The Culture Show

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Steven Spielberg Special
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Mark Kermode interviews Steven Spielberg on his 60th birthday
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Living Icons
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David Attenborough is the winner of Living Icons, a quest to establish the greatest cultural icon in Britain today. Nominations began on 14th October 2006, followed by voting from a Top .. show full overview
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The Simpsons Special
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Not long before the anticipated release of their movie, and after celebrating the 400th episode and 20 years, The Culture Show paid homage to the great success of The Simpsons with this .. show full overview
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Stephen Poliakoff: A Culture Show Special
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Stephen Poliakoff talks to Mark Kermode about the themes he explores and his status as an auteur. With contributions from leading actors including Sir Michael Gambon, David Walliams, Rupert Penry-Jones, Ruth Wilson and Kelly Reilly.
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Sigur Ros Special
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Verity Sharp meets the four-piece band Sigur Ros in their native Iceland and on their visit to the UK for the 2007 Electric Proms. They have sold two million albums globally and their .. show full overview
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The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 1
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Lauren Laverne presents the first of three shows from Edinburgh covering the highlights from the Festival and Fringe. Miranda Sawyer meets Tracey Emin, who is staging her first ever .. show full overview
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The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 2
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Lauren Laverne presents the second of three shows from Edinburgh covering the highlights from the Festival and Fringe. On the show tonight is a preview of 365, the new work by The .. show full overview
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The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 3
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Lauren Laverne presents the last in the series of shows covering the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. Coming from the Pleasance Courtyard, right in the middle of all the Edinburgh action, .. show full overview
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U2 Special - No Line On the Horizon
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The show focuses on one of the world's biggest bands as Lauren visits them in Dublin to talk about the new album and hear some of the songs live. We also speak to Radio 1 DJ Nemone and .. show full overview
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Michael Jackson Special
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Six months on from the death of Michael Jackson, The Culture Show re-evaluates his impact on modern music. Musicians, producers and contemporaries assess Michael Jackson's position .. show full overview
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A History of the World: Culture Show Special
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A special edition of The Culture Show marking the start of a landmark project in which the BBC and the British Museum focus on the span of human history through 100 objects held at the .. show full overview
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Henry Moore: A Culture Show Special
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A one-hour special on one of the most important and popular British sculptors of the twentieth century, Henry Moore. Presented by Alan Yentob, the programme takes a unique approach to Moore by examining his life on film.
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The Art of World War Two: A Culture Show Special
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Alastair Sooke explores the often overlooked history of Britain's wartime renaissance. He meets the Blitz survivors and factory workers who became the subject of iconic paintings.
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A Contemporary Art Special
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Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry presents from the Frieze Art Fair - now one of the most influential contemporary art fairs. He explores the highlights of the show and some of .. show full overview
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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011: A Culture Show Special
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Alastair Sooke presents this Culture Show special from the 243rd Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. The Summer Exhibition is the visual arts world's largest and longest running open-submission show.
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The RIBA's Best Buildings of 2011 Special
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Presented by Kevin McCloud, this Culture Show Special comes from the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual award ceremony, celebrating the best buildings of 2011. Kicking off .. show full overview
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The Kennedys: A Culture Show Special
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Jonathan Freedland chairs a discussion on John F Kennedy, while producer Joel Surnow talks about the mini-series The Kennedys and the controversy that engulfed it.
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Cash in China's Attic: A Culture Show Special
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China's antique trade is booming, with records being smashed at auction every week. But why is this market exploding now, and what makes a piece of pottery into a million pound .. show full overview
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How to Paint a Queen: A Culture Show Special
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There are more images of Elizabeth II than any other historical figure, but how to paint a queen is one of the trickiest of artistic challenges. Alastair Sooke looks at the depiction of .. show full overview
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Culture Show Special
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Alastair Sooke goes behind-the-scenes of the Royal Academy's 244th Summer Exhibition, the biggest open-submission contemporary art show in the world.
