Mary Beard
Self - Presenter
Inside Culture (2020)
Series 1
How does the art we consume reflect the times we live in? A topical look at the latest film, TV, music, books and theatre - through the eyes of their creators and their audiences.
Released Sept. 24, 2020
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, Talk
Keywords: tmdb.art, tmdb.culture
Production Companies: BBC Studios
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Episode 1
Mary Beard visits Stonehenge, where she meets leading creative voices, including Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller. Mary explores which cultural forms are the winners and losers of the pandemic.
Sept. 24, 2020, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
Mary enters the glitzy world of awards and prizes. There are hundreds: not just for books and movies, but poetry, museums and gardens. How do they influence what art is created and what culture we consume? And has the pandemic helped us see beyond the glamour and red carpets and reassess what prizes are for?
Mary talks to Emmy-nominated actor Brian Cox and Bernardine Evaristo, who last year shared the Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood.
Oct. 2, 2020, midnight
S1E3 - Episode 3
Mary inhabits the worlds of architecture and fashion to analyse how we live now, during a pandemic, and fulfils a 40-year-long dream of reuniting the cast of renowned 1970s BBC drama I, Claudius.
Oct. 8, 2020, midnight
S1E4 - Episode 4
Mary examines what the future holds for museums post-lockdown, venturing out of her study to the British Museum to take on the role of museum guide.
Oct. 15, 2020, midnight
S1E5 - Episode 5
Mary talks to award-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen, discussing his views on growing up in London and his new BBC One anthology series Small Axe.
Oct. 22, 2020, midnight
BBC Two
30 min/ep
390 min
Sept. 24, 2020
March 25, 2022, midnight
Returning Series
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