It may be hard to imagine now, but in the early 1970s China was as closed off from the rest of the world as North Korea is today.
The Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller produces work about mass popular culture and social history.
Shared Experience theatre company brings to stage the life of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein and political radical.
This Turkish film about a murder investigation in the Anatolian steppe has been getting rave reviews from the critics.
Bruce Springsteen is a very angry man right now if his new album Wrecking Ball is anything to go by.
Political theatre has made something of a comeback in recent years, from the long run of the Pitman Painters at London’s National Theatre to smaller productions detailing cover-ups and corruption.
Kais is a tour guide in Yemen’s capital city Sanaa. He is steadily drawn into the revolutionary movement engulfing the country, despite his initial cynicism.
Four Horsemen, which is released this week, is the latest independently produced documentary feature to examine the 2007 global financial crash and its aftermath.
Acclaimed documentary maker Werner Herzog starts a three-part series on Channel 4 next week looking at the death penalty in the US.
Over five million people in Britain are currently on the waiting list for social housing—and most of them will probably never be offered a place.
This short but informative pamphlet offers a history of black British rebels, writes Arnie Joahill
