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Matthew Cain

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Matthew Cain is Channel 4 News culture editor.
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Matthew Cain is Channel 4 News Culture Editor.

He joined the programme to take the newly-created role in 2010. Since then he's reported on everything from how cuts will affect the arts to the first performance by a male soprano at the Royal Opera House.

Matthew has over twelve years experience in arts television. As Executive Producer and Producer/Director at The South Bank Show, his credits include films on Sam Taylor-Wood, Michael Sheen, Carol Ann Duffy and Ian McKellen.

He's also written for The Times, presented the series What Makes a Masterpiece? for More4, and contributes a monthly column on gay cultural history to Attitude magazine. His first novel, Shot Through the Heart, will be published in early 2014.

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16 May 2013
08 May 2013
08 May 2013
25 April 2013
post 25 April 2013
Turner Prize 2013: accessible and uncontroversial

The 2013 Turner Prize shortlist is perhaps more accessible than in recent years - but some might be disappointed by the absence of controversy.

23 April 2013
23 April 2013
post 23 April 2013
Pedro Almodóvar: the director who's playing for laughs

Spanish film writer and director Pedro Almodovar has returned to the more frothy comedies of his early years, with his new film, I'm so Excited. So is it worth getting excited about?

video 15 April 2013 UK

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Top LSO conductor Sir Colin Davis has died aged 85

The London Symphony Orchestra's longest serving conductor, Sir Colin Davis, has died aged 85. Matthew Cain looks back at a career which spanned more than half a century.

05 April 2013
24 March 2013
post 24 March 2013
Gay OAPs on stage and screen: Les Invisibles no more?

The gay community is often criticised for being obsessed with youth, but could the absence of older gay characters on screen soon become a thing of the past?

14 March 2013
post 13 March 2013
Prize fight? Yet another literary gong is born

Does the UK literary scene really need another prize? Author Sebastian Faulks tells Matt Cain the new Folio Prize - to be awarded from 2014 - will complement all the others.

13 March 2013
13 March 2013
post 11 March 2013
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin

Despite the advent of iPads, and a world of electronic things, children still like a bit of good old-fashioned story telling, finds Matthew Cain.

11 March 2013
post 07 March 2013
'You'd be amazed how sexy a puppet can be'

Not my words - the words of Tom Morris, who is directing a new puppet-led production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bristol Old Vic made by the team behind War Horse.

07 March 2013