Cultural Frontline
BBC | World Service
A weekly Podcast where arts and news collide, but exploring how leading artists around the world are responding to some of the globe’s biggest news stories.
Fighting Cultural Destruction
Maamoun Abdulkarim, the man in charge of trying to protect Syria’s precious artefacts from being destroyed by ISIS, explains why his job is crucial for Syria’s future.
Also in the programme, we visit the street artist based in Manchester, England who’s using her art to challenge our ideas of how men and women should behave, Afghan designer Nawed Elias discusses his work combining Pashtun traditional costume with high fashion, and from Kuwait, writer Mai Al-Nakib relates a curious case of life imitating art.