And then on Sunday night we have more #ThisCulturalLife on TV in the company of Britain’s nicest man™️ Michael Palin, talking Goons, Python, Bleasdale, Armando Iannucci & more
Watch BBC FOUR BBC iPlayer Sunday 8.30pm
This Cultural Life, 2023
with John Wilson
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#ThisCulturalLife : Boy George is candid & witty talking boys, Blitz, Bowie & beyond.
Watch on BBC FOUR @bbciplayer 11pm tonight
Reading George Orwell’s 1984 at a young age gave Margaret E Atwood a lifelong interest in authoritarian regimes & dictatorships: how they get going, and how they fall apart.
Atwood's #ThisCulturalLife interview with John Wilson is on @bbciplayer & BBC Four, Monday 10pm.
‘I played a snail. I had an enormous shell.’
Dame Judi Dench has been remembering her acting debut as a mollusc.
Listen to #ThisCulturalLife with @johnwilson14 on @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds on Saturday at 7.15pm. Watch on BBC Four @bbciplayer on Sunday at 7pm. #bbcshakespeare
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The TV version of our Boy George episode is ‘pick of the day’ in The Times and The Sunday Times & The Observer
Watch BBC Four BBC iPlayer Friday 11pm
‘As a kid it felt like Bowie was talking to me.’
Boy George managed to get a ticket for David Bowie’s epic Ziggy Stardust Tour at just 11. He spoke to @johnwilson14 about his influences on #ThisCulturalLife . Catch up now on @bbcsounds.
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‘It’s like the beating of your heart.'
Dame Judi Dench shares her secret to performing Shakespeare - also known as ‘The man who pays the rent’ in her new book.
Listen to #ThisCulturalLife with @johnwilson14 on @bbcsounds and watch on iPlayer now. #bbcshakespeare
“I've got into terrible trouble for laughing.” 🤣
Dami Judi Dench tells John Wilson about getting the giggles at the worst possible time on stage.
Listen to #ThisCulturalLife on BBC Sounds @bbcradio4 or watch on
@bbciplayer now. #bbcshakespeare
‘I didn’t get why people were so freaked out by what I was doing.’
Boy George speaks to John Wilson about that iconic first appearance on Top of the Pops, coping with fame and his influences.
#ThisCulturalLife Saturday 7.15pm @bbcradio4 and BBC Sounds
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On the latest #ThisCulturalLife , Juliette Binoche gets emotional about the Peter Brook play she saw as a teenager that inspired her to become an actor.
This Cultural Life with @johnwilson14 | Listen on @bbcsounds.
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Very enjoyable, revealing, expansive interview with #JulietteBinoche , whom I have adored since 1988. BBC Radio 4 #ThisCulturalLife John Wilson BBC Sounds
This week on #ThisCulturalLife , John Wilson will be talking to Sebastião Salgado about his life and career. Listen on BBC Radio 4 from 11am tomorrow or on BBC Sounds
In case you missed #BoyGeorge on #ThisCulturalLife last night: The episode is now available on the web!
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Hi George The Poet 🇺🇬 - I hope you don't mind a tag, but after hearing #ThisCulturalLife this evening I think I've realised why I've started writing again, and it is thanks to hearing you, and your poems from the heart 🙏❤
'There's an anger... You can't see it happen and be indifferent...' Driven director Ken Loach describes his upbringing and motivations to John Wilson in tonight's excellent #ThisCulturalLife on BBC4 at 10pm.
Wonderful #ThisCulturalLife BBC Radio 4 BBC Sounds John Wilson and Damien Chazelle on how his lifelong love affair with movies was shaped by Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Singin in the Rain, Hockney and Charlie Parker. ‘The romance of the everyday and the mundane’