The Cultural Frontline

The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.

World Service,367 episodes

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The Beautiful Game: Art, football and the World Cup
With the Fifa World Cup in Qatar, we look at the relationship between art and football
05 Nov 2022,26 mins
Who owns history?
Artists telling stories from a contested past
29 Oct 2022,26 mins
How artists are changing Sri Lanka
We hear from artists at the forefront of Sri Lanka’s protest movement
22 Oct 2022,26 mins
Protest songs in Iran
Two Iranian artists on the recent protests
15 Oct 2022,26 mins
How climate change changed my life
Photographer Norma I Quintana on the wildfires that destroyed her home and studio
08 Oct 2022,26 mins
The Art of Advertising
How do adverts differ around the world?
01 Oct 2022,26 mins
Colombia: Culture out of conflict
María Cecilia Botero, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Cristina Bendek and Bomba Estéreo
24 Sep 2022,26 mins
Melanie C: Creativity and mental health
The Spice Girls star on the costs of fame
17 Sep 2022,26 mins
How is TikTok changing culture?
We speak to creators about how the platform is changing music, comedy and literature.
10 Sep 2022,26 mins
On Standing Rock
Nick Rankin examines the cultural fallout from the protests at Standing Rock in 2016
03 Sep 2022,26 mins
Global artists at the Edinburgh Festivals
William Barton, Odile Gakire Katese, Uma Nada-Rajah and Circus Abyssinia
27 Aug 2022,26 mins
Salman Rushdie: Is free speech under attack?
What does the stabbing of Sir Salman Rushdie mean for writers?
20 Aug 2022,26 mins
Storytelling is my activism
Theatre makers reflecting their lives on stage
13 Aug 2022,26 mins
Jamaica: Telling our own story
Jamaican culture 60 years after independence
06 Aug 2022,26 mins
Classical musicians in war and exile
Classical musicians from Ukraine, Venezuela and Syria in war and exile
30 Jul 2022,26 mins
Art of the Queer Diaspora
LGBTQ+ artists on the meanings of home and exile
23 Jul 2022,26 mins
Musicians championing indigenous languages
Artists campaigning through song for their languages to have a place on the world stage
16 Jul 2022,26 mins
Inside Norway’s future library
How a forest near Oslo is being transformed into a future library
09 Jul 2022,26 mins
Hong Kong: 25 years on
Curator Billy Tang, artist Samson Young, film-maker Ching Wong on Hong Kong culture
02 Jul 2022,26 mins
Simu Liu: Making heroes for us
The new superheroes representing cultures across the world
25 Jun 2022,26 mins
What next for Afrofuturism?
We meet the next generation of Afrofuturism-inspired artists
18 Jun 2022,26 mins
Disabled musicians turning up the volume
What’s being done to integrate disabled musicians into the mainstream music industry
11 Jun 2022,26 mins
Celebrating Commonwealth writing with HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall shares her passion for literature
04 Jun 2022,26 mins
Is comedy a risky business?
Comedians from around the world on the risks involved in telling jokes.
28 May 2022,26 mins
Breaking the boundaries of fiction
Writers in popular genres like crime, horror and fantasy overcoming literary snobbery
21 May 2022,26 mins
The art of memory
How artists are using the stories and hidden memories of the past
14 May 2022,26 mins
How is the arts world responding to the Ukraine conflict?
Sanctions, boycotts, bans, cancellations -how the arts is responding to Russia’s invasion
07 May 2022,26 mins
Making ballet a stage for all
Dancers Mamela Nyamza, Chloe Lopes Gomes and César Morales, tell us their stories
30 Apr 2022,26 mins
New global art at the Venice Biennale
Alfredo Thiermann and Dominga Sotomayor on recreating the peatlands of Patagonia
23 Apr 2022,26 mins
What does history sound like?
Can ancient musical instruments help contemporary Mexicans connect with their past?
16 Apr 2022,26 mins