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Cultural Exchange Episodes

  1. Mary Beard

    Classicist Mary Beard chooses the sculpture Laocoon and His Sons. Plus archive Seamus...

  2. Mark Haddon

    Mark Haddon, whose books include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,...

  3. Marianne Jean-Baptiste

    Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste chooses Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue.

  4. Maggi Hambling

    Artist Maggi Hambling chooses Cy Twombly's Bacchus paintings

  5. Lee Hall

    Playwright and screenwriter Lee Hall chooses Briggflatts, a poem by Basil Bunting.

  6. Laura Mvula

    Laura Mvula chooses the song Four Women by Nina Simone.

  7. Lady Antonia Fraser

    Lady Antonia Fraser chooses an oil painting by J.M.W. Turner, full title The Fighting...

  8. Kwame Kwei-Armah

    Kwame Kwei-Armah chooses Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984), a play by August Wilson -...

  9. Julia Donaldson

    The former Children鈥檚 Laureate and author of The Gruffalo, chooses Arnold Lobel

  10. Josie Rourke

    Josie Rourke chooses the 1987 film Broadcast News. Plus 大象传媒 archive interviews with L...

  11. Jodi Picoult

    Jodi Picoult, the American author whose books, including My Sister's Keeper have sold...

  12. Joan Bakewell

    Broadcaster and writer Dame Joan Bakewell chooses the 1963 film The Leopard, directed...

  13. Jeffrey Archer

    Jeffrey Archer chooses the painting Ecce Homo by the 19th Century Italian artist...

  14. James Blake

    James Blake chooses the film Stalker by Tarkovsky.

  15. Ian Rankin

    Ian Rankin chooses the album Solid Air by John Martyn

  16. Howard Jacobson

    Howard Jacobson chooses the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols.

  17. Highlights from Cultural Exchange so far

    Mark Lawson offers a selection of highlights from the Cultural Exchange project so far.

  18. Gwyneth Lewis

    Poet Gwyneth Lewis chooses the dance routine from Laurel and Hardy鈥檚 1937 film Way...

  19. Glenn Patterson

    Novelist Glenn Patterson chooses the film Yankee Doodle Dandy. Plus archive interviews...

  20. Germaine Greer

    Germaine Greer chooses The Getting of Wisdom by the Australian novelist Henry Handel...

  21. Gemma Chan

    Gemma Chan chooses the film The Princess Bride. Plus archive 大象传媒 interviews with Harry...

  22. Francine Stock

    Broadcaster Francine Stock chooses the Iranian film The Apple. Plus archive interviews...

  23. Diana Athill

    95 year old literary editor and author Diana Athill selects the Letters of Lord Byron...

  24. David Walliams

    Actor and writer David Walliams chooses Harold Pinter's play No Man's Land.

  25. David Sedaris

    American writer and humorist David Sedaris chooses the TV reality series RuPaul's Drag...

  26. Cultural Exchange

    Mark Ravenhill chooses Casanova, Dennis Potter's first TV serial.

  27. Cornelia Parker

    Cornelia Parker choose a photograph by Man Ray called Dust Breeding.

  28. Conrad Shawcross

    Artist Conrad Shawcross chooses one of the 250 pictures in the waterlilies series by...

  29. Colm T贸ib铆n

    Colm T贸ib铆n chooses a poem by Elizabeth Bishop called Poem. Plus archive interviews...

  30. Clarke Peters

    Actor and musician Clarke Peters 芒鈧�� best-known for his TV roles in the Wire

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