The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow This collective of singers, songwriters and a socialist magician was formed out of the Occupy struggle against austerity.
In this sweet dry comedy two people with serious mental health needs find ways to survive and be happy. Tiffany was severely depressed before her husband died and she copes now by getting drunk and sleeping with lots of different people.
The BBC has been running a documentary series that asks why poverty exists.
Karl Marx walking tour What better way to spend a crisp winter morning in the capital than following in the footsteps of Karl Marx?
When archaelogists dug around the grounds of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel in 2006, they discovered a long forgotten cemetery.
It must have taken a lot of searching to find an episode of Iran’s 1979 revolution where the US state could come off as the good guy.
Arab Nights Six writers from across the Middle East bring the Arabian Nights stories into the era of the Arab Spring. The characters brought to life by Queen Shahrazad include a modern Sinbad the sailor and a dictator’s wife.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began in 1848—a year of revolutions across Europe. The movement’s name was a rejection of the establishment Royal Academy’s idea that Renaissance artists such as Raphael had set ideal standards for how artists should paint.
Bold and fragile in equal measures, the new play "but i cd only whisper" explores the psyche of a black Vietnam war veteran after he allegedly commits a terrible crime. It delves into the history of a man whose war began long before he joined the army.
The Hour The second series of this drama set behind the scenes of a 1950s BBC current affairs show is now on. Post-war austerity is fading and the government is stoking fears of nuclear war and the arms race.
1968. Riots and revolution. Vietnam. Soul music. The elements that make up director Wayne Blair’s film The Sapphires have been done before—but never in quite this way.
The "Glasgow Girls" of this play’s title were seven schoolgirls—four recently arrived refugees and three local teenagers—who shook the political establishment in 2005.
