Birmingham-based Banner Theatre has put together a hard-hitting music and multimedia show called Fighting the Cuts.
This three-part documentary looks at how class became a central issue in British culture as the 20th century unfolded.
This half-hour radio documentary features presenter Jim Al-Khalili talking to the forensic scientist Angela Gallop, who provided vital forensic evidence in the Stephen Lawrence trial.
Jeremy Hunt, a man laughingly known as the minister of culture, celebrated Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday last week by giving Dickens novels to his cabinet colleagues.
Here’s a selection of what’s on offer. For more details go to www.dickens2012.org
If you draw some vertical lines on a blackboard and ask a group of kids who it is, of course they won’t know. But add a horizontal zigzag line at the top and someone will swiftly pipe up "Bart Simpson!"
In an astonishing decision the BBC Trust’s editorial standards committee has ruled that it is acceptable for producers to bleep out the word "Palestine" in music shows.
This radio programme looks at the history of the suffragette movement through the voices of the women involved.
The Bomb—a partial history in two parts
The Occupy movement comes to the Arcola Theatre in London for one night only.
John Keane is best known as a war artist. In 1991 he was the Imperial War Museum’s official artist during the Gulf War. His criticism of the horrors of war—and particularly of the US’s conduct—outraged the political and military establishment.
A ghost story spliced with a romance spliced with a biopic. About a pair of Nazi royals. Directed, written and produced by Madonna. What could possibly go wrong?
