Cultural Exchange

By BBC Radio 4

Cultural Exchange episodes

July 30, 2013 Nicola Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti chooses Korngold’s Violin Concerto, played by Jascha Heifetz. Plus archive BBC interviews with Itzhak Perlman and Leonard Slatkin.
20 min
July 29, 2013 Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers chooses the Piazza del Campo, a medieval square in Siena. Plus archive bbc interviews about the Palio horse race. Go to Front Row’s Cultural Exchange website for full details.
16 min
July 26, 2013 CE Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie chooses the film All About Eve (1950), starring Bette Davis. Plus archive BBC interviews with Bette Davis, Joseph Mankiewicz, and Honor Blackman.
17 min
July 26, 2013 Terry Jones
Terry Jones chooses Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. Plus BBC archive of Dylan Thomas and Richard Burton. Full details at Front Row’s Cultural Exchange website.
21 min
July 24, 2013 Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell chooses the oratorio Solomon by Handel. Plus archive interviews about Handel with conductors Christopher Hogwood John Eliot Gardiner.
20 min
July 24, 2013 James Blake
James Blake chooses the film Stalker by Tarkovsky. Plus archive interviews about the Russian film-maker featuring Will Self, Geoff Dyer, Mike Hodges and Werner Herzog.
22 min
July 22, 2013 Cultural Exchange
Mark Ravenhill chooses Casanova, Dennis Potter's first TV serial. Plus archive BBC interviews with and about Dennis Potter. Go to Front Row's Cultural Exchange website for full details.
25 min
July 19, 2013 Paul Franklin
The Oscar-winning Visual Effects Designer, Paul Franklin chooses The Thief of Bagdad (1940). Plus archive interviews with Alexander Korda, Powell and Pressburger, Andy Serkis and Paul Franklin himself.
20 min
July 19, 2013 Laura Mvula
Laura Mvula chooses the song Four Women by Nina Simone. Plus archive BBC interviews with Nina Simone, Joan Armatrading and Billy Bragg.
19 min
July 17, 2013 Paula Milne
Paula Milne chooses the film Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Jack Nicholson. Plus archive interviews with Nicholson and Rafelson.
19 min

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Creative minds talk about the cultural work that inspires them, an arts project for BBC Radio 4. Each Cultural Exchange podcast contains the curator’s recommendation.