Arts & Ideas

Portraits


Listen Later

What exactly is a portrait? As the National Portrait Gallery re-opens and Sheffield Documentary Festival begins, Shahidha Bari talks to the gallery's Chief Curator Alison Smith, film-makers Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown about their film Dalton's Dream, photographer Johny Pitts, whose project Home is Not a Place moves to the Photographers’ Gallery in London and New Generation Thinker Ana Baeza Ruiz about an oral history project with 1970s feminist artists.

Producer: Sofie Vilcins

You can hear music relating to an image held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery every day on BBC Radio 3's Breakfast programme next week and an episode of the weekly curation of Words and Music inspired by portraits is broadcast on Sunday June 18th and then available on BBC Sounds for a month.

On BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds a series called Close Encounters presented by Martha Kearney invites ten leading figures of today to the newly refurbished National Portrait Gallery to champion a favourite picture from the Gallery's collection.
The NPG re-opens after refurbishment on June 22nd 2023.
The NPG has linked up with Creative Southampton to open a show at Southampton City Art Gallery and Museums: which is a follow up to a project run by the NPG with Sheffield Galleries.
Joshua Reynolds' birth on July 16th 1723 is being marked by an exhibition in the city of his birth at the Box Plymouth which runs until October 29th

Johny Pitts' work has been on show in Sheffield, Edinburgh and is now opening at the Photographers Gallery London this June.

The Sheffield Doc Festival runs June 14th to 19th premiering a host of films, tv and podcasts which will be coming your way soon. The screenings include Dalton's Dream on 15th June, by Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown, which tracks the journey of the first non-British and Black man to win X-Factor UK and the new life which follows
Blood & Fire: Our Journey Through Vanley Burke's History runs at Soho House in Birmingham until Nov 4th 2023

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Arts & IdeasBy BBC Radio 4

  • 4.3
  • 4.3
  • 4.3
  • 4.3
  • 4.3

4.3

286 ratings


More shows like Arts & Ideas

View all
Global News Podcast by BBC World Service

Global News Podcast

7,875 Listeners

The LRB Podcast by The London Review of Books

The LRB Podcast

315 Listeners

The Archers by BBC Radio 4

The Archers

1,084 Listeners

Newshour by BBC World Service

Newshour

1,073 Listeners

In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time

5,571 Listeners

The Documentary Podcast by BBC World Service

The Documentary Podcast

1,807 Listeners

In Our Time: Culture by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time: Culture

615 Listeners

6 Minute English by BBC Radio

6 Minute English

1,769 Listeners

Learning English Conversations by BBC Radio

Learning English Conversations

1,054 Listeners

The Infinite Monkey Cage by BBC Radio 4

The Infinite Monkey Cage

1,968 Listeners

Great Lives by BBC Radio 4

Great Lives

498 Listeners

Backlisted by Backlisted

Backlisted

586 Listeners

London Review Bookshop Podcast by London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop Podcast

131 Listeners

Front Row by BBC Radio 4

Front Row

130 Listeners

Start the Week by BBC Radio 4

Start the Week

160 Listeners

Bookclub by BBC Radio 4

Bookclub

243 Listeners

The TLS Podcast by The TLS

The TLS Podcast

181 Listeners

The Week in Art by The Art Newspaper

The Week in Art

217 Listeners

You're Dead to Me by BBC Radio 4

You're Dead to Me

3,221 Listeners

The Bomb by BBC World Service

The Bomb

1,020 Listeners

A brush with... by The Art Newspaper

A brush with...

146 Listeners

This Cultural Life by BBC Radio 4

This Cultural Life

110 Listeners

Close Readings by London Review of Books

Close Readings

91 Listeners

Past Present Future by David Runciman

Past Present Future

346 Listeners