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Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize 2021

The South African author wins the prize for his novel The Promise

BBC Arts

Dinner Tables

Jacob Stolworthy reveals how the humble dinner table serves up delicious movie moments

BBC iPlayer

10 amazing artworks inspired by climate change

Including pieces from musicians Moor Mother and John Grant as well as innovative work from BBC New Creatives talent

BBC Arts

New on BBC iPlayer

Barneys, Books and Bust-Ups: 50 Years of the Booker Prize

Exploring how the Booker Prize revolutionised the world of literary fiction and became a central part of cultural life

BBC IPLAYER

Painted with My Hair

Film inspired by the artwork of Donny Johnson, a man who has been imprisoned in the US for all of his adult life

BBC iPlayer

Nature and Us

James Fox tells the story of our relationship with nature through some of the world’s most extraordinary artwork

BBC iPlayer

New on BBC Sounds

Nuit Blanche

Meet the artists, authors, graffiti writers, musicians and thinkers who are most creative at night

BBC SOUNDS

This Cultural Life

Guests including Tracey Emin and Sir Paul McCartney reveal what has fired their imagination and sparked their creativity

BBC SOUNDS

Front Row

Magazine programme exploring the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

BBC SOUNDS

Life Drawing Live!

Gallery of your artworks

Here's a selection of the brilliant creations you shared and submitted during our live art class

BBC Arts

Catch up on Life Drawing Live!

Watch our art class again

BBC Arts

Life drawing tips

Artist Adebanji Alade has this guidance on key skills like perspective, colour and texture

BBC ARTS

Inside Cinema

Akira Kurosawa

From Seven Samurai to Ran, Jasper Sharp explores the revolutionary filmmaking of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa

BBC IPLAYER

The B Word

Bisexuality is often hinted at or implied in cinema, but when mentioned by name, it’s not always exactly flattering

BBC IPLAYER

Welcome to Jackass

Do not try this at home! Charles Bramesco digs into the cultural phenomenon of Jackass

BBC iPlayer

Exciting interactives from BBC New Creatives

Explore a remote landscape scarred by human activity

Artist and activist Georgia Tucker uses virtual reality to show viewers worlds that are both alien and familiar

BBC NEW CREATIVES

New prototype embeds BBC sound archive in the real world

The Sonosynthesiser explores how forgotten sound recordings can be embedded in physical space

BBC NEW CREATIVES

Controlling a hologram with your hands

Artist Vince Baidoo-Lowe explores different ways of controlling virtual characters by moving the body

bbc new creatives

New works by D/deaf, neurodivergent and disabled artists

Spectrum Sounds

Seven experimental compositions born out of Andrew Hugill's aurally diverse and synaesthetic sense of hearing

BBC TASTER

Aisle

Animation and vocal soundscape explore the everyday ableism faced by disabled people.

BBC iPlayer

Complexity of Skin

Two neurodivergent people's desire for touch collides with the discomfort it causes.

BBC iPlayer

Earth To Alice

Alice is not ok. Post-psychiatric hospital, she needs more than meds. She needs paint.

BBC iPlayer

Face It - Abbey

Ambitious Abbey is hell-bent on holding back the years, with some help from Muhammad Ali.

BBC iPlayer

Face It - Leonie

Straight-talking Leonie is confident her acquired visual difference won’t hinder her.

BBC iPlayer

Hen Night

Fiercely independent Jessica’s ‘last night of freedom’ is far from what we could imagine.

BBC iPlayer

Louder Is Not Always Clearer

Jonny is Deaf - his superpower is lip reading. But that doesn’t mean everything makes sense.

BBC iPlayer

Pandemic Parenting - Pandemonium

A dance theatre piece exploring the challenges for parents during lockdown.

BBC iPlayer

Silent World

Visualising the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes of Signkid, a deaf-rapper.

BBC iPlayer

The Cat, The Mouse and The Sausage

Three strangers sharing a small flat encounter big problems in this animated adaptation.

BBC iPlayer

How To Thrive In 2050!

A call for action for a creative, equitable and ‘neuro-fantastic’ future by an octopussy.

BBC iPlayer

Manchester International Festival 2021 - Postcards From Now

Breathless Puppets

Rotoscope animation powers this dance film by Akram Khan and Naaman Azhari.

BBC iPlayer

Download and Run Zoom

A digital collaboration between Lucinda Childs and the Ballet National de Marseille

BBC iPlayer

Far Away From Russia

The routine of an elderly person and a carer as an unexpected act of love and resistance

BBC iPlayer

Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

BBC Contains Strong Language 2021

Loyle Carner and Simon Armitage are among those performing at the poetry and spoken word festival in September

Contains Strong Language

Curtain-Up on Coventry

The city's streets are transformed into a giant stage to celebrate becoming UK City of Culture 2021

BBC iPLAYER

Coventry Moves Together

A soundscape of a city-wide orchestra for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

BBC SOUNDS

Elsewhere in Arts & Culture

Celebrating Artis Lane

Nafeesah Allen interviews the Black artivist who captured Rosa Parks

Art UK

The Central Office of Information at 75

Collaborating with The National Archives and IWM, the BFI showcase the eclectic range of work produced by the department

BFI at Home

Stories from Holburne Museum with Josie Long

Staff and volunteers share their favourite objects, personal picks and hidden gems from the Bath museum

Art Fund

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