The Culture Show: 2x1

Episode 1

A reminder of the genius of 17th century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. Franz Ferdinand reveal the ideas behind their songs, and the homeless stage an opera in Nottingham. Plus the restoration of Bexhill’s modernist masterpiece, the De La Warr Pavilion, and Salman Rushdie’s gruelling publicity tour of Britain and the United States for his book Shalimar the Clown.