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Join photographers Karen Knorr and Anna Fox in conversation, as they discuss the aesthetics and socio-political issues explored in their photography.

British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah talks to academic, editor and writer Anthony Downey about his 2017 work in The Curve, 'Purple'

Acclaimed poet Christian Campbell addresses Jean-Michel Basquiat’s early graffiti experiments as SAMO.

Acclaimed US photographer Catherine Opie discusses her work chronicling queer subcultures, urban transformation and American popular culture with Jonathan D. Katz, an art historian, curator and queer activist.

Join writer, actor, comedian and campaigner Stephen Fry in conversation with journalist Chris Gunness for a four-part series taking Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament to spark conversations on music, art, mental health and the healing power of art. 

Chris Gunness heads into rehearsal with underground political theatre company, Belarus Free Theatre, to speak to Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin to learn more about making theatre in exile and the challenges of creation in isolation.

Join conceptual documentary photographer and filmmaker Richard Mosse as he discusses his 3-channel video installation 'Incoming' with writer and academic, Anthony Downey.

Another dip into the archive with this episode from May 2015 where Ben Eshmade spoke to French Film director Olivier Assayas about his consecutive films 'Personal Shopper' and 'Clouds of Sils Maria'.

In the final episode in our Composer Focus series, Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo talks to Edward Seckerson about his countryman, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

In this episode of Composer Focus, Richard Tognetti – violinist, composer and director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra speaks to Edward Seckerson about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

In this episode of Composer Focus, Sir Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, guides us through the life and music of Gustav Mahler.

Author Ruth Appelhof talks to Saskia Flower about her memoir of Lee Krasner, whom she lived with in the 1970s while researching her Master's degree.