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The Hound of the Baskervilles 2023 star_border 8
The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform a live soundtrack in this premier stage adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes thriller.

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story 2023 star_border 6.4
The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret. Featuring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball. Narrated by Alan Cumming. With Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward. Directed by Academy Award Nominee Barnaby Thompson.

Carbon Copy 2022
Inspired by a collection of poems that directly comment on the director's intersectional experiences growing up as a black woman living in modern Britain

Speak For Herself 2022
In a world where artificial intelligence plays an integral role in everyday life, a young and debt-ridden technophobe chooses to take part in a mysterious social experiment for the much-needed money. However, in order to receive the cash, she must speak live to the entire planet for one minute…

Prisoner C33 2022 star_border 7
Reading Gaol, England, 1896. Prisoner C33, starving and thin, unable to wash properly, is a brilliant writer, husband and father of two, once the most beloved artist in Victorian London. His real name is Oscar Wilde.

Andy Warhol's America 2022
A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself - as seen through the legendary artist's eyes.

The Birth of the Telephone 2021
Originating from footage of Thomas Watson relating the conception of the telephone, Birth of the Telephone distorts and challenges the simplicity of this account. We uncover a different type of birth occurring. Here is a device that, beneath the camouflage of instrumentality, raises questions about connection, anxiety and death.

Voodoo in My Heart 2021
Emily’s boyfriend has turned into a zombie overnight. She has successfully tied him to the bed frame with a phone charger, but not before he was able to bite her. With nothing to aid her other than a phone and a musical keyboard, a weak and tired Emily must figure out how to prevent herself becoming a zombie before it’s too late.

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story 2021 star_border 6.2
In 1968, Jackie Collins published her first novel The World Is Full of Married Men to remarkable success and immediate scandal. Over the next decades, Collins would go on to build an empire writing books where female agency came first. Jackie Collins’ women were unapologetic about their needs and their sexual desire, and to her devoted readers, Collins became a symbol of the effortless power that defined her heroines.

Fruity 2021 star_border 10
A lonely lesbian plagued with thoughts of fruit whenever she attempts to masturbate begins to develop her own sexual prowess.  Everything changes when Mina meets confident Georgia in the fruit aisle of a supermarket. With this newfound lesbian companion, a quick prayer to her “Celesbian” icons, and a flurry of new feelings inside of her, Mina starts to clear the oranges, pomegranates, melons, and apples from her brain.

Strasbourg 1518 2020 star_border 5.8
Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over five hundred years ago, this film is a collaboration in isolation with some of the greatest dancers working today.

Skeleton Wumman 2020
The Skeleton Wummin rests at the bottom of the cold sea, withering away in the passing tides and dreaming of life above the waves, in this vivid and poetically eerie Scots-language fable.

Wink 2020 star_border 7
A small group of queer punks find safety and comfort in their local queer pub; but their world is turned upside down. A group of normative heterosexuals have obnoxiously taken over the pub. Tate and Bunny lead a mission to take it back.

Songs of the City 2020
Celebrating urban bird song, a blackbird finds its voice in the streets of Manchester.

Daughters of the Sea 2020
An empowering retelling of a Welsh folklore explored through modern dance on the coast of Wales. It explores the fight to choose where and with who you belong.

This Camera is Broken 2019
An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her present reality and the film's blur.

It's Raining, It's Pouring 2019
Distant memories of the past are recalled as fleeting fragments by a man in his eighties.

Apocrypha 2019
A conversation about heritage and spiritualism with a Sangoma (South African spiritualist) who lives and works in a barber shop in Walthamstow. The collage of ‘The lamentation of a goblin’ with photography, text and 3D scanned Images create a movement through time and space. Elements of heritage, spirituality, intra-action and movement are illustrated as the mundane activity ensues. But in tone of voice and pause of question you find something else.

Black Fish 2019
A mother finds photos of the life her son would have lived if he didn't pass away.

The Ruins of Empires 2018
The Ruins Of Empires is an innovative performance piece by Hip Hop Artist and writer Akala. It is an abridged version of his epic poem of the same name and is a personal interpretation of history as told through the 'knowledge seeker' performed by Akala himself. He follows the course of mans evolution, via astral travel and multiple reincarnations, in an attempt to discover the cause of the rise and fall of Empires. It is driven by a musical score by Mala and Paul Gladstone-Reid and combines innovative animation techniques and emerging technology with some of the most ground breaking creative talents in the industry, under the creative guidance of Andy Serkis and The Imaginarium.

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Dancing Nation 2021
Sadler’s Wells & BBC Arts present a three-part celebration of dance featuring many of the UK’s leading dance companies and the most exciting new emerging talent. Presented by Brenda Emmanus as part of BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine, this unique festival has been curated in lockdown by Sadler’s Wells, London - one of the world’s leading dance houses.

The Novels That Shaped Our World 2019

Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues 2015
Dr Sam Willis charts the history of the British outlaws.

Castles: Britain's Fortified History 2014 star_border 10
Historian Sam Willis traces the story of Britain's castles and their unique role in our history, art and literature.

My Life in Science Fiction 2014
Revealing anecdotes from some of Science Fiction's brightest stars give an entertaining insight into their best-known work.

Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces 2014
From the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace, Dan Cruickshank tells the story of a thousand years of palace building, the mystery of why so many have vanished and the magic of the ones that survive.

A Very British Renaissance 2014
Art historian Dr James Fox makes the case for a singularly British renaissance, telling the stories of the artists and artisans who changed Britain forever.

How to Get Ahead 2014
What you had to say, do and dress in order to get ahead at various times in history

Treasures of Ancient Egypt 2014 star_border 7.5
Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces.

Shipwrecks: Britain's Sunken History 2013
Maritime historian Dr Sam Willis looks at how and why the shipwreck came to loom so large in British history.

Treasures of Ancient Rome 2012 star_border 7
Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke. The series was produced by the BBC, and originally aired in September 2012 on BBC Four. In the documentary Sooke sets out to "debunk the myth that Romans didn't do art and were unoriginal". This is based on the view that Romans heavily incorporated Greek style in their art, and hence produced nothing new or original. Sooke has received some criticism from the media owing to the fact that there is no consensus among academics on this topic, and hence no 'myth' exists in the first place.