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Trixie Mattel's Guide to Drag Cinema

Category is: silver screen glamour realness. From the most sickening looks in golden-era cinema to divine cult hits

BBC IPLAYER

Love songs to local places

A special collection of brand new poems being played out today on BBC Local Radio for National Poetry Day

BBC Arts

Rhyme & Reason: BBC Introducing Arts

Poet Lemn Sissay presents a selection of short films from a new generation of artists inspired by spoken word

BBC Four

RIBA Stirling Prize 2019

The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience

Is this the most beautifully coordinated distillery in the world?

BBC Arts

Meet the six buildings on the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist

Films of the six new buildings shortlisted by RIBA for their design, innovation, inspiration and sustainability.

BBC Arts

Cork House

This unusual home is made nearly entirely of hand-placed cork blocks

BBC Arts

Trending video from BBC Introducing Arts

Terra Firma

A young woman's journey to discover her identity through her mother's migration history

New Creatives

Black Fish

A grieving mother finds pictures of the life her son would have had if he’d lived

New Creatives

Elephant in the Room

A personal reflection on how the artist’s mixed-race heritage has shaped her outlook on life

New Creatives

Dying to Live

Multi-layered narrative probing the experience of a young black man growing up in Bristol

New Creatives

Taking you to the heart of the movies

Inside Cinema: The Wilhelm Scream

The ultimate movie in-joke: How a sound effect conquered cinema, appearing in hundreds of films from the '50s to now

BBC iPlayer

Space Dads

How the unknowable reaches of space are often the perfect location for examining the bonds of parenthood

BBC iPlayer

Maneaters

A finger-licking look at a literal femme fatale: the female cannibal in film.

BBC IPlayer

Arts on BBC iPlayer

Front Row Late

Mary Beard and Prue Leith take a tour of an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

BBC Two

Home Is Where the Art Is

Nick Knowles challenges three talented artists to create beautiful artwork for people they've never met

BBC One

Eastside Story

An arts intervention programme designed to change the course of the lives of young people from two east London estates

BBC One

Betty Davis: Godmother of Funk

A blend of documentary and animation tracing Betty Davis’s life and how she become a black female pioneer

BBC Four

New from Art UK

Yinka Shonibare

The artist discusses sculpture, elitism and Brexit

ART UK

Rembrandt: King of the selfie

Is making a self portrait an act of vanity? Or is it a defiant look into the future?

Art UK

Catherine the Great

Sex, slander and absolute power in the unusual reign of the monarch

ART UK

Arts on BBC Sounds

Front Row

Debbie Harry on her life and career and her new memoir, Face It

BBC Radio 4

The Afternoon Show

Zadie Smith on her new book of short stories, Grand Union

BBC Radio Scotland

The Film Programme

Editor Walter Murch takes Antonia Quirke on a journey to the heart of Apocalypse Now

BBC Radio 4

Art of Now: Rwanda's Returnees

Artists from Rwanda’s diaspora are returning. Dr Zoe Norridge explores why

BBC Radio 4

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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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