Some of Britain’s most celebrated playwrights and performers have joined together to put on an evening that will raise money and awareness for the people of Palestine and the anti-war movement.
This festival explores the culture and history of Afghanistan, which has been the victim of the machinations of the great powers for almost 200 years.
Shobana Jeyasingh is a choreographer who draws on classical Indian dance and ballet, but refuses the simplistic label of "fusion" for her innovative dance.
This play, based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Andrew Hagan, is set in the 1980s in a small West Ayrshire town which once thrived on the coal and steel industries.
Goran Bregovic is probably the most famous performer to have emerged from the Balkans.
Politics and People is a new exhibition at Gallery North at Northumbria University in Newcastle, which explores our relationship with the ethical and the political.
Bertolt Brecht, the great Marxist poet and playwright, liked to say, "Don’t start with the good old things but the bad new ones." In other words, don’t mourn the past, confront the new cultural forms capitalism creates, however degraded and empty.
Before the rise of Saddam Hussein and the Iraq war, Baghdad was a city of learning and culture, which inspired poets, writers and artists across the world.
Il Trovatore, one of Giuseppe Verdi’s best-loved operas, was composed in 1853 in the aftermath of the defeat of the 1848 European revolutions.
As there are obviously no original ideas left at the BBC, the corporation has revived Reggie Perrin.
Jazz music has always intertwined with developments in the real world. Chris Searle’s new book explores this by looking at specific recordings from the early years of jazz to the present. His infectious enthusiasm and love for the music rise off every page.
