Showing results for "Words" in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers

Tracey Emin is an internationally renowned artist. Here she discusses her life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archives.

David Hockney has been described as Britain's 'greatest living artist'. In this fascinating collection of archive interviews we hear - in his own words - about his paintings, his schooldays and the attitudes he had while growing up. Hockney discusses the influence that his family had on him, as...

Cecil Beaton was a portrait and fashion photographer, as well as a diarist and Oscar-winning designer. Here he discusses his life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive: At Home: Cecil Beaton, broadcast on BBC Radio, 7th May 1957 (featuring Hywel Davies)...

Los intereses literarios de Octavio Paz se manifestaron de manera muy precoz, y publicó sus primeros trabajos en diversas revistas literarias. Sus preocupaciones sociales también se hicieron presentes a temprana edad y en 1937 realizó un viaje a Yucatán con la intención de crear una escuela para hijos de trabajadores.

Sanna adopteras som fyraåring från Iran till Sverige och växer upp på Lidingö. Hon känner sig ibland annorlunda och utanför. Efter ett antal livskriser börjar hon söka sina rötter i Iran. Mötet med den annorlunda kulturen blir omtumlande och svaren på varför hon blivit bortlämnad skapar en känsla av att ha blivit bortvald. Samtidigt möts hon av stor kärlek. Mitt emellan två kulturer försöker Sanna hitta sin egen väg.