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Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special
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Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's Orbit sculpture is the most spectacular artistic creation of 2012 - a gravity-defying, breathtakingly dynamic scribble of crimson steel. Standing twice .. show full overview
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Who on Earth Was Ford Madox Ford? A Culture Show Special
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Ford Madox Ford is one of the forgotten greats of British fiction. With Tom Stoppard's dramatisation of Ford's unusual First World War love story Parade's End showing on BBC Two, Alan .. show full overview
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J K Rowling - Writing For Grown-Ups: A Culture Show Special
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Harry Potter is one of the most successful publishing phenomena of our time, selling 450 million copies. Its success has transformed author JK Rowling from an impoverished single mother .. show full overview
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Keith Richards: A Culture Show Special
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To mark the publication of Keith Richards' autobiography, Life, this Culture Show special looks at the life of the man with five strings and nine lives. In a candid interview he chats to .. show full overview
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The Knight Errant: Lee Child - A Culture Show Special
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Lee Child, one of Britain's bestselling authors, explores the phenomenal popularity of his character Jack Reacher - the basis of a new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. In an .. show full overview
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Ice Age Art: A Culture Show Special
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Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Northern Spain to visit some of the world's oldest works of art, hundreds of meters beneath the surface of the earth. In limestone caves he is astonished .. show full overview
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Swinging into the Blitz
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When a handful of musical immigrants from the Caribbean islands came to Britain in the 1920s and 30s, it was the beginning of both musical and political change. Leslie Thompson, an .. show full overview
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The Mormons Are Here!
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Alan Yentob talks to South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone about their comedy stage musical The Book of Mormon. Already a huge hit in the US, this irreverent religious satire is .. show full overview
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Going Underground: A Culture Show Special
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In celebration of the 150th anniversary of London Underground, Alastair Sooke presents a cultural history of the oldest tube network in the world.
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Your Paintings
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For years, thousands of paintings owned by the British public have been hidden away and inaccessible - until now. Thanks to the work of the Your Paintings project, over 200,000 works in .. show full overview
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The Magic Tricks of JJ Abrams
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One of the hottest talents in Hollywood today, JJ Abrams talks to Mark Kermode about his latest turn at the helm of the Starship Enterprise, his lifelong love of filmmaking and the .. show full overview
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The Magic Tricks of JJ Abrams: A Culture Show Special
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A topical series featuring the best arts and culture stories of the week. One of the hottest talents in Hollywood today, JJ Abrams talks to Mark Kermode about his latest turn at the helm .. show full overview
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Not Like Any Other Love: The Smiths
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It's 30 years since Manchester four-piece The Smiths changed the face of British pop with their debut single Hand In Glove. In this half-hour Culture Show special, fellow Mancunian and .. show full overview
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Culture Show Special
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Me, You and Doctor Who: A Culture Show Special
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DH Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame: A Culture Show Special
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It's a hundred years since DH Lawrence's revolutionary novel, Sons and Lovers, first hit the bookshops - and to celebrate, the writer Geoff Dyer, accompanied by Lawrence scholar, .. show full overview
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The Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Culture Show Special
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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 Stuart .. show full overview
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Viking Art: A Culture Show Special
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The Vikings are famous for their violent raids on Anglo-Saxon monasteries, incredible shipbuilding skills and general brutality. They are less famous, perhaps, for their artistic .. show full overview
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Pop Go the Women: The Other Story of Pop Art - A Culture Show Special
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The story of pop art has been culturally canonised as the preserve of a ground-breaking gang of boys, focusing on the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Richard .. show full overview
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The Battle for Stonehenge: A Culture Show Special
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Stonehenge is our most famous prehistoric monument; a powerful symbol of Britain across the globe. But all is not well with the sacred stones. MPs have described the surrounding site as .. show full overview
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The Great War - An Elegy: A Culture Show Special
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In a major new BBC commission, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage has written seven new poems about World War I that form the centre of his latest television documentary. Armitage .. show full overview
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Holbein: Eye of the Tudors - A Culture Show Special
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As Henry VIII's court painter, Hans Holbein witnessed and recorded the most notorious era in English history. He painted most of the major characters of the age and created the famous .. show full overview

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