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Culture in Quarantine

Bringing arts and culture into your home

Experience Classical

A new way to discover classical music through incredible performances, programmes and podcasts

BBC ARCHIVE

Line up: Contains Strong Language 2020

Details of the BBC's coverage from Cumbria this weekend

Contains Strong Language

Inside Culture with Mary Beard

Featuring a trip to Stonehenge to meet Jeremy Deller and Vanessa Redgrave

BBC TWO

14 brilliant books to read this autumn

Be inspired and entertained by these recent publications

BETWEEN THE COVERS

The Novels That Shaped Our World

10 political novels to challenge your views

Stories about the ideas, people and power struggles that shaped worlds

Novels that shaped our world

10 novels about crime and conflict

The impact of war, violence and struggle unite these choices

Novels that shaped our world

10 tales of family and friendship

The good, the bad and the ugly side of our relationships

Novels that shaped our world

10 novels that broke the mould

The characters who break rules and challenge our perceptions of life itself

Novels that shaped our world

10 classic novels about the joy and jeopardy of youth

Exploring the characters growing up and finding their way in the world

Novels that shaped our world

100 Novels That Shaped Our World

Explore the list of 100 novels whose stories have the power to change us

BBC Arts

New Creatives

Aqsa & the 40bags

A young Muslim woman tries to save her downstairs neighbour

New Creatives

Bitch

A short documentary delving into the appropriation of words and the empowerment of reclamation

New Creatives

Blow Your Brains Out

An isolated man sneezes so hard his brains come out

NEW CREATIVES

Inside Cinema

Pubs On Film

Raising a glass to the boozer on the big screen

Inside Cinema

Cinema Jerks

What purpose does the suit-wearing, pompous jerk serve in the crowd pleasing popcorn flicks of Reagan era cinema?

Inside Cinema

The Dragon Lady

Who are the Dragon Ladies of cinema and how has this stereotype been subverted?

BBC Arts

Made in Lockdown

Swan Lake Bath Ballet

Elite dancers from across the globe create a modern-day Swan Lake from their own bathtubs

Culture in Quarantine

Reconnect: Digital Raving

A theatrical mix of storytelling and live-looped beatboxing from SK Shlomo

Culture in Quarantine

The Soothing Presence of Strangers

A meditation on loneliness, usefulness, and the place a bus route can have in our lives

CULTURE IN QUARANTINE

Performance: Culture in Quarantine

The Neon Shadow

A love story with a bitter twist, inspired by a rarely-told Hans Christian Andersen tale

Kneehigh Theatre

Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason

The superstar siblings perform their first Prom together

BBC PROMS

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Classic Shakespeare play adapted for television by Russell T Davies

BBC IPLAYER

Galleries, museums & archives: Culture in Quarantine

Discover Bradford's hidden stories

Young people in the city have been curating a virtual family album

Impressions Gallery

Art and blindness

What can paintings teach us about the perspectives of the visually impaired?

ART UK

Flow

An exhibition exploring ideas and the need for creativity in uncertain times

Modern Art Oxford

Get Creative at Home

Activities at Home

Downloadable activities for all the family

Wakefield Museums and Castles

Antony Gormley

An exclusive lockdown session led by the world-renowned artist from his home

BBC IPLAYER

Life Drawing Live!

Watch our special class and take part at home

BBC ARTS

More Arts on BBC iPlayer

The Secret History of Writing

Revealing the link between ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the letters we use

BBC FOUR

Africa Turns The Page: The Novels That Shaped A Continent

David Olusoga explores the incredible story of the African novel

BBC Four

Opera Mums with Bryony Kimmings

An operetta inspired by the lives of single mums

BBC FOUR

More Arts on BBC Sounds

Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets

Series exploring dialect poetry in different parts of England.

BBC RADIO 4

The Empty Cases

Gary Younge explores the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on curation at British museums

BBC Radio 4

Sound of Cinema: Olympians

In the absence of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Matthew Sweet offers film music inspiration

BBC Radio 3

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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