The Culture Show

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2014
2014x1
Steve McQueen: Are You Sitting Uncomfortably?
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To coincide with the release of 12 Years a Slave, this Culture Show special, presented by Mark Kermode, looks at the history and culture of slavery. The subject of slavery has inspired .. show full overview
2014x2
Hanif Kureishi: Writers Are Trouble
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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 first caused .. show full overview
2014x3
Lego - The Building Blocks of Architecture
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The Lego Movie (released 14 February) is the latest big-budget incarnation of one of the world's most popular toys. Yet Lego is more than a global brand. Tom Dyckhoff explores its .. show full overview
2014x4
Damon Albarn - Solo
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First he was the poster boy of 90s Britpop, then the music man behind electro-cartoon duo Gorillaz. More recently he's composed operas and helmed the world music juggernaut that is .. show full overview
2014x5
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
2014x6
Forget the Oscars, Here are the Kermodes
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Now in their ninth year, the Kermode Awards are the ultimate antidote to the Oscars, a low-frills awards ceremony celebrating the very best of movie-making talent overlooked by the .. show full overview
2014x7
Henri Matisse - A Cut Above the Rest
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Matisse was one of the most celebrated painters of the 20th century who, even in his own lifetime, enjoyed a level of popularity envied by other artists. But in 1941, after a near-fatal .. show full overview
2014x8
ARTiculation - For the Love of Art
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Talking about art matters a lot, according to Alastair Sooke, who was a judge in last year's ARTiculation - a little-known, but fast-growing speaking competition, in which teenagers .. show full overview
2014x9
Viking Art
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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
2014x10
Tony Parsons - The Art of Boxing
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For author and columnist Tony Parsons, boxing matters. He spars every week. Full-contact, no-holds-barred, in a searching examination of skill, courage and fear. On a journey through .. show full overview
2014x11
Savion Glover - Happy Feet
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Tony award-winning African-American artist Savion Glover is not your average tap dancer. From Broadway prodigy to global star, Glover's journey has been a remarkable one, fighting lazy .. show full overview
2014x12
Lynn Barber's Celebrity Masterclass
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Lynn Barber has been interviewing famous people for more than three decades. Renowned for her audacious, brilliantly honest and often caustic profiles, Barber asks the questions no one .. show full overview
2014x13
Sir Kenneth Clark: Portrait of a Civilised Man - A Culture Show Special
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Sir Kenneth Clark was arguably the most influential figure in 20th-century British art. Born into a world of privilege, his achievements were staggering. He keeper of the King's .. show full overview
2014x14
Edward St Aubyn - At Last?
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When Edward St Aubyn summoned the courage to write the fictionalized version of his unbearable childhood and describe the horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of cruel and neglectful .. show full overview
2014x15
Ryan Gander - The Art of Everything
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Miranda Sawyer enters the wild imagination of celebrated British conceptual artist Ryan Gander. A cultural magpie renowned for his playful, cryptic and complex creations, Gander is one .. show full overview
2014x16
Deller and Kane - Folk Devils
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For centuries, folk art has been ignored by the art establishment, but in June 2014 the first national exhibition to look back at the tradition of folk art in this country opens at Tate .. show full overview
2014x17
Tents - The Beginning of Architecture
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All architecture begins with the tent. Tents are what humans lived in before we put down roots and began our love affair with bricks and mortar. And no-one is more obsessed with .. show full overview
2014x18
Girls Will Be Girls
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At the height of the punk explosion almost 40 years ago, a handful of women completely redefined what a woman in music could do. Through sheer talent and fearlessness they pushed .. show full overview
2014x19
Hilary Mantel - Case Histories
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Hilary Mantel is one of our most assured and successful novelists. She writes blackly comic novels set in the present and confronts our Tudor past in her Thomas Cromwell novels, Wolf .. show full overview
2014x20
Rankin Shoots Rembrandt
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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. Rembrandt's portraits .. show full overview

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