NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Maxine Peake
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/6/2015
Acclaimed actor Maxine Peake takes over editorial control, 'curating' the opening episode. Celebrating voices marginalised by mainstream culture, Maxine talks to the most controversial band in Britain, Sleaford Mods. She discusses the role of women and television with an all-female panel, including W1A's Jessica Hynes, and she explores the life and legacy of Salford's Shelagh Delaney, the writer who helped inspire Coronation Street and the Smiths.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Lynn Barber
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/13/2015
Sunday Times journalist Lynn Barber takes over editorial control to 'curate' the second episode. Lynn wants to look at some of the most exciting developments in popular culture in 2015. She chats to Mark Ronson, the most intriguing pop star of the modern age, as well as looking at the boom of ingenious, inventive magazines bought by and made for young people. She sticks up for that supposed 'Mickey Mouse degree' - media studies - while former media studies student Jon Ronson explores the theme of shame in the internet age.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Armando Iannucci
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/20/2015
Writer, director and satirist Armando Ianucci takes the reins of Artsnight for the third episode of the series. Armando looks afresh at high culture - poetry, classical music and fine art - to ask why some people feel excluded from it, and why these arts matter. He talks to acclaimed poet Kate Tempest about her life and work, visits an exhibition of Goya's drawings, meets Apollo Music Projects, who are transforming children's lives with classical music, and invites stand-up comedian Josie Long to reflect on the cultural life of the nation in an age of austerity.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Chris Dercon
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/27/2015
Chris Dercon, director of Tate Modern, takes the helm of Artsnight for the fourth episode of the series. Chris asks why Berlin is the creative capital of Europe; the city is a magnet for artists and musicians, with an expanding array of galleries, museums and public arts intuitions. He talks to iconoclast Ai Weiwei, who has recently opened a studio in the city despite being unable to leave China. He explores the intriguing world of drone art and the pioneering work of the late Berlin-based artist Harun Farocki. He also commissions a new film about Nick Cave's formative years in West Berlin, when the city was burgeoning with creative talent prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Andrew Marr
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/2015
Andrew Marr champions some great Renaissance dramatists who aren't Shakespeare.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Lily Cole
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/3/2015
Model and actress Lily Cole explores whether children inhibit or enhance an artistic life.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Lynn Barber
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/10/2015
Journalist Lynn Barber takes over editorial control to explore the world of artist Doug Aitken.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Samira Ahmed
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/17/2015
Broadcaster Samira Ahmed takes a look at photography, both historically and in the present day.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Martha Lane Fox
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/24/2015
Martha Lane Fox explores how the west's two cultures - science and arts - work together.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Richard Wilson
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/31/2015
Richard Wilson looks at Samuel Beckett, speaking to Ian McKellen and Hugo Weaving.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Irvine Welsh
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 9/25/2015
Irvine Welsh goes to Edinburgh to see what effect the Scottish referendum had on the arts.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Hofesh Shechter
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/2/2015
Hofesh Shechter explores how embarrassment can be rich territory for artistic exploration.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Ben Okri
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/9/2015
Ben Okri explores the transformative effect of the prize on the career of its recipients.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Will Gompertz
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 10/16/2015
BBC arts editor Will Gompertz investigates the thriving art market.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Lynn Barber
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/23/2015
Lynn Barber considers the idea of taking risks in art.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - George the Poet
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/30/2015
Spoken word artist George the Poet explores the heritage and future of black culture.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Josie Rourke
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 11/6/2015
Josie Rourke looks at the changing idea of the hero in contemporary culture.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Clara Amfo
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 11/13/2015
Clara Amfo, one of BBC Radio 1's rising stars, looks at how the fame industry works.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Edmund de Waal
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 11/20/2015
Artist Edmund de Waal looks at the theme of memory and art.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Kwasi Kwarteng
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 11/27/2015
Kwasi Kwarteng looks at how the British Empire impacted on art and literature.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Ana Matronic
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/4/2015
Ana Matronic explores how robots are taking over mainstream culture.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Juergen Teller - Fame, Fashion and Photography
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 12/11/2015
Chris Dercon talks to world-famous celebrity photographer Juergen Teller.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - David Baddiel
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 5/6/2016
David Baddiel travels to New York to investigate Thomas Carlyle's Great Man theory.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Nicholas Serota
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/13/2016
Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, investigates why contemporary art matters.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Lionel Shriver
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/20/2016
Lionel Shriver asks why economics has become one of the most exciting subjects for writers
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Best Episodes Summary
"Maxine Peake" is the best rated episode of "Artsnight". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/6/2015. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Lynn Barber".