Cultural Exchange

By BBC Radio 4

Cultural Exchange episodes

April 29, 2013 Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci talks to John Wilson about his favourite film, La Dolce Vita.
Includes selected clips from the BBC archive: Daniel Day Lewis on playing an Italian director, Fellini defining neorealism in 1957, Anthony Minghella's thoughts on Fellini, Ken Russell's thoughts on Fellini, Michael Tolkin on the relevant subject matter of La Dolce Vita, Bernardo Bertolucci on Last Tango in Paris.
Full archive details are available at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.
17 min
April 26, 2013 Diana Athill
95 year old literary editor and author Diana Athill selects the Letters of Lord Byron for Front Row's Cultural Exchange. Plus archive clips including Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen on Byron's fashion and a reading from the letters.
17 min
April 25, 2013 Adrian Lester
Actor Adrian Lester chooses Bob Marley’s Redemption Song for Front Row’s Cultural Exchange. Plus archive interviews with Bob Marley, his producer Chris Blackwell, and other friends and relations.
15 min
April 24, 2013 Moshin Hamid
Author Mohsin Hamid talks to Mark Lawson about a seminal work in the history of science fiction, Olaf Stapledon's epic Star Maker (1937), a book loved by Winston Churchill, Arthur C Clarke, and Virginia Woolf.
Moshin's interview is accompanied by selected clips from the archive;Chris Lintott and music critic Neil McCormick discuss Stapledon's first novel, A reading from Star Maker. Plus Brian Stableford on the theme of evolution in British science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke on why Olaf Stapledon is his biggest literary influence, H. G. Wells and Orson Welles on the infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Mohsin Hamid talks to James Naughtie about his bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist
17 min
April 23, 2013 Tamara Rojo
Spanish ballerina Tamara Rojo is Artistic Director and Principal Dancer at English National Ballet. She talks to John Wilson about her favourite ballet The House of Bernarda by Mats Ek.
The interview is accompanied by selected clips from the BBC archive:
Sylvie Guillem on Mat Ek's Carmen; Deborah Bull and Fiona Shaw on Pina Bausch; Darcey Bussell on the physical strain of being a ballerina; Darcey Bussell on life at the Royal Ballet School; Deborah Bull on Mats Ek's Sleeping Beauty
Full details of each clip is available at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/tamara-rojo
18 min
April 22, 2013 Tracey Emin
To launch Cultural Exchange, artist Tracey Emin talks to Mark Lawson about Vermeer's painting Lady Writing a Letter, with her Maid.
The interview is accompanied by selected highlights from the BBC Archive:
Tracy Chevalier on Vermeer's The Lacemaker;
Art critic Waldemar Janusczak on Vermeer's unconventional career;
John Wilson reports on the world's biggest art theft;
Tracey Emin visits her hometown Margate; Tracey Emin on the importance of drawing
Full details of the archive clips are available at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/tracey-emin
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.