Living With the Light On: Switchboard in the 70s

An exploration of the early history of the UK’s leading LGBT+ helpline

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Stormzy, Sugababes, Jess Glynne, Dave, Rita Ora, Rudimental...

Meet Kojo Samuel, the musical director behind these huge stars

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Taboo Breaking Bollywood

Nikki Bedi's tours the cutting-edge of socially-conscious Indian cinema

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Fresh talent from BBC Introducing Arts

Swiped

A dating app in the near future promises to bring people together but old habits die hard

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Meet the gadgies of Gardenstown

Daniel Cook's striking photos of Banffshire's travelling community

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A-Z of NI

Eejit, poke and Veda – just some of the words translated in Katie McQuillan’s film A-Z of NI

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Bumbling Detectives

Inside Cinema trains its magnifying glass on a pratfalling archetype of crime fiction

BBC IPLAYER

Forever Young

Ali Plumb on how digital de-aging is conquering Hollywood, granting stars eternal, cinematic youth

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Disney Divas

Are the villains of the Disney animated universe the real heroes we need?

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Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

Greg Davies travels to Barnsley to meet those intimately tied to Barry Hines's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave

BBC FOUR

Novels That Shaped Our World

How women writers, women readers and women's lives have been central to the novel

BBC TWO

Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes

Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers... Are spy novels a great way to engage with big questions about the human condition?

BBC FOUR

George Eliot at 200

Middlemarch

Listen to George Eliot's jewel in the classic novel crown.

BBC RADIO 4

Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life

Contemporary artist Gillian Wearing celebrates the legacy of the Victorian novelist

BBC FOUR

George Eliot: A Life in Five Characters

Linking her life to her characters, with readings by Juliet Stevenson

BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA

New Thinking: George Eliot

Shahidha Bari discusses the state of scholarship on George Eliot

BBC RADIO 3

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Grossman's War

Kenneth Branagh, Greta Scacchi and Mark Bonnar star in this adaptation of Vasily Grossman's novel

BBC RADIO 4

Book of the Week

Exceptional readings available on BBC Sounds

BBC RADIO 4

Open Book

Mariella Frostrup and guests take a look at what's new and unearth lost classics

BBC RADIO 4

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Do we still like Renoir?

Considering the legacy of the Impressionist painter 100 years after his death.

ART UK

Art of the nation

The everlasting impact of The Great Exhibition and World Fairs

ART UK

More than modern muses

Dora Maar and the women artists at the centre of Surrealism

ART UK

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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

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imagine...

The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob

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The UK's biggest celebration of creative participation

Inside Cinema

Short films taking you to the heart of the movies

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