The Culture Show: Season 10
Season 10 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Culture Show Season 9.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 10 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Jun 3, 2008
Lauren Laverne and Mark Kermode return to present a new run of the arts show, which this week joins Ricky Gervais on set in America as he directs his first feature film This Side
Episode 2
Jun 10, 2008
Lauren Laverne and Mark Kermode host the arts show, tonight featuring 27-year-old Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel , some striking land art along the M8 motorway in Scotland,
Episode 3
Jun 17, 2008
Vic Reeves visits Folkestone to find out whether its inaugural triennial, previewing new works by artists like Tracey Emin and Mark Wallinger , can breathe new life into the town.
Episode 4
Jun 24, 2008
Mark Kermode interviews film director Nick Roeg, who turns 80 in August, and whose new film Puffball, based on the novel by Fay Weldon , has so far been panned by critics in advanc
Episode 5
Jul 1, 2008
London. In the spirit of Orwellian dread, ex-Celebrity Big Brother housemate Germaine Greer chairs a book group comprising former Big Brother contestants to consider George Orwell
Episode 6
Jul 8, 2008
Former Baltimore police reporter David Simon , creator of acclaimed US cop show The Wire, accounts for its impact. With the upcoming Proms featuring many of Vaughan Williams 's ke
Episode 7
Jul 15, 2008
Lauren Laverne interviews David Simon, creator of the acclaimed US cop show The Wire on why he breaks all the rules of television writing. Art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon risks a s
Episode 8
Jul 22, 2008
Mark Kermode accompanies film director Terence Davies back to his native Liverpool, and Lauren Laverne gets a tutorial in Afrobeat from Nigerian drummer Tony Allen. Andrew Graham -
Episode 9
Jul 29, 2008
Lauren Laverne quizzes mod father Paul Weller about his new album and turning 50; Andrew Graham-Dixon gains privileged access to the Vasari Corridor in Florence, which is 1km long
Episode 10
Aug 5, 2008
Verity Sharp goes behind the scenes of Metallica's tour of Norway, and Andrew Graham-Dixon gets a rare opportunity to view Florence's Vasari Corridor and its huge collection of sel
The Edinburgh Festival Show
Aug 13, 2008
Lauren Laverne presents the first of three shows from Edinburgh covering the highlights from the Festival and Fringe. The show comes from the Pleasance Courtyard, right at the hea
The Edinburgh Festival Show 2
Sep 19, 2008
Lauren Laverne presents the second of three shows from Edinburgh covering the highlights from the Festival and Fringe. On the show tonight is a preview of 365, the new work by The
The Edinburgh Festival Show 3
Aug 26, 2008
Lauren Laverne presents the last in the series of shows covering the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. Coming from the Pleasance Courtyard, right in the middle of all the Edinburgh ac