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Culture in Quarantine
Bringing arts and culture into your home
Celebrating Women Composers
24 hours of music by women composers on International Women's Day 2021
BBC RADIO 3
Inside Cinema: The Cher Factor
She's the ultimate multi-hyphenate. As part of International Women's Month, Anna Bogutskaya celebrates Cher
BBC Iplayer
In a Room Full of Sisters
Exploring the strength of sisterhood within Cardiff’s Somali community
FFOLIO
Gŵyl 2021
Watch festival highlights with music, comedy and conversation from Wales and the World
Culture in Quarantine
Sex, lies and heroes at Big Book Weekend
The online literary festival is back, featuring best-selling authors like Douglas Stuart, Val McDermid and Lenny Henry
BBC ARTS
Adam
The true story of a trans man and his remarkable struggle across genders and borders
BBC IPLAYER
Sugar: Step into the worlds of Annie, Julie and Tracy
Annie
Paddy calls Annie over in a pub. He makes her laugh. She falls, in love and into trouble.
BBC iPlayer
Julie
It is Julie’s last night in prison. Determined and driven, Julie makes a promise to herself: this will be her last time.
BBC iPlayer
Tracy
Tracy is bleeding, in pain and going to the hospital. But first, she has a story to tell.
BBC iPlayer
Dancing Nation
Blak Whyte Gray
Boy Blue bring one section of Blak Whyte Gray, the company's Olivier-Award nominated work.
Boy Blue
BLKDOG
A genre-defying, award-winning blend of hip-hop dance by Botis Seva.
Far From The Norm
State of the Nation
Everything you need to know about our sampler of UK dance in all its forms.
BBC Arts
Face In
Daring and uninhibited dance, a sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination.
Candoco
Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus
Hope Hunt shatters facades, dismantles stereotypes and finds beauty on the periphery.
Oona Doherty
Dancing Nation on BBC iPlayer
All of the performances, all of the interviews, presented by Brenda Emmanus.
BBC iPlayer
Elsewhere in Arts & Culture
The female trailblazer of Neoclassicism
Jennifer Higgie on the life of painter Angelica Kauffmann
ART UK
Change the Word
A creative collective of over 50 people unites local residents and the newly arrived through storytelling and poetry
Good Chance Ensemble
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Empty Stage
Keeping ballet alive, this beautiful film is a message of hope and a tribute to the industry, featuring Carlos Acosta
Birmingham Royal Ballet
New Creatives: LGBTQ+ History
Living With the Light On: Switchboard in the 70s
An exploration of the early history of the UK’s leading LGBT+ helpline
BBC SOUNDS
Touchdown
An LGBT flight attendant reflects on love, loss & international travel in the 80s and 90s
BBC SOUNDS
The Lesbian Families Sound Archive
Imagining a journey through a possible archive of the sonic memory of lesbian families
BBC SOUNDS
Inside Cinema
Rave Britannia
Missing the weekend revelry? Spend a night on the town exploring how film and tv like to party
BBC Iplayer
Beside the Sea
Pull up a deckchair, get away from it all, and see how films have used the seaside to explore identity and social taboos
BBC iPlayer
Beyond Aardman
Alex Dudok de Wit explores the enduring appeal and power of hand-crafted stop-motion puppet animation
BBC Iplayer
Get Creative at Home
Your palimpsests inspired by Edmund de Waal
Here are some of the beautiful creations you made in response to the Front Row Get Creative challenge
BBC ARTS
Rana Begum
The artist shows how she uses watercolours to get through lockdown isolation
BBC Iplayer
#GetCreativeAtHome
Search the site for creative activites to do at home, or add activites to listings if you are a creative organisation
Get Creative at Home
The Novels That Shaped Our World
10 remarkable novels about identity
Stories about what makes us who we are and how we define ourselves and others
Novels that shaped our world
10 passionate tales about love, sex and romance
Stories delving into affairs of the heart and the bedroom, including Forever and Riders
Novels that shaped our world
10 of the best adventure stories ever told
Stories of exploration, quest and survival including The Hunger Games and His Dark Materials
Novels that shaped our world
10 classic stories of life, death and other worlds
Novels tackling the struggle to live in alternative universes or imagined futures
Novels that shaped our world
10 astute novels that tell us about class and society
Stories examing how others live and how we live together, inlcuding Cannery Row and Our Mutual Friend
Novels that shaped our world
100 Novels That Shaped Our World
Explore the list of 100 novels whose stories have the power to change us
BBC Arts
New on BBC iPlayer
Craftivism: Making a Difference
Comedian Jenny Eclair meets crafters using their skills to make the world a better place, one stitch at a time
BBC IPLAYER
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
Revealing the film-making tricks and techniques behind classic movie genres
BBC IPLAYER
Musicals: The Greatest Show
A joyous celebration of musical theatre packed with showstoppers from the West End’s biggest productions
BBC Iplayer
New on BBC Sounds
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
Scotland’s national poet brings to life the tempestuous story of the Empress of the Blues
BBC Sounds
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom
BBC SOUNDS
Radcliffe and Maconie: Carlos Acosta
Carlos Acosta shares the first record he loved, the record he's enjoying now and the one that means ‘everything’ to him
BBC Sounds
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