The Culture Show: 8x8

Episode 8

Andrew Graham-Dixon marks the 250th anniversary of William Blake ‘s birth with a profile of the poet. painter and printer, while Sheffield band Reverend and the Makers perform their version of Blake’s Jerusalem. Elsewhere, Tom Dyckhoff travels to Brazil to meet controversial architect Oscar Niemeyer ahead of his 100th birthday, Jimmy Carr attempts to tell the history of the joke…. in under ten minutes, and Mark Kermode talks to director Todd Haynes about the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, I’m Not There. Plus music from Richard Hawley.