CultureBlast is a podcast series featuring revelatory interviews with some of the world's greatest artists and creative minds -- hosted by Farah Nayeri, a London-based author and culture writer for the New York Times. Ranked among the world's top 10 creative conversations, it's a uniquely personal exchange with leading figures in all cultural disciplines: art, music, film, literature, performance...

They include: Emma Thompson │ Nile Rodgers │ Nan Goldin │ Elif Shafak │ Wayne McGregor │ Ai Weiwei │Charlotte Gainsbourg │ Sonia Boyce │ Ruben Ostlund

Farah is the author of Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age (2022). She has been covering culture for the New York Times for a decade. A public speaker and panel moderator, she regularly participates in conferences around the world.

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Have you seen " Triangle of Sadness"? The movie has just swept up three major Oscar nominations - best picture, best director, and best screenplay - and its director Ruben Östlund is the guest of the CultureBlast podcast!

Ruben talks about

-how the 1 percent should "stop bullshitting and pay taxes"

-how he filmed the vomiting scenes in " Triangle of Sadness"

-how watching Michale Jackson's "Thriller" at the age of 10 made him want to become a filmmaker.

And so much more.

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The French actor, singer-songwriter and fashion icon speaks with incredible sincerity on a wide range of topics such as:

• Opening a museum in her father Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris home
• Growing up as the shy daughter of two superstars
• Working with director Lars von Trier

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In the latest CultureBlast episode,Turkish-British Elif talks about her diplomatic mother, who took her around the world, and her storyteller grandmother, a healer who read coffee cups and melted lead at her home in Ankara. She discusses the taboos around sex in Turkey, where women are sometimes likened to a certain vegetable, and the excesses of identity politics in the West.

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CultureBlast, the new podcast series hosted by Farah Nayeri, is back with another superstar guest -- Nan Goldin!  

In her first-ever podcast, Nan makes revelations about her campaign against the Sackler family, makers of OxyContin (a painkiller she became addicted to); her experience of male brutality; and her true feelings about Instagram. 

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