This Cultural Life is an Arts programme.

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• Season 1
• Season 2
• Season 3
• Season 4
• Season 5
• Season 6
• Season 7
• Season 8
• Season 9

This Cultural Life

Below is a list of all Episodes from all Seasons of This Cultural Life

Season 1

• 0. Nicole Kidman: Tracey Emin
• 0. 04/11/2023
• 0. Judi Dench: This Cultural Life Shakespeare Special
• 0. 03/04/2025
• 0. Abi Morgan
• 0. 10/04/2025
• 0. Maggie O'Farrell
• 0. 17/04/2025
• 0. 24/04/2025
• 0. 01/05/2025
• 0. Simon Russell Beale
• 0. Wayne McGregor
• 0. Sheku Kanneh-Mason
• 0. 08/05/2025
• 0. 15/05/2025
• 0. 22/05/2025
• 0. 29/05/2025
• 0. Doris Salcedo
• 0. James Rhodes
• 0. 05/06/2025
• 0. Pete Townshend
• 0. Gillian Anderson
• 0. 19/06/2025
• 0. Alan Menken
• 0. 12/06/2025
• 0. 26/06/2025
• 0. 03/07/2025
• 0. Jenny Saville
• 0. Steve Reich
• 0. Katherine Rundell
• 0. Anselm Kiefer
• 0. Alison Balsom
• 0. 11/09/2025
• 0. 18/09/2025
• 0. Alicia Vikander
• 0. 25/09/2025
• 0. 02/10/2025
• 0. Kerry James Marshall
• 0. 09/10/2025
• 0. 16/10/2025
• 0. Jonathan Anderson
• 0. 23/10/2025
• 0. Thomas Adès
• 0. 30/10/2025
• 0. 06/11/2025
• 0. Rose Tremain
• 0. Mark Ronson
• 0. Rufus Wainwright
• 0. Jennifer Lawrence
• 0. Eliza Carthy
• 0. 22/01/2026
• 0. 29/01/2026
• 0. 05/02/2026
• 0. Katie Mitchell
• 0. Jonathan Pryce
• 0. Juliette Binoche: This Cultural Life
• 1. 02/01/2025
• 1. Isabel Allende
• 1. Eric Idle
• 1. Ricky Gervais
• 1. 02/04/2026
• 1. Don McCullin
• 2. 09/01/2025
• 2. James Ivory
• 2. Guillermo del Toro
• 2. 09/04/2026
• 2. Danielle de Niese
• 3. 16/01/2025
• 3. Robert Harris
• 3. Annie Leibovitz
• 4. 23/01/2025
• 4. Marin Alsop
• 5. 30/01/2025
• 5. Cynthia Erivo
• 6. 06/02/2025
• 6. David Hare
• 6. Imogen Cooper
• 7. 13/02/2025
• 7. Theaster Gates
• 7. 12/02/2026
• 7. Julian Barnes
• 1. Kenneth Branagh
• 2. Bernardine Evaristo
• 3. Paul McCartney
• 4. Tracey Emin
• 5. Mike Leigh
• 6. Carlos Acosta
• 7. Caitlin Moran
• 8. Evelyn Glennie: This Cultural Life

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Season 2

• 0. Nicola Benedetti
• 1. Nicole Kidman
• 2. Max Richter
• 3. Akram Khan
• 3. (episode 3)
• 3. Joyce DiDonato
• 4. Maggi Hambling
• 5. Brian Cox
• 6. Tamara Rojo
• 7. Aaron Sorkin
• 9. Neil Tennant
• 10. Hannah Gadsby
• 11. Inua Ellams
• 12. Penelope Lively
• 13. Jarvis Cocker
• 14. Anoushka Shankar
• 15. Armando Iannucci
• 16. Jacqueline Wilson at Hay
• 18. Eileen Atkins

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Season 3

• 1. Goldie
• 2. Kate Mosse
• 3. Norman Foster
• 6. Michael Morpurgo
• 7. James Corden
• 8. Glenda Jackson
• 9. 08/10/2022
• 9. Es Devlin
• 10. Ken Loach
• 11. Shirin Neshat
• 12. Florence Pugh
• 13. Tim Minchin

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Season 4

• 1. Sam Mendes
• 2. Whoopi Goldberg
• 3. Stephen Hough
• 4. Damien Chazelle

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Season 5

• 1. Margaret Atwood
• 2. Martin Parr
• 3. Linton Kwesi Johnson
• 4. Sally Wainwright
• 5. Donna Leon
• 6. Baaba Maal
• 7. Gilbert & George
• 8. Nick Cave
• 9. Nicole Farhi
• 10. Errollyn Wallen
• 11. Jeremy Deller
• 12. Ian McEwan

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Season 6

• 1. Stephen Fry
• 2. Sally Potter
• 3. Melvyn Bragg
• 4. Leïla Slimani
• 5. Edmund de Waal
• 6. Angélique Kidjo
• 8. Lucy Prebble
• 9. Matthew Bourne
• 10. George the Poet
• 11. Bernie Taupin
• 13. Judi Dench

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Season 7

• 1. Nigel Kennedy
• 2. Andrew Scott
• 4. Boy George
• 5. Frank Auerbach
• 6. Juliette Binoche
• 7. Yorgos Lanthimos

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Season 8

• 0. Programme Two
• 1. Programme One
• 1. Michael Palin
• 1. 04/04/2024
• 2. Antonio Pappano
• 3. Programme Three
• 3. Sam Taylor-Johnson
• 4. Programme Four
• 4. Antony Gormley
• 5. Programme Five
• 5. Sebastião Salgado
• 6. Programme Six
• 6. Anne Enright
• 7. Programme Seven
• 7. John Adams
• 8. Programme Eight
• 8. Lily Allen
• 9. Programme Nine
• 9. Zadie Smith
• 10. 06/06/2024
• 10. Neil Jordan
• 11. 13/06/2024
• 11. Judy Chicago
• 12. 20/06/2024
• 12. Salman Rushdie
• 13. 27/06/2024
• 13. Simon McBurney
• 14. 04/07/2024
• 14. Peter Blake

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Season 9

• 1. Lee Child
• 2. Kiri Te Kanawa
• 3. 12/09/2024
• 3. Marlon James
• 4. 19/09/2024
• 4. Peter Kosminsky
• 5. 26/09/2024
• 5. Marina Abramovic
• 6. 03/10/2024
• 6. Margaret Drabble
• 7. 10/10/2024
• 7. Nile Rodgers
• 8. 17/10/2024
• 8. Hanif Kureishi
• 9. 24/10/2024
• 9. Julie Taymor
• 10. 31/10/2024
• 10. Bill Nighy
• 11. Thelma Schoonmaker

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