Six months into the Great War and the world is beginning to change. Francine Stock returns to The Cultural Front to look for glimpses of a modern world in 1915. Show more

Francine Stock explores a fragmented world through the prism of the art it created. With contributions from James Taylor, Nicholas Rankin, Susan Harrow and Santanu Das. Show more

Francine Stock looks at how the harrowing effects of World War I began to make themselves apparent in art, music and poetry. Show more

1916. A year of industrial slaughter at Verdun and the Somme. Francine Stock journeys through Paris to explore how a city and its artists responded to the nation's decisive battle. Show more

1916: Francine Stock discovers how tanks capture the public imagination, wounded soldiers flock to theatres for musicals, and the public crowd to see The Battle of the Somme film. Show more

1916. Francine Stock considers endless war and new worlds. Dada is born. Jerusalem is heard for the first time. In Russia, Maxim Gorky edits The Shield in defence of Jewish life. Show more

1917, and America enters World War I. Francine Stock tells the story of how an African American regiment brought jazz to France. Show more

How artists responded to the realities of the First World War, by facing the truth head on, retreating into escapism and attempting to reconstruct what conflict has destroyed. Show more

In the final episode of this 2017's series on the Great War, Francine Stock considers the intimate impact of war on society and culture. Show more

Francine Stock examines the response of artists and movie stars to U.S. troops arriving on the Western Front. Show more

Francine Stock examines cultural life in Vienna in 1918 during the final days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Show more

Francine Stock concludes her epic journey through the cultures of the Great War with Chagall in Vitebsk, Elgar at a loss and Rebecca West's first novel of a soldier's return. Show more

Francine Stock begins her exploration of the culture of the Great War in 1914 with the mobilization of the word. Intellectuals and authors became seen as crucial to the war effort. Show more

Francine Stock explores the music and images of popular culture in Britain, France, Russia and Germany, as fiery patriotism flares and fades in the first weeks and months of war. Show more

Francine Stock explores how artists responded to the outbreak of war on either side of the conflict and hears how the publishing world fed the appetite for women's popular fiction. Show more