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The Cultural Frontline Episodes

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    Muhammad Ali on Stage, Iraq in 100 Years

    How Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, writers imagine Iraq in 2103, J贸n Kalman Stef谩nsson

  2. Illustrating Syria's Civil War

    The artist turning experiences of war into a graphic memoir

  3. The First National Museum of African American History

    Visiting a landmark museum, using art to explore the past, what makes a 'good' immigrant?

  4. Can Art Change the World?

    The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.

  5. Capturing Aleppo's Destruction on Film

    The film capturing the war in Aleppo; Berlin's iconic nightclub; Hong Kong's culture hub

  6. Artistic Freedom in Russia and Saudi Arabia

    How Russian and Saudi artists tackle censorship, and art evoking sounds of the Gulf War

  7. Watching and Being Watched

    Fela's Shrine on stage; Mother Teresa's cultural legacy; art that walks the gender line

  8. Fighting Cultural Destruction

    Protecting Syria's antiquities, street art with a message, Pashtun fashion

  9. Empathising Across Cultural Divides

    Connecting through art and design in Lebanon, Nigeria, the Middle East and San Francisco.

  10. Challenging Racism Through Sculpture

    Public art confronts racism in Berlin, plus wandering and writing in Vancouver

  11. Understanding the Refugee Crisis via Virtual Reality

    Technology which simulates a refugee camp and using real crime as inspiration for fiction

  12. Who Tells The Story?

    Reclaiming national narratives in the UK and Jamaica.

  13. Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion

    Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion- institutional, virtual and symbolic.

  14. Culture as Catharsis

    How music and literature can provide catharsis in America, South Africa, Spain and the UK

  15. Uncovering Hidden Perspectives

    Art, poetry and literature voicing hidden perspectives in Iraq, South Africa and Malaysia

  16. Caine Prize Short Stories

    The 5 shortlisted authors in the running for The Caine Prize for African Writing.

  17. Finding Calm in Public Spaces

    Why public space matters for culture in London, Istanbul and Nairobi

  18. Sacred Places and Sounds

    How music, art and sculpture can provide sanctuary and convey spirituality

  19. New Words and Changing Forms

    How language is making waves in Sweden, Kenya, London and Spain

  20. Leaving Home and Finding Inspiration

    How journeys and travel can expose and inspire culture in Greece, Liberia and Vietnam.

  21. Cultural Revolution and Gardening as Art

    Looking back fifty years to China's Cultural Revolution, visiting Angola's newest museum.

  22. Speaking Up and Uncovering Secrets

    Culture that keeps secrets and culture that speaks out in Alaska, Pakistan, Ukraine, UK

  23. Reviving and Reclaiming Culture

    How culture from Shakespeare to the Swinging Sixties is being revisited and remixed.

  24. Culture and Commerce

    How culture represents, and draws inspiration from, what we buy, sell and produce.

  25. Ben Okri

    The Nigerian novelist and poet discusses his creative process.

  26. Culture and Heritage

    How the past informs contemporary national cultures

  27. Identity and Adversity

    How identity and adversity are inspiring literature, theatre, comic books and street art

  28. Kiev's Cultural Frontline

    Tina visits Ukraine's capital city to take the cultural temperature.

  29. Culture and Memory

    How film, music, TV and books can provoke and sustain memory

  30. Culture that Travels

    How art and culture travel from Japan to Australia, Syria to Germany and Iraq to Israel.

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