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Mary Beard brings her trademark wit and probing curiosity to an interview with a very special guest - Booker-nominated British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.
Shahidha Bari teams up with artists, poets, comics and musicians to investigate the role that the arts can play in exploring and processing the threat to our planet from catastrophic climate change.
Mary Beard is joined by actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson to talk tears, dissecting some of Emma’s most famous on-screen weeps and explore the role that crying plays both in art and in real life.
Whether it’s in fashion and music or on our TV and cinema screens, the 90s are well and truly back. Shahidha Bari takes a look at the reasons why.
Mary Beard explores how thousands of years of stories and images stereotyping women have shaped our thinking and what this means for women who are in positions of power today.
Series 4
Mary Beard investigates the ongoing history of creative connection and cultural exchange between Britain and Australia and asks what that relationship looks like today.
Shahidha Bari takes the reins for this episode of Inside Culture, which celebrates the joy of books and asks whether the way we read is changing.
Mary Beard asks why we are drawn to literature, theatre, TV and film that take us ‘back to school’. She meets authors Philip Pullman and Liz Pichon to discuss the enduring popularity of these stories.
In this very special episode of Inside Culture, Mary Beard meets former US Secretary of State, First Lady, senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Mary Beard asks why we laugh and explores what laughter can tell us about ourselves, our relationships and the world we live in.
Series 3
Mary Beard hands over the reins to cultural historian Shahidha Bari to explore the importance of self-expression: from the clothes we wear to the art and music we make.
Mary Beard is in conversation with critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her first public appearance since the news of her mother’s death.
Mary’s exploration of the world of arts and culture continues as she asks: why do we have to act our age? And what happens when we don’t?
Mary Beard talks to James May, Gary Numan, David Olusoga, Rosie Jones and William Dalrymple to explore what we lose from arts and culture when we cannot travel.
Mary Beard kicks off the series by thinking about how we remember - not just as individuals, but as a society and a nation.