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The best way to improve your English is to listen to the language being used in real situations by real people, and there are few better situations than contemporary UK and Anglophone Arts

Filmed over the course of a day from the top of Cromwell Tower, one of three residential towers on the Barbican estate, Skydweller combines over 5,000 photographs in a stunning timelapse of the view across London.

Maggi Hambling

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Painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling CBE sounds like a typical member of the arts establishment, but she has been a controversial figure for much of her professional life. Her public sculptures dedicated to Benjamin Britten and Oscar Wilde attracted as much criticism as praise, and here she talks about her beginnings as an artist and how she approaches the creative process.

60 seconds with Ricky Gervais

Johanna Under the Ice

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Endurance Test: Pushing the Limits of Mind and Body

Stephen Fry Hates Dancing

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Lost Angeles-based filmmaker and dancer Jo Roy responds to Stephen Fry’s tongue-in-cheek rant on his aversion to dance

Film

From complete short films from up and coming directors and writers, to trailers for feature films: experience the magic of the cinema with The English Channel