Cultural Exchange

By BBC Radio 4

Cultural Exchange episodes

May 14, 2013 Anne Tyler
Novelist Anne Tyler chooses a self portrait by the pioneering photographer Charles R Savage. Presented by Mark Lawson.
The interview is accompanied by selected clips from the BBC archive: Brian May on TR Williams; Joanna Pitman on Eadweard Muybridge; Will Gompertz on a family photograph of The Queen, aged 2; Don McCullin on photographing war zones and Harry Benson on photographing the moment that Bobby Kennedy was shot.
For full archive details go to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/anne-tyler
18 min
May 14, 2013 Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby
The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev Justin Welby chooses the War Requiem (Op.66) by Benjamin Britten, written for the 1962 consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, the original having been destroyed in the blitz of 1940. Presented by Mark Lawson
The interview is followed by selected clips from the BBC archive:
The first performance in 1962; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on the singing in the premiere; Ben Wishaw reads Wilfred Owen; Michael Berkeley on the music and legacy of the War Requiem; The Archbishop of Canterbury reads Owen; Paul Kildea on Britten's legacy; The bells of Coventry Cathedral.
Full archive details are available at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/archbishop-of-canterbury
20 min
May 10, 2013 Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult, the American author whose books, including My Sister's Keeper have sold 14 million copies worldwide, chooses an American classic from 1936: Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gone with the Wind. Presented by John Wilson
Includes selected clips from the BBC archive:
The story of the publication of Gone with the Wind; memos from producer David O Selznick on the production and casting of the movie adaptation; Vivien Leigh and Sir Lawrence Olivier starring in Caesar and Cleoptra and Antony and Cleopatra and Leigh's biographer Hugo Vickers on the breakdown of her marriage.
Full details of the archive can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/jodi-picoult
19 min
May 09, 2013 Peter Bazalgette
The TV producer and chair of the Arts Council England talks to John Wilson about Wyndham Lewis's portrait of Edith Sitwell.
Includes selected BBC archive:
AS Byatt on the difficulty of painting hands; Edith Sitwell on writing poetry; Edith Sitwell profiled on Woman's Hour and Dylan Thomas reading an extract from An Old Woman by Edith Sitwell.
Full Archive details at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/peter-bazalgette
16 min
May 08, 2013 Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson chooses the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols. Plus related bbc archive interviews including Jack Nicholson on Carnal Knowledge; Francine Stock talking to Jack on The Film Programme and Mark Lawson talking to Art Garfunkel on Front Row. Full details at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.
20 min
May 07, 2013 Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer chooses The Getting of Wisdom by the Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. Published in 1910 it's a story of friendship and betrayal set in a girls boarding school in Melbourne. Presented by Mark Lawson.
The interview is followed by selected clips from the BBC archive: Carmen Callil on Henry Handel Richardson; Henry Handel Richardson reading her work in 1944; Germaine Greer, Thomas Kineally and David Williamson on Australia's Cultural Cringe and Germaine Greer on why feminists should not aim for equality with men.
Full archive details are available at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/germaine-greer
17 min
May 03, 2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chooses a portrait by the 20th Century Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu, called Tutu. Plus additional archive including Ben Enwonwu talking to the BBC in 1958, poet Jackie Kay on African art, the artist Edosa Oguigo, and more from Chimamanda. Go to Front Row's Cultural Exchange website for more details and images.
18 min
May 02, 2013 Suggs
Suggs chooses Sir John Betjeman's poem On a Portrait of a Deaf Man from the Album Banana Blush, set to music by Jim Parker. Plus clips from the bbc archive including Betjeman and Parker in the recording studio; a Radio 4 Quiz on Betjeman; the poet's daughter on his teddy Archie; and Betjeman's famous answer about regrets. Full details at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.
18 min
May 01, 2013 Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg chooses Rembrandt's Self-Portrait (1658) for his Cultural Exchange. Plus additional archive including Neil McGregor on Rembrandt's complicated love life; a look at the mysterious Self-Portrait with Circles at Kenwood House, and artist Maggi Hambling on the Dutch master. Go to Front Row's Cultural Exchange website for more details and images.
19 min
April 30, 2013 Meera Syal
Meera Syal talks to Mark Lawson about her favourite book, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
Includes archive selections: The Reverend Thomas Lane Butts profiles Harper Lee's hometown, Moroeville, Alabama; Gregory Peck on playing Atticus Finch; Lee Child on the darker side of To Kill a Mockingbird; a reading from the book; Meera Syal on growing up as an outsider.
Full archive details available at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.
18 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.