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    Colson Whitehead, Duke Ellington's Sacred Music, Carnival Row, Sheila Steafel

    Colson Whitehead's novel The Nickel Boys, Duke Ellington's Sacred Music, Carnival Row

  2. Edna O'Brien on her new novel Girl, her first The Country Girls, and her career in between

    Edna O'Brien talks about her new novel, her first and her six-decade career.

  3. Andrew Davies on Sanditon, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, the literature of citizen and state

    Andrew Davies on his television dramatisation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon

  4. Danny Brocklehurst on Brassic, Why are fewer people taking English A level?, Fisherwomen

    Bafta winner Danny Brocklehurst on new comedy drama Brassic.

  5. Conductor John Wilson, Interior design, The Wizard of Oz

    Conductor John Wilson on composer Erich Korngold, and the art of interior design.

  6. Antonio Banderas, Philippa Gregory and V.V. James on witches in literature, umbrellas in chinese culture

    Antonio Banderas on playing film director Pedro Almodovar in Pain and Glory.

  7. Louise Doughty, Robert Icke's The Doctor, Edinburgh Festival Highlights

    Louise Doughty, Robert Icke's The Doctor and Edinburgh festival highlights.

  8. The true story behind blockbuster film Jaws, Benjamin Zephaniah, Catherine Cohen's cabaret

    The true story behind Jaws, Benjamin Zephaniah, Catherine Cohen, self-care at the Fringe.

  9. Basil Brush, Christina Bianco, Climate Change theatre and new musicals at Edinburgh Fringe

    As the Fringe becomes increasingly woke, can artists stay both entertaining and right on?

  10. Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, How to listen to a symphony, black paint controversy, 14th August cultural events

    Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio on their film Tarantino's Once Upon a Time鈥� in Hollywood

  11. Live from the Edinburgh Festivals

    Henning Wehn, Ambrose Parry, Travis Alabanza on stage at the Edinburgh Festivals

  12. Lemn Sissay, Queen Victoria's piano, Euphoria

    Poet Lemn Sissay on his new memoir, and Queen Victoria's grand piano

  13. Cary Grant and Notorious, Festival cancellations, Movement directors, Anna Symon

    Cary Grant's Notorious restored, the role of movement directors, Anna Symon on Deep Water

  14. The art of calligraphy, conductor Martyn Brabbins, Playmobil: The Movie

    Paul Antonio on the art of calligraphy, and Proms conductor Martyn Brabbins

  15. Candace Bushnell, Dance about rugby, Concern over the captioning of audiobooks, New play 8 Hotels

    Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell, dance about rugby, Paul Robeson drama 8 Hotels

  16. Toni Morrison remembered, the Sound of Space in Music

    Stig Abell and guests pay tribute to the American writer Toni Morrison.

  17. The Crucible, the music of Peterloo, Patrick Bronte and DA Pennebaker

    A new ballet interpretation of The Crucible, and two musical perspectives on a massacre.

  18. Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw, T茅a Obreht, Kathy Hinde, Dalia Stasevska

    We review Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and Kathy Hinde composes with sounds from a bog

  19. k.d. lang, paying inheritance tax with art, ceramicist Magdalene Odundo

    k.d. lang reveals that she is retiring from music now that the muse has left her.

  20. Notre-Dame organist Olivier Latry, Gurinder Chadha, Rupert Everett's Uncle Vanya

    Notre-Dame's organist Olivier Latry on the recent fire, and film director Gurinder Chadha

  21. Herman Melville and Moby Dick, Luddite rebellion on stage, TV's I Am the Night

    The great whaling novel Moby Dick and - is there something to be said for Luddism?

  22. Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman, Carlos Cruz-Diez

    Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman's novel and Carlos Cruz-Diez.

  23. Horrible Histories, Barbara Strozzi at 400, Barney Norris, V&A and Extinction Rebellion

    Horrible Histories review, Barbara Strozzi at 400 and Extinction Rebellion at the V&A.

  24. Oklahoma!, Audience behaviour, Mercury Prize shortlist

    Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre. And is audience behaviour getting worse?

  25. The Booker Prize Longlist, A Tea Journey at Compton Verney gallery, Fashion influenced by TV

    A look at the 2019 Booker Prize longlist. Plus the influence of TV on high street fashion.

  26. The Current War, How culture affects relationship expectations, Experimental novels, Cool culture

    The Current War, culture and relationships, experimental novels, and cool culture

  27. Macy Gray, Morris Dance Protest at Parliament, Libraries - Threatened and Reprieved

    Macy Gray talks, performs work from her latest album, Ruby, and sings her huge hit, I Try.

  28. Fab 5 Freddy, Laurie Anderson, Summer reads, film trailers

    Hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy on the hidden black figures of Italian Renaissance art.

  29. Illuminated River, Jon Favreau on The Lion King, RIBA Stirling shortlist

    Why the River Thames is about to become the world's longest artwork

  30. Conductor Karina Canellakis, a review of Channel 4 drama series I Am... and the director of cricket documentary The Edge

    Karina Canellakis on conducting the first night of the Proms.

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