musician Inna Modja

Meet artists, writers and musicians inspired by water

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Japan: Art and the Olympics

We meet Japanese artists who are re-inventing tradition and telling new stories

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Reviving live music: South African cellist Abel Selaocoe

Cellist Abel Selaocoe talks about his upcoming Proms concert, Africa Meets Europe

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Farah Bashir: The art of childhood

Farah Bashir, Bjorn Andresen, Ei Arakawa & Oscar Murillo on art and childhood

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Literature in lockdown: Meron Hadero and Emilia Clarke

Ethiopian writer Meron Hadero on how she found refuge on the page in the pandemic

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