Japan: Art and the Olympics

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

• 26 mins

Reviving live music: South African cellist Abel Selaocoe

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

• 26 mins

Farah Bashir: The art of childhood

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

• 26 mins

Literature in lockdown: Meron Hadero and Emilia Clarke

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

• 26 mins

Photography: Tyler Mitchell and Russel Wong

Life through a lens with some of the world’s most exciting photographers

• 26 mins

Art and disability: Actor Madison Ferris

Broadway star Madison Ferris on taking the big stage in her wheelchair

• 26 mins

Theatre: What’s next for the performing arts?

Leading global theatre directors on the future of their industry

• 26 mins

Fashion: King of glamour Ali Mahdavi

Fashion photographer Ali Mahdavi on why he’s obsessed with glamour

• 26 mins

Architecture: Yinka Ilori and Murat Tabanlioglu

Designer Yinka Ilori on turning a busy pedestrian crossing into a joyful work of art

• 26 mins

Poetry: The power and the beauty of spoken word

Director Carlos López Estrada on making a film performed in spoken word poetry

• 26 mins

Faïza Guène and Omar El Akkad

Author Faïza Guène on her ground-breaking novels about multicultural France

• 26 mins

Nigeria: Nollywood Star Richard Mofe-Damijo

Nollywood star Richard Mofe-Damijo reflects on his career

• 26 mins

South African writing: Damon Galgut, Lebo Mashile, and Kaaps

Damon Galgut on his Booker shortlisted novel, The Promise, exploring apartheid’s legacy

• 26 mins

Kemka Ajoku: My camera, my vision

Photographer Kemka Ajoku on facing racism and finding joy in Black British storytelling

• 26 mins

Colombia’s art of migration

After years of conflict, Colombian artists make sense of displacement and migration

• 26 mins

Climate change: Amitav Ghosh, underwater sculpture, Sebastiao Salgado

Writers, artists, and musicians helping us understand climate change

• 26 mins

Crime Storytellers: Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly on writing his latest crime novel, The Dark Hours

• 26 mins

Batila and Dandy: Why we make music

How making music helps artists around the world make sense of the societies they live in

• 26 mins

The air that we breathe: Scent artist Anicka Yi

'Sculpting' air using smells, and how opera is helping Covid patients breathe more easily

• 26 mins

What’s the future for culture in Afghanistan?

The Cultural Frontline asks what’s the future for arts, media and culture in Afghanistan

• 26 mins

Hong Kong artists: Should I stay or should I go?

The artists whose freedom to express themselves is threatened by new laws in Hong Kong

• 26 mins

International Film: Joana Hadjithomas and Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda on the musical that inspired him

• 26 mins

The gift that changed me

Tumi Morake speaks to global stars and listeners about gifts of art that inspired them

• 26 mins

Black Speculative Arts

A celebration of the global moment the Black Speculative Arts movement is having

• 26 mins

Music, politics and identity

Nikan Khosravi - Iranian heavy metal; Tamer Nafar - Palestinian hip hop; LGBTQ+ rap

• 26 mins

Art in India's 75th year of independence

Artists looking forwards and back in India's 75th anniversary year of independence

• 23 mins

Emily Ratajkowski and the art of the body

Artists on celebrating, injuring, ignoring and transcending the human body

• 26 mins

Girl bands

The female bands from across the globe, striking a note for gender equality

• 26 mins

Art and China's Winter Olympics

Art from Qu Lei Lei, Shuang Wu, Zhao "pandaman" Bandi, Xia Jia, Chen Qiufan & Corsak

• 26 mins

Atelier for exiles

Join us in Paris at the Atelier des Artistes en Exil, a hub for 400+ refugee artists

• 26 mins