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Word of Mouth
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
- Broadcast
- 2025 (28 mins)
Michael Rosen on the linguistic comfort food of clichés, pragmatics and how we use language to connect us beyond the actual words used. Derek Bousfield explains how words do more than carry meaning: context...
Being Kae Tempest
Episode
- Broadcast
- 2023 (59 mins)
Poet, rapper, playwright and recording artist Kae Tempest is one of the most viscerally exciting artists working in Britain today. They are the youngest ever recipient of the prestigious Ted Hughes prize and...
The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland
Ep3 - Breakthroughs and Backlash
- Broadcast
- 2023 (58 mins)
In this third and final episode of The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland, Kirsty Wark explores the devolution era and discovers what happens when women take the lead and seize control of the megaphone - in...
Art That Made Us
Episode 8 ' Brilliant Isles
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
Brilliant Isles, the final episode of the series, explores how the generation of artists who recorded the shocks of global war gave way in the 1950s and 1960s to an explosion of new voices from across the...
Art That Made Us
Episode 1 ' Lights in the Darkness
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
This episode immerses us in the turbulent era that followed the Roman occupation of Britain. Once known as the ‘dark’ ages, in reality it’s a time of glittering art and extraordinary cultural fusions....
Art That Made Us
Episode 2 ' Revolution of the Dead
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
An alternative history of the Black Death of the Middle Ages and its bitter but profoundly creative aftermath. Contemporary artists and performers, alongside historians and curators, reveal how a century...
Art That Made Us
Episode 3 ' Queens, Feuds and Faith
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
In the 16th century, the British Isles experienced a religious revolution, as the kingdoms of England and then Scotland turned Protestant. Artists and experts today reveal how, during the reign of Elizabeth...
Art That Made Us
Episode 4 ' To Kill A King
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
Architect Amanda Levete climbs the Tulip Stairs in the Queen’s House, Greenwich, and reassesses Inigo Jones’ elegant and innovative design, while portrait artist Tai Shan Schierenberg encounters Van...
Art That Made Us
Episode 5 ' Consumers and Conscience
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
This episode traces the story of Britain during the 18th century, a period that saw an explosion of creativity and a country with enough money, from trade and conquest, to pay for it. But the money had a...
Art That Made Us
Episode 6 ' Rise of the Cities
- Broadcast
- 2022 (59 mins)
Rise of the Cities charts the decisive shift of power from countryside to the city during the 19th century. With the industrial revolution transforming the British Isles, a divide opened up between city and...