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July 2022

  • We Are Lady Parts L-R - Lucie Shorthouse (Momtaz), Faith Omole (Bisma), Anjana Vasan (Amina), Juliette Motamed (Ayesha), Sarah Impey (Saira)

    We Are Lady Parts leads South Bank Sky Arts award winners

    Sitcom about Muslim female punk band wins best comedy as Opera North, Little Simz and Monica Ali also triumph

June 2022

  • Womad Festival 2019<br>MALMESBURY, ENGLAND - JULY 28: Kraftwerk re:werk conducted by Charles Hazlewood with the Paraorchestra and Army of Generals perform on stage during Day four of the Womad Festival 2019 at Charlton Park on July 28, 2019 in Malmesbury, England. (Photo by C Brandon/Redferns)

    Perfect team-players: why orchestras reflect the best of us, and how they should reflect us back

    An orchestra represents the ultimate virtuous circle, but why is this great institution stuck in the 19th century? Conductor Charles Hazlewood on how its players, performances and even instruments can be reinvigorated

April 2022

  • ‘Singing gets to the essence of somebody’ … on stage with the cast of Anyone Can Sing.

    ‘It’s like putting your soul on a dinner plate’: can anyone sing if they try?

    Sky Arts’ current series proudly announces Anyone Can Sing. Its coach, tenor Nicky Spence, explains that however vocally challenged you might think you are, you can find your inner diva

March 2022

  • A cup of coffee

    Crisis management for when there is too much bad news

    Letters: Coffee and a copy of the Guardian help Geoff Reid keep a sense of perspective

January 2022

  • England fans are in good voice for the semi-final clash with Denmark in the Euros at Wembley last year

    It’s a World Cup opera … starring 100 fans who already know the score

    Gods of the Game celebrates the stars and the drama of international football – and will feature a chorus of real fans

December 2021

  • Kipps: The New Half a Sixpence Musical

    Julian Fellowes turns Half a Sixpence rewrite Kipps into winning fun

    In a surprisingly class-conscious stage adaptation of the HG Wells-inspired musical from the Downton Abbey creator on Sky, Charlie Stemp radiates kindly innocence

June 2021

  • Nicky Spence performing.

    ‘It’s better than sex’: why singing is second nature to us all

  • Bearded man singing in the shower

    ENO calls on world’s worst warblers to prove anyone can sing

March 2021

  • ‘A very real outsider identity’ ... Poly Styrene.

    Poly Styrene's inspiring sensitivity should be the true legacy of punk

    Rachel Aggs
    Mixed race, with braces on her teeth, Poly broke the mould of UK punk. A new documentary explores her struggle to find meaning in the Day-Glo chaos of modern life

February 2021

  • Charles Hazlewood photographed in his studio by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Charles Hazlewood: 'I’ve had the most tormented, feverish relationship with Beethoven'

    The conductor on his deep connection with the composer, his love of krautrock, and why the music industry is in the dark ages when it comes to disability

November 2020

  • Soprano Minnie Oliver takes the lead in the Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir’s film, The Night Watchmen’s Nativity.

    Gospel choir celebrate everyday heroes in a gritty nativity remake

    Alternative story of Bethlehem’s lowly key workers was made in a day on a shoestring budget. Now it’s getting a TV showcase

September 2020

  • 220 people posed nude, apart from white face masks, at London’s Alexandra Palace to mark the Sky Arts channel becoming free.

    Nude art installation in London marks Sky Arts becoming free

    Spencer Tunick’s art installation took place in Alexandra Palace

July 2020

  • Mark Lawson

    Lockdown culture
    With the BBC at bay, Sky embraces the possibilities of the arts on TV

    Mark Lawson
  • Portrait Artist of the Year on Sky Arts

    Sky Arts to become free to watch from September

April 2020

  • Dancer Akram Khan

    Celebrities strike a pose from home for Sky Arts portrait painting show

    Programme invites audiences to submit work to take part in the show’s new weekly format

December 2018

  • Dinner for One

    Dinner for One: the British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years

  • Freddie Frinton as Butler James and May Warden as Miss Sophie in the sketch Dinner for One.

    Beloved Freddie Frinton skit to air on UK TV for first time

May 2018

  • Noel Fielding as Alice Cooper and David Suchet as Salvador Dali in Sky’s Urban Myths.

    Noel Fielding: 'Everything Salvador Dalí did was funny'

    The comedian stars as one of his heroes, goth-rocker Alice Cooper, in Sky’s latest Urban Myths romp – so why did he pitch to play its other lead character, the clown prince of surrealism?

April 2018

  • ‘I caught a virus and my voice sounded like a message from the underworld – it was perfect’ … Skinner as his pill-popping, hotel-room-wrecking hero.

    Frank Skinner: 'Johnny Cash started me on the rocky road to alcoholism'

    In 1971, a boy named Frank saw Johnny Cash live. It changed his life. The comedian reveals why he has written – and starred in – a drama about the hellraising singer’s infamous fight with an ostrich

October 2017

  • Joan Bakewell and Frank Skinner, Landscape Artist of the Year presenters and opera enthusiasts.

    Frank Skinner: People doubt my art credentials because of my class

    Midlands-born host of Landscape Artist of the Year says he is ‘opera buddies’ with co-host and Labour peer Joan Bakewell
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