Culture

We’ve been speaking to the mother of one young man about the horrors of watching her child’s rapid descent into extremism. 

The Independent newspaper’s chief US Correspondent Andrew Buncombe has reported from numerous trouble spots around the world in his 30-year career.

Wendell Pierce has been speaking to us about the future of theatres, black lives matter and racial injustice in America.

Joining Matt is Professor Wendy Sherman who served as President Obama’s Under Secretary of State and advises the Joe Biden campaign.  

Some theorists have called it Thucydides Trap after the historian of the war between Athens and Sparta – the idea being that a declining power and a rising power will always end up at war, even if they try to avoid it.

The last few days in the High Court provides details of Johnny Depp’s drug and drink-fuelled lifestyle and the collapse of his marriage. 

Boris Johnson has just floated the idea of making shoppers in England cover their faces, which became compulsory in Scotland today. 

In the United States the virus continues to surge with more than three million confirmed cases and a series of record-setting numbers of daily infections there. 

Peru now has the fifth highest number of cases worldwide despite having a population of only 30 million, with poverty and crowded food markets blamed for fuelling the spread of the virus.

Werner Herzog is a world-renowned German film director, screenwriter, author, actor and opera director.

In March before the lockdown the celebrated British sculptor Anish Kapoor was about to open a huge exhibition in the grounds of an 18th-century country house in East Anglia.

We spoke to the artistic director of London’s Young Vic theatre Kwame Kwei-Armah.

The government is handing more than £1.5 billion in emergency funds to major arts venues, like theatres, galleries and museums – in an effort to shore up their future.

Amrou Al-Kadhi, also known as Glamrou is a writer, drag performer, filmmaker and author.

Run The Jewels – the American hip hop duo Killer Mike and EL-P – have a new album out, and it’s becoming one of the musical moments of 2020.