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In this edition of our Arts Unravelled series we speak with poets Lily Blacksell and Lorraine Mariner about whether poems need to rhyme.

For our Arts Unravelled series, conductors Charles Hazlewood and Nicholas Collon help us answer one of classical music’s most commonly asked questions.

Continuing our Arts Unravelled series, three musicians from different genres explain how and why they make music for young people and families.

For our Arts Unravelled series, Hayward Gallery publisher Mary Richards helps explain the process behind the gallery’s eye-catching exhibition catalogues.

How are awards for books and poems decided? For our Arts Unravelled series, we spoke to three literary prize organisations to find out.

Artists from New Music Biennial explain the how and why behind the creation of their audio-visual works for our Arts Unravelled series.

Children’s book authors Nadia Shireen, Chitra Soundar and Yasmine Naghdi explain how their characters are created for our Arts Unravelled series.

Sensory Theatre company Oily Cart give an insight into how they put together their distinctive and inclusive shows, for our Arts Unravelled series.

Author Kevin Barry details how he adapted his fourth novel, The Heart In Winter from the page to the stage, for our Arts Unravelled series.

Did you know pianists often have a number of different pianos to choose to perform their concerts on? Alice Sara Ott explains how she chooses hers.

For our Arts Unravelled series, we explore how Dmitri Shostakovich’s compositions hide his own musical motif and dissent against Josef Stalin’s government.

In our Arts Unravelled series, music professor Laura Tunbridge explains when and why Beethoven wrote his most famous masterpiece, the Symphony No.9.