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Sat 5 Sep

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Anish Kapoor
Large red texture sculpture hanging down from the ceiling to the floor in a space with stone floors and pillars

Anish Kapoor

Art & exhibitions
Hayward Gallery
Luke Jerram: Stepping Out
A young boy jumps across large colorful dots painted on the ground at London\'s Southbank Centre on a sunny day.

Luke Jerram: Stepping Out

Art & exhibitions
Riverside Terrace
Free
Empire: Live
Hosts of the Empire podcast sitting together at a table, wearing blue and yellow.

Empire: Live

Literature & poetry
Speech-to-Text transcribed - A transcribed performance shows live text of the dialogue and sound on screens.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Last few tickets

The Rest Is Politics: The Special Relationship
Hosts of The Rest is Politics US and UK sitting together on a green and brown bench.

The Rest Is Politics: The Special Relationship

Literature & poetry
British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) - The performance includes a live interpreter who translates the show into British Sign Language. Speech-to-Text transcribed - A transcribed performance shows live text of the dialogue and sound on screens.
Royal Festival Hall
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Football Cliches: Live
Three men sitting on a green sofa on an empty stage.

Football Cliches: Live

Literature & poetry
Purcell Room
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The Rest Is History: The Ultimate Victorian Adventure
Hosts of The Rest is History standing against a beige background.

The Rest Is History: The Ultimate Victorian Adventure

Literature & poetry
British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) - The performance includes a live interpreter who translates the show into British Sign Language. Speech-to-Text transcribed - A transcribed performance shows live text of the dialogue and sound on screens.
Royal Festival Hall
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Sherlock & Co.
Drawing of a messy room with two people sleeping on the couch and a man playing the violin next to them.

Sherlock & Co.

Literature & poetry
Purcell Room
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Team America: World Police?
Hosts of Team America against a grey background.

Team America: World Police?

Literature & poetry
Speech-to-Text transcribed - A transcribed performance shows live text of the dialogue and sound on screens.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Rest Is Science: Live
A man with a graying beard and glasses in a green sweater poses next to a woman with red hair in a white suit.

The Rest Is Science: Live

Literature & poetry
Speech-to-Text transcribed - A transcribed performance shows live text of the dialogue and sound on screens.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
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The Rest Is Entertainment: Live
Two presenters on a dark stage with Christmas lights: a blonde woman in a red dress and a man with a beard and glasses in a Fulham Football Club Christmas sweater.

The Rest Is Entertainment: Live

Literature & poetry
British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) - The performance includes a live interpreter who translates the show into British Sign Language. Speech-to-Text transcribed - A transcribed performance shows live text of the dialogue and sound on screens.
Royal Festival Hall
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The Book Club
Hosts of The Book Club leaning against a book shelf.

The Book Club

Literature & poetry
Purcell Room
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Gift to the Future
Collage of handwritten poetic notes about the future pasted over a black-and-white line drawing of city buildings.

Gift to the Future

Art & exhibitions
Site wide
Free
Quentin Blake: The Southbank Parade
A trio of illustrations by Quentin Blake depicting members of an orchestra; a woman in a long dress playing a violin, a person in a wheelchair plating the cymbals and a man in tails playing the flute

Quentin Blake: The Southbank Parade

Art & exhibitions
Site wide
Free
TONIC FLOW: A Communal Chorus in Colour and Sound
Two women jump in the air in front of a brightly colored, geometric mural on an outdoor basketball court.

TONIC FLOW: A Communal Chorus in Colour and Sound

Art & exhibitions
Royal Festival Hall
Free
Floating Together
A woman with long wavy dark hair wears a double-breasted red blazer, standing in front of an art studio wall with sketches.

Floating Together

Art & exhibitions
Riverside Terrace
Free

While you're with us

Shopping
Wooden displays in the Southbank centre shop, featuring books, plushies, and colourful merchandise

Shopping

A vibrant range of inspiring books, homeware, prints, accessories and more.

Klaus Weber: Thinking Fountains
Two statues; a green human body with water spouting from its neck and another of human legs with water pouring down from above displayed outdoors

Thinking
Fountains

Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.

Modified Social Benches
Two children eating ice cream on a red cirrcular bench

Modified Social Benches

Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.

William Pye's Zemran
A photograph showing Riverside Terrace at Southbank Centre, with the metal sculpture Zemran in the foreground, next to Queen Elizabeth Hall

William Pye's Zemran

Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.

Natura Nostra Forest
Bright sunlight bursts through green leaves with a lens flare, set against a blue sky and a textured concrete building.

Natura Nostra Forest

Our growing pocket forest creating a natural oasis.