The Culture Show: Season 11
Season 11 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 10.
- 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 11 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Nov 18, 2008
Lauren Laverne meets style icon and musical innovator Grace Jones, Mark Kermode celebrates the 25th anniversary of cherished film Local Hero, and Andrew Graham -Dixon argues that £
Episode 2
Nov 25, 2008
Actress Angelina Jolie discusses her career, Martin Freeman meets The Funk Brothers, and Tom Hunter gives Titian's Diana and Actaeon a modern spin.
Episode 3
Dec 2, 2008
Five accomplished artists guest this week: actor Michael Sheen discusses his role in Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon while singer Tom Jones takes the show's busking challenge; plus Scotti
Episode 4: Strictly Baz: A Culture Show Special
Dec 9, 2008
The Culture Show takes a look at the cinematic visionary, Baz Luhrmann. The director of Strictly Ballroom, Romeo and Juliet, and Moulin Rouge, Luhrmann deals in colour, romance and
Episode 5
Dec 16, 2008
Lauren Laverne, Mark Kermode and Andrew Graham-Dixon look back at some of the year's cultural highlights, including a powerful interview with the film director Anthony Minghella, w
Episode 6
Jan 6, 2009
This special edition, marking the 50th anniversary of Motown Records, sees actor and Motown devotee Martin Freeman making the trip of a lifetime to Detroit, and then Los Angeles, t
Episode 7
Jan 12, 2009
This week's show sees Danny Boyle's Mumbai set Slumdog Millionaire, which was released last Friday, shown to a specially invited all-Indian audience; DJ Nihal joins Glasgow band Fr
Episode 8
Jan 20, 2009
Barack Obama's inauguration is marked with a trip to Harlem. Plus Ed Burns, co-writer of the new president's favourite TV show, The Wire, on his Iraq war account Generation Kill, R
Episode 9
Jan 27, 2009
Lauren Laverne is in Glasgow to extol the virtues of the Celtic Connections festival, Robert Carlyle and Siobhan Redmond lead a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns
Episode 10
Feb 3, 2009
The great pianist Alfred Brendel, recently retired from public performance, gives a rare interview, revealing his passion for the films of Spanish surrealist director Luis Bunuel.
Episode 11
Feb 10, 2009
Mark Kermode and Miranda Sawyer debate the merits of Heat magazine, which celebrates its tenth birthday, and celebrity culture in general, Greg Dyke continues his report on HBO, an
Episode 12
Feb 17, 2009
With the Oscars fast approaching, tonight's Culture Show offers its very own alternative: the Kermode awards, for those overlooked by the Academy. And, 50 years after it first hit
Episode 13
Feb 24, 2009
Lauren Laverne visits U2, ahead of the release of their first album in five years, No Line on the Horizon. Will it mark a new musical direction? And what of the lives of the band
Episode 14
Mar 3, 2009
Lauren Laverne heads home to the North East, looking at what the cultural and artistic future holds for the region and to share a pint with Viz creators Chris and Simon Donald. Ali
Episode 15
Mar 10, 2009
Lauren Laverne meets Seattle band Fleet Foxes who saw off the likes of Elbow and Radiohead to win the inaugural Uncut Music Award and who perform exclusively for the show. Plus And
Episode 16: Picasso - A Culture Show Special
Mar 17, 2009
Special edition all about the life and work of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century - Pablo Picasso. Andrew Graham-Dixon is in Paris - the art capital of 20th-century E
Episode 17
Mar 24, 2009
The last in the current series comes from the Whitechapel Gallery in east London, which reopens next month following a £13 million restoration. Mark Kermode meets "Being John Malk