Voices
Christine Wilson, British Council's Director Research and Insight writes about the impact of mega-events like EuroFestival on cultural relations and soft power.
Claire Hall and Jak Spencer are part of the team at Urban Scale Interventions, which is reinventing underused rooftops in Belfast. Here, they tell us about using roofs creatively.
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo talks about reading books against the internet's distractions, as well as which new writers to look out for.
We asked playwright Jo Clifford to tell us about her creative process and how her experience of transgender issues has influenced her writing.
We asked Maung Day, Burmese poet and writer in residence at Edge Hill University in the UK, about poetry in Burma today, and the influences on his own writing.
Professor Michael Dobson argues that Shakespeare was a champion of free movement, and averse to insular nationalism.
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Have you ever shown films to your class, or considered setting up a film club? Daryn Simon, Head of History at Ysgol Bryn Alyn, and Beatrix Clark of Into Film share some advice.
Award-winning young Russian writer Alisa Ganieva published her first long story under a secret male pen name. She told us why.
Bisi Alimi, a Nigerian activist who received death threats after he came out tells us about his experience growing up in his home country.
Briony Hanson, the British Council's director of film, talks about how film can challenge and educate.