Soviet agronomist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was obsessed with plants. Especially finding out where domesticated crops first came from. And out of his research came a proposal that certain crops, like rye and oats, were evolutionary accidents. Stalin didn’t particularly like that idea.
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2025 marks 250 years since the birth of JMW Turner – the great 19th century landscape artist, whose expressive, atmospheric paintings transformed British art. His life and genius was also unforgettably brought to the screen in Mike Leigh’s 2014 film Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall. Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at the long relationship between cinema and painting.
Mark speaks to cultural historian Professor Sir Christopher Frayling on Hollywood’s approach to the history of art, from Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh to Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo. He then talks to actor Timothy Spall on how playing JMW Turner led to a parallel career as a painter.
Ellen explores the relationship between painting and cinematography with cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins. She also speaks to artist Cathy Lomax on the painterly in cinema – and the cinematic in painting.
Producer: Jane Long
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It’s spooky season, so I thought I could talk about the scariest thing imaginable – the absurdity of space, time, and existence.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Intro
2:09 – Astrophobia
7:14 – Space in Perspective
9:35 – Terrors of Alien Life
10:17 – Could It Be A Simulation?
11:08 – The Horror of Time
13:46 – The Pale Blue Dot
17:23 – Sponsor – Brilliant
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Step into the mind of Olalekan Jeyifous, a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based artist and architect known for crafting speculative, afrofuturist worlds that reimagine how cities could look, feel, and function, especially for historically marginalized communities.
In this intimate profile, we visit Jeyifous’ studio in the rapidly gentrifying Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, exploring how he blends architecture, VR, collage, 3D modeling, and public art to create vibrant alternate realities. We take a walk with him to see how he collects everyday urban details— graffiti, ghost signs, surveillance tech, or a patch of overgrown sidewalk— and expands them into immersive visual landscapes where communities thrive on their own terms.
His alternate realities ask, “What if our cities were built with everyone in mind from the start?” He shows us that daydreaming is more than a fantasy; it’s a question of perspective, power, and possibility.
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