BBC Radio Podcasts from Cultural Exchange
Armando Iannucci
As the final Cultural Exchange Armando Iannucci chooses the Woody Allen film Stardust...
Riz Ahmed
Riz Ahmed chooses the video game Street Fighter II, which was released in arcades in 1991.
C J Sansom
C J Sansom - author of the historical crime series Shardlake – picks the first of in...
Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage chooses a poem by WS Graham called Dear Bryan Wynter.
Josie Rourke
Josie Rourke chooses the 1987 film Broadcast News. Plus BBC archive interviews with L...
Gemma Chan
Gemma Chan chooses the film The Princess Bride. Plus archive BBC interviews with Harry...
Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker choose a photograph by Man Ray called Dust Breeding.
Cerys Matthews
Cerys Matthews chooses Fanfare Ciocărlia and their album Queens and Kings.
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer chooses the painting Ecce Homo by the 19th Century Italian artist...
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman chooses a song by Georges Brassens, called Supplique pour être à la...
Nicola Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti chooses Korngold’s Violin Concerto, played by Jascha Heifetz.
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers chooses the Piazza del Campo, a medieval square in Siena.
CE Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie chooses the film All About Eve (1950), starring Bette Davis.
Terry Jones
Terry Jones chooses Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. Plus BBC archive of Dylan Thomas...
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell chooses the oratorio Solomon by Handel. Plus archive interviews about...
James Blake
James Blake chooses the film Stalker by Tarkovsky.
Cultural Exchange
Mark Ravenhill chooses Casanova, Dennis Potter's first TV serial.
Paul Franklin
The Oscar-winning Visual Effects Designer, Paul Franklin chooses The Thief of Bagdad.
Laura Mvula
Laura Mvula chooses the song Four Women by Nina Simone.
Paula Milne
Paula Milne chooses the film Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson
Conrad Shawcross
Artist Conrad Shawcross chooses one of the 250 pictures in the waterlilies series by...
David Sedaris
American writer and humorist David Sedaris chooses the TV reality series RuPaul's Drag...
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin chooses the album Solid Air by John Martyn
Rankin
The photographer Rankin chooses the poem Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy.
Pat Barker
Author Pat Barker chooses Benjamin Britten's song cycle Who Are These Children?
Maggi Hambling
Artist Maggi Hambling chooses Cy Twombly's Bacchus paintings
Penelope Curtis
Penelope Curtis, Director at Tate Britain, chooses the buildings designed by Powell...
Brian Sewell
Brian Sewell chooses the painting Christ contemplated by the Christian Soul by Velazquez.
Clarke Peters
Actor and musician Clarke Peters – best-known for his TV roles in the Wire
Julia Donaldson
The former Children’s Laureate and author of The Gruffalo, chooses Arnold Lobel
Amanda Levete
The architect Amanda Levete chooses Casa Malaparte, a house on the island of Capri
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste chooses Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue.
Lee Hall
Playwright and screenwriter Lee Hall chooses Briggflatts, a poem by Basil Bunting.
Mitsuko Uchida
The pianist Mitsuko Uchida chooses The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca.
Brian Aldiss
The author chooses The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff. Plus archive interviews with Lee...
Francine Stock
Broadcaster Francine Stock chooses the Iranian film The Apple. Plus archive interviews...
Glenn Patterson
Novelist Glenn Patterson chooses the film Yankee Doodle Dandy. Plus archive interviews...
Joan Bakewell
Broadcaster and writer Dame Joan Bakewell chooses the 1963 film The Leopard, directed...
Rachel Whiteread
Turner Prize winning artist, Rachel Whiteread chooses a postcard of Fall by Bridget Riley.
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman chooses a painting by Richard Dadd – The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke.
Paul Weller
For the Cultural Exchange, Paul Weller nominates The Zombies' Odessey And Oracle, an...
Gwyneth Lewis
Poet Gwyneth Lewis chooses the dance routine from Laurel and Hardy’s 1937 film Way...
Stephen Hough
Stephen Hough chooses Schubert’s song The Hurdy Gurdy Man, from Winterreise.
AL Kennedy
Author AL Kennedy chooses the 1985 TV drama Hitler’s SS: A Portrait of Evil.
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon, whose books include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,...
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín chooses a poem by Elizabeth Bishop called Poem. Plus archive interviews...
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kwame Kwei-Armah chooses Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984), a play by August Wilson -...
Sarah Hall
Novelist Sarah Hall chooses the film Blade Runner. Plus archive BBC interviews with K...
P. D. James
P. D. James chooses Philip Larkin's poem The Explosion, published in his final of High...
Highlights from Cultural Exchange so far
Mark Lawson offers a selection of highlights from the Cultural Exchange project so far.
Lady Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Fraser chooses an oil painting by J.M.W. Turner, full title The Fighting...
Nicholas Hytner
Nicholas Hytner – Director of the National Theatre – chooses the Finale from Act...
Angela Gheorghiu
Angela Gheorghiu chooses a diva from a previous generation, Virginia Zeani (pictured I...
Nigel Kennedy
Violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy chooses the song Black and Blue, composed by Fats Waller...
Mary Beard
Classicist Mary Beard chooses the sculpture Laocoon and His Sons. Plus archive Seamus...
AS Byatt
A.S. Byatt chooses The Red Studio (1911) by the French artist Henri Matisse.S.
David Walliams
Actor and writer David Walliams chooses Harold Pinter's play No Man's Land.
Alison Balsom
Alison Balsom chooses the St Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach. She tells John Wilson why...
Terence Stamp
Terence Stamp chooses The Razor's Edge as his favourite work. Based on Somerset novel,...
Will Self
Will Self chooses GK Chesterton's detective story The Man Who Was Thursday, published...
Anne Tyler
Novelist Anne Tyler chooses a self portrait by the pioneering photographer Charles R...
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby
The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev Justin Welby chooses the War Requiem (Op.bbc.co.
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult, the American author whose books, including My Sister's Keeper have sold...
Peter Bazalgette
The TV producer and chair of the Arts Council England talks to John Wilson about of...
Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson chooses the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols.
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer chooses The Getting of Wisdom by the Australian novelist Henry Handel...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chooses a portrait by the 20th Century Nigerian Ben...
Suggs
Suggs chooses Sir John Betjeman's poem On a Portrait of a Deaf Man from the Album set...
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg chooses Rembrandt's Self-Portrait (1658) for his Cultural Exchange.
Meera Syal
Meera Syal talks to Mark Lawson about her favourite book, Harper Lee's To Kill a...
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci talks to John Wilson about his favourite film, La Dolce Vita.
Diana Athill
95 year old literary editor and author Diana Athill selects the Letters of Lord Byron...
Adrian Lester
Actor Adrian Lester chooses Bob Marley’s Redemption Song for Front Row’s Cultural...
Moshin Hamid
Author Mohsin Hamid talks to Mark Lawson about a seminal work in the history of Olaf a...
Tamara Rojo
Spanish ballerina Tamara Rojo is Artistic Director and Principal Dancer at English...
Tracey Emin
To launch Cultural Exchange, artist Tracey Emin talks to Mark Lawson about Vermeer's a...