Melanie C: Creativity and mental health

The Spice Girls star on the costs of fame

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Colombia: Culture out of conflict

María Cecilia Botero, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Cristina Bendek and Bomba Estéreo

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The Art of Advertising

How do adverts differ around the world?

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How climate change changed my life

Photographer Norma I Quintana on the wildfires that destroyed her home and studio

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Protest songs in Iran

Two Iranian artists on the recent protests

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How artists are changing Sri Lanka

We hear from artists at the forefront of Sri Lanka’s protest movement

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Who owns history?

Artists telling stories from a contested past

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The Beautiful Game: Art, football and the World Cup

With the Fifa World Cup in Qatar, we look at the relationship between art and football

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How can art help tackle climate change?

With world leaders at COP 27, we explore the role of art in tackling global warming

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Behind the lens of the photojournalist

Photographers telling the stories of their nations

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Cultural restitution - who decides?

The future of museums in the era of contested artefacts

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Joyland: Why the Pakistani film caused controversy

How a banned film became Pakistan’s entry for the Oscars

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How can art help reconnect us to the missing?

We hear from artists telling the stories of the disappeared

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Telling stories in times of conflict

What can stories mean to people living in war? How do storytellers find hope in chaos?

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Generations in conversation

Three conversations between different generations of artists

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Her story: Women artists making waves

Rapper Milli on challenging stereotypes to bring change in Thailand

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Brazil’s small utopias

Brazilian artists create utopias in their work to imagine a better future

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Why are guitar bands speaking instead of singing?

Why a new wave of guitar bands are speaking over their songs instead of singing

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Cate Blanchett: My ‘dangerous’ role

Cate Blanchett on playing a conductor accused of sexual misconduct in the film Tár

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Why Indigenous and First Nation stories matter

Indigenous and First Nation storytellers speaking up for their communities

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Inside the rise of LGBTQ+ fiction

Exploring queer fiction as the literary genre faces boosted sales and book bans

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Fiction and our climate emergency

Can fiction writers change how we think about our global climate emergency?

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Modi's hip-hop nation

Bobby Friction explores what hip-hop means to India’s unheard youth

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Ukraine one year on: The artists’ response

Why Ukrainian culture has become a symbol of defiance

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What the AI revolution means for arts

How is AI changing the world of art, music and theatre? Opportunity or threat?

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Who should fund the arts?

What role should governments have in funding artists?

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Reclaim and resist: Canada's indigenous musicians

The musicians reclaiming suppressed cultures and resisting colonial narratives

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My art, my community

We meet the artists helping others through their work and activism

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Beats, rhymes and life: Hip-hop at 50

DJ and writer Lynnée Denise reflects on hip-hop as it marks its 50th year

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Disney 100: How a studio redefined animation

Celebrating 100 years of Disney, one of the world’s biggest media empires

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