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Charli XCX
Follow pop star Charli XCX into the studio and onto the stage
Alain Boublil – The Master of Musical Theatre
Join Alain Boublil as he works on his latest show, Manhattan Parisienne
Fashion designers: Opening Ceremony
Simon Pitts follows OC’s Humberto Leon and Carol Lim as they create a new collection
Conserving the works of the Van Gogh Museum
Repairing and caring for paintings with conservator René Boitelle
Matt Leacock and Pandemic Legacy
Matt Leacock, creator of the blockbuster board game Pandemic, tests his next project
Johan Holmström's Lo-Fi Masterpiece
Johan Holmström shows Downton Abbey composer John Lunn how to create music for games
Tania Bruguera
Tim Marlow visits Tania as she develops her new installation at London’s Tate Modern.
Victor Ehikhamenor
Nigerian visual artist Victor Ehikhamenor talks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Shobana Jeyasingh - Recreating the 1918 flu pandemic through dance
Felicity Finch follows Shobana Jeyasingh as she creates her latest piece, Contagion
Jason deCaires Taylor - Underwater Sculptor
Creating an art gallery on the ocean floor
Michael Rakowitz - Crafting ‘ghosts’ from Iraq’s lost culture
Sculpting likenesses of destroyed ancient artefacts using Arabic food packaging
The Royal Ballet – The Unknown Soldier
Backstage at the Royal Opera House, with the creatives behind a new ballet
Leila Aboulela: Writing the Stories of Scotland and Sudan
Sudanese author Leila Aboulela develops the storyline for her latest novel
Bjarke Ingels: BIG ART in Copenhagen
Bjarke Ingels is currently one of the hottest young architects on the planet
David Baddiel
Comedian David Baddiel invites listeners behind the scenes of his new show.
Mo Abudu – creating blockbuster movies in Nigeria
Anna Cunningham follows Mo Abudu onto the set of her latest film Chief Daddy
AR Rahman: The man behind the music
AR Rahman on music, God and how spirituality is entwined in the process of composition
Making Midge Ure’s New Guitar with Jimmy Moon
Guitar maker Jimmy Moon builds a custom-made guitar for Midge Ure
The Haptic Baton
A new device helping visually impaired musicians be in an orchestra
Haroon Mirza
We join Haroon Mirza in his studio as he works on his latest installation in Liverpool
Contemporary Artist Tomás Saraceno
Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno tells us about his hot air balloon creation, Aerocene
Virgil Abloh
Exploring Virgil’s approach to design and speaking directly to young consumers
British percussionist Colin Currie
Percussionist Colin Currie prepares for the premiere of Helen Grime’s Percussion Concerto
Anna Starobinets
The ‘Russian Queen of Horror’ takes us through the process of creating her next book
Allen Coulter - American TV director
Allen Coulter peels back the secrets of directing pioneering TV drama hits
Kazuhiro Tsuji – sculpting Jimi Hendrix
Capturing the essence of a rock legend in a hyper-realistic 3D portrait
Chinese novelist Chan Koonchung
Bestselling Chinese novelist Chan Koonchung talks about the book he is working on now
Argentine ballet dancer Marianela Nuñez
Argentine dancer Marianela Nuñez prepares for her latest ballet production, La Bayadère
Tattoo artist Evan Kim
New York tattoo artist Evan Kim is tasked with a challenging brief. Can he pull it off?
Anthony Horowitz
We follow British writer Anthony Horowitz as he works on his next novel, Nightshade
David McLay Kidd – Golf course designer
David McLay Kidd: golf course designer, storyteller and sculptor of wild landscape