Stage and screen
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Puppetry thrives amid war in Ukraine
The Odesa Puppet Theatre plays a vital role for Ukrainians facing the violence and trauma of war, explain Nataliia Borodina and Matt Smith
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Art in atrocity: Palestine and the destruction of culture
Palestinian artists are being silenced in Gaza and all around the world. Their work must continue speaking volumes, says Siobhán McGuirk
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Cinema for liberation: new visions from Palestine
Farrah Koutteineh surveys the work of women Palestinian filmmakers resisting Israeli efforts to bury the past and present of colonial violence
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Working class films and social change: An interview with Ken Loach
Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people
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Anchors for hope: The uses of nostalgia
Nostalgia can inspire action towards a more just society, says Siobhan McGuirk, if we remember without romanticising socialist victories past
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Ram Rajya 2.0: Nostalgia, cinema and Indian nationalism
Priya Chacko and Maggie Paul explore how historic and religious popular culture uses nostalgia to further Hindu nationalist agendas – a process known as ‘saffronisation’
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When the people made television: the BBC’s Community Programme Unit
An exhibition revisiting a radically different, democratic approach to programming in the 1970s prompts Andrew Dolan to consider whether another BBC is still imaginable today
Community Consultation 2025
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