Leeds 2023 Year of Culture

Rhianna Dhillon and Sarfraz Manzoor join Tom Sutcliffe to review:Childhood in War, an exhibition at the Imperial War Musuem exploring how children have experienced conflict from 1914 to the present day. Ish, the debut feature film from multimedia artist Imran Perretta which follo ...  Show more

Writer and director John Morton, one of the team behind 2012 and W1A, on the new comedy Twenty Twenty Six, set in the run up to this year's football World Cup.Artist Lachlan Goudie's new book The Secrets of Painting explores the creative big bangs in art over the centuries which ...  Show more

This week we celebrate the spirit of the Ledbury Poetry Festival. With a distinctly international programme, Ledbury is one of the best-loved events in the UK literary calendar. The festival has been, like many events, sadly cancelled this year. Ian McMillan is joined by Sandeep ...  Show more

How to release the potential of the creative industries. 

With Katy Shaw FRSA, director, AHRC Creative Communities; Darren Henley FRSA, chief executive, Arts Council England; and Shanaz Gulzar, creative director, Bradford 2025, UK City of Culture.

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This week on Here Now, Kadambari Raghukumar checks out some arts and culture events lined up in the capital for the next few weeks ahead. The podcast features chats with musicians performing at Wellington Jazz Festival - Alda Rezende and Seth Boy; and Abhi Chinniah about he ...

The founder of the Bradford Literature Festival talks to the RSA’s CEO about how cultural activity can build stronger communities and drive economic growth.

Syima discusses her background, the creation in 2014 of the Bradford Literature Festival as an eclectic and inclus ...