The Culture Show: Season 7
Season 7 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 6.
- 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 7 Progress Shield
Episode 1
May 5, 2007
Lauren Laverne talks to the Manic Street Preachers, who perform live and discuss their new album Send Away the Tigers. Eurovision Song Contest fan Neil Hannon from the Divine Come
Episode 2
May 12, 2007
This week, Andrew Graham-Dixon tours Britain's land art in a helicopter, Chinese pianist Lang Lang demonstrates his virtuoso skills and Charlie Brooker surveys the week's TV highli
Episode 3
May 19, 2007
This week Helena Bonham Carter discusses her role in the acclaimed film Conversations with Other Women and Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips gives a masterclass in rock showmanship
Episode 4
May 26, 2007
This week Mark Kermode travels to the Cannes Film Festival to talk to cult filmmakers the Coen brothers about their new movie, No Country for Old Men. Meanwhile, art critic Andrew
Episode 5
Jun 2, 2007
Paul McCartney discusses his new album Memory Almost Full and how his work has changed since his first meeting with John Lennon, 50 years ago this summer. Elsewhere, Kitty Empire p
Episode 6
Jun 9, 2007
A special edition focusing on the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank after its two-year refit. Architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff and Verity Sharp assess its
Episode 7
Jun 16, 2007
Lou Reed talks to Lauren Laverne about his upcoming tour performing his seminal album from 1973, Berlin. Andrew Graham-Dixon investigates the world art market amid the glamour and
Episode 8
Jun 23, 2007
Mark Kermode and Lauren Laverne celebrate iconic British film locations, from a Brief Encounter at Carnforth railway station in Lancashire, to the real Sheffield Full Monty. Also,