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Culture in Quarantine

Bringing arts and culture into your home

Lights Up

BBC Arts has partnered with theatres across the country to produce an unprecedented season of plays

Culture in Quarantine

Top needlework tips from Get Creative

If you're feeling inspired by the return of The Great British Sewing Bee, here's some advice on getting started

GET CREATIVE

13 brilliant moments with writers at Big Book Weekend

Catch up on some of the best moments from our virtual book festival

BBC Arts

Inside Cinema

Nuns On Film

Pamela Hutchinson sings the praises of film's faithful sisters, from Black Narcissus to Sister Act and beyond

BBC IPlayer

Fat and Female on Film

Grace Barber-Plentie’s body-positive celebration of how being fat and female on film has evolved

BBC Iplayer

Strong Female Characters

Hanna Flint asks if a strong female character kicking ass is always empowering? Or is there still work to be done?

BBC Iplayer

Sugar: Step into the worlds of Annie, Julie and Tracy

Annie

Paddy calls Annie over in a pub. He makes her laugh. She falls, in love and into trouble.

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Julie

It is Julie’s last night in prison. Determined and driven, Julie makes a promise to herself: this will be her last time.

BBC iPlayer

Tracy

Tracy is bleeding, in pain and going to the hospital. But first, she has a story to tell.

BBC iPlayer

Dancing Nation

Blak Whyte Gray

Boy Blue bring one section of Blak Whyte Gray, the company's Olivier-Award nominated work.

Boy Blue

BLKDOG

A genre-defying, award-winning blend of hip-hop dance by Botis Seva.

Far From The Norm

State of the Nation

Everything you need to know about our sampler of UK dance in all its forms.

BBC Arts

Face In

Daring and uninhibited dance, a sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination.

Candoco

Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus

Hope Hunt shatters facades, dismantles stereotypes and finds beauty on the periphery.

Oona Doherty

Dancing Nation on BBC iPlayer

All of the performances, all of the interviews, presented by Brenda Emmanus.

BBC iPlayer

Elsewhere in Arts & Culture

Portraits of Prince Philip (1921–2021)

Numerous works from the national public collection depict the late Duke of Edinburgh

ART UK

Stories from Pitt Rivers Museum with Josie Long

Staff and volunteers share anecdotes and insight about their favourite objects from the museum's extensive collection

Art Fund UK

Still Touch

Explores the weight felt by the body when human contact is denied and the lightness found in our connections with people

Richard Chappell Dance

BBC Introducing Arts

Women in Film

Janina Ramirez presents a collection of intriguing short films by emerging female directors and storytellers

BBC IPLAYER

Creating a Scene

Chizzy Akudolu presents a new collection of dramatic short films from BBC Introducing Arts

BBC IPLAYER

Get Animated!

Plunge into exciting, strange and beautiful animated worlds

BBC iPlayer

Inside Games

Special Characters

What makes a great video games character? Elle Osili-Wood explores the history from Pac-Man to Lara Croft and beyond

BBC iPlayer

Radcliffe and Maconie: Elle Osili-Wood

The host of Inside Games: Special Characters chats to Mark and Stuart about the development of characters in video games

BBC Sounds

Wholesome games

The important role of games like Animal Crossing during times of social isolation

BBC IPLAYER

Get Creative at Home

Your palimpsests inspired by Edmund de Waal

Here are some of the beautiful creations you made in response to the Front Row Get Creative challenge

BBC ARTS

Rana Begum

The artist shows how she uses watercolours to get through lockdown isolation

BBC Iplayer

#GetCreativeAtHome

Search the site for creative activites to do at home, or add activites to listings if you are a creative organisation

Get Creative at Home

The Novels That Shaped Our World

10 remarkable novels about identity

Stories about what makes us who we are and how we define ourselves and others

Novels that shaped our world

10 passionate tales about love, sex and romance

Stories delving into affairs of the heart and the bedroom, including Forever and Riders

Novels that shaped our world

10 of the best adventure stories ever told

Stories of exploration, quest and survival including The Hunger Games and His Dark Materials

Novels that shaped our world

10 classic stories of life, death and other worlds

Novels tackling the struggle to live in alternative universes or imagined futures

Novels that shaped our world

10 astute novels that tell us about class and society

Stories examing how others live and how we live together, inlcuding Cannery Row and Our Mutual Friend

Novels that shaped our world

100 Novels That Shaped Our World

Explore the list of 100 novels whose stories have the power to change us

BBC Arts

New on BBC iPlayer

All That Glitters: Britain's Next Jewellery Star

Eight jewellers battle it out to become the next big name in jewellery

BBC IPLAYER

The British Academy Film Awards 2021

Dermot O'Leary and Edith Bowman host a celebration of the best films of the year from London's Royal Albert Hall

BBC IPLAYER

Handel's Messiah from English National Opera

Handel’s much-loved masterpiece comes from the stunning London Coliseum

BBC IPLAYER

New on BBC Sounds

The Cultural Frontline

Emilia Clarke reveals how the work of Jenny Diski changed the way she thinks about life and death

BBC SOUNDS

Future Art

Art historian James Fox steps into the future to ask how technology is transforming the art world

BBC SOUNDS

Shock Waves

Five artists chronicle how they have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic

BBC SOUNDS

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