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Culture in Quarantine
Bringing arts and culture into your home
11 unmissable Hay Festival Digital events to watch online
Watch inspiring discussions for free over the next ten days of the all-digital literary festival
BBC Arts
Firedance: Latin Fever
Following two of Strictly stars, Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez, as they put together a spectacular Latin showcase
BBC FOUR
Sandi Toksvig’s Women from History
Maxine Peake and Emma Dabiri join Sandy to talk about the women in history you may not have heard of
BBC IPLAYER
Get Creative at Home
BBC Lockdown Orchestra: You Got the Love
BBC's orchestras and singers, and members of the public, unite to perform a new version of the Candi Staton classic
GET CREATIVE
Catch up on Life Drawing Live!
Our lockdown special class is available to watch again. Also featuring some amazing user submissions and expert tips
BBC ARTS
Kneehigh Cookbook
Find out about the processes and ingredients that they use in their theatre kitchen
Kneehigh Theatre
Dance: Culture in Quarantine
Artificial Things
An award winning film from Sophie Fiennes, resonating with hope in the possibility of strangers building community
Stopgap Dance Company
Hofesh Shechter's Clowns
A dance film that is a macabre comedy of murder and desire
BBC TWO
Emancipation of Expressionism
Tutorials, ensemble videos & interviews with the dancers & creatives
Boy Blue
Theatre: Culture in Quarantine
Love Letters at Home
Audience participation with song requests and dedications make this digital theatre event a personal and live experience
Fuel Theatre Company
The Encounter
A solo performance incorporating objects and binaural sound design to evoke the depths of the Amazon rainforest
Bristol Old Vic
Midnight Your Time
Donmar Artistic Director Michael Longhurst directs Diana Quick in a smart one-woman play written for her by Adam Brace
Donmar Warehouse
Museums & Archives: Culture in Quarantine
Pompeii Live from The British Museum
From street life to the Roman home, this exhibition takes you to the heart of people’s lives in Pompeii and Herculaneum
The British Museum
Game of Our Lives
The search to unearth the best football stories and memories from fans throughout the country
NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM
Suffragette bombs
Discover the stories behind two explosive devices from the early 20th Century
City of London Police Museum
Visual arts: Culture in Quarantine
Glasgow International
Artists including Jenkin van Zyl, Yuko Mohri, Alberta Whittle and Liv Fontaine share new work in the digital festival
Glasgow International
Become a curator
This new digital tool allows anyone, anywhere to create an online exhibition
ART UK
Shiver House
This kinetic “animal like” structure moves and adapts in response to surrounding natural forces
NEON
Literature: Culture in Quarantine
Get personalised recommendations for your next book
We need your help to complete the largest ever survey of English language novels
NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
Book of the Week
Exceptional fiction and non-fiction readings
BBC RADIO 4
10 classic novels about society
Books which look at the lives of others and how we must live together
NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
Music: Culture in Quarantine
BBC Young Musician 2020
Brilliant performances from the next generation of talent
BBC FOUR
Bittersweet
Lianne La Havas & Jules Buckley performing live with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC MUSIC
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Mozart’s first opera for Vienna offers some of the most demanding and dazzlingly virtuosic arias he ever created
Glyndebourne
Get Creative at Home Masterclasses
Es Devlin
With just scissors and paper, the artist and stage designer creates a new work
BBC IPLAYER
Rana Begum
The artist shows how she uses watercolours to get through lockdown isolation
BBC IPLAYER
Jools Holland
Composer, pianist, bandleader and broadcaster Jools Holland shares his love of the piano
BBC IPLAYER
Museums in Quarantine on BBC Four
British Museum
Dr Janina Ramirez curates this highly personal selection of their artefacts
BBC FOUR
Young Rembrandt at the Ashmolean
Simon Schama takes us on a very personal virtual tour of the exhibition in Oxford
BBC FOUR
Tate Britain
Dr James Fox argues that art is needed more than ever, in this survey of their collection
BBC FOUR
Shakespeare: Culture in Quarantine
Much Ado About Nothing
The world-weary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero
BBC IPLAYER
Othello
Othello is the greatest general of his age. But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own
BBC IPLAYER
Romeo & Juliet
What if your first true love was someone you’d been told to hate?
BBC IPLAYER
Front Row: Culture in Quarantine
Jeremy Deller
One of Britain's most celebrated artists looks back at his career and discusses making art during lockdown
BBC Radio 4
How crafting can help our wellbeing
Dr Daisy Fancourt has been studying the impact the coronavirus crisis has had on our mental health
BBC RADIO 4
Creative inspiration and expert advice for novel writing
Owen Sheers and Nikita Lalwani offer professional tips on how to unlock your creativity
BBC Radio 4
Gaming on the BBC
Computer Generated Celebs
What's the deal with video games' celebrity obsession?
BBC IPLAYER
This Game Changed My Life
What happens when you spy on other gamers? The story of the infamous Alexander Gianturco, a.k.a. The Mittani
BBC Sounds
The Social: Gaming
Chat on gaming culture, the latest new games and more
THE SOCIAL
Cinema on the BBC
When Meg Met Nora
Celebrating the collaborations of writer-director Nora Ephron and rom-com queen Meg Ryan
BBC iPlayer
"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
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
The critic explores the quintessential British film genre – history
BBC IPLAYER
More Arts on BBC iPlayer
Front Row Late
Actors Emma Thompson and Greg Wise are among Mary Beard's remote guests this week
BBC TWO
The Changin’ Times of Ike White
Arena tells the story of Ike White, who recorded a legendary soul album while in jail for murder
BBC FOUR
Shelf Isolation
Damian Barr asks Mark Bonnar for recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to during lockdown
BBC Scotland
More Arts on BBC Sounds
The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed
Simon Armitage talks to guests about life, language and music in his shed
BBC RADIO FOUR
Eighteen
The lives, dreams and creative worlds of six 18- to 21-year-old artists across the globe
BBC RADIO FOUR
Fresh audio drama from New Creatives
A collection of new stories from emerging writing talent
BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA
BBC Arts on social media
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More arts across the BBC
Arena
The BBC's multi award-winning arts strand
Free Thinking
The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews
Front Row
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
imagine...
The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob
BBC Books
All of the BBC's coverage of the written word in one place
Get Creative
The UK's biggest celebration of creative participation
Inside Cinema
Short films taking you to the heart of the movies
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