Inside Culture - Series 5

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Women on Top

1 - Women on Top

Air Date: February 25, 2022

Mary Beard explores how thousands of years of stories and images stereotyping women have shaped our thinking and what this means for women who are in positions of power today.

Back to the 90s

2 - Back to the 90s

Air Date: March 4, 2022

Whether it’s in fashion and music or on our TV and cinema screens, the 90s are well and truly back. Shahidha Bari takes a look at the reasons why.

The Art of Crying

3 - The Art of Crying

Air Date: March 11, 2022

Mary Beard is joined by actor and screenwriter Emma Thompson to talk tears, dissecting some of Emma’s most famous on-screen weeps and explore the role that crying plays both in art and in real life.

Can Art Save the Planet?

4 - Can Art Save the Planet?

Air Date: March 18, 2022

Shahidha Bari teams up with artists, poets, comics and musicians to investigate the role that the arts can play in exploring and processing the threat to our planet from catastrophic climate change.

Episode 5

5 - Episode 5

Air Date: March 25, 2022

Mary Beard brings her trademark wit and probing curiosity to an interview with a very special guest - Booker-nominated British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.