A follow-up to the award-winning This is Modern Art, Hello Culture traces contemporary culture back to its roots in Romanticism, examing the links between then and now – from Coleridge to Kerouac, Gericault to the Sex Pistols, Lord Byron to OK Magazine.
Hello Culture is positively addictive in the slighly off-kilter angle from which it views, and links, a wide diversity of influencesFinancial Times
A rare pop-culture programme that is both cool and clever.Sunday Times
An enjoyable lesson, with broad enthusiastic strokes from Collings, a worthy successor to his last series, This is Modern Art.The Guardian
For people like me who read and write in a section called Culture, the programme’s all heavenA. A. Gill, The Sunday Times
The only show on TV which can leap from French Romanticism to the Sex Pistols to BeckettIndependent on Sunday
This series is living proof that not everything has changed for the worstSunday Times
Informed, droll and highly idiosyncraticThe Times
Refreshingly stimulating and informativeThe Observer
You’ll struggle to find anything else that makes you so delightfully incensedDaily Telegraph
Absorbing…riveting and even, dare one say, exhilaratingFinancial Times
I loved every poptastic, hilarious, informative minute of it… Hello Culture was a witty, thoughtful, thoroughly entertaining series that appealed far further than most cultural programmes. Big Hair Bragg should quake in his bootsTate Magazine
