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What happens when creativity becomes resistance? The Harlem Renaissance story
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What happens when creativity becomes resistance? The Harlem Renaissance story

Valerie Ebuwa tells the story of how a cultural revolution in a New York borough redefined what it meant to be Black in the US.

Irvine Welsh on Men in Love and how the Sick Boys rule the world
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Irvine Welsh on Men in Love and how the Sick Boys rule the world

​​Author Irvine Welsh discusses his book Men in Love, the latest sequel to Trainspotting, in conversation with Miranda Sawyer.

Northern Soul: hidden gems and a brief history with Deptford Northern Soul Club
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Northern Soul: hidden gems and a brief history with Deptford Northern Soul Club

Deptford Northern Soul Club’s WIll Foot Shares an introduction to the genre and some of his favourite floor-filling tracks.

Artist on artist: Michael Barenboim on ‘the inspirational’ Pierre Boulez
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Artist on artist: Michael Barenboim on ‘the inspirational’ Pierre Boulez

The violinist and violist discusses his huge admiration for the avant-garde composer and ‘inspirational’ conductor.

Sean Shibe: ‘Maybe there is a bit of clownery to what I’m doing, but I’m totally serious about it‘
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Sean Shibe: ‘Maybe there is a bit of clownery to what I’m doing, but I’m totally serious about it‘

An in-depth interview with guitarist Sean Shibe who talks dedication, dignity, and weight of expectation as he becomes one of our Resident Artists.

Who is poetry collective Femina Culpa?
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Who is poetry collective Femina Culpa?

Introducing the new all-woman poetry collective that are as much one for the past as they are one for the future.

How I create… with choreographer Benoit Swan Pouffer
Benoit Swan Pouffer, a Black man with shaved head and stubble stands with his hands clasped together
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How I create… with choreographer Benoit Swan Pouffer

The Artistic Director of Rambert dance company gives a personal insight into his creative process.

5 things to know about Iris Colomb
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5 things to know about Iris Colomb

An introduction to the multi-talented poet, artist, improviser and curator.

Inside Yoshitomo Nara's beautiful studio sanctuary in Japan
Artist Yoshitomo Nara – an older Japanese man with grey hair over which he wears a black baseball cap, and wearing a black hooded top, stands in his whitewalled artists studio which has paintings on the wall and various materials propped against the walls and at the room's edges.
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Inside Yoshitomo Nara's beautiful studio sanctuary in Japan

Get an insight into the art and practice of artist Yoshitomo Nara as he offers a rare video tour of his studio.

My Mixtape: Ásrún Magnúsdóttir’s 10 eclectic teenage favourites
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My Mixtape: Ásrún Magnúsdóttir’s 10 eclectic teenage favourites

The theatre-maker and choreographer shares 10 unusual tracks requested by teenagers at her Listening Party events, and the stories behind them.

Raymond Antrobus: ‘I have zero interest in framing myself as some kind of victim’
The poet Raymond Antrobus, a man in his late 30s of British and Jamaican heritage with short hair, sits smiling on a wooden chair in a roughly kept garden
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Raymond Antrobus: ‘I have zero interest in framing myself as some kind of victim’

An in-depth interview with poet Raymond Antrobus who talks about his life as ‘an investigator of missing sound’ and his memoir The Quiet Ear.

Stravinsky conducts in the Royal Festival Hall
Igor Stravinsky, a small 83 year old balding man wearing black-rimmed glasses stands with arms stretched out at his stands as he conducts a rehearsal
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Stravinsky conducts in the Royal Festival Hall

Watch the legendary composer conduct a 1965 performance of The Firebird by the Philharmonia Orchestra.