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Culture in Quarantine

Bringing arts and culture into your home

Scenes for Survival

Short digital artworks created by leading Scottish theatre and screen talent

National Theatre of Scotland

Dance on Film: BBC Introducing Arts

Carlos Acosta introduces new talent who use b-boying, ballet and contemporary dance to tell their stories

BBC FOUR

Unprecedented

The UK’s most celebrated actors feature in these radical responses to the coronavirus pandemic

BBC FOUR

Dance season on BBC Four

Firedance: Latin Fever

Following two of Strictly stars, Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez, as they put together a spectacular Latin showcase

BBC FOUR

Revisor by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young

The critically acclaimed dance-theatre production based on Nikolai Gogol’s play The Government Inspector

BBC FOUR

Sharon Eyal: A Basic Instinct

Behind the scenes with one of the most exciting and powerful choreographers in contemporary dance

BBC FOUR

Literature: Culture in Quarantine

11 unmissable Hay Festival Digital events to watch online

Watch inspiring discussions for free over the next ten days of the all-digital literary festival

BBC Arts

Get personalised recommendations for your next book

We need your help to complete the largest ever survey of English language novels

NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD

Book of the Week

Exceptional fiction and non-fiction readings

BBC RADIO 4

WOWxBBC Festival

The Great Big WOW Quiz

Three quizzes in one from quiz mistresses Sandi Toksvig, Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Liz Carr

BBC ARTS

Chore Wars

Jude Kelly, Hannah Peaker and Angie Le Mar discuss lockdown's effects on women at home

BBC ARTS

Sandi Toksvig’s Women from History

Maxine Peake and Emma Dabiri join Sandy to talk about the women in history you may not have heard of

BBC ARTS

Get Creative at Home

BBC Lockdown Orchestra: You Got the Love

BBC's orchestras and singers, and members of the public, unite to perform a new version of the Candi Staton classic

GET CREATIVE

Catch up on Life Drawing Live!

Our lockdown special class is available to watch again. Also featuring some amazing user submissions and expert tips

BBC ARTS

Kneehigh Cookbook

Find out about the processes and ingredients that they use in their theatre kitchen

Kneehigh Theatre

Visual arts: Culture in Quarantine

Glasgow International

Artists including Jenkin van Zyl, Yuko Mohri, Alberta Whittle and Liv Fontaine share new work in the digital festival

Glasgow International

Become a curator

This new digital tool allows anyone, anywhere to create an online exhibition

ART UK

Shiver House

This kinetic “animal like” structure moves and adapts in response to surrounding natural forces

NEON

Theatre: Culture in Quarantine

Love Letters at Home

Audience participation with song requests and dedications make this digital theatre event a personal and live experience

Fuel Theatre Company

The Encounter

A solo performance incorporating objects and binaural sound design to evoke the depths of the Amazon rainforest

Bristol Old Vic

Midnight Your Time

Donmar Artistic Director Michael Longhurst directs Diana Quick in a smart one-woman play written for her by Adam Brace

Donmar Warehouse

Museums & Archives: Culture in Quarantine

Pompeii Live from The British Museum

From street life to the Roman home, this exhibition takes you to the heart of people’s lives in Pompeii and Herculaneum

The British Museum

Game of Our Lives

The search to unearth the best football stories and memories from fans throughout the country

NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM

Suffragette bombs

Discover the stories behind two explosive devices from the early 20th Century

City of London Police Museum

Music: Culture in Quarantine

BBC Young Musician 2020

Brilliant performances from the next generation of talent

BBC FOUR

Bittersweet

Lianne La Havas & Jules Buckley performing live with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC MUSIC

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Mozart’s first opera for Vienna offers some of the most demanding and dazzlingly virtuosic arias he ever created

Glyndebourne

Dance: Culture in Quarantine

Artificial Things

An award winning film from Sophie Fiennes, resonating with hope in the possibility of strangers building community

Stopgap Dance Company

Hofesh Shechter's Clowns

A dance film that is a macabre comedy of murder and desire

BBC TWO

Emancipation of Expressionism

Tutorials, ensemble videos & interviews with the dancers & creatives

Boy Blue

Museums in Quarantine on BBC Four

British Museum

Dr Janina Ramirez curates this highly personal selection of their artefacts

BBC FOUR

Young Rembrandt at the Ashmolean

Simon Schama takes us on a very personal virtual tour of the exhibition in Oxford

BBC FOUR

Tate Britain

Dr James Fox argues that art is needed more than ever, in this survey of their collection

BBC FOUR

Get Creative at Home Masterclasses

Es Devlin

With just scissors and paper, the artist and stage designer creates a new work

BBC IPLAYER

Rana Begum

The artist shows how she uses watercolours to get through lockdown isolation

BBC IPLAYER

Jools Holland

Composer, pianist, bandleader and broadcaster Jools Holland shares his love of the piano

BBC IPLAYER

Shakespeare: Culture in Quarantine

Much Ado About Nothing

The world-weary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero

BBC IPLAYER

Othello

Othello is the greatest general of his age. But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own

BBC IPLAYER

Romeo & Juliet

What if your first true love was someone you’d been told to hate?

BBC IPLAYER

Front Row: Culture in Quarantine

Jeremy Deller

One of Britain's most celebrated artists looks back at his career and discusses making art during lockdown

BBC Radio 4

How crafting can help our wellbeing

Dr Daisy Fancourt has been studying the impact the coronavirus crisis has had on our mental health

BBC RADIO 4

Creative inspiration and expert advice for novel writing

Owen Sheers and Nikita Lalwani offer professional tips on how to unlock your creativity

BBC Radio 4

Gaming on the BBC

Computer Generated Celebs

What's the deal with video games' celebrity obsession?

BBC IPLAYER

This Game Changed My Life

What happens when you spy on other gamers? The story of the infamous Alexander Gianturco, a.k.a. The Mittani

BBC Sounds

The Social: Gaming

Chat on gaming culture, the latest new games and more

THE SOCIAL

Cinema on the BBC

Trixie Mattel's Guide to Drag Cinema

Category is: silver screen glamour realness. From the most sickening looks in golden-era cinema to divine cult hits

BBC IPLAYER

"I love seeing someone’s masculinity shift "

Sam Taylor-Johnson, director of Fifty Shades of Grey and A Million Little Pieces, picks her favourite film moments

BBC ARTS

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema

Uncovering the cinematic and storytelling secrets of the superhero movie

BBC FOUR

More Arts on BBC iPlayer

Front Row Late

Actors Emma Thompson and Greg Wise are among Mary Beard's remote guests this week

BBC TWO

The Changin’ Times of Ike White

Arena tells the story of Ike White, who recorded a legendary soul album while in jail for murder

BBC FOUR

Shelf Isolation

Damian Barr asks Mark Bonnar for recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to during lockdown

BBC Scotland

More Arts on BBC Sounds

The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed

Simon Armitage talks to guests about life, language and music in his shed

BBC RADIO FOUR

Eighteen

The lives, dreams and creative worlds of six 18- to 21-year-old artists across the globe

BBC RADIO FOUR

Fresh audio drama from New Creatives

A collection of new stories from emerging writing talent

BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA

BBC Arts on social media

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More arts across the BBC

Arena

The BBC's multi award-winning arts strand

Free Thinking

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

imagine...

The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob

BBC Books

All of the BBC's coverage of the written word in one place

Get Creative

The UK's biggest celebration of creative participation

Inside Cinema

Short films taking you to the heart of the movies

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