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hello i am john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast. my guest is tracey emin, an artist who has always put her own life at the centre of her work in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in bbc broadcasting house. tracey, welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run all the way through your are right but when did the art start? yet they make the art then took off at school because i missed so much skill. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and had to go back a...

inside museums, places i've loved ever since i was a boy. and during my working life, i've witnessed something astonishing how radically they've changed. the days of museums as grand, intimidating treasuries for dusty objects, they're long gone. they're becoming much more dynamic and inclusive places, less solemn, less elitist, and less west—centric, too. museums, i believe, are really having a moment, and that's what i want to explore. what i am looking for is something weird, something different. i feel you've succeeded, inci... she's one of the greatest female artists of the 20t...

some pretty wild posts recently on social media. recentlysocial mone of them wast the cocaine found the white house was at belonged to eithern the president or his son. are you willing to sayt or that that's not the case, that they don't belong to them? i don't have a response to that because we have to be carefuolec about the hatch act and the hatch act. >> they still don'he hatcht know what that is. the level of security and surveillance presente leve n the white house begs the question of why they haven't locateduestion. su. is biden stonewall stonewalling yet another investigatio...

because she kind of, like, drops off the map. she was a woman, and she was a muslim... it's an exciting time to be interested in museums and visual art, because a great shake—up of art history is underway, which is why i've come to istanbul, that mesmerising megalopolis that straddles two continents, europe and asia. and the interplay between western and turkish art is a fundamental part of the extraordinary collection of this place, istanbul modern. i'm in turkey's biggest city, istanbul. in many ways, the story of istanbul is the story of the bosphorus strait, the waterway that d...

hello and welcome to the bbc�*s newsroom here in new broadcasting house in london. this week on unspun, the ferocious riots right across france seems to have died down after the shooting of a 17—year—old boy at a police check. in cities and towns, the housing estates and the grim outer suburbs, kept far away from the attractive centres have seen people of mostly arab, north african or african backgrounds out on the streets. translation: being a young - north african, black or arab male in the estates is intolerable for french police. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profil...