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Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland reunite for the new terrifying auteur horror set in the aftermath 28 Days Later.
This humorous and heart-breaking documentary captures a son's love for his 80-year-old father, as they road trip through ...
DJ and radio producer Tayo Popoola presents this six part podcast series delving into the history and influence of pirate ...
Chopin at his most mercurial, and Shostakovich’s response to Bach as well as his piano sonata swansong all come under the spotlight as the great pianist attends to unfinished business. In February ...
Browse concerts from the Barbican Contemporary Music programme, including artists from all forms of music, experimental collaborations and new talent.
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy. Did you know the Barbican’s theatre and concert hall go deeper underground than the nearest Tube line; early plans for the Centre included a Pyramid; ...
Experience the sound of resistance and reinvention across this month-long celebration of pirate radio and its lasting impact on music, culture and community. Pirate radio was a movement. A rebellious ...
The Ligeti Quartet perform tracks from their 2023 album Nuc, fusing acoustic and electronic music for string quartet by Mercury-nominated composer Anna Meredith alongside visual projections. The ...
A triumphant finale to 2025’s Classical Pride, as the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Oliver Zeffman celebrate LGBTQ+ voices in classical music with a vibrant programme. Classical Pride, now ...
Across June and July, a handpicked array of jazz superstars and international talent take to the stage at the Barbican. Experience Tigran Hamasyan’s genre-blurring mastery in The Bird of a Thousand ...
Thought lost for four decades, and rediscovered in 2019 in a Berlin archive, Prem Kapoor’s intense melodrama follows Sarnam (Nitin Sethi), a truck driver with a criminal past who is attracted to ...