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Dubs or subs: How should you watch foreign films?
The Oscar success of Parasite has sparked a debate on the best way to watch a movie that isn't in your native language
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The hardest Pride and Prejudice quiz ever
Are you a true super fan of the Jane Austen classic?
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Arts on BBC iPlayer
Constable: The Rural Rebel
Was he a chocolate box painter or a revolutionary? Art historian Rose Balston explores
BBC FOUR
Inside Cinema: Meet the Family
From Home Alone to Tokyo Story, families in cinema, in all their maddening, dysfunctional glory
BBC FOUR
Front Row Late
Why is the detective novel such a big part of our literary and theatrical culture?
BBC TWO
Life Cinematic
"I love seeing someone’s masculinity shift "
Sam Taylor-Johnson, director of Fifty Shades of Grey and A Million Little Pieces, picks her favourite film moments
BBC ARTS
"To do it in one shot is just ambitious, bordering on insane"
Edgar Wright, the director behind Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver, selects his perfect scenes
BBC ARTS
"I think it’s certainly the greatest American film ever made"
Sir Sam Mendes, director of 1917 and American Beauty, chooses his most influential cinema clips
BBC ARTS
The nude season
Mary Beard: 'The West is obsessed with nudity'
The classicist and broadcaster examines art's obsession with the nude
BBC ARTS
The Story of the Nude
Kate Bryan uses BBC archive to discover how TV has influenced our understanding of the nude
BBC FOUR
Botticelli's Venus: The Making of an Icon
Sam Roddick explores one of the most celebrated paintings in western art
BBC FOUR
Inside Cinema: Taking you to the heart of the movies
Dancing Teens
Get into the groove with these iconic dance scenes from '80s teen movies
BBC IPLAYER
Cosmetic Cinema
Characters conceal and reveal with their use of make-up
BBC IPLAYER
Perfect Storms
Bring a brolly, as we explore how films simply don't do light drizzle
BBC IPLAYER
George Orwell on BBC Sounds
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Dramatisation of the classic dystopian novel with Christopher Eccleston
BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA
Animal Farm
Tamsin Greig narrates this dramatised tale of the corrupting effect of power
BBC RADIO 4
A Hanging
Orwell's powerful account of watching an execution in Burma in the 1920s
BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA
Fresh talent from BBC Introducing Arts
[BREATHE] [WAVE]
A soundscape that absorbs human noise into the mythic world of the wild coast
BBC RADIO 3
Paper Skin
The dates, conversations and experiences that one girl shares with ‘sugar daddies’
New Creatives
"They want everything to be down to your weight"
Experiences of body shaming and stigma during medical appointments
BBC ARTS
Brilliant books content on BBC iPlayer
The Bronte Business
From the archive, Joan Bakewell's 1977 visit to Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontes.
BBC IPLAYER
Novels That Shaped Our World: Women
How women writers, women readers and women's lives have been central to the novel
BBC TWO
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
Greg Davies travels to Barnsley to meet those intimately tied to Barry Hines's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave
BBC FOUR
New from Art UK
If the shoe fits
Philomena Epps considers the gendered connotations of footwear throughout history
ART UK
The impact of the AIDS crisis
From Robert Mapplethorpe to Keith Haring: remembering the artists affected by the 1980s epidemic
ART UK
Dora Carrington
Read about the passions and paintings of the bisexual artist affiliated with the Bloomsbury group
ART UK
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The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews
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imagine...
The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob
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The UK's biggest celebration of creative participation
Inside Cinema
Short films taking you to the heart of the movies
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