Band Politics

6 Music's Chris Hawkins investigates a new wave of politically engaged bands.

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Band Politics

Chris Hawkins on the new wave of politically engaged bands defining the alternative scene.

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Guantanamo

Exploring an unlikely exhibit of artworks from Guantanamo Bay.

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The Architecture of Incarceration

Britain is opening a series of large new jails, but why is the go-to design 250 years old?

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True Jit

How the Zimbabwean music scene is responding to the end of the Mugabe era.

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Warsaw

Poland’s artists, writers and musicians respond to growing ultra-nationalism.

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Outsiders

Can anyone declare themselves an artist? David Tovey considers the so-called rules.

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Atmosfears

Japanese poets create new work in a location marred by a tragic history.

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Identity Crisis

Writer Sohrab Ahmari defends the art world from the threat of identity politics.

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Inbox

The Inbox is open - a unique platform for the creativity of Radio 4 listeners.

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The Joy of Text

Artist Bob and Roberta Smith examines how text and language are used in art.

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Surveillance

Artist Nye Thompson asks how the creative world is reflecting the state of surveillance.

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Nick Danziger's Shutter Stories

Photographer Nick Danziger travels to Armenia, revisiting isolated elderly people.

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Border Wall

Art on the US-Mexico Border

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Women Who Walk

Doon Mackichan wanders, falls and loiters with just a few of the women making walking art.

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Visual Assault

Zoe Buckman meets female artists responding to sexual discrimination around the world.

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Recombinant Rhymes and DNA Art

Anna McNamee meets the artists and poets using genetic science to create stunning works.

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A New School for New Orleans

Clara Amfo meets the staff and artists at a groundbreaking music studio in New Orleans.

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The Return of Voguing

Clara Amfo looks at the UK voguing scene, a unique subculture currently in the spotlight.

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Race and Fashion

Kenya Hunt celebrates black designers and explores conversations around race in fashion.

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Afghan Stars

Sahar Zand is in Kabul for the finals of the TV talent show Afghan Star.

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Afghan Stars - the Women's Story

Sahar Zand is in Kabul to meet women musicians who are defying the Taliban.

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Puerto Rico

The creative response of Puerto Rican artists to Hurricane Maria and economic crisis.

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Karaoke Rage

Gabriel Ebulue investigates a deadly karaoke curse concerning Frank Sinatra’s My Way.

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Art Surgery: Anxiety

Elizabeth Alker and Nikesh Shukla explore art and anxiety.

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Istanbul's Factory of Tears

In Istanbul, Isobel Finkel explores the kitsch, melancholy, forbidden music of Arabesk.

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Music of the Kaka'i

Hear the secret, ancient music the Kaka’i people of Iraq risk their lives to play.

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Migraine

Exploring migraine and creativity through a specially commissioned musical score.

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Hands

Psychotherapist Philippa Perry asks what our hands reveal about ourselves and our world.

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An Orchestra of the Rainforest

Music and trouble, in the Brazilian rain forest - a race against time for the Wauja tribe.

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Batter! Batter! Boom!

How are some of Scotland’s newest noise-makers discovering the joys of sound art?

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Hairy Art

Can art help us unpack our emotions about body hair? Keisha Thompson investigates.

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Jeremy Deller’s Peterloo

An in-depth look at Jeremy Deller's new People's Monument to the Peterloo Massacre.

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Tin Roof Symphony

Take shelter from the storm, as rain comes down on the humble tin roof.

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Cymru Rising

DJ Huw Stephens looks at the rise of Welsh-language pop music.

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The World in Their Hands

In a London studio, the ancient craft of globemaking finds a modern spin.

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Sell Out

The art world is awash with corporate money and brand partnerships. Should we be worried?

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Hostile Design

Artist Stuart Semple on unwelcoming street design meant to deter anti-social behaviour.

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Brazilian Art Under Bolsonaro

Brazilian artists and thinkers explore cultural life under a far-right president.

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Scandinavia

Louise Morris challenges Scandinavia's idyllic image through its radical artists.

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Limbo Land

Northern Irish artists explore the complex relationship between memory, identity and place

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Bangladesh

Dhaka artist Dibarah Mahboob explores the flourishing activist art of Bangladesh.

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Harlem's New Renaissance

Harlem's New Renaissance - 100 years of culture in Harlem introduced by Darryl Pinckney.

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Rwanda's Returnees

Artists from Rwanda’s diaspora are returning. Dr Zoe Norridge explores why.

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Playing Well: Frightened Rabbit

Chris Hawkins examines the life and legacy of Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison

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Playing Well: On the Road

Idles, Wolf Alice, She Drew the Gun and Bill Ryder-Jones talk mental health and music

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Playing Well: VERY LOUD SCIENCE

The investigation into music and mental health concludes with a surprising experiment

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Innervisions

Visually impaired musicians finding ways to flourish in the age of the touch screen.

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The Walking Dance

Stories of people with Parkinson's finding balance in the steps of the Argentine tango.

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The Tides of the Staithe

Kevin Crossley-Holland reflects on the magic and the menace of the Norfolk tides

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The Last Exposure

The end of the dark room - and a glimpse into the colourful world of Garry Fabian-Miller.

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The Algorhythms of Epilepsy

The screech of an owl, the howl of a wolf - the sound of epilepsy in the brain as art.

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Filth

Emma Critchley meets the artists turning smog, landfill and sewage into challenging art.

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Recovery

A studio in London where survivors of torture are using art to help with their recovery

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A Mathematician's Guide to Beauty

Mathematician Vicky Neale explores the idea of the beautiful in maths.

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North Korea

Step inside North Korea's Art Studio

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Good Vibrations

Comedian and actor Isy Suttie, seeking relaxation, explores the world of sound therapy.

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Christchurch

Artists reflect on their work after one of New Zealand’s darkest days.

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Out of the Wood

Stripping away trees to reveal the sapling inside – art that touches nature.

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Mixtape For Zimbabwe

Songs and sounds from UK based writer Belinda Zhawi, dedicated to her birth country.

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Raw Meat

Susan Bright gets bloody and fleshy with artists who’re using body parts as a raw material

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Black and Creative in Scotland

Tomiwa Folorunso explores the experience of being a black female artist in Scotland.

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Berlin’s Nightlife

DJ Emily Dust explores the unusual ways Berlin's clubbing scene is fighting gentrification

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The Gospel of Grime

From gospel to grime, Jesse Bernard explores the role music plays in black churches.

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Hearing Architecture

The story of blind architect Chris Downey, told in his own words.

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A Life in Song

Singer-songwriter Sean Cooney explores the art of writing songs about real people.

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Playing with the Dead

Jordan Erica Webber explores how video games can let us play with people after their death

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