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Using the framing device from the original Arabian Nights of the young Scheherazade telling tale after tale in order to keep her murderous husband from killing her, Miguel Gomes channels the current...
Two-part production for BBC radio of the play by Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz is played by Matthew Baynton, Guildenstern by Andrew Buchan and the Player by Toby Jones. Directed by Emma Harding with music...
Production of Nicola Vaccai’s rarely-performed two-act opera from 1827 derived not from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet but from the same source, Luigi Da Porto’s novella written in the 1520s. In the...
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the...
For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two...
Pictures are often not what they seem; to truly understand a painting, experts have to look beyond the painted surface. In this film, artist and educator James Heard explains the structure of paintings, from...
For the Tell Me A Picture exhibition at the National Gallery, Quentin Blake, distinguished illustrator and Children’s Laureate, selected an alphabetical anthology of pictures with stories in mind. Each of...
Philippe Jordan ranks among the most established and moust sought-after conductors of his generation. As Music Director of the Paris Opera he performed the complete symphonies of Tchaikovsky in total three...
Estonian Arvo Pärt is widely regarded as one of today’s most original creators of music. Largely self-taught, he is remote from the mainstream of the contemporary avant-garde. Much of his music is bound...
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