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Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 4: 2. When Mary Met Hillary Clinton
In this very special episode of Inside Culture, Mary Beard meets former US Secretary of State, First Lady, senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.\n\nIn a wid ...
17-09-2024
BBC 2
Boy George And Culture Club: Karma To Calamity
Episode 17-02-2023
In the early 1980s, Culture Club was one of the biggest bands in the world, selling 150 million records worldwide. Formed in London, the band was comprised of Boy George on voca ...
17-02-2023
BBC 4
The Culture Show
Spielberg At 60
A special edition of The Culture Show that looks at the life and career of Stephen Spielberg, one of the most famous and commercially successful film directors in the world. Mar ...
20-08-2022
BBC 2
The Culture Show
The Art Of World War Ii: A Culture Show Special
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the Culture Show presents a special on the art of World War II. Despite being locked into a life-or-death struggle, wartim ...
18-11-2021
BBC 2
The Culture Show
Pop Go The Women: The Other Story Of Pop Art - A Culture Show Special
Featuring the best arts and culture stories of the week. Alastair Sooke tracks down the female artists who have been left out of the established narrative of pop art.
18-06-2018
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 5: Episode 5
In the final episode of the series, Mary Beard brings her trademark wit and probing curiosity to an interview with a very special guest - British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, w ...
04-04-2022
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 5: 2. Back To The 90s
Whether it’s in fashion and music or on our TV and cinema screens, the 90s are well and truly back. Shahidha Bari takes a look at the reasons why. She meets up with Ian Br ...
14-03-2022
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 4: 4. How We Read
Shahidha Bari takes the reins for this episode of Inside Culture, which celebrates the joy of books and asks whether the way we read is changing.\n\nIn Leicester, Shahidha drops ...
01-11-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 3: Episode 3
Mary’s exploration of the world of arts and culture continues as she asks: why do we have to act our age? And what happens when we don’t?\n\nHow does age-blind casti ...
16-06-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 3: Episode 2
Mary Beard embraces finally being on the move - whilst acknowledging we are not going very far!\n\nWhat do we lose from arts and culture when we cannot travel? Mary meets James ...
09-06-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 2: 5. Other Worlds
Mary Beard focuses on other worlds, by talking to cultural creatives who make them for our exploration and delight. Mary talks to Booker Prize winner Marlon James about his Dark ...
08-03-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 2: 4. Fact V Fiction
Why is there such a fuss about the difference between fact and fiction? With suggestions of 'truth warnings' for The Crown, and heated debate about colour-blind casting in Bridg ...
03-03-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 2: Episode 2
Mary Beard examines our rapidly changing language. A stand-off between grammar sticklers and language radicals has fuelled the culture wars: texts and Twitter versus the Queen&r ...
15-02-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 1: Episode 2
Mary enters the glitzy world of awards and prizes. There are hundreds: not just for books and movies, but poetry, museums and gardens. How do they influence what art is created ...
18-10-2020
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 1: Episode 1
With a new title, and a new regular slot, Mary Beard’s topical arts series (formerly Lockdown Culture) returns. This time, Mary is venturing out from her home study, and h ...
11-10-2020
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2011/2012: 21. David Hockney: The Art Of Seeing - A Culture Show Special
Andrew Marr interviews David Hockney, widely considered to be Britain's best-loved living artist, about his exhibition A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy, made up of works de ...
02-10-2023
BBC 2
The Culture Show
Hanif Kureishi: Writers Are Trouble - A Culture Show Special
Whenever Hanif Kureishi writes a new film or book, something is broken - a taboo, a confidence or new ground. The Buddha of Suburbia and My Beautiful Laundrette author, who firs ...
24-08-2022
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2012/2013: 32. Sincerely, F Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist Jay McInerney explores the life and writing of F Scott Fitzgerald, whose masterwork The Great Gatsby has just been filmed for the fifth time. \n\nFitzgerald captured th ...
03-05-2022
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2013/2014: 6. The Culture Show At Edinburgh: Funny Women
Sue Perkins explores the highs and lows of being a woman in the unashamedly macho world of stand-up comedy. With unique behind-the-scenes access to the most important date in th ...
14-09-2021
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2011/2012: 17. Sir Terence Conran On Culture
In tribute to the late British designer Sir Terence Conran, a repeat of a programme first shown in 2011.\n\nAlan Yentob talks to his hero Sir Terence Conran, perhaps one of Brit ...
05-10-2020
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2013/2014: 18. Wars Of The Heart
For those who remained in London during the Second World War, the Blitz was a terrifying time of sleeplessness, fear and loss, but some of London's literary set found inspiratio ...
06-08-2019
BBC 2
The Culture Show
The Battle For Stonehenge: A Culture Show Special
Alastair Sooke looks at the controversy over the site surrounding Stonehenge, as English Heritage attempts to create a setting that this unique monument deserves.
20-06-2019
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2013/2014: 23. Lego - The Building Blocks Of Architecture
Tom Dyckhoff explores the contribution on Lego to architecture, and its continuing influence, arguing that it's changed the way we think about buildings. \n\nLego's plastic yell ...
28-05-2019
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2014/2015 - Girls Will Be Girls
Miranda Sawyer meets some of the key female figures of the punk era to look at how they radically changed the cultural landscape and inspired a generation of young women.
08-03-2019
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2013/2014 - Henri Matisse - A Cut Above The Rest
Alastair Sooke presents a moving and intimate portrait of Henri Matisse, one of the 20th century's most celebrated artists, who famously moved from paint to collage late in life.
23-05-2018
BBC 2
The Culture Show
The Lost Portrait Of Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Culture Show Special
In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the rebel ...
30-01-2018
BBC 2
The Culture Show
Rankin Shoots Rembrandt
World-renowned photographer Rankin takes on the challenge of interpreting Rembrandt's portraits of old age, adapting the Dutch master's techniques for his camera.
18-10-2014
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2014/2015 - Hilary Mantel - Case Histories
James Runcie meets the novelist Hilary Mantel, whose latest collection of short stories contemplates the possibility that Margaret Thatcher was assassinated in 1983.
27-09-2014
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2014/2015 - Ryan Gander - The Art Of Everything
Miranda Sawyer enters the wild imagination of celebrated British conceptual artist Ryan Gander, a cultural magpie renowned for his playful, cryptic and complex creations.
04-07-2014
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2014/2015 - Tents - The Beginning Of Architecture
Tom Dyckhoff looks at the history of the tent and asks if it could be the answer to an overcrowded world faced with a housing crisis and dwindling natural resources.
23-06-2014
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2014/2015 - Edward St Aubyn - At Last?
Documentary featuring writer Edward St Aubyn as he releases his new book, which sees him ditch his anguished alter ego Patrick Melrose and face the demons of the literary world.
23-06-2014
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2014/2015 - Deller And Kane - Folk Devils
Artists Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane preview Tate Britain's exhibition looking back at the tradition of folk art, and reveal that folk art is all around us.
17-06-2014
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2013/2014 - Savion Glover - Happy Feet
Morgan Quaintance visits African-American dance artist Savion Glover in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey, to discover more about the renowned tap dancer's life, work and art.
11-06-2014
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2014/2015 - Sir Kenneth Clark: Portrait Of A Civilised Man - A Culture Show Special
A documentary looking at the life of Sir Kenneth Clark, who transformed the cultural landscape with his famous Civilisation series, one of the most ambitious arts series to date.
31-05-2014
BBC 2
The Culture Show
2014/2015 - Lynn Barber's Celebrity Masterclass
Lynn Barber talks to Alan Yentob about her job interviewing and writing about celebrities. She recounts her combustible clashes with Rafa Nadal and Marianne Faithful.
19-05-2014
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 2: Episode 6
In a special programme to end this series, Mary is in conversation with British writer Jed Mercurio. He’s the mastermind behind hit show Line of Duty, returning for a new ...
18-03-2021
BBC 2
Culture In Quarantine: Shakespeare
Othello
Othello is the greatest general of his age. But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own. As they plot in the shadows, Othello realises too late th ...
22-10-2023
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 1: Episode 3
This week, Mary is inhabiting the worlds of architecture and fashion to analyse how we live now, during a pandemic. With Eddie Izzard, Shahida Bari and Ayesha Hazarika, she disc ...
23-08-2023
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 5: 4. Can Art Save The Planet?
Shahidha Bari teams up with artists, poets, comics and musicians to investigate the role that the arts can play in exploring and processing the most challenging crisis of our ti ...
28-03-2022
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 5: 3. The Art Of Crying
Mary Beard is joined by the Oscar-winning actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson to talk tears. Together, they dissect some of Emma’s most famous on-screen weeps and explore ...
21-03-2022
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 5: 1. Women On Top
Mary Beard explores how thousands of years of stories and images stereotyping women have shaped our thinking and what this means for women who are in positions of power today.\n ...
09-03-2022
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 4: 5. Down Under
Mary Beard investigates the ongoing history of creative connection and cultural exchange between Britain and Australia and asks what that relationship looks like today.\n\nMary ...
09-11-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 4: 3. Back To School
Mary Beard asks why we are drawn to literature, theatre, TV and film that take us ‘back to school’.\n\nMary meets ex-teacher and best-selling author Philip Pullman t ...
25-10-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 4: 1. Why We Laugh
Mary Beard asks why we laugh and explores what laughter can tell us about ourselves, our relationships and the world we live in.\n\nMary visits the artist Maggi Hambling in her ...
11-10-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 3: Episode 5
In the final episode of the series, Mary Beard hands over the reins to cultural historian Shahidha Bari. She explores the importance of self-expression: from the clothes we wear ...
30-06-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 3: Episode 4
In a special programme, Mary Beard is in conversation with critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her latest book, Notes ...
23-06-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 3: Episode 1
Mary Beard kicks off the series by thinking about how we remember - not just as individuals, but as a society and a nation. As we emerge from a year of tragedy and uncertainty, ...
02-06-2021
BBC 2