The Cultural Frontline Podcast
The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.
Episodes to download
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My art, my community
Sat 25 Mar 2023
We meet the artists helping others through their work and activism
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Reclaim and resist: Canada's indigenous musicians
Sat 18 Mar 2023
The musicians reclaiming suppressed cultures and resisting colonial narratives
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What the AI revolution means for arts
Sat 4 Mar 2023
How is AI changing the world of art, music and theatre? Opportunity or threat?
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Ukraine one year on: The artists’ response
Sat 25 Feb 2023
Why Ukrainian culture has become a symbol of defiance
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Modi's hip-hop nation
Sat 18 Feb 2023
Bobby Friction explores what hip-hop means to India’s unheard youth
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Fiction and our climate emergency
Sat 11 Feb 2023
Can fiction writers change how we think about our global climate emergency?
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Inside the rise of LGBTQ+ fiction
Sat 4 Feb 2023
Exploring queer fiction as the literary genre faces boosted sales and book bans
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Why Indigenous and First Nation stories matter
Sat 28 Jan 2023
Indigenous and First Nation storytellers speaking up for their communities
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Cate Blanchett: My ‘dangerous’ role
Sat 21 Jan 2023
Cate Blanchett on playing a conductor accused of sexual misconduct in the film Tár
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Why are guitar bands speaking instead of singing?
Sat 14 Jan 2023
Why a new wave of guitar bands are speaking over their songs instead of singing
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Brazil’s small utopias
Sat 7 Jan 2023
Brazilian artists create utopias in their work to imagine a better future
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Her story: Women artists making waves
Sat 31 Dec 2022
Rapper Milli on challenging stereotypes to bring change in Thailand
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Generations in conversation
Christmas Eve 2022
Three conversations between different generations of artists
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Telling stories in times of conflict
Sat 17 Dec 2022
What can stories mean to people living in war? How do storytellers find hope in chaos?
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How can art help reconnect us to the missing?
Sat 10 Dec 2022
We hear from artists telling the stories of the disappeared
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Joyland: Why the Pakistani film caused controversy
Sat 3 Dec 2022
How a banned film became Pakistan’s entry for the Oscars
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Cultural restitution - who decides?
Sat 26 Nov 2022
The future of museums in the era of contested artefacts
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Behind the lens of the photojournalist
Sat 19 Nov 2022
Photographers telling the stories of their nations
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How can art help tackle climate change?
Sat 12 Nov 2022
With world leaders at COP 27, we explore the role of art in tackling global warming
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The Beautiful Game: Art, football and the World Cup
Sat 5 Nov 2022
With the Fifa World Cup in Qatar, we look at the relationship between art and football
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How artists are changing Sri Lanka
Sat 22 Oct 2022
We hear from artists at the forefront of Sri Lanka’s protest movement
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How climate change changed my life
Sat 8 Oct 2022
Photographer Norma I Quintana on the wildfires that destroyed her home and studio
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Colombia: Culture out of conflict
Sat 24 Sep 2022
MarÃa Cecilia Botero, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Cristina Bendek and Bomba Estéreo
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How is TikTok changing culture?
Sat 10 Sep 2022
We speak to creators about how the platform is changing music, comedy and literature.
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On Standing Rock
Sat 3 Sep 2022
Nick Rankin examines the cultural fallout from the protests at Standing Rock in 2016
