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The Culture Show

Steve McQueen: Are You Sitting Uncomfortably?: A Culture Show Special

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Mark Kermode looks at the history of slavery and talks to Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave, a film based on the true story of Solomon Northup. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Kermode
Participant:
Steve McQueen
Participant:
Charlotte Rampling
Participant:
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Participant:
Lupita Nyong'o
Participant:
Abi Morgan
Director:
Nicola Seare
Series Editor:
Janet Lee

Front Row

Costa Book Awards; 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen; Mexico's cultural leaders

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Costa Book Awards category winners revealed, Steve McQueen talks about 12 Years a Slave, plus the first in a series looking at culture in emerging economies, beginning with Mexico. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:
Bud McLintock
Interviewed Guest:
Sam Leith
Interviewed Guest:
Steve McQueen
Interviewed Guest:
Fernando Solorzano
Interviewed Guest:
Clio Barnard
Interviewed Guest:
Olivia Colman

Small Axe

Series 1

Alex Wheatle

Duration: 1 hour, 4 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland

Available for years

The true story of award-winning writer Alex Wheatle, who spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home and was jailed after the Brixton uprising of 1981. Show more

Contributors

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Small Axe

Series 1

Mangrove

Duration: 2 hours, 6 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland

Available for years

The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a lively community hub in London’s Notting Hill that was the subject of relentless police raids during the 1970s and a consequent trial. Show more

Contributors

Frank Crichlow:
Shaun Parkes
Darcus Howe:
Malachi Kirby
Altheia Jones-LeCointe:
Letitia Wright
Barbara Beese:
Rochenda Sandall
Ian Macdonald:
Jack Lowden
Judge Edward Clarke:
Alex Jennings
Director:
Steve McQueen

Genres

Storyville

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Duration: 1 hour, 7 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 25 days

Three minutes of footage, filmed in 1938, is all that remains of the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland. Storyville unravels the tales hidden within the celluloid. Show more

Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Available for 10 months

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Helen Bart
Executive Producer:
Emma Loach
Executive Producer:
Clare Sillery
Executive Producer:
Steve McQueen
Executive Producer:
James Rogan
Executive Producer:
Soleta Rogan
Executive Producer:
Tracey Scoffield
Executive Producer:
David Tanner
Production Company:
Rogan Productions
Production Company:
Lammas Park
Production Company:
Turbine Studios

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Available for 11 months

An examination of one of the biggest scandals in the history of British education. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Helen Bart
Executive Producer:
Steve McQueen
Executive Producer:
James Rogan
Executive Producer:
Soleta Rogan
Executive Producer:
Tracey Scoffield
Assistant Producer:
Beya Kabelu
Production Company:
Rogan Productions
Production Company:
Lammas Park
Production Company:
Turbine Studios

The Culture Show

2011/2012

Episode 15

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Scotland

The Culture Show comes from the Gothic mansion Two Temple Place as it opens its doors for the first time. Miranda Sawyer meets film director David Lynch. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Miranda Sawyer
Presenter:
Mark Kermode
Presenter:
Simon Thurley
Interviewed Guest:
David Lynch
Interviewed Guest:
Steve McQueen
Series Editor:
Janet Lee
Series Producer:
Emma Cahusac
Reporter:
Michael Smith
Reporter:
John Mullan
Reporter:
Jimmy Wales

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Available for years

Mary talks to award-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen, discussing his views on growing up in London and his BBC One anthology series Small Axe. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mary Beard
Interviewed Guest:
Steve McQueen
Executive Producer:
Tanya Hudson

Inside Culture

When Mary Beard met Steve McQueen

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News Latin AmericaLatest broadcast: on BBC News Africa

Mary talks to award-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, discussing his views on growing up in London and his new series of BBC films Small Axe.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Mary Beard
Interviewed Guest:
Steve McQueen
Executive Producer:
Tanya Hudson

Uprising

Series 1

Blame

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC History Channel

Available for years

The story of the aftermath of the New Cross fire and the run up to the Black People’s Day of Action, a mass demonstration organised to bring the tragedy to the attention of the nation. Show more

Contributors

Series Producer:
Helen Bart
Director:
Steve McQueen
Director:
James Rogan

Uprising

Series 1

The Front Line

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC History Channel

Available for years

How tensions between the black community and the police boiled over into some of the biggest riots in British history, from Brixton to Toxteth, while the cause of the New Cross fire remained unknown. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Steve McQueen
Director:
James Rogan
Series Producer:
Helen Bart
Executive Producer:
Steve McQueen
Executive Producer:
Nancy Bornat
Executive Producer:
James Rogan
Executive Producer:
Soleta Rogan
Executive Producer:
Tracey Scoffield

Uprising

Series 1

Fire

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC History Channel

Available for years

The story of the New Cross house fire of 1981, in which 13 young black British people died, and how its aftermath ignited an uprising by the black British community. Show more

Contributors

Series Producer:
Helen Bart
Director:
Steve McQueen
Director:
James Rogan

Free Thinking

Oscar Nominations, Steve McQueen, Slavery Narratives

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet is joined by film director Steve McQueen, critic Ian Christie, poet Fred D'Aguiar, anthropologist Kit Davis and historian Madge Dresser to discuss slave narratives. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Steve McQueen
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Christie
Interviewed Guest:
Fred D'Aguiar
Interviewed Guest:
Kit Davis
Interviewed Guest:
Madge Dresser

Small Axe

Series 1

Education

Duration: 1 hour, 5 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland HD

Available for years

When 12-year-old Kingsley is transferred to a special-needs school, a group of women uncover an unofficial segregation policy preventing many black children from receiving the education they deserve. Show more

Contributors

Kingsley Smith:
Kenyah Sandy
Agnes Smith:
Sharlene Whyte
Esmond Smith:
Daniel Francis
Stephanie Smith:
Tamara Lawrance
Lydia Thomas:
Josette Simon
Tabitha Bartholomew:
Jo Martin
Director:
Steve McQueen

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