The Cultural Frontline Podcast
The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.
Episodes to download
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Film-maker SalomΓ© Jashi and the art of trees
Sat 26 Jun 2021
Escape to a forest of arboreal art that looks, listens and even protests with trees
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Syria’s Top Goon: Art and the Arab Spring
Sat 19 Jun 2021
Artists share their reflections ten years after the Arab Spring.
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Beatie Wolfe: Art against climate change
Sat 12 Jun 2021
Beatie Wolfe on making protest art using 800,000 years of historic NASA climate data
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Mukoma Wa Ngugi: How music inspired my writing
Sat 5 Jun 2021
Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Kanya D’Almeida, Art of Change and Joeboy on how home shapes their art
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Black Lives Matter: Art after George Floyd
Sat 29 May 2021
A year since the death of George Floyd, writers and artists reflect upon its impact
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Studio Ghibli: The next generation
Sat 22 May 2021
Studio Ghibli’s Goro Miyazaki on his new film Earwig and the Witch
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Emel Mathlouthi and artists of the Arab Spring
Sat 15 May 2021
Emel Mathlouthi shares how her song became an anthem for change during the Arab Spring
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Opera singer Joshua Hopkins: Remembering my sister in song
Sat 8 May 2021
We speak to Joshua Hopkins, a singer using his voice to call out violence against women.
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Experimental theatre in Tokyo
Sat 1 May 2021
Immersive performances in a pandemic, but can theatre change us and how we see the world?
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Alexander Nanau: My Oscar nominated film
Sat 24 Apr 2021
We speak to Oscar nominees ahead of the 2021 Academy Awards
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Nikita Gill and creative renewal
Sat 17 Apr 2021
How poet Nikita Gill rebuilt hope through a daily ritual of writing and sharing
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Emilia Clarke: My lockdown discovery
Sat 3 Apr 2021
Actor Emilia Clarke on how the work of the writer Jenny Diski inspired her in lockdown
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JaQuel Knight: The man behind Beyoncé’s Single Ladies dance
Sat 27 Mar 2021
JaQuel Knight, Tishani Doshi and Quang Dang on driving change through dance
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The art that changed me during the pandemic
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Tumi Morake speaks to global stars about the art that’s inspired them during lockdown
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Fatoumata Diawara: music, Mali and migration
Sat 13 Mar 2021
We hear from musicians using their music to fight injustice and spark debate
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Waad al-Kateab and fearless female storytellers
Sat 6 Mar 2021
Ahead of International Women’s Day, we speak to Oscar-nominated filmmaker Waad al-Kateab
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Amitav Ghosh and new writing from India and Pakistan
Sat 27 Feb 2021
Indian author Amitav Ghosh discusses using verse and folklore in his new book Jungle Nama
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Animation: Art, activism and anime
Sat 20 Feb 2021
We meet artists redrawing the future of animation
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Hao Wu: Wuhan under lockdown on film
Sat 13 Feb 2021
We go behind the camera with some of the world’s leading documentary filmmakers
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Bisa Butler: Crafting African American stories
Sat 6 Feb 2021
We meet the craft makers telling new stories through traditional techniques
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Olafur Eliasson: Public art made virtual
Sat 30 Jan 2021
Download the imagination of artist Olafur Eliasson on to a street near you
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Writing America’s new chapter
Sat 23 Jan 2021
Novelists Michael Farris Smith and Zaina Arafat on how they write the American story
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Douglas Stuart and fashion for change
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Author Douglas Stuart on the transformative power of clothes in life and literature
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BTS ARMY: Inside the Fandom
Sat 9 Jan 2021
How BTS ARMY is changing the music industry and pop culture
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Bulgaria’s art on the edge
Sat 2 Jan 2021
Three extraordinary artists blur the lines between cabaret, theatre and real-life
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Canine couture: Inside dog fashion
Boxing Day 2020
Four-legged fashion – we go inside the exclusive world of designer clothes for dogs
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Board games: The politics of play
Sat 19 Dec 2020
How do board games encourage players to explore ideas, politics and morals?
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Covid-19 and China’s changing club scene
Sat 12 Dec 2020
How coronavirus is changing China’s underground electronic music scene.
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Songhoy Blues: Mali’s Musical Optimists
Sat 5 Dec 2020
Aliou TourΓ©, lead singer of rock revolutionaries Songhoy Blues, discusses their new album
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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Writing Zimbabwe’s Women
Sat 28 Nov 2020
We celebrate the female writers, artists and performers making their voices heard
