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Ben Okri
The Nigerian novelist and poet discusses his creative process.
Culture and Commerce
How culture represents, and draws inspiration from, what we buy, sell and produce.
Reviving and Reclaiming Culture
How culture from Shakespeare to the Swinging Sixties is being revisited and remixed.
Speaking Up and Uncovering Secrets
Culture that keeps secrets and culture that speaks out in Alaska, Pakistan, Ukraine, UK
Cultural Revolution and Gardening as Art
Looking back fifty years to China's Cultural Revolution, visiting Angola's newest museum.
Leaving Home and Finding Inspiration
How journeys and travel can expose and inspire culture in Greece, Liberia and Vietnam.
New Words and Changing Forms
How language is making waves in Sweden, Kenya, London and Spain
Sacred Places and Sounds
How music, art and sculpture can provide sanctuary and convey spirituality
Finding Calm in Public Spaces
Why public space matters for culture in London, Istanbul and Nairobi
Caine Prize Short Stories
The 5 shortlisted authors in the running for The Caine Prize for African Writing.
Uncovering Hidden Perspectives
Art, poetry and literature voicing hidden perspectives in Iraq, South Africa and Malaysia
Culture as Catharsis
How music and literature can provide catharsis in America, South Africa, Spain and the UK
Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion
Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion- institutional, virtual and symbolic.
Who Tells The Story?
Reclaiming national narratives in the UK and Jamaica.
Understanding the Refugee Crisis via Virtual Reality
Technology which simulates a refugee camp and using real crime as inspiration for fiction
Challenging Racism Through Sculpture
Public art confronts racism in Berlin, plus wandering and writing in Vancouver
Empathising Across Cultural Divides
Connecting through art and design in Lebanon, Nigeria, the Middle East and San Francisco.
Fighting Cultural Destruction
Protecting Syria's antiquities, street art with a message, Pashtun fashion
Watching and Being Watched
Fela's Shrine on stage; Mother Teresa's cultural legacy; art that walks the gender line
Artistic Freedom in Russia and Saudi Arabia
How Russian and Saudi artists tackle censorship, and art evoking sounds of the Gulf War
Capturing Aleppo's Destruction on Film
The film capturing the war in Aleppo; Berlin's iconic nightclub; Hong Kong's culture hub
Can Art Change the World?
The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.
The First National Museum of African American History
Visiting a landmark museum, using art to explore the past, what makes a 'good' immigrant?
Illustrating Syria's Civil War
The artist turning experiences of war into a graphic memoir
Muhammad Ali on Stage, Iraq in 100 Years
How Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, writers imagine Iraq in 2103, Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Writing Inspired by Chibok, US Election Art
Art inspired by this year's US election and a return home for a lost choral work.
Swet Shop Boys, Drone Art
Dramatising the Refugee Crisis, Broken Fingaz Street Art
Berkun Oya on dramatising the refugee crisis; the Broken Fingaz street art collective
The US Presidential Election
The Trump effect on culture; singing the election; emojis as art; literary ancestry
What's Left of Iraq's Nimrud?
As the ancient city is recaptured from IS, what's left of the historic site?
Art and Protest at the Dakota Access Pipeline
We hear from the artist behind the project to provide demonstrators with mirrored shields