Arwa al-Ammari: Putting Saudi elegance on the fashion map

Saudi designer Arwa al-Ammari prepares a new range for the catwalk

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Linda Wong Davies: Staging Semele in Shanghai - part one

Producer Linda Wong Davies creates a show for China in just six weeks

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Linda Wong Davies: Staging Semele in Shanghai - part two

Producer Linda Wong Davies and the team on what it takes to create a new show in Shanghai

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Bert & Bertie

A directing duo making a name for themselves in Hollywood

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Ron Arad

Industrial and architectural designer Ron Arad creates a string quartet that plays itself

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Artificial improvisation

Composer Kris Bowers meets Shimon, a robot that can improvise live music

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Madeleine Thien: The first draft

Paul Kobrak follows the writer Madeleine Thien’s process as she works on her next novel

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Zanele Muholi: Giving a voice to South Africa’s black LGBTQI+ community

The ‘visual activist’ who wants to give the black LGBTQI+ community a place in history

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Lady Pink: The first lady of graffiti

Lady Pink on creating a 33 foot long mural at the World Trade Center in New York

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Dada Masilo: From Soweto street dancer to ballet star

The choreographer and performer re-imagines Stravinksy’s The Rite of Spring

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Celeste Mountjoy, aka Filthyratbag

Artist Celeste Mountjoy's satirical illustrations have made her an Instagram hit

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Michael Rakowitz: Crafting ‘ghosts’ from Iraq’s lost culture

Sculpting likenesses of destroyed Assyrian wall reliefs using Arabic food packaging

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Kari Kola: Lighting up the world

Finnish light artist Kari Kola on creating his largest site-specific artwork to date

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Jakub Józef Orliński: Countertenor in Karlsruhe

Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński prepares for the title role in Handel’s opera Tolomeo

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Mo Abudu: Creating blockbuster movies in Nigeria

On the set of 2018 Nollywood hit Chief Daddy

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Belarus Free Theatre: Directing from a distance

Belarus Free Theatre - directing a play down a Skype line from London to Minsk

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Marc Quinn: Creating 100 sculptures of refugees

Marc Quinn’s new artwork sees him cast sculptures of 100 refugees from around the world

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Tyler Childers: Run these roads

A Grammy-nominated country musician tells stories of his native Kentucky

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Julie Baines: The making of a movie, part one

Film producer Julie Baines on filming of `Four Kids and It' starring Russell Brand

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Julie Baines: The making of a movie, part two

Film Producer Julie Baines on the making of Four Kids and It starring Russell Brand

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Nnedi Okorafor: Creating sci-fi worlds

The award-winning writer Nnedi Okorafor on creating sci-fi and life in lockdown.

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Demond Melancon: The bead master of New Orleans

Following Big Chief Demond Melancon in New Orleans as he prepares for Mardi Gras

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Eimear Noone and Craig Garfinkle: Composers in isolation

Racing to create a film score in lockdown

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Elif Shafak: Writing in lockdown

Writer Elif Shafak describes how Covid-19 and lockdown have affected her creative process

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Operation Night Watch

Uncovering the secrets behind one of the most famous paintings in the world.

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Janet Echelman: Bending Arc

The making of a monumental aerial sculpture in Florida during the Covid pandemic

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Eric Whitacre – Creating the Virtual Choir

Composer Eric Whitacre on creating his latest Virtual Choir project with 17,572 singers

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Mira Nair: The making of A Suitable Boy

On location with film director Mira Nair

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The Bold and the Beautiful: Returning to our screens

How mannequins and actors’ real-life partners are getting the show safely back on air

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Nelson Makamo: Celebrating children from rural South Africa

Meet Nelson Makamo at his studio in Johannesburg, the “most sacred place in the world”

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Alan Walker: Behind the mask

Norwegian music producer and DJ Alan Walker on how he makes his music

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Ocean Vuong: Becoming Briefly Gorgeous

The acclaimed young writer Ocean Vuong on creating images and being uncomfortable

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez: Literature in the centre of my life

The acclaimed Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez creates his new novel.

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Es Devlin: Artist and stage designer

A British artist who creates shows for the Olympics, Adele, the Weeknd and Louis Vuitton

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Sharon Olds: Poetry coming down my arm

The Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Sharon Olds discusses how she writes her poetry

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Ann Goldstein: The art of the translator

What are the challenges of translating foreign language books into the English language?

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Chick Corea: Accomplishing the goal of art

Jazz legend Chick Corea on composing a new work for jazz trio

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Daniel Lee: Revitalising a fashion house

British fashion designer, Daniel Lee on reinventing classic Italian brand, Bottega Veneta

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Jordi Savall

A musical time-traveller who bridges centuries and cultures

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Guggenheim Bilbao: From Covid to Kandinsky

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao prepares to open a Kandinsky show during the Covid pandemic.

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René Redzepi on Noma's autumn menu

Copenhagen’s two Michelin-starred restaurant prepares for its autumn reincarnation

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Rachel Barrie: Master whisky blender

A three-year journey to create a new range of whiskies for a Scottish distillery

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The Big Fix Up: A new, digital venture for Wallace and Gromit

The plasticine heroes leave stop motion animation for an interactive phone app

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Viet Thanh Nguyen: The art of memoir

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes on a new, deeply personal challenge

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Max Richter: Writing music based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The composer collaborates in lockdown with artist Yulia Mahr

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Patrick Woodroffe: Lighting the stars

The acclaimed lighting designer rehearses the Last Domino? Tour with rock greats Genesis

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YouTube’s Life In A Day: The making of a documentary

Director Kevin Macdonald and executive producer Ridley Scott on making Life In A Day 2020

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Rex, King of Mardi Gras

New Orleans’s oldest parading organisation on keeping the spirit of carnival alive

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Ben Okri

The Nigerian writer on how a poem forms in his mind and makes its way onto the page

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