The Culture Show: Season 19
Season 19 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 18.
- 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 19 Progress Shield
Episode 1: Lynn Barber's Celebrity Masterclass
May 19, 2014
Lynn Barber has been interviewing famous people for more than three decades. Renowned for her audacious, brilliantly honest and often caustic profiles, Barber asks the questions no
Episode 2: Sir Kenneth Clark: Portrait of a Civilised Man - A Culture Show Special
May 31, 2014
Sir Kenneth Clark was arguably the most influential figure in 20th-century British art. Born into a world of privilege, his achievements were staggering. He keeper of the King's Pi
Episode 3: Edward St Aubyn - At Last?
Jun 2, 2014
When Edward St Aubyn summoned the courage to write the fictionalized version of his unbearable childhood and describe the horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of cruel and negle
Episode 4: Ryan Gander - The Art of Everything
Jun 9, 2014
Miranda Sawyer enters the wild imagination of celebrated British conceptual artist Ryan Gander. A cultural magpie renowned for his playful, cryptic and complex creations, Gander is
Episode 5: Deller and Kane - Folk Devils
Jun 17, 2014
or centuries, folk art has been ignored by the art establishment, but in June 2014 the first national exhibition to look back at the tradition of folk art in this country opens at
Episode 6: Tents - The Beginning of Architecture
Jun 23, 2014
All architecture begins with the tent. Tents are what humans lived in before we put down roots and began our love affair with bricks and mortar. And no-one is more obsessed with s
Episode 7: Girls Will Be Girls
Jul 1, 2014
At the height of the punk explosion almost 40 years ago, a handful of women completely redefined what a woman in music could do. Through sheer talent and lack of fear, they pushed
Episode 8: Hilary Mantel - Case Histories
Sep 27, 2014
Hilary Mantel is one of our most assured and successful novelists. She writes blackly comic novels set in the present and confronts our Tudor past in her Thomas Cromwell novels, Wo