In the Studio

Full of gadgets, villains and violent ends, the adventures of teenage secret agent Alex Rider have sold millions of copies worldwide. Delve into the murky world of espionage writing with British author Anthony Horowitz, as he works on the next novel in the series, “Nightshade”.

Canadian Pairs skaters going for gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford call on choreographers, costume designers and their own artistry and physical endurance to prepare for their final competitive performance together.

The former lawyer bringing musical theatre to Lagos. Artistic director Bolanle Austen-Peters uses all her theatrical tricks to create and develop a musical play based on six of the 27 wives of legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti.

Chief Inspector Gamache, the hero of Louise Penny's books, was based on a man she could marry, very like her husband Michael, a doctor who treated children with cancer and saw life and death every day.

When the Canadian crime fiction writer first began writing, she battled five years of writer’s block to bring her murder mysteries to life.

Audience participation will shape the new musical Manhattan Parisienne. How can Alain Boublil, Les Miserables co-creator, incorporate this idea into rehearsals and the performance itself?

Jamaica's first female poet laureate writes about slavery and the cultivation of sugar. She says, "What went on on those ships is indescribable in so many ways. I know I'm going to have to write about that."

Masterminding an operatic ‘forensic examination of evil’ in Verdi’s Macbeth. British opera director Elijah Moshinsky battles nerves to produce a successful new production of the classic opera at the Buxton International Festival.

The Kenyan rapper finding inspiration in the people of his birthplace, Kibera. Octopizzo’s latest album pays homage to jazz - the music his late father loved. After a night-time journey around Africa’s biggest slum, we follow one of the continent’s greatest rappers into a recording session as he lays down new tracks.

Honouring the dead. An artwork that weeps the names of those who have died. Colombian sculptor, Doris Salcedo, is one of the most significant Latin American artists working today. For the last thirty years she has been making pieces on the theme of mourning. Her latest work honours those who died during the ongoing migrant crisis. An immense technical challenge, the effect is that stone slabs appear to weep the names of the dead.

Every flavour is a note, the secret is to build those notes into a symphony. Esben Holmboe Bang is a three Michelin-starred chef working in Norway. He only uses local produce and collects some of his ingredients from the local forest. His aim is to tell the story of Norway through food.