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Culture in Quarantine

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Inside Cinema: Uncanny Spaces

Wendy Ide surveys the strange spaces created when films don't follow the laws of physics

BBC iPlayer

Ten free events to enjoy at Manchester International Festival

Seek out the most hotly anticipated events at the biennial arts showcase with activities across the city and online

BBC Arts

Introducing Arts with Huw Stephens

Experimental music, soundscapes, spoken word and documentary from exciting, fresh and emerging British artists

BBC SOUNDS

Inside Cinema

Body Swaps

Tara Judah examines cinema's long standing obsession with switching places

BBC IPlayer

The Father of African Cinema

Explore how director Ousmane Sembène pioneered a cinema by, for and about the people of Africa

BBC iPlayer

The Beautiful Game

Lining up, brilliant documentaries on Maradona and Zidane, and dramas including Gregory’s Girl and Bend It Like Beckham

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BBC Introducing Arts

New Creatives Dramas

Fresh storytelling from first-time writers and producers

BBC SOUNDS

Staff of Life

A portrayal of a working day in an Egyptian bakery that creates versions of Western pastries

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To My Younger Self

Short drama reflecting on being segregated in a young offender institution

BBC iPlayer

Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

Curtain-Up on Coventry

The city's streets are transformed into a giant stage to celebrate becoming UK City of Culture 2021

BBC iPLAYER

Coventry Moves Together

A soundscape of a city-wide orchestra for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

BBC SOUNDS

Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain

The story of the building, consecrated in 1962 to replace the medieval cathedral destroyed by German bombers in 1940

BBC iPlayer

Between the Covers

Reginald D. Hunter reveals his favourite book

Reginald joins Ranvir Singh, Micky Flanagan and Sophia Willan on this week's Between the Covers

Between the Covers

Stacey Dooley reveals her favourite book

Stacey joins Robert Webb, Caitlin Moran and Nish Kumar on this week's Between the Covers

Between the Covers

"No book took me further from 1970s Edgware!"

Hugh Dennis reveals his love of A Hundred Years of Solitude to Sara Cox

Between the Covers

Performance on the BBC

BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021

Follow all the drama from the biennial competition across the BBC

BBC MUSIC

"There are so many amazing and unexpected gay stories to be told"

Mark Gatiss on the collection of monologues he curated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act

BBC Arts

Lights Up

BBC Arts has partnered with theatres across the country to produce an unprecedented season of plays.

Culture in Quarantine

Elsewhere in Arts & Culture

The life and art of Barbara Hepworth

Curator Eleanor Clayton on one of the most significant sculptors of the twentieth century

Art UK

The Central Office of Information at 75

Collaborating with The National Archives and IWM, the BFI showcase the eclectic range of work produced by the department

BFI at Home

Stories from Holburne Museum with Josie Long

Staff and volunteers share their favourite objects, personal picks and hidden gems from the Bath museum

Art Fund

New on BBC iPlayer

Nicola Benedetti wins BBC Young Musician in 2004

Classic performance as 16-year-old Benedetti plays Szymanowski's thrilling First Violin Concerto with the BBC SSO

BBC iPlayer

Hemingway

A Ken Burns series charts the influential American writer's life from idyllic childhood to Nobel prize and addiction

BBC IPlayer

Inside Culture

Cultural historian Shahidha Bari explores self-expression with guests including Tracy Emin, Michael Stipe and Skin

BBC iPlayer

New on BBC Sounds

Written in Scotland

Kirsty Wark's series about the relationship that Scotland's writers have with Scotland itself

BBC Sounds

Blue: Pain and Pleasure

Laura Marling celebrates the 50th anniversary of the release of Joni Mitchell's seminal album

BBC SOUNDS

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

BBC SOUNDS

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