Cultural Exchange

BBC Radio 4

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.

  • 31 minutes 52 seconds
    Armando Iannucci

    As the final Cultural Exchange Armando Iannucci chooses the Woody Allen film Stardust Memories. Also there are BBC archive interviews with Woody Allen and Armando Iannucci. Plus, as a bonus, presenters Mark Lawson and John Wilson also reveal their picks for the Cultural Exchange.

    16 August 2013, 7:00 pm
  • 22 minutes 49 seconds
    Riz Ahmed

    Riz Ahmed chooses the video game Street Fighter II, which was released in arcades in 1991. Plus related clips from the BBC archive, including rapper Bashy joins 1Xtra's J.M.E for a Street Fighter II battle, interviews with games writers Naomi Alderman and Rhianna Pratchett, games designer Paul Bennun and composer Joris De Man. Also Riz Ahmed himself talks Trevor Nelson about his starring role in The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

    14 August 2013, 7:00 pm
  • 18 minutes 19 seconds
    C J Sansom

    C J Sansom - author of the historical crime series Shardlake – picks the first incarnation of the Doctor in the Doctor Who, William Hartnell. Plus archive interviews with Verity Lambert, Tom Baker and William Hartnell's granddaughter Jessica Carney.

    13 August 2013, 6:15 pm
  • 24 minutes 35 seconds
    Michael Grandage

    Michael Grandage chooses a poem by WS Graham called Dear Bryan Wynter. Plus BBC archive featuring WS Graham, Peter Lanyon and Mark Rothko.

    12 August 2013, 5:07 pm
  • 21 minutes 4 seconds
    Josie Rourke

    Josie Rourke chooses the 1987 film Broadcast News. Plus BBC archive interviews with actress Holly Hunter and director James L Brooks.

    8 August 2013, 4:18 pm
  • 19 minutes 54 seconds
    Gemma Chan

    Gemma Chan chooses the film The Princess Bride. Plus archive BBC interviews with William Goldman, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Frank Cottrell Boyce.

    6 August 2013, 5:16 pm
  • 20 minutes 24 seconds
    Cornelia Parker

    Cornelia Parker choose a photograph by Man Ray called Dust Breeding. Plus archive BBC interviews with Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp.

    5 August 2013, 4:06 pm
  • 18 minutes 41 seconds
    Cerys Matthews

    Cerys Matthews chooses Fanfare Ciocărlia and their album Queens and Kings. Plus BBC archive interviews about gypsy music including an interview with the band.

    2 August 2013, 4:45 pm
  • 17 minutes 23 seconds
    Jeffrey Archer

    Jeffrey Archer chooses the painting Ecce Homo by the 19th Century Italian artist Antonio Ciseri. Plus BBC archive about Pontius Pilate. Go to Front Row’s Cultural Exchange website for full details.

    1 August 2013, 3:54 pm
  • 20 minutes 50 seconds
    Philip Pullman

    Philip Pullman chooses a song by Georges Brassens, called Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète. Plus BBC archive clips about Brassens featuring Quentin Blake, Posy Simmonds and Julian Barnes.

    31 July 2013, 4:41 pm
  • 19 minutes 49 seconds
    Nicola Benedetti

    Nicola Benedetti chooses Korngold’s Violin Concerto, played by Jascha Heifetz. Plus archive BBC interviews with Itzhak Perlman and Leonard Slatkin.

    30 July 2013, 4:53 pm
